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| Advertisement or Ad | A form of communcation that promotes a product or service to a potential customer. |
| Advertising Piece | A graphic designed for advertising. |
| Layout | Refers to placing visual elements into a pleasing and understandable arrangement. |
| Perspective | Technique photographers, designers, and artists use to create the illusion of three dimensions on a flat or two-dimensional surface. |
| Horizon Line | In perspective drawing is a virtual horizontal line across the picture. |
| Creating a Storyboard, Thumbnail, or Rough | Designing a preliminaty layout sketch to help you make choices about placement, size, perspective and spacing is referred to a creating a storyboard, thumbnai, or rough. |
| Feathering or Vignetting | Softens the edges of the selection. It creates a soft-edged border around an image that blends into the background. |
| Anti-aliasing | Softens the block-like, staircase look of rounded corners. |
| Duplicating | When you press and hold the ALT key while dragging, you duplicate or move only a copy of the selected area, effectively copying and pasting the selection. |
| Magic Wand Tool | Lets you select a consistently colored area with a single click. |
| Transform | Refers to making physical changes to a selection. |
| Bounding Box | A boarder with six sizing handles around selection that is displayed when you choose to transform, or when you click the Show Trabsform Controls check box on the Move tool options bar. |
| Reference point | A fixed pivot point around which transformations are performed, is displayed in the center of the selection as a small circle with a crosshair symbol. |
| Free Transform | If you choose free transform, you must use the mouse techniques to perform the transformation. |
| Scale | You resize a selection by changing its width, height, or both. |
| Flip | Another way to add variety to a duplication of an image is to rotate or flip it. When you flip a selection, Photoshop creates a mirror image with a horizontal flip, or an upside-down version of the selection with a vertical flip. |
| Warp | You turn or twist the selection out of shape. |
| State | The History panel records each step, called a state, as you edit a photo. |
| Snapshot | You can give a state a new name called a snapshop. Naming a snapshot makes it easy to identify. |
| Grid | Lines that can be displayed over the top of the image. Useful for laying out elements symmetrically or positioning them precisely. |
| Guide | A nonprinting ruler line or dashed line that graphic designers use to align objects or mark key measurements. |
| Snapping | The term refers to the ability of objects to attach, or automatically align with a grid or guide. |
| Toggle | Means that you can turn a display off in the same manner that you turned it on with the same command. |
| Conrast | Unique to the Magnetic Lasso tool options bar is a Contrast Box to enter the contrast, or sensitivity of color that Photoshop evaluates in making the path selection. |
| Grow Command | A quick way to increase the size of a selection without using the Refine Edge dialog box is to use the Grow command on the Select menu. The Grow command will increase or grow, the selection border to include all adjacent pixels falling within the tolerance range as specified int he options bar of most selection tools. |
| Keyboard Shortcut or Shortcut Key | A way to activate menu or tool commands using the keyboard rather than the mouse. |
| Marquee Tools | Allows you to draw a marquee that selects a portion of the document window. |
