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| Asymmetrical balance | When objects are placed unequally on either side of an imaginary vertical line in the center of the page. |
| Copyright | The right of an author or creator of a work to copy, distribute, and modify a thing, idea, or image; a type of intellectual property. |
| Creative Commons licenses | License that allows you to keep your copyright, while allowing others to copy and distribute your work under your conditions, without lawyers and expensive fees. |
| Derivative work | A new, original product that includes content from previously existing work. |
| Digital image | A picture in electronic form. It may be referred to as a file, document, picture, or image. |
| Dock | A collection of panels or buttons below a dark gray bar. |
| Drop zone | A blue outline area that indicates where a panel can be moved. |
| Fair use doctrine | Allows a user to make a copy of all or part of a work within specific parameters of usage, even if permission has not been granted. |
| Flatten | To merge all visible layers into one layer, named the Background layer, and delete all hidden layers, greatly reducing file size. |
| Image-editing | Used to manipulate graphic images that can be posted on websites or reproduced by professional printers using full-color processes. |
| Intellectual property | An image or idea that is owned and retained by legal control. |
| Logo | A distinctive image used to identify a company, project, or organization. |
| Optical center | The point around which objects on the page are balanced; occurs approximately 3/8ths from the top of the page. |
| Options bar | Located at the top of the workspace and displays the settings for the active tool. |
| Panels | Floating windows that can be moved and are used to modify objects. |
| Pixels | Very small squares that make up an image; each dot in a bitmapped image that represents a color or shade. |
| Preferences | Used to control the Photoshop environment using your specifications. |
| Rulers | Onscreen markers that help you precisely measure and position an object. |
| Splash screen | A window that displays information about the software you are using. |
| Spring-loaded keyboard shortcuts | A feature that lets you temporarily change the active tool by pressing and holding the key that changes to another tool. |
| Status bar | The area located at the bottom of the program window (Win) or the work area (Mac) that displays information such as the file size of the active window and a description of the active tool. |
| Symmetrical balance | When objects are placed equally on either side of an imaginary vertical line in the center of the page. |
| Tools panel | Contains tools for frequently used commands. |
| Type | Text, or a layer containing text. Each character is measured in points. traditional measurement, one inch is equivalent to 72.27 points. |
| Workspace | The entire window, from the Application bar at the top of the window, to the status bar at the bottom border of the program window. |
