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| Adjustments layer | Create this on an image in the layers panel to make visual changes such as making a photo lighter or darker |
| Application bar | A bar at the top of the workspace that contains Photoshop's menus and several other commonly-used tools to help you manage your workspace. |
| Background color | Color that is revealed by the Eraser Tool when it is used on a layer that has transparency locked; It is white by default and is use to make gradient fills and fill in areas of an image that have been erased |
| Brightness | the measurement of a relative lightness or darkness of a color; measured in a percentage from 0% (black) to 100% (white) |
| Burn | use these to darken parts of your image where you click and drag this tool. You can set the exposure amount and choose highlights |
| Clone Stamp tool | A retouching tool that allows a user to copy a selected area and paste it over another area to cover blemishes or other problems in the photo. |
| CMYK | a color mode used for four-color printing. It has a maximum of 16.7 million colors. |
| Color balance | the adjustment of the intensity of the colors in an image. |
| Color mode | determines the color model used to display and print images. CMYK (cyan |
| Color picker | a feature that lets you choose a color from a color spectrum or numerically to define a custom color |
| Crop | To cut off |
| Dodge | use this tool to lighten parts of your image where you click and drag this tool. You can set the exposure amount and choose highlights |
| Duotone | a color mode that uses two colors |
| Fastening Points | Points created by the Magnetic Lasso Tool that hold the selection border to the edges in the image. |
| Feathering | A fading-out effect created at the edges of a selection. |
| File size | The digital size of an image |
| Filters | photoshop commands that can significantly alter an image's appearance |
| Flatten | Merge all layers in an image using a single command. |
| Font | A named set of text and numeric characters that share the same look and feel. |
| foreground color | The color applied by painting tools in Photoshop; Black by default and is used to paint |
| Gradient | a blend of colors used to fill a selection of a layer or an entire layer (same as gradient fill) |
| Grayscale images | can contain up to 256 shades of gray |
| Grayscale mode | a specialized color mode that uses up to 256 shades of gray |
| Healing brush | a retouching tool that allows a user to copy an area and drag it across another area of an image to mix pixels and blend color tones to cover blemishes. |
| History panel | shows you all the moves you have done in the current session of Photoshop. It takes the multiple-undo system and puts it in a list you can pick from. |
| Hue | the color reflected from or transmitted through an object |
| Icon | A picture or symbol that represents the selected tool. |
| Inverse selection | An option in the Select menu that allows the user to select the background of an image |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG or .jpg) is an image file format that supports millions of colors and works best for photographs and other images with continuous tones. |
| Kerning | the space between each letter |
| Layer mask | An overlay of a layer that allows you to make visual changes to the layer without actually changing the layer itself. While in this |
| Layers | Parts of Photoshop file that keeps different parts of the design separate from each other. |
| Layer Styles | Special effects such as drop shadows |
| Leading | the space between the lines of text. |
| Luminosity | the light and dark values within an image when you convert it from color to grayscale |
| Magic wand | a selection tool that selects an area based on similarly colored pixels |
| Magnetic lasso | A selection tool that creates selections automatically by clinging to edges of contrasting objects as you click the edges |
| Menus | Lists of commands that are related to each other. |
| Options bar | Located just below the Application bar. When you click on any tool in the Tools panel |
| Panels | Small windows that contain a variety of related settings. Main ones used include: Layers |
| Pantone | a color-matching system that is used to standardize colors used in digital and printed images. |
| PDF | Portable Document File enables the printing and viewing of documents. Tjhe document appears the same regardless of which operating system or computer is used. |
| Pixels | dots that make up an image |
| PNG | an image file format that supports grayscale |
| Polygonal lasso | A selection tool useful for creating a selection that is made up of straight lines |
| PSD | Photoshop document. These files contain all the layers an artist creates so that each layer can be changed or edited later. |
| Quick selection | selects portions of an image based on similarity of textures or solid blocks of similar color. |
| Red eye tool | a retouching tool in Photoshop that allows a user to neutralize red tones by blending them with the eye color of a person in an image. |
| Resolution | Quality level of an image. Measured in pixels per inch (ppi) or dots per inch (dpi) |
| RGB | a color mode that is popular for computer graphics and has a maximum of 16.7 million colors. |
| Saturation | (aka "chroma") the strength or purity of the color |
| Scale | To make larger or smaller. |
| Sharpen filter | increases the contrast of adjacent pixels and can focus a blurry image |
| smart object | completely preserves the image data so that all editing is nondestructive |
| Stroke | emphasizing an image by placing a border around its edges |
| Styles | A variety of effects |
| swatches panel | a visual display of colors that you can choose from |
| TIFF | The Tagged Image File Format saves an image without any compression. |
| Tracking | evenly adding or subtracting space between letters in a word or group of words |
| Unsharp mask | Photoshop effect that helps to sharpen a blurry image by masking the unsharp part. It is in the Filter menu. |
