| A | B |
| A fading-out effect created at the edges of a selection. | Feathering |
| A named set of text and numeric characters that share the same look and feel. | Font |
| an image file format that supports grayscale, 256 color, true color images and alpha transparency | PNG |
| Lists of commands that are related to each other. | Menus |
| A picture or symbol that represents the selected tool. | Icon |
| A color mode that uses two colors, combining highlights and midtones to a black & white image while allowing the user to choose the second color, so that it is the chosen color and white | Duotone |
| The measurement of a relative lightness or darkness of a color; measured in a percentage from 0% (black) to 100% (white) | Brightness |
| 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. | Clone Stamp Tool |
| 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. | Application Bar |
| A feature that lets you choose a color from a color spectrum or numerically to define a custom color | Color Picker |
| Evenly adding or subtracting space between letters in a word or group of words | Tracking |
| A color-matching system that is used to standardize colors used in digital and printed images. | Pantone |
| Located just below the Application bar. When you click on any tool in the Tools panel, the tool's options (or settings) appear here. | Options bar |
| The Tagged Image File Format saves an image without any compression. | TIFF |
| To cut off | Crop |
| Increases the contrast of adjacent pixels and can focus a blurry image | Sharpen Filter |
| 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. | History Panel |
| Photoshop effect that helps to sharpen a blurry image by masking the unsharp part. It is in the Filter menu. | Unsharp Mask |
| Determines the color model used to display and print images. CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black); RGB (red, green, blue) and Grayscale are this. | Color Mode |
| Quality level of an image. Measured in pixels per inch (ppi) or dots per inch (dpi) | Resolution |