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| Pressing the ALT key while dragging with the Pen tool creates a line in one direction rather than both. |
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| The higher the percentage of anti-aliasing for the Brush tool, the cleaner the edge appears. |
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| With the Brush tool, dragging using the SHIFT key, creates strokes of color that may include corners, curves, and arcs. |
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| Photoshop allows you to set the weight or thickness of a line, the length of the line, whether or not the ends have arrowheads, and the concavity of the arrowhead. |
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| To end an open path without completing it, you can press ALT+click at a location away from the path. |
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| The Color palette commonly is used to make quick choices, as opposed to the Swatches palette where exact CMYK values can be entered with a wider array of shades and tints. |
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| The color gamut on your monitor is the same as on your printer. |
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| Photoshop uses the background color to paint and fill selections and create text. |
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| Clicking with the Color Sampler tool will display the color mode values in the Info palette, as shown in the accompanying figure. |
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| Almost every tool in Photoshop is related to color in some way. |
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| The Overlay blending mode preserves the highlights and shadows of the base color. |
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| The Color Burn blending mode darkens the base color to reflect the blend color by increasing the contrast. |
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| If you decide to use a shape tool in Photoshop, you can draw in one of four different shape modes: shape layers, paths, fill pixels, and raster layers. |
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| If you change the size, shape, or hardness of a preset brush, the change is temporary. |
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| The Auto Color command adjusts the contrast and color of an image or layer by neutralizing the midtones and clipping the black and white pixels. |
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| If you start and end in the extreme corners of a frame, the grade is across the entire area. |
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| There can be only one path called the work path with each document image. |
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| Clicking in the Color palette’s color ramp automatically sets the current foreground or background color. |
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| Color modes directly affect the file size of an image. |
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| Pantone color matching is performed using actual, printed reference books that provide examples of how each color displays when printed, as opposed to how it appears on the monitor. |
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| In decimal numbers, used for color modes other than the Web, four separate numbers are used for each of the 256 available colors per channel. |
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| Beginning with a digital photo or scan is better when the subject is proposed, conceptual, imaginative, less formal, or open to interpretation. |
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| An advantage of a vector object is that it occupies a smaller file size than a raster object. |
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| The Gradient tool can only be used with the Bitmap or Index color modes. |
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| With the Paint Bucket tool, as with the Eraser and Magic Wand tools, lower tolerance values fill a wider range of colors. |
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| To view the Info palette, click the tab in the first group of palettes or press the F8 key. |
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| When you click in the color field, the Select stop color dialog box displays the numeric values for HSB, RGB, Lab, CMYK, and hexadecimal numbers. |
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| The Fill Pixels button creates a vector graphic. |
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| In Photoshop, working from scratch to create an image or illustration is better when the subject is living, tangible, for sale, or more formal. |
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| A grayscale image printed with only black ink can look very coarse compared to the same image printed with two, three, or four inks. |
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| The CMYK color mode displays a wider range of discernible colors than does RGB. |
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| By creating the graphic from scratch, you solve many of the problems that occur from using ready-made images. |
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| CMYK is considered an additive color mode because its colors are created when light strikes an object or image and the wavelengths are absorbed. |
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| You can select up to three color samples per image when you use the Color Sampler tool. |
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| Given a bit depth of 8 in RGB color mode, Photoshop would set the channels for red, green, and blue, each using an 8-bit representation. |
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| A path can be closed, with no beginning or end such as a circle, or open with distinct end points such as a line. |
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| CMYK is ideal for slides, transparencies, and the Web. |
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| By placing Color Stop buttons very far apart in the Gradient Editor, you can reduce the gradient effect and produce strong, distinct bands of color. |
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| Gradients can be applied to an entire image or a selected portion of an image. |
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| The Swatches palette stores frequently used colors for use with various Photoshop tools. |
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| In Photoshop, you can easily convert from one color mode to another. |
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| You cannot set a new image’s width and height independently of one another. |
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| A work path is temporary unless you save it. |
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| As you drag with the Pen tool, the line becomes longer on both ends. |
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| The Paint Bucket tool fills adjacent, similar pixels with color. |
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| The only difference between the Pencil and Brush tools is that the Pencil tool paints with an anti-aliased or smooth edge, and the Brush tool draws with an aliased or rough edge. |
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| The Dissolve blending mode paints each pixel in the transparent part of a layer. |
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| A color cast is a shade in a photo that should not exist. |
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| A higher number in the Flow box on the Brush options bar applies paint more slowly. |
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| CMYK images use 33 percent more file space than RGB images. |
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