Graphic Design Study Guide

Stroke

What is the outside layer of an image that is already filled.

Photoshop filters

Different effects that can be added to the content of Raster images to allow desired purposes or effects.

Lasso tool

In Photoshop Use this selection to create a fence around whatever pixels or areas that you wish to work with or move to close the selection, either click on the beginning point or just double- click.

Photoshop

A graphic arts program designed to create and manipulate RASTER BASED IMAGERY.

Illustrator

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A graphic arts program designed to create VECTOR BASED IMAGERY.

Transform box

Found under the edit menu or by clicking command T. Useful tool for resizing, rotating, flipping, and moving imagery.

Visibility control of layers

We can click the eye button to view or not view each specific layer.

Magic wand tool

This selection tool selects an area of pixels on a layer of similar color and value, based on what.

Zoom tool

This tool allows the user to look closely to and move back from their image.

Vector Art

Created by the use of computer code and math, typically has smooth crisp edges, clean is easily scalable, and resizing does not affect the quality of the edges.

Layer

Transparencies that we can draw on or add other content to

Layer Style

A way of adding effects to layer content, such as drop shadows and strokes in a nondestructive way to the original art content

Eyedropper tool

This tool works by changing your foreground color to whatever color pixel that you click on

The color-picker

What tool can change the color for the brushes, paint, bucket, etc

Foreground color

The front color of the two blocks

Move tool

This pixel moving tool is usually used to move layer content that has previously been selected by selecting no pixels on a layer, the move tool will move all pixels on that layer

Eraser tool

This tool replaces pixels with transparency

Marquee tool

This selection tool makes selections on your images in a rectangular (or other) shape

Hand tool

This tool allows the user to navigate around their image

ppi

Pixels per inch

Brush tool

what tool allows you to create imagery on a layer in a similar fashion to oil painting on a canvas, The variation of techniques are stored in the option bar

Type tool

It creates typography by using vector technology and can be updated and adjusted as needed, as long as you keep your image in the Photoshop file format