Graphic Design Study Guide

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

Illustrator - A graphic arts program designed to create VECTOR BASED IMAGERY

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. It is added by double clicking the far right corner of the layer and then choosing the desired effect these can be removed at any time as long as you keep your file as a PSD.

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. If you are on a layer it will replace pixels, if you are on the background you will replace pixels with the background color.

Marquee tool - This selection tool makes selections on your images in a rectangular (or other) shape. It is a good tool to use to select small complete objects on a transparent backgrounds.

Hand tool - This tool allows the user to navigate around their image. It is used commonly to manipulate or work on pixels when an artist is zoomed closely to their image. It does not after your aft in any way.

Magic wand tool - This selection tool selects an area of pixels on a layer of similar color and value, based on what. ever area of pixels you click on. In the option bar at the top, you can change the tolerance to make vour selection more precise. Low numbers will give you less color values together and high numbers will give you more color values together. (lower number=more selective)

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

ppi - Pixels per inch

Zoom tool - This tool allows the user to look closely to and move back from their image. It doesn't change their art. An artist can keep this tool selected and back away from their art by pressing on the mouse while holding down the option key.

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

Transform box - Found under the edit menu or by clicking command T. Useful tool for resizing, rotating, flipping, and moving imagery. You do not want to resize a selection larger than it is with the basic transform tool

Visibility control of layers - We can click the eye button to view or not view each specific layer.

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

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