Image Adjustments and Retouching Flashcards

Which tool in Photoshop uses Content-Aware technology to fill a removed object by analyzing surrounding pixels?

Answer: Spot Healing Brush (Content-Aware mode)

In Content-Aware mode, the Spot Healing Brush synthesizes replacement pixels by analyzing nearby texture and color.

When using Shadows/Highlights, what does the 'Tonal Width' slider control?

Answer: The brightness range of pixels affected by the correction

Tonal Width determines how wide a range of tonal values is considered a shadow or highlight for the adjustment.

What does the 'Vibrance' adjustment do differently compared to 'Saturation'?

Answer: Vibrance selectively boosts less-saturated colors while protecting already-saturated tones

Vibrance uses a non-linear saturation increase that pushes muted colors more than already-vivid ones, preventing oversaturation.

In Photoshop's Match Color feature, what is the 'Luminance' slider used for?

Answer: Adjusting the brightness of the matched result

The Luminance slider in Match Color brightens or darkens the matched image after the color statistics are applied.

Which of the following retouching tools samples from a defined source point and does NOT blend with the destination's color and luminosity?

Answer: Clone Stamp Tool

The Clone Stamp Tool copies pixels exactly from the source point without any blending calculation with the target area.

What does enabling 'Use All Layers' in the Healing Brush options do?

Answer: Allows the tool to sample pixel data from every visible layer

Use All Layers lets the Healing Brush sample from merged composite data of all visible layers while writing corrections to the current (or a new) layer.

When applying a Black & White adjustment layer, what does dragging the 'Reds' slider to the left do?

Answer: Darkens areas of the image that were originally red

Moving the Reds slider left darkens the luminosity of pixels that contained red in the original color image.