Image Adjustments and Retouching Flashcards
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In Photoshop, what is the purpose of the Gradient Map adjustment?
Answer: Maps the luminosity range of an image to a specified gradient's colors
Gradient Map replaces the image's tonal values—shadows, midtones, and highlights—with the corresponding colors of the chosen gradient.
Which feature allows you to selectively apply a Camera Raw adjustment to a specific color range in Photoshop 2021 and later?
Answer: Hue Range Masking in Camera Raw
Camera Raw's Range Masking (Color or Luminance) restricts adjustments to pixels that fall within a sampled hue or luminance range.
What does the 'Radius' slider in the Unsharp Mask filter control?
Answer: The number of pixels from the edge that are affected by sharpening
The Radius slider defines how many pixels surrounding an edge are included in the sharpening halo.
When frequency separation retouching is used in Photoshop, what does the High Frequency layer primarily contain?
Answer: Texture and fine detail information
In frequency separation, the high-frequency layer holds fine texture such as pores and hair, separated from the underlying color and tone.
What is the effect of increasing the 'Threshold' value in the Unsharp Mask dialog?
Answer: Sharpening is restricted to pixels that differ more significantly from neighbors
A higher Threshold requires a greater tonal difference between pixels before sharpening is applied, protecting smooth gradients from being sharpened.
Which Photoshop tool would you use to lighten the iris of an eye while protecting the surrounding skin from being affected?
Answer: Exposure adjustment layer with a layer mask
An Exposure adjustment layer paired with a precise layer mask lets you lighten only the painted iris area non-destructively.
In Photoshop's Replace Color dialog, what does the 'Fuzziness' slider do?
Answer: Expands or contracts the range of sampled colors included in the selection
Fuzziness broadens or narrows the selection mask by including pixels whose colors are progressively more different from the sampled target color.