ACE Image Editing & Retouching 2

Question 1

Which Healing Brush tool option samples texture from a source area but blends the lighting and shading of the destination?

Accepted Answer

Healing Brush set to Normal mode

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Clone Stamp with Aligned option

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Healing Brush set to Replace mode

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Patch tool in Content-Aware mode

Question 2

When using Liquify, which tool is best for pushing pixels in the direction of the brush stroke?

Accepted Answer

Forward Warp Tool

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Pucker Tool

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Bloat Tool

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Reconstruct Tool

Question 3

What is the purpose of the 'Protect Skin Tones' option in the Sponge tool?

Accepted Answer

Prevents saturation changes on skin-colored pixels

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Adds warmth to skin tones automatically

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Locks the layer containing skin tones

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Applies a skin-smoothing filter automatically

Question 4

In Camera Raw, what does the 'Texture' slider primarily affect?

Accepted Answer

Mid-frequency detail like skin pores and fabric

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Coarse detail and noise in highlights

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Global contrast across the entire image

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Fine chromatic aberration correction

Question 5

Which blending mode is most commonly used on a layer above the image to add a non-destructive dodge and burn effect using gray?

Accepted Answer

Overlay

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Multiply

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Screen

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Luminosity

Question 6

What does the Radius slider in Smart Sharpen control?

Accepted Answer

The size of the area around edges where sharpening is applied

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The number of pixels analyzed for noise reduction

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The threshold before sharpening is triggered

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The maximum brightness value that gets sharpened

Question 7

When retouching with the Clone Stamp tool, what does enabling 'Sample: All Layers' allow you to do?

Accepted Answer

Sample pixels from all visible layers onto a separate empty layer

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Clone from any open Photoshop document

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Merge all layers before sampling

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Clone only from adjustment layers