What Did You Learn? 215
What DID YOu leaRn?
Descriptions
A. A command that automatically corrects the shadows and highlights of
each color channel independently.
B. The two ingredients in color: The first is the tint, from red to magenta,
and the second is the purity, from gray to vivid.
C. This command lets you darken highlights and lighten shadows, just
what you need when correcting flash photos.
D. The lightness or darkness of a group of colors.
E. A bar graph representation of all brightness values and their distribu-
tion in an image.
F. The three brightness ranges that you can edit independently using the
Color Balance and Levels commands.
G. Expressed as an exponent, this value multiplies the brightness of an
image to lighten or darken midtones.
H. An independent grayscale image that Photoshop colorizes and mixes
with other such images to produce a full-color composite.
I. The one command that lets you pinpoint a specific color in an image
and make it lighter or darker; best suited to reducing contract.
J. The best tool for manually adjusting the brightness and increasing the
contrast of an image on a color-by-color basis.
K. The difference between light and dark colors.
L. When one color pervades an image to a degree that is unpleasant or
unrealistic.Key Concepts
- Hue and Saturation
- Brightness
- Contrast
- Highlights, Shadows, and
midtones - Color cast
- Color channel
- Auto Tone
- Histogram
- Levels
- Gamma value
- Curves
- Shadows/Highlights
answers
1B, 2D, 3K, 4F, 5L, 6H, 7A, 8E, 9J, 10G, 11I, 12C
Match the key concept in the numbered list below with the letter
of the phrase that best describes it. Answers appear upside-down
at the bottom of the page.