Quiz #3 Answers

FIT 274            Quiz 3               Answers

1.              A device’s color space defines the “range of colors” the device can accurately produce, otherwise known as what?            ____Gamut____

2.              Layer Blending Modes allow you to change how the pixels of one layer interact with the layers below.           

True               /            False

3.              Name two Layer Blending Modes.           

Multiply, Soft Light, Lighten, Overlay, Screen, Color, Luminosity, etc.                      

4.     A raw file can be opened as a smart object layer with the processing information embedded within it.

True               /            False

5.              Clicking the Camera icon in the History palette temporarily records your current history state by creating a:
A -  Pretty Picture            B -  Snapshot                        C -  New Document                        D -  Channel

6.              What is the term for this definition; A resampling or adding of pixels by the computer to increase resolution in a digital file.            Upsampling OR Interpolating           

7.              Once you’ve sized an image and are ready for printing, you should not sharpen the image.                       

True               /            False

8.              What would all of the RGB #’s read if we are looking at a perfect Cyan pixel?  

R=__0__  G=__255__  B=__255__

9.              Describe the tone AND color of the following pixel based on the RGB info:
R=66            G=50            B=66              =     ___Dark Magenta (slight Magenta!)____

10.           What is the complimentary color of Red?                       

____Cyan_____

11.           Applying a clipping mask to an image layer that is above a type layer will place the image inside the text.           

True               /            False

12.           In order to apply a filter to a Type Layer you must do what to the layer?  (Hint: I’ll accept either answer!)
_____Rasterize it OR turn into a Smart Object_____

13.           A pixel with 4 bits of information has how many tonal levels?                       

A -  4                        B -  16                        C -  128                        D -  256

14.            Painting on a Layer Mask with what color will mask the pixels of that layer? 

 ____Black_____

15.           Name one Layer Style Effect. 

Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Bevel and Emboss, Stroke, Color Overly, etc.

16.  You can apply more than one Layer Style effect to a type layer.

True               /            False

17.  When you clip an image to a text layer, the text is no longer editable.           

True               /            False

18.  In Adobe Camera Raw you can use the Adjustment Brush to make small local changes to Exposure, Contrast, Saturation, and Sharpness, among others.

True               /            False

19.    What is the name of this tool and what does it do?      Direct Selection Tool: Adjust anchor points and toggle points along a path, or line segments of a path.

20.    What is the name of this tool and what does it do?      Dodge Tool: Lightens areas of an image based on the tool's brush size and exposure settings

21.   What is the name of this tool and what does it do?      Horizontal Type Mask Tool:  Creates a text based selection (*not a type layer which you can edit!)

22.  Chromatic Aberration can be corrected in Adobe Camera Raw’s Lens Correction tab.

True               /            False

23.  You can convert a path into a selection.

True               /            False

24.  When editing an image for print, the working space for Adobe Photoshop should be sRGB.

True               /            False

25.  Puppet Warp allows us to transform image pixels by placing pins on a mesh grid.

True               /            False

Extra Credit Question: 

What’s the name of the man who founded Kodak and patented the first roll-film camera,

helping to bring photography to the mainstream? (+4 points)

________George Eastman________

Week #14: 12/13/11 A4 Compositie Work

“My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen - no retouching, no shadows, no flattery - just stark me” - unknown

Finish A4 and print for CRITIQUE 

Study for the FINAL EXAM! 

*Digital Files for the department archives (All Major Photography Classes):
Please submit ALL 4 Assignment image files to the "Archives" folder on the class server.

The files should be 72 DPI and approximately 1600 pixels at the longest dimension saved as the highest quality .jpg format.

Please name the files as follows:  "PH274_StudentsLastName_1.jpg"

Week#12: 12/1/11 Type Tool, Layer Styles, Replacing Color

"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." - Richard Avedon

"This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter. 

- Alec Soth - Soth, Alec. "Toy Fatigue", Alec Soth - Blog, November 26th, 2006.  

NY Times article on the ethics of using Photoshop

Assignment #4 

Today we will begin Assignment #4, your final assignment of the semester.  A final print (at least 8x10 on photo paper) from the assignment is due the last day of class on 12/15/11.  You are welcome to choose from the following list for your final assignment:

- Maggie Taylor inspired composite (unless you completed it for A3)

- Metal Objects composite on white (provided images and/or acquired images), then masked into an existing scene that you can shoot or find via stock photography

- Self proposed project with my approval 

Week #10-11: Work on A3 Composite

The 11.10.11 and 11.17.11 classes will be primarily used to work on Assignment #3.  I will be going around working with each of you one-on-one to address any advanced retouching issues you may need help with. 

Assignment #3 print will be due for critique after Thanksgiving break on 12.1.11.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Week#9: 11/3/11 Paths and Compositing

"Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do whatever Photoshop work for me that may be required as it is too complicated for my brain. - Elliott Erwitt - On the question; Do you use Photoshop in your workflow? "

Begin A3 Composite Project!

Pen Tool and Vector Paths
*See last week's post for Pen Tool handout*

Week #8: 10/27/11 Critique A2 + Compositing

"Retouching had become controversial ever since Franz Hanfstaengl of Munich showed at the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris a retouched negative with a print made from it before and after retouching. It was, Nadar recollected, the beginning of a new era in photography." - Beaumont Newhall, History of Photography by Newhall, Beaumont Newhall

Critique of A2: Retouched Portrait

A3 Composite Project Discussion

Paths???

Week #7: 10/20/11 Advanced Portrait Retouching

"If you want reality take the bus." - David LaChapelle  
 

"I do not object to retouching, dodging. or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique." - Alfred Stieglitz

  Even more advanced retouching on our portraits!  On today's agenda is the following:

• Instead of liquify... Puppet Warp, Warp Transform, or Simply Transform a selected area
• Color and tone on select areas (eyes, lips, teeth, eyebrows, etc.)
• Hue/Saturation adjustments
• Skin Smoothing
• Sharpening  

I would also suggest you take advantage of the free Lynda.com tutorials offered to FIT students via the myFIT webpage under Web Resources.  Of particular interest should be Photoshop CS5: Portrait Retouching by Chris Orwig.