Image Adjustments and Retouching Flashcards
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What is the main benefit of applying a Levels adjustment using the midtone (gray) eyedropper?
Answer: It neutralizes a color cast by setting the sampled pixel as a neutral gray
Clicking a known neutral area with the gray eyedropper tells Photoshop to balance all channels so that point becomes neutral gray, correcting color casts.
Which retouching approach is recommended when removing wrinkles while preserving natural skin texture?
Answer: Heal or clone onto a separate layer then reduce that layer's opacity
Healing or cloning to a separate layer and reducing its opacity blends the correction with the original, softening wrinkles while retaining texture.
Which Photoshop feature lets you record a specific color correction workflow and apply it automatically to a batch of images?
Answer: Actions recorded and run via Batch
Recording an Action captures every step of a color correction and the Batch command applies it to an entire folder of files automatically.
What does the Photoshop 'Selective Color' adjustment allow you to do that Hue/Saturation does not?
Answer: Adjust the CMYK ink percentages within specific color ranges
Selective Color adjusts Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black percentages within a chosen color range, offering fine printing-oriented color control.
When using Content-Aware Scale, what does enabling 'Protect Skin Tones' do?
Answer: Tries to protect areas with skin-tone colors from distortion during scaling
Protect Skin Tones (the figure icon) tells Content-Aware Scale to avoid distorting regions that contain flesh-colored tones.
In the context of image retouching, what is 'dodging' traditionally meant to accomplish?
Answer: Lighten specific areas of the image
Dodging originates from darkroom technique where a tool was waved over photographic paper to reduce exposure, lightening that area.
What happens to pixel data when you apply a destructive adjustment such as Levels directly to a pixel layer instead of using an adjustment layer?
Answer: The original pixel values are permanently altered and cannot be recovered without history states
Applying Levels directly to a pixel layer overwrites the original pixel values; once the history states are gone, the change is permanent.