ACE Image Editing & Retouching 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Healing Brush tool option samples texture from a source area but blends the lighting and shading of the destination?
- Clone Stamp with Aligned option
- Healing Brush set to Replace mode
- Healing Brush set to Normal mode (Correct answer)
- Patch tool in Content-Aware mode
Correct answer: Healing Brush set to Normal mode
The Healing Brush in Normal mode samples texture from the source but matches the luminosity and color of the surrounding destination pixels.
Question 2: When using Liquify, which tool is best for pushing pixels in the direction of the brush stroke?
- Pucker Tool
- Bloat Tool
- Forward Warp Tool (Correct answer)
- Reconstruct Tool
Correct answer: Forward Warp Tool
The Forward Warp Tool in Liquify pushes pixels in the direction you drag the brush.
Question 3: What is the purpose of the 'Protect Skin Tones' option in the Sponge tool?
- Prevents saturation changes on skin-colored pixels (Correct answer)
- Adds warmth to skin tones automatically
- Locks the layer containing skin tones
- Applies a skin-smoothing filter automatically
Correct answer: Prevents saturation changes on skin-colored pixels
Protect Skin Tones prevents the Sponge tool from saturating or desaturating pixels that fall within the skin tone range.
Question 4: In Camera Raw, what does the 'Texture' slider primarily affect?
- Coarse detail and noise in highlights
- Mid-frequency detail like skin pores and fabric (Correct answer)
- Global contrast across the entire image
- Fine chromatic aberration correction
Correct answer: Mid-frequency detail like skin pores and fabric
The Texture slider in Camera Raw enhances or suppresses mid-frequency detail such as skin pores, bark, and fabric weave.
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?
- Overlay (Correct answer)
- Multiply
- Screen
- Luminosity
Correct answer: Overlay
Overlay mode makes 50% gray invisible, so painting with lighter or darker grays on an Overlay layer dodges or burns the underlying image.
Question 6: What does the Radius slider in Smart Sharpen control?
- The number of pixels analyzed for noise reduction
- The size of the area around edges where sharpening is applied (Correct answer)
- The threshold before sharpening is triggered
- The maximum brightness value that gets sharpened
Correct answer: The size of the area around edges where sharpening is applied
The Radius slider in Smart Sharpen determines how many pixels around detected edges receive the sharpening effect.
Question 7: When retouching with the Clone Stamp tool, what does enabling 'Sample: All Layers' allow you to do?
- Clone from any open Photoshop document
- Sample pixels from all visible layers onto a separate empty layer (Correct answer)
- Merge all layers before sampling
- Clone only from adjustment layers
Correct answer: Sample pixels from all visible layers onto a separate empty layer
With 'Sample: All Layers' enabled, the Clone Stamp composites visible pixels from all layers as its source, letting you paint the clone onto a blank layer non-destructively.
ACE Image Editing & Retouching 2
Which Healing Brush tool option samples texture from a source area but blends the lighting and shading of the destination?