digital art vocabulary

Adjustment Layer

A layer that lets you apply color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing pixel values

Background Layer

The bottom most layer in the Layers palette, the background layer is always locked, meaning you cannot change its staking order, blending mode, or opacity convert it into a regular layer

Filter

Automated ways to alter the look an image, for instance, to make it look like a mosaic add unique lighting, apply distortion, and so on

Gradient

Any of the several methods for achieving a smooth transition between two adjacent colors, including black an white

Layer

Layers are like stacked, transparent sheets of glass on which you can create images. You can see through the transparent areas of a layer to the layers below. You can work on each layer independently

Resize

To change the physical dimensions of an image, a canvas, of a window

Scale

To change the proportions of an image. To scale an image in proportion, press and hold the shift key as you drag the image up or down from a corner.

Selection

A part of an image selected for manipulation of any kind - duplication in a layer, color correction, deletion, rotation, and so on. The selection consists of all the pixels - fully or partially selected - contained within the selection boundary

Transform

To scale, shrink, enlarge, skew, distort, rotate, or change the perspective of a layer, selection, or shape

Zoom

To magnify or reduce the view of an image. Zooming does not affect image size

Collage

Compositing

Portfolio

AUP

Image resolution

geometric shapes

organic shapes

pattern center of interest

Workspace>Essentials
Layers 
Swatches
Application Frame (and/or Application Bar)
Options
Tools

correct exposure

ISO

aperture

shutter

composition

rule of thirds

organic shapes

geometric shapes

move tool

layer

filter

Be familiar with Photoshop Tools
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