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he Sharpen tool in Photoshop Elements increases the contrast among adjacent pixels to give the illusion that things are sharper.

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The Blur Tool is used to paint a blur effect. Each stroke made using the Blur Tool will lower the contrast between affected pixels, making them appear blurred.

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The Sponge tool is a retouching tool used to alter the saturation of a portion of an image. It is reminiscent of the sponges used by watercolor artists to soften (or even remove) a color that has already been lain on the canvas.

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A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

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35mm film. 35mm film. (35 millimeter film) The standard photographic film format for analog single lens reflex (SLR) still cameras and motion picture cameras.

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A twin-lens reflex camera is a type of camera with two objective lenses of the same focal length.

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The term 'large format' refers to a camera which records images in a format larger than 4 x 5 inches.

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The gelatin silver process is the photographic process used with currently available black-and-white films and printing papers.

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A keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection

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A public display of works of art or items of interest, held in an art gallery or museum or at a trade fair

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A copyright is a legal device that gives the creator of a literary, artistic, musical, or other creative work the sole right to publish and sell that work.

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A large room for the exhibition of pictures also : a collection of pictures.

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Framing refers to using elements of a scene to create a frame within your frame

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An element of art that is three-dimensional and encloses volume; includes height, width AND depth (as in a cube, a sphere, a pyramid, or a cylinder). Form may also be free flowing.

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An element of art made up of three properties: hue, value, and intensity.

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The lightness or darkness of tones or colors. White is the lightest value; black is the darkest. The value halfway between these extremes is called middle gray.

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An element of art that refers to the way things feel, or look as if they might feel if touched.

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An element of art by which positive and negative areas are defined or a sense of depth achieved in a work of art .

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An element of art that is two-dimensional, flat, or limited to height and width.

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A way of combining elements to add a feeling of equilibrium or stability to a work of art. Major types are symmetrical and asymmetrical.

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The condition of having similar parts regularly arranged around a central axis.

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Made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis; showing symmetry.

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The phrase cool color is used to describe any color that is calm or soothing in nature. Cool colors are not overpowering and tend to recede in space

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As the name indicates, they tend to make you think of warm things, such as sunlight and heat. Visually, warm colors look as though they come closer, or advance (as do dark colors), which is why they're often used to make large rooms seem cozier.

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Complementary colors are two colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel. As an artist, knowing which colors are complementary to one another can help you make good color decisions.

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A principle of design concerned with diversity or contrast. Variety is achieved by using different shapes, sizes, and/or colors in a work of art.

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A way of combining elements by using a series of gradual changes in those elements. (large shapes to small shapes, dark hue to light hue, etc)

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At one end of the spectrum, they are cold, impersonal, antiseptic colors. At the other end, cool colors are comforting and nurturing. Blue, green, and the neutrals white, gray, and silver are examples.

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A principle of design that refers to the relationship of certain elements to the whole and to each other.

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A principle of design that indicates movement, created by the careful placement of repeated elements in a work of art to cause a visual tempo or beat.

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A way of combining similar elements in an artwork to accent their similarities (achieved through use of repetitions and subtle gradual changes)

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A way of combining elements to stress the differences between those elements.

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Objective photography is an impersonal image not influenced by feelings, interpretations or prejudice. To create an unbiased photographic image or documentary.

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Subjective photography is the creative or artistic process. The aim is to make a personal interpretation, a composition to capture and create an image with style. The photograph may be of anything, an individual or group of people, objects, location or a landscape.

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A “constructive critique” is a critique which is constructive– it informs the photographer how to improve.

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Pairs of closely associated portraits, images or themed pictures are often used to off-set one another.

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The origin of the term applied to three paintings on hinged wooden panels. They could fold into each other making a flat carrying pack.

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They are the smallest unit of information that makes up a picture. Usually round or square, they are typically arranged in a 2-dimensional grid.

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Blue hour photography or blue light photography is the process of taking photographs during the time of the day that is known as the blue hour. The blue hour occurs before sunrise in the morning and after sunset in the evening. The sun has dipped a certain amount below the horizon.

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In photography, the golden hour is the period of daytime shortly after sunrise or before sunset, during which daylight is redder and softer than when the Sun is higher in the sky.

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With digital photography, images are stored as a digital file. RAW files are lossless. To reduce file size, the camera can discard part of the data not easily perceptible to the human eye. A JPEG is a lossy file. A TIFF file is, in principle, a flexible format that can be lossless or lossy.

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A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, a motion picture film scanner, or other image scanner.

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JPEG is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality.

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Tagged Image File Format, abbreviated TIFF or TIF, is a computer file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers.

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Automatic exposure mode is a standard feature on digital cameras that will automatically determine the correct exposure for pictures without any user input other than to select the AE option before taking a picture

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Manual mode on a camera allows the photographer to determine the exposure of an image by letting them select an aperture value and a shutter speed value

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A setting on some cameras that allows the user to set a specific aperture value while the camera selects a shutter speed to match it that will result in proper exposure

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TV mode stands for Time Value but is better known as Shutter Priority Mode. In TV mode the user specifies a shutter speed, while the camera adjusts the aperture size to correctly expose the image.

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Program mode means that the camera still sets the exposure for you. It chooses the correct aperture and shutter speed for the light available, so your shot is correctly exposed.

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ISO is simply a camera setting that will brighten or darken a photo. As you increase your ISO number, your photos will grow progressively brighter. For that reason, ISO can help you capture images in darker environments, or be more flexible about your aperture and shutter speed settings.

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A digital single-lens reflex camera is a digital camera that combines the optics and the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a digital imaging sensor.

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Photo metadata is a set of data describing and providing information about rights and administration of an image. It allows information to be transported with an image file, in a way that can be understood by other software and human users.

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Autofocus points are what the camera uses to focus on a subject.

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In photography, bracketing is the general technique of taking several shots of the same subject using different camera settings.

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The exposure level indicator scale shows the exposure. The numbers to the left and right of center tell you how many stops — or levels of exposure value (EV) — you are away from the center.

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F-stop (aka f-number) is the number that you see on your camera or lens as you adjust the size of your aperture.

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Aperture can be defined as the opening in a lens through which light passes to enter the camera.

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White balance is the process that the camera uses to remove color casts produced by these different color temperatures and helps your camera emulate what your eyes do naturally when dealing with white.

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It is a time when there is a very low level of ambient light but just enough blueness to the sky to give interest to the scene.

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Shade means your subject is standing in the shade so direct sunlight is not hitting him, but he is looking out of the shadetoward the open sky.

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Clouds add feelings and moods to the images. Big, fluffy clouds during a bright and sunny day give a sense of warmth and happiness to your landscape photography.

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In photography, Tungsten light refers to an artificial lighting source (like a lamp or ceiling fixture) that emits heat and produce a “warmer” or reddish colour. It is distinguished from fluorescent lighting (which generates much lower heat), and strobe lighting.

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This mode is used for getting brighter and warmer shots while compensating for the cool shade of fluorescent light.

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A flash is a device used in photography producing a flash of artificial light (typically 1/1000 to 1/200 of a second) at a color temperature of about 5500 K to help illuminate a scene.

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In photography and image processing, color balance is the global adjustment of the intensities of the colors.

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A shadow is the contour created when an object or person blocks rays of light from reaching a surface. The shape of a shadow changes based on its relationship with its light source.

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These are neither shadows or highlights but rather a middle value of luminance.

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A highlight is a bright spot in a photograph. Normally it is assumed to be one of the brightest points in the image. Highlights are normally created by a bright or intense illumination or by various forms of diffusion or reflection. Highlights are created by any bright light source.

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The term Sepia, when used in the context of photography refers to a monochrome image rendered in brown tones rather than the greyscale tones used in a traditional black and white image.

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Post processing is process of editing the data captured by camera while taking the photo to enhance the image.

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Involves using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring the moving elements.

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APS stands for Advanced Photo System. ... APS film frames measure 16.7 x 30.2mm, but there are three different APS digital image formats: H (high-definition), C (classic) and P (panorama). All three are smaller than the original APS and 35-mm film size, hence the term 'cropped sensor'.

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A full-frame camera uses a sensor that's the same size as a single frame of traditional 35mm film, measuring 36 x 24mm. The more popular APS-C sensor size found in most DSLRs and mirrorless cameras measures 22 x 15mm. This means afull-frame sensor has more than 2.5 times the surface area of an APS-C sensor.

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In digital photography, the crop factor, format factor, or focal length multiplier of an image sensor format is the ratio of the dimensions of a camera's imaging area compared to a reference format; most often, this term is applied to digital cameras, relative to 35 mm film format as a reference.

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In film and photography, a prime lens is a fixed focal length photographic lens, typically with a maximum aperture from f2.8 to f1.2. The term can also mean the primary lens in a combination lens system.

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In photography and cinematography, a telephoto lens is a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length.

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An element of art defined by a point moving in space. Line may be two-or three-dimensional, descriptive, implied, or abstract.

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Having parts which fail to correspond to one another in shape, size, or arrangement; lacking symmetry.

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You create and manipulate your documents and files using various elements, such as panels, bars, and windows.

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(in a program with a graphical user interface) a strip of icons used to perform certain functions.

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A palette is both the board on which an artist puts selected colors and also the set of colors themselves.

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The menu bar is used to open and save files, adjust the canvas size, access some of the editing tools, open and close various windows, and more.

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The Options Bar is the horizontal bar that runs underneath the Menu Bar in Photoshop. You can turn it on and off through the Windows menu, so if you don't see it on your screen, you definitely want to turn it on with Window > Options.

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The Hue/Saturation command in Photoshop Elements enables you to adjust the colors in your image based on their hue, saturation, and lightness.

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In photography and image processing, color balance is the global adjustment of the intensities of the colors (typically red, green, and blue primary colors).

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The move tool allows you to move a selection or entire layer by dragging it with your mouse or using your keyboard arrows keys.

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As you might imagine, the zoom tool allows you to zoom in on the image to get a better idea of the actual pixel makeup of a section you are working on.

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Hand tool helps you to move around in an image document quickly and works similarly to a scroll bar, enabling you to do your work more quickly.

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Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.

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The lasso is an editing tool available, with minor variations, in most digital image editing software.

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The Magic Wand Tool, known simply as the Magic Wand, is one of the oldest selection tools in Photoshop. Unlike other selection tools that select pixels in an image based on shapes or by detecting object edges, the Magic Wand selects pixels based on tone and color.

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Similar to the lasso tool, except that instead of holding your mouse button down to draw, left-click on various points to create a selection with a series of straight edges. You can also hold down the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Mac OS) to draw freehand sections.

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Quick Selection tool. You can use the Quick Selection tool to quickly “paint” a selection using an adjustable round brush tip. As you drag, the selection expands outward and automatically finds and follows defined edges in the image.

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The Rectangular Marquee tool is used for making rectangular selections within an image. It is among the most basic of tools, and appears in most every image editing program available.

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Containing or using only one color.

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The Smudge tool simulates the effect you see when you drag a finger through wet paint. The tool picks up color where the stroke begins and pushes it in the direction you drag.

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The Gradient tool creates a gradual blend between multiple colors.

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Layer masking allows you to hide or use as much of any one layer as you like. Some people call a mask a matte, a frisket or a hi-con.

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The Adjustment Layers in Photoshop are a group of a super useful, non-destructive image editing tools that add color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing its pixels.

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In photography and cinematography, a reflector is an improvised or specialised reflective surface used to redirect light towards a given subject or scene.