Vocab Padlet by Ashlyn Crockett

Camera Obscura

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Camera obscura (meaning “dark room” in Latin) is a box-shaped device used as an aid for drawing or entertainment. Also referred to as a pinhole image, it lets light in through a small opening on one side and projects a reversed and inverted image on the other

35MM Film

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35 millimeter (35mm) film is a small-format photographic film used in single-lens reflex cameras (SLRs), film cameras, rangefinders, and disposable cameras

Twin Lens Reflex Camera

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A twin-lens reflex camera (TLR) is a type of camera with two objective lenses of the same focal length. One of the lenses is the photographic objective or "taking lens" (the lens that takes the picture), while the other is used for the viewfinder system, which is usually viewed from above at waist level

Gelatin Silver Process

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Gelatin silver papers are commercially manufactured by applying an emulsion of light-sensitive silver salts in gelatin to a sheet of paper coated with a layer of baryta, a white pigment mixed with gelatin

Genre

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

Curator

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a keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection

Exhibition

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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

Gallery

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a room or building for the display or sale of works of art

Museum

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a building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited

Photography Studio

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a place used for portrait or commercial photography, including the developing and processing of film, and the repair or maintenance of photographic equipment

Radial Symmetry

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symmetry around a central axis, as in a starfish or a tulip flower

Symmetry

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The quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis

Asymmetry

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lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry

Juxtaposition

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the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect

Abstract

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

Line

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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

Shape

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

Color

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

Texture

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

Value

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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

Form

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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

Space

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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

Balance

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is the distribution of the visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and space

Variety

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is the use of several elements of design to hold the viewer’s attention and to guide the viewer’s eye through and around the work of art

Pattern

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is the repeating of an object or symbol all over the work of art

Proportion

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the size of elements in relation to one another

Movement

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is the path the viewer’s eye takes through the work of art, often to focal areas

Unity

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is the feeling of harmony between all parts of the work of art, which creates a sense of completeness

Emphasis

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is the part of the design that catches the viewer’s attention

Cool Colors

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Cool colors are typified by blue, green, and light purple. They can calm and soothe. Where warm colors remind you of heat and sunshine, cool colors remind you of water and sky, even ice and snow.

Warm Colors

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The phrase warm color is used to describe any color that is vivid or bold in nature. Warm colors are those that tend to advance in space and can be overwhelming.

Neutral Colors

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Neutral colors are muted shades that appear to lack color but often have underlying hues that change with different lighting.

Complementary Colors

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Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined or mixed, cancel each other out by producing a grayscale color like white or black.

Monochromatic Colors

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Monochromatic (or mono) is a color scheme based on only one, single color tint. It uses only variations (shades) of a single hue, made by altering the saturation and brightness of the base color. Black and white colors are always added, as they in fact are the brightest, resp. the darkest shade of the color.

Gradient

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A gradient is a design element made up of colors that gradually fade into one another. Also known as “color progressions” or “color ramps,” gradients either consist of many shades of the same color, or multiple colors that blend from one to the other.

Trademark

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a symbol, word, or words legally registered or established by use as representing a company or product.

Copyright

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the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same

Subjective

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based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions

Objective

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(of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts

Ethical

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relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these

Plagiarism

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the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own

Constructive Criticism

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Criticism is the construction of a judgement about the negative or positive qualities of someone or something.

Positive Space

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used to refer to the areas of interest and focus in a piece of artwork. Positive space is often the subject of a work of art such as a person, landscape, or object.

Negative Space

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Negative space is the empty space around and between the subject of an image.

Golden Ratio

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a guide to where to place a subject (a tree, person, building, etc.) or element in a photo (like the horizon) where it will be most pleasing to the eye

Leading Lines

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a compositional technique where human-made or natural lines lead the viewer's eyes through a photograph to the subject or the heart of the image

Rule Of Thirds

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a composition guideline that places your subject in the left or right third of an image, leaving the other two thirds more open

Backlight

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illumination from behind

Diffused Lighting

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light that's filtered by something

Ambient Light

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any light a photographer or cinematographer did not bring to the shoot

Chiaroscuro

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the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting

Silhouette

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the dark shape and outline of someone or something visible against a lighter background, especially in dim light

Diptych

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a painting, especially an altarpiece, on two hinged wooden panels which may be closed like a book

Triptych

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a picture or relief carving on three panels, typically hinged together side by side and used as an altarpiece

Orthographic View

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three-dimensional objects in two dimensions

Barrel Lens Distortion

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a type of distortion wherein lines that are straight in real life appear to curve inwards

Pincushion Distortion

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causes straight lines to curve outwards from the center of the image

ISO

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a standard set by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that represents sensitivity to light as a numerical value

ASA

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an arbitrary rating of film speed

Image Sensor

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detects and conveys information used to form an image

Film Grain

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random optical texture of processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons

Digital Noise

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random variation of brightness or color information in images, and is usually an aspect of electronic noise

Bokeh

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the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image, especially as rendered by a particular lens

Depth Of Field

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the distance between the nearest and furthest elements in a scene that appear to be "acceptably sharp" in an image

Lens Focal Length

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determined when the lens is focused at infinity

F/Stop

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the "aperture" opening of a camera lens, which allows light to come in

Aperture

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the opening of a lens's diaphragm through which light passes

Auto Mode

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It gives your camera complete control over its various settings, including the ISO, the aperture, the shutter speed, the autofocus mode, and even the flash

Program Mode

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the camera selects and sets both the shutter speed and the aperture. For any given brightness of light, the camera has been programmed to set a specific combination of shutter speed and aperture. In low light, for example, the camera might set 1/30 second and f4.

Manual Mode

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you're in charge of adjusting aperture

Shutter Priority Mode

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a shooting mode whereby the photographer sets the shutter speed, while the camera automatically sets the Aperture.

Aperture Priority Mode

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the photographer selects a specific aperture value and the camera autoselects the proper shutter speed based on how much light it detects

Camera Shake

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the act of accidentally shaking a camera during shooting due to unsteady hands, which results in blurry images

Tripods/ Monopods

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A tripod has three legs (that's the “tri”). A monopod is a camera support with one leg (the “mono”)

Motion Blur

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Motion blur is the apparent streaking of moving objects in a photograph or a sequence of frames, such as a film or animation

Bulb Mode

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a momentary-action mode that holds shutters open for as long as a photographer depresses the shutter-release button

Shutter Speed

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the length of time that the film or digital sensor inside the camera is exposed to light when taking a photograph

Long Exposure

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Long-exposure, time-exposure, or slow-shutter photography involves using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring the moving elements

Time Lapse

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Time-lapse photography is a technique in which the frequency at which film frames are captured is much lower than the frequency used to view the sequence

Light Painting

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Light painting, painting with light, light drawing, or light art performance photography are terms that describe photographic techniques of moving a light source while taking a long-exposure photograph

Panning

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swivelling a still or video camera horizontally from a fixed position

Burst Mode

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a shooting mode in still cameras where several photos are captured in quick succession by either pressing the shutter button or holding it down

Spot Metering

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evaluates light around the chosen focus point or center of the frame

Partial Metering

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covers only the centre 6.2% of the frame in the viewfinder

Center Weighted Average Metering

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using Evaluative metering with a centre AF point

Evaluative Metering

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the mostly used automatic metering mode in everyday photography

Shadows

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A shadow is a dark area where light from a light source is blocked by an object

Midtones

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the Tonal Range That Lies Between The Extreme Highlights And Shadows, Lending A Sense Of Depth, Dimension, And Naturalness To A Photograph

Highlights

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the lightest elements in an image

Vignette [ vin-yet]

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a darker border - sometimes as a blur or a shadow - at the periphery of photos

Sepia Tone

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a chemical process used in photography which changes the appearance of black-and-white prints to brown

AF Points

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a specific part of the frame where the camera is able to focus on something

Bracketing

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when you bracket your shots you take exactly the same picture of your subject at several different exposures

Exposure Level Indicator

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shows how much your set exposure values deviate from the levels the camera believes are optimal, which always reside at the standard exposure index

Exposure Compensation

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helps you override automatic exposure adjustments your camera makes in situations with uneven light distribution, filters, non-standard processing, or underexposure or overexposure

White Balance Card

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produces a baseline from which all other colors are measured

Workspace Switcher

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displays a visual representation of your workspaces

Toolbar

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where Photoshop holds the many tools we have to work with

Palettes

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groups of tools used to edit and manipulate your image

Menu Bar

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where you'll access different commands to use in Photoshop

Tool Options Bar

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displays the options for a selected tool

Cropping

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to remove or adjust the outside edges of an image (typically a photo) to improve framing or composition, draw a viewer's eye to the subject, or change the size or aspect ratio

Aspect Ratio

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the ratio of its width to its height, and is expressed with two numbers separated by a colon, such as 16:9, sixteen-to-nine

Resolution

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the level of detail of an image

DPI vs PPI

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DPI refers to the number of printed dots contained within one inch of an image printed by a printer. PPI refers to the number of pixels contained within one inch of an image displayed on a computer monitor.

SOOC

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"Straight Out Of Camera”, simply meaning that an image can be good enough to print straight from the camera without further processing

File Formats

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An image file format is a file format for a digital image. There are many formats that can be used, such as JPEG, PNG, and GIF. Most formats up until 2022 were for storing 2D images, not 3D ones

Raw File Format

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A camera raw image file contains unprocessed or minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, a motion picture film scanner, or other image scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed, and contain large amounts of potentially redundant data

.PNG

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Portable Network Graphics is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was developed as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format —unofficially, the initials PNG stood for the recursive acronym "PNG's not GIF"

.JPEG

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The JPG, typically pronounced “jay-peg”, was developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) in 1992

Macro Lens

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Macro photography is extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects and living organisms like insects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life size

Prime Lens

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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.

Telephoto Lens

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a type of photography that brings distant subjects closer with the use of long focal length

Fisheye Lens

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an ultra wide-angle lens that produces strong visual distortion intended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image. Fisheye lenses achieve extremely wide angles of view, well beyond any rectilinear lens.

Vibration Reduction

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an image stabilization technology that minimizes blur caused by camera shake

DSLR

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a digital camera that combines the optics and the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a solid-state image sensor and digitally records the images from the sensor

Metadata

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a set of data describing and providing information about rights and administration of an image

Thumbnails

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a small image representation of a larger image, usually intended to make it easier and faster to look at or manage a group of larger images

Post Processing

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the use of any technique or technology to enhance the original image captured by the photographer

Layer masking

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a nondestructive way to hide parts of an image or layer without erasing them

Lens Crop Factor

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the ratio of the dimensions of a camera's imaging area compared to a reference format

Full Frame Camera

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a digital single-lens reflex camera with a 35 mm image sensor format. Historically, 35 mm was one of the standard film formats, alongside larger ones, such as medium format and large format

APS-C Camera

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an image sensor format approximately equivalent in size to the Advanced Photo System film negative in its C format, of 25.1×16.7 mm, an aspect ratio of 3:2 and Ø 30.15 mm field diameter

Reflector

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an improvised or specialized reflective surface used to redirect light toward a given subject or scene

SCRIM {DIFFUSER}

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a material placed between your light source and your subject that either reduces light or diffuses (and reduces) light

Saturation

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describes the intensity of the color

Color Balance

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changes the overall mixture of colors in an image and is used for color correction

Hue

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the dominant wavelength of light that the human eye interprets as color

Vibrance

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boosts colors that are more muted

Contrast [editing term]

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the difference between the light pixels and dark pixels

Move Tool

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

Patch Tool

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If you want to remove something distracting from the background of an image or even out an area that appears irregular, such as acne on a model's face, you're going to want to use this tool

Clone Stamp Tool

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used to sample pixels from one part of the image to paint in another

Spot Healing Brush Tool

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magically removes unwanted spots, marks, or small objects in your image

Healing Brush Tool

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a powerful and versatile tool that helps us fix various imperfections in our photos

Lasso Tool

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helpful for drawing a free-form border around a selected object within an image

Magic Wand Tool

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automatically selects an object or area of your image, using machine learning to discern what you might be trying to select

Polygonal Lasso tool

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creates selections with straight edges

Quick Selection Tool

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allows you to quickly and easily select one area or section of an image

Rectangular/ Elliptical Marquee Tool

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enables you to create selections of rectangular shapes but there is a related tool called the elliptical marquee tool, that enables you to create selections that, of course, have elliptical or even circular shapes

Brush Tool

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allows you to paint on any layer, much like a real paintbrush

Zoom Tool

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used for magnifying a selected part of the image

Hand Tool

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allows you to move your image while you're zoomed in to more than 100% and part of the image is out of view

Horizontal Type Tool

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allows you to add horizontal text to your images

Gradient tool

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allows you to create gradual changes of color and light across an image with power and precision

Paint Bucket

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allows you to create more advanced color fills for interesting effects and a higher degree of control

Straighten Tool

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correcting a crooked image

Crop Tool

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removes unwanted areas of your image for either practical reasons or better composition

Smudge Tool

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gently reshape important edges into more appealing and softer lines

Sponge Tool

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works on color saturation. It can either saturate a color or desaturate a color. This means by using the sponge tool, we can either increase the color intensity of some pixels or decrease the color intensity of some pixels

Tracking [Text]

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Tracking is the process of loosening or tightening a block of text

Leading [text]

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The vertical space between lines of type is called leading. Leading is measured from the baseline of one line of text to the baseline of the line above it. Baseline is the invisible line on which most letters—that is, those without descenders—sit

Kerning [text]

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the spacing between individual letters or characters. Unlike tracking, which adjusts the amount of space between the letters of an entire word in equal increments, kerning is focused on how type looks — creating readable text that's visually pleasing.

Transform Tool

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allows users to alter their object or selection in a variety of ways, such as scale, rotate, distort, or flip (mirror)

Clipping Mask

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a versatile and powerful technique used to control the visibility of a layer. They are similar to layer masks, but while the end result may appear the same, their functioning and application differ significantly