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Camera Obscura

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a darkened enclosure having an aperture usually provided with a lens through which light from external objects enters to form an image of the objects on the opposite surface.

35mm film

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35 mm film is a film gauge used in filmmaking, and the film standard. In motion pictures that record on film, 35 mm is the most commonly used gauge.

Twin Lens Reflex Camera

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A Twin-lens Reflex is a camera with two lenses, each with the same focal length. Each lens has a different purpose; one lens is the viewfinder and the other captures the scene. The connected lenses move together, allowing the film to be as focused as the viewfinder.

Gelatin Silver Process

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The gelatin silver process is the most commonly used chemical process in black-and-white photography, and is the fundamental chemical process for modern analog color photography. As such, films and printing papers available for analog photography rarely rely on any other chemical process to record an image.

Genre

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a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content.

Curator

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Curators are in charge of a collection of exhibits in a museum or art gallery. Their job is to build up collections, often in specialist areas.

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 that is used for showing works of art, sometimes so that they can be sold

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 photographic studio is often a business owned and represented by one or more photographers, possibly accompanied by assistants and pupils, who create and sell their own and sometimes others’ photographs.

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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ack 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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xisting 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.

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 .

color

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

and intensity.

shape

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

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.

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.

Balance

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Balance is the distribution of the visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and space. If the design was a scale, these elements should be balanced to make a design feel stable. In symmetrical balance, the elements used on one side of the design are similar to those on the other side; in asymmetrical balance, the sides are different but still look balanced. In radial balance, the elements are arranged around a central point and may be similar.

Variety

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Pattern

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

Proportion

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Proportion is the feeling of unity created when all parts (sizes, amounts, or number) relate well with each other. When drawing the human figure, proportion can refer to the size of the head compared to the rest of the body.

Movement

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Movement is the path the viewer’s eye takes through the work of art, often to focal areas. Such movement can be directed along lines, edges, shape, and color within the work of art.

Unity

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

Emphasis

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Emphasis is the part of the design that catches the viewer’s attention. Usually the artist will make one area stand out by contrasting it with other areas. The area could be different in size, color, texture, shape, etc.

Cool colors

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Cool colors are typified by blue, green, and light purple. They can calm and soothe.

Warm colors

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Warm colors are reds, yellows, shades of orange, and much more. They create a feeling of heat, brightness, and an atmosphere of warmth and illumination.

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. Examples of neutral colors include beige, taupe, gray, cream, brown, black, and white.

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.

Complementary colors

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combining in such a way as to enhance or emphasize the qualities of each other or another.

Gradient

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a part sloping upward or downward.

Constructive criticism

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Constructive criticism is a feedback method that offers specific, actionable recommendations for change and improvement.

Plagiarism

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An act of presenting another person's work idea as your own.

Ethical

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moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.

Objective

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a thing aimed at or sought; a goal.

Subjective

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

Copyright

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he 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.

Trademark

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

Rule of thirds

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

Leading lines

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Golden Ratio

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The Golden Ratio is a mathematical ratio. It is commonly found in nature, and when used in a design, it fosters organic and natural-looking compositions that are aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

Negative space

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Negative space is a term used in art to describe the space surrounding a subject. Also called white space, it is typically empty and lacks details as to simplify an image. Negative space surrounds positive space in a work of art.

Positive space

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Positive space is a term used to refer to the areas of interest and focus in a piece of artwork.

Backlighting

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A backlight is a form of illumination used in liquid-crystal displays. As LCDs do not produce light by themselves—unlike, for example, cathode ray tube, plasma or OLED displays—they need illumination to produce a visible image.

Defused Lighting

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Diffused light is light that has an even concentration across the spread of its beam.

Ambient light

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Diffused light is light that has an even concentration across the spread of its beam.

Chiaroscuro

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pictorial representation in terms of light and shade without regard to color

silhouette

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

ISO

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your camera's sensitivity to light as it pertains to either film or a digital sensor.

ASA

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an arbitrary rating of film speed

Image sensor

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a device that allows the camera to convert photons – that is, light – into electrical signals that can be interpreted by the device.

Film Grain

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the visible silver crystals in a film negative's emulsion.

Digital Noise

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the term digital noise refers to visual distortion

Aperture

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a space through which light passes in an optical or photographic instrument, especially the variable opening by which light enters a camera.

F/Stop

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aperture measurements on your camera

Lens Focal length

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The distance of the principal focus from the optical centre of a lens

Depth of feild

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the area of acceptable sharpness in front of and behind the subject which the lens is focused.

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.

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 still sets the exposure for you.

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 an aperture, and the camera chooses an appropriate shutter speed based on the available light.

Shutter speed

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the speed at which the shutter of the camera closes

Bulb mode

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allows you to use shutter speeds slower than the standard maximum of 30 seconds

Motion Blur

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ncreases realism and a sense of speed

Tripod Monopod

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

Camera shake

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

Long exposure

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the technique in which the camera's shutter is left open during a somewhat lengthy period of time

Time lapse

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denoting the photographic technique of taking a sequence of frames at set intervals to record changes that take place slowly over time.

Light painting

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denoting the photographic technique of taking a sequence of frames at set intervals to record changes that take place slowly over time.

Panning

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a photographic technique that combines a slow shutter speed with camera motion to create a sense of speed around a moving object

Burst Mode

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Burst mode, also called continuous shooting mode, sports mode, continuous mode, or burst shot, is 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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In photography, the metering mode refers to the way in which a camera determines exposure. Cameras generally allow the user to select between spot, center-weighted average, or multi-zone metering modes.

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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measures the average brightness of the entire screen.

Evaluate metering

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the process of measuring the light in a scene.

18% grey

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“mid-point between black and white on a logarithmic or exponential curve.”

Tripych

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a group of three pictures.

Dypytch

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where two separate images are placed side by side

Pincushion distortion

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In pincushion distortion, image magnification increases with the distance from the optical axis. The visible effect is that lines that do not go through the ...

Barrel lens distortion

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

Shadows

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a dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.

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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an outstanding part of an event or period of time.

Vignette

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a brief evocative description, account, or episode.

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

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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It can be used to help achieve accurate colors in photos, regardless of the lighting conditions.

Workspace switcher

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displays a visual representation of your workspaces, as shown in Figure 4–3. Figure 4–3 shows the Workspace Switcher when the Java Desktop System session contains four workspaces. Your workspaces appear as buttons on the panel application.

Toolbar

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a toolbar appears at the top of a screen or window.

Palettes

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The tool palette in Photoshop is located on the left-most side of Photoshop. Here's an image of the Photoshop tool palette: The tool palette of Adobe Photoshop contains different types of tools that can be used to edit and enhance the quality of the image by the user.J

Menu bar

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This is where you'll access different commands to use in Photoshop.

Tool options bar

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The options bar is right underneath the menu bar. It's a horizontal menu that, by default, is on the left side of the screen.

Cropping

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Aspect ratio

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a proportional relationship between an image's width and height.

Resolution

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the level of detail contained in an imag

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 Camer

File formats

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Some of the most common document file formats include PDF, DOC and DOCX, HTML and HTM, and XLS and XLSX.

Raw file format

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contain uncompressed and unprocessed image data

Png File format

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Portable Network Graphic

Jpeg File type

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JPEG files (or JPG files) are a type of raster image file format that uses compression to store data, and has the file extension

PSD file type

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PSD files are the native file format of Adobe Photoshop

HDR

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high dynamic range.

Double Exposure

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ow Does Double Exposure Work in Film?

Take your first photo. The camera shutter opens to expose the film to one image, then closes. ...
Rewind the film and take your second photo. ...
Develop both images in one photo.

Triadic colors

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Red, blue, and yellow

Blue hour

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The blue hour is the period of twilight when the Sun is at a significant depth below the horizon. During this time, the remaining sunlight takes on a mostly blue shade. This shade differs from the colour of the sky on a clear day, which is caused by Rayleigh scattering

Golden Hour

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The last hour before sunset and the first hour after sunrise

Macro lens

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capture small subjects at close distances.

Prime lens

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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. Confusion between these two meanings can occur without clarifying context.

Telephoto lens

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llow you to emphasize and bring faraway subjects closer, from people to wildlife to mountains.

Fish Eye lens

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fisheye lens is an ultra wide-angle lens that produces strong visual distortion intended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image

Vibration Reduction

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minimizes blur caused by camera shake.

Lens crop factor

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magnification factor", "focal length factor" or "focal length multiplier".

Full frame camera

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full-frame sensor is most simply deﬁned by its sheer size—36 mm by 24 mm

APS-C Camera

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Advanced Photo System type-C (APS-C) is an image sensor format approximately equivalent in size to the Advanced Photo System film negative in its C

Reflector

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an improvised or specialised reflective surface used to redirect light towards a given subject or scene.

Scrim

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

Move tool

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helps you position selected content or layers when customizing your work

Patch tool

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like a giant healing brush, use it to remove large blemishes from photos.

Clone stamp tool

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copies pixels from one area and applies them to 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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allow you fix imperfections, like scratches, wrinkles, dust spots, etc., causing them to disappear into the surrounding image

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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helps you automatically select areas that are similar in tone and color

Quick selection tool

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Allows you to make a selection based on color.

Rectangular/ Eliptical Marquee tool

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Rectangular/ Eliptical Marquee tool

Brush tool

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Paints colors onto you image.

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 around its window by dragging

Horizontal type tool

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allows you to add horizontal text to your images

Paint bucket

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paints individual pixels, and you can alter how it behaves.

Straighten tool

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Select the Move tool in the Tools panel to display alignment and distribution icons in the Options bar

Crop tool

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Crops images to cut out certain things.

Smudge tool

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Windows › Brushes and search for it in the Brushes panel.

Sponge tool

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The Sponge tool subtly changes the color saturation of an area.

Dodge Tool

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allows you to lighten specific areas of your image without affecting hue or saturation

Burn tool

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darkens areas of an image.

Blur tool

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The Blur tool allows you to paint blur effect on specific areas of an image.

Sharpen tool

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enables you to tighten up a picture and make it clearer by making it sharper.

tracking

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the process of loosening or tightening a block of text

Leading

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The vertical space between lines of type

Kerning

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the process of adding or subtracting space between specific pairs of characters.

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 group of layers to which a mask is applied.