Vocab Padlet by Marcus Ware

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.

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 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,^[1] 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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The basic principle of photography is that you use a camera to capture a photograph. It couldn't be more straightforward. But photography is actually a broad genre that branches off into many separate disciplines. There are many different types of photography.

Radial Symmetry

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symmetry around a central axis,

Symmetry

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a balanced and proportionate similarity that is found in two halves of an object

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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Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

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.

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 .

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.

Balance

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

Variety

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Variety 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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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.

movement

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

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.

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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the workshop of a photographer, which may include the retail sale of portraits and/or photographs produced by the photographer and a photography shop

Cool Colors

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Cool colors include green, blue, and purple, and variations of those three colors.

Warm Colors

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Warm colors include red, orange, and yellow, and variations of those three colors.

Neutral Colors

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The four most common neutrals are black, white, brown and grey, and are created by mixing two complementary colors.

Complementary Colors

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Red and green; yellow and purple; orange and blue; green and magenta.

Monochromatic

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containing or using only one color.

Gradient

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A part sloping upward or downward

Constructive Criticism

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a type of feedback that offers specific and actionable advice to help employees to improve

Plagiarism

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

Ethical

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Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior"

Objective

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A goal or objective is an idea of the future or desired result that a person or a group of people envision, plan and commit to achieve.

subjective

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

Copyright

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one can get an exclusive right to make a copy or copies of their original work and sell them in the market

Trademark

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

Rules 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.

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

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.

Negative space

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related to minimalist photography.

Positive space

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positive space is the actual subject

Diptych

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where two separate images are placed side by side

Triptych

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a group of three pictures

Orthographic view

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a way of representing a 3D object by using several 2D views of the object

Barrel lens distortion

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an effect associated with wide-angle lenses and, in particular, zoom wide-angles.

Pincushion Distortion

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image magnification increases with the distance from the optical axis

ISO

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ISO Sensitivity is a standard set by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that represents sensitivity to light as a numerical value. A higher number indicates a higher sensitivity and a greater ability to capture light.

ASA

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The ASA (American Standards Association) scale is an arbitrary rating of film speed; that is, the sensitivity of the film to light.

Image Sensor

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Article Talk. An image sensor or imager is a sensor that detects and conveys information used to form an image.

Film Grain

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Film grain is 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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More specifically, the aperture and focal length of an optical system determine the cone angle of the bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane.

F/stop

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To stop how much light you wan the camera to recieve

Lens focal length

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tells us the angle of view—how much of the scene will be captured—and the magnification—how large individual elements will be.

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.

Bokeh

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the effect of a soft out-of-focus background that you get when shooting a subject, using a fast lens, at the widest aperture, such as f/2.8 or wider

Backlighting

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positioning the main light source for a photograph behind the primary subject.

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.

Manual Mode

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Manual mode means you're in charge of adjusting aperture

Shutter Priority Mode

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when a photographer manually designates a shutter speed for a given exposure, and the camera automatically chooses an appropriate aperture and ISO setting to go with that shutter speed.

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.

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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the apparent streaking of moving objects in a photograph or a sequence of frames

Tripods/Monopods

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provide a one-legged solution for holding cameras steady.

Camera Shake

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

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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an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.

Silhouette

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

Long Exposure

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using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images

Time Lapse

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a cinematography method in which a photographer takes a series of still pictures of the same frame at regular intervals over some time

Light Painting

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create different creative photos with various illumination techniques

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

Pot Metering

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allows the camera to measure the light reflected from the person's face and expose properly for that, instead of adjusting exposure for the much brighter light around the hairline

Partial Metering

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covers only the centre 6.2% of the frame in the viewfinder, thus providing precise metering only for the subject

Center Weighted Average Metering

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concentrates the metering on the central part of the viewfinder but also takes the rest of the frame into consideration

Evaluative Metering

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the mostly used automatic metering mode in everyday photography

18% Gray

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if the light in an average scene being photographed is averaged out, it will produce an 18% gray tone (neutral).

Shadows

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the dark areas where a light source is blocked by an object

Midtones

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The Tonal Range That Lies Between The Extreme Highlights And Shadows

Highlights

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the lightest elements in an image

Vignette

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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 that converts the metallic silver in the emulsion of a photographic print into a silver sulfide compound

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

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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Your camera will read the color on the card and lock in the color temperature that is found when light is reflected off the white card

Workspace Switcher

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displays a visual representation of your workspaces

Toolbar

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a strip of icons used to perform certain functions.

Palettes

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the range of colors used by a particular artist or in a particular picture.

Menu bar

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a horizontal bar, typically located at the top of the screen below the title bar, containing drop-down menus.

Tool options bar

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a horizontal menu at the top of the main Photoshop window that lets you customize a tool

Cropping

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Adjusting the picture's size to your liking

Aspect Ratio

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the proportional relationship between an image's width and height

Resolution

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resolution is the level of detail of an image

DPI vs PPI

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PPI describes the resolution in pixels of a digital image whereas DPI describes the amount of ink dots on a printed image

SOOC

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Straight Out Of Camera

File Formats

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PSD files are the native file format of Adobe Photoshop.

Raw File Format

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uncompressed and unprocessed image data captured by a digital camera or scanner's sensors

.PNG

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a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression

.JPEG

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The group recognized a need to make large photo files smaller so that they could be shared more easily.

.PSD

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an image format that supports layers of graphics in a single file

HDR

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HDR is the range of the lightest tones to the darkest tones within a photo.

Double Exposure

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a technique that layers two different exposures on a single image, combining two photographs into one.

Triadic colors

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A triadic color scheme consists of three colors

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.

Golden hour

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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.

Macro Lens

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a dedicated camera lens that is optically optimized to handle extremely close focusing distances

Prime Lens

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a prime lens is a fixed focal length photographic lens, typically with a maximum aperture from f2.8 to f1.2.

Telephoto Lens

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a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the 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

Vibration Reduction

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an image stabilization technology that minimizes blur caused by camera shake

DSLR

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digital single-lens reflex camera

Metadata

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

Thumbnails

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A thumbnail is 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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Post-processing encompasses every change you make to a video or photo after you download the RAW file to your computer

Layer Masking

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Non-destructive way of erasing or overlapping images

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 full-frame DSLR is a digital single-lens reflex camera with a 35 mm image sensor 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

Reflector

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an improvised or specialised reflective surface used to redirect light towards 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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the intensity of the color

Color Balance

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the global adjustment of the intensities of the colors

Hue

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

Vibrance

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

Contrast [Editing Term]

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The difference in brightness between light and dark areas of an image

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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The Patch Tool is part of the healing brush set of tools

Clone Stamp Tool

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The Clone Stamp tool copies pixels from one part of an image 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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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 that, of course, have elliptical or even circular shapes.

Brush Tool

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Allows the user to draw over an image

Zoom Tool

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(couldn't find a picture) Allows the user to zoom in and out of the picture

Hand Tool

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Allows the user to move the picture around the screen without destroying the image

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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The Contiguous option will paint only pixels that are directly attached to ones of the same color.

Straighten Tool

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You draw it across a line that's supposed to be straight, and then Photoshop will do the actual straightening for you

Crop Tool

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allows you to select an area of a photo and remove or crop everything outside the selected area

Smudge Tool

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simulates a brush smearing wet paint

Sponge Tool

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saturate or desaturate any area of your image and create interesting effects

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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Blur Tool

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Allows the user to blur specific parts of the image of choice

Sharpen Tool

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focuses soft edges in a photo to increase clarity or focus.

Select and Mask Tool

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designed to assist users in defining and refining the selected portion of the canvas

Tracking

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any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded

Leading

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lines in a photograph that have been framed and positioned by the photographer to direct the viewer's attention to a particular point of focus

Kerning

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the spacing between individual letters or characters

Transform Tool

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allows us to modify the size, position, rotation, and skew of an object or image

Clipping Mask

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allow you to link two layers together