Worksheet 5 [Adobe Photoshop CS3] Grade 8

Answer the following questions:

Ques 1. Describe the components of Adobe Photoshop CS3.

Ans. 1. TITLE BAR: It is the top most horizontal bar of the application window that displays the name of the program.

2. TEXT MENU: It is located below the title bar. It shown the ten different menus like file, edit, image, layout, select, filter, analysis, view, window and help.

3. CONTEXT MENU: Immediately below the text menu, is the context menu. The items in this menu change to reflect the options associated with the tool being selected. It is also known as Options bar.

4. WORK-SPACE: it contains the image that you want to edit. it is also known as image window.

5.TOOLS PALETTE: Along the left side of the Photoshop window, we find the Tools Palette. It works like an artist's paint box and holds a variety of tools which help us to draw paint,  and manipulate the images.

Ques 2. What do you understand by "Expand Dock".

Ans. The Expand dock is present on the top right corner of the "palettes" window. it is indicated with double arrows. It is used to keep palettes that we do not use quite often.

Ques 3. How do you Reveal the hidden tools in Photoshop?

Ans. Some of the tools have a tiny black triangle at the bottom right corner indicating that more tools of the same kind are available in a pop-up menu. Click on the tiny black triangle to access those tools.

Ques 4. Define the term 'Marquee'.

Ans. A selected area is indicated on the screen by a blinking selection border, called Marquee.

Ques 5. Differentiate between Gradient and Paint bucket tool.

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