Photoshop Designer Assessment Quiz

1) What is the #1 secret technique used in 90% of movie posters?

a) Typography
b) Gradient Layer Masking
c) Hue/Saturation Adjustment
d) Average Selections

2) Say you have selected and made a layer of a person so there is 'open space' on the rest of that layer across the image (as shown in the layer icon itself). That person now has their own layer and currently isn't selected. To create a Custom Curves adjustment layer, you would:

a) CurvesFly-up menu: Curves Adjustment Layer

b) Image: Adjustments: New Adjustment Layer: Curves
c) Ctrl click on the layer icon and from the fly-up menu choose Curves adjusment layer
d) Image: Adjustment: Curves on the layer itself

3) Different genres of design use different sets of techniques and tools?

a) True
b) False

4) Flyer production relies heavily on which set of characteristics?

a) Layer masking & color adjustments
b) Vectors (shapes) and typography
c) Image adjustments
d) Patching, cloning & healing

5) To create a global color theme on a multi-layered image, what is the one method you WOULDN'T use?

a) Hue/adjustment adjustment layer on top in the layers palette
b) Color fill background layer and change the blending modes of the layers above to allow bleeding
c) Create a color balance adjustment on the background layer
d) Create a gradient or fill adjustment layer on top in the layers palette and change the blending mode

6) In montages, what's the most important thing to master?

a) Adjustments
b) Shapes
c) Typography
d) Layers

7) How do you most quickly create a 3-D effect on a layer or type layer (without a plug-in)?

a) Edit: Transform: Perspective
b) Ctrl 'T' and Ctrl click on a handle
c) Image: Adjustments: Transform
d) Alt/Opt 'I - A - T' and move a handle

8) How can you quickly hide pixels to create a professional blend that allows you to keep hiding pixels as you keep going?

a) Use a large soft brush with white as the foreground color on a layermask
b) Use the linear gradient tool swiping on foreground to background on a layer mask with black as the foreground color
c) Use the linear gradient tool swiping on foreground to background on a layer mask with white as the foreground color
d) Use the linear gradient tool swiping on foreground to transparent on a layer mask with black as the foreground color

9) Do you think you could learn from interacting with professional finished designs of actual .psd's themselves?

a) Yes
b) No

10) Say you have a wedding photograph with the couple already on their own layer. How do you create a soft background/fill effect?

a) Feather a large selection and Ctrl J to put it on a new layer

b) Filter: Blur the wedding couple layer and lower the opacity with a white background layer beneath

c) Selection of the couple in quickmask and use filter: blur: gaussian blur to preview, exit quickmask and Ctrl J
d) Create a blank layer beneath the wedding couple, make a larger selection (than the couple), give it a large feather and fill it with white

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