Photoshop
Layers
Review Questions
- What is a layer?
- What is a layer group and why is it useful?
- What are linked layers?
- Which layer Opacity setting will reveal more of the content on the underlying layer: 20% or 80%?
- Can the opacity of a Background layer be adjusted?
- How can you prevent Photoshop from assigning generic names to new layers, new layer groups, or duplicate layers?
- Will deleting a layer group also delete all the layers in the set?
- If you enable Lock Image Pixels and try to apply a fill to the entire layer what will happen?
- What change(s) can you make to a layer that has had Lock All enabled?
- What does the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-J (Cmd-J) do?
- How do you select all the opaque and semi-transparent pixels on a layer?
- If there are two separate painted shapes on a transparent layer with no selection in effect, what will happen if you drag one of the shapes with the Move tool?
- Name four functions of the Move tool.
- What action applies a transformation created with the Move tool's Bounding Box option?
- What are the prerequisites for aligning and distributing layers?
- What two things can layer content be aligned to?
- What are the minimum number of layers required for aligning? How about distributing?
- Describe three ways that a layer can be moved from one image to another.
- What is the purpose of the Global Light?
- What three types of layers cannot have layer styles applied to them?
- In a clipping mask, are the contents of masked layers revealed through the opaque areas or transparent areas of the base layer?
- Explain the differences between layer blending modes and layer styles.
- Give four examples of layer styles.
- Give three examples of blending modes.
- Explain what the Flatten Image command will do.
- What is another name for vector shapes?
- Describe the two thumbnails displayed on a shape layer.
- Which tool is used to select shapes on shape layers?
- When a shape layer is active, what determines whether a new shape will be placed on the current layer or a new shape layer?
- How do you deselect the vector mask thumbnail?
- Describe two ways you can change the solid fill colour of a shape.
- How are gradients or patterns applied as fills to vector shapes?
- What does the Create Filled Region option for the Shape tools do?
Bonus Questions
- If you cut all the pixels from a Background layer, what will be left on the layer?
- How can you adjust the opacity of elements on a layer without affecting the opacity of its layer styles?
- What is the maximum number of layers supported in Photoshop 6.0?
- How can you quickly paste a layer style to multiple layers?
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