Adobe 65045315 - Photoshop Elements Use Manual page 339

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10
Glossary
A high-bit image mode that can contain thousands of shades of gray. Photoshop Elements supports
16-bit grayscale
flattened 16-bit images (it does not support layers in 16-bit images).
Deviation of the content of an image from a vertical or horizontal axis. Skewing can be a camera artifact or
skewing
an intentionally applied effect.
Portions of an image in Photoshop that divide the image into functional areas. Slices are not supported in
slices
Photoshop Elements.
A technique for averaging the values of neighboring pixels to reduce contrast and create a soft, blurry
smoothing
effect.
A Photoshop channel that contains a spot color such as a Pantone color. Photoshop Elements does not
spot channels
support spot channels.
An RGB color space that's now a standard on the web. Most computer monitors can display only the colors in
sRGB
the sRGB color space. (See also
Photos that you group together under one photo. You can create stacks when you have multiple photos of the
stack
same subject and you don't want them all to clutter up the Photo Browser.
(1) An outline around an image or part of an image created with the Stroke command or with a drawing,
stroke
painting, or selection tool. (2) The characteristics of the lines created with one of the painting or drawing tools,
especially brushes.
Cyan, magenta, and yellow. In theory, when pigments of these three colors are combined in
subtractive primaries
equal quantities, the result is black. Printers combine these colors in various proportions to represent all printable
colors. The additive primaries are used to combine colors of light, whereas the subtractive primaries are used to
combine colors of ink. (See also
Preset colors that you can choose from in the Color Swatches panel. The maximum number of color
swatches
swatches that you can load in Photoshop Elements: 8190.
T
A label that you attach to photos to organize them. You create your own tags according to the people, places, and
tag
events that they represent. You can attach multiple tags to a photo. Once tagged, you can easily find photos by
searching on the tags.
A file format that is compatible with systems using the Truevision video board.
Targa (TGA) format
Selected channels in the Channels panel of Photoshop. Photoshop Elements doesn't have a Channels
target channels
panel.
Colors you specify for highlights, neutral grays, and shadows when you correct a photo.
target colors
The selected layer in the Layers panel.
target layer
The selected path in the Paths panel of Photoshop. Photoshop Elements doesn't have a Paths panel.
target path
A block of horizontal type that is laid out in a vertical line.
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In regard to color, the degree of heat (in degrees Kelvin) that an object would have to absorb before it
temperature
glowed in a certain color. Each color is associated with a color temperature, as are various kinds of light. (See also
"black body" on page 322.)
A layer that contains vector-based text. (See also "layer" on page 328.)
text layer
A small, low-resolution representation of an image. The program displays thumbnails of the photos you
thumbnail
are working on to help you find them and edit them.
"color space" on page 324.)
"additive primaries" on page 321.)
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