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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
spot channels
not support spot channels.
A calibrated RGB color space now in use as a standard on the web. Most computer monitors can display only
sRGB
the colors in the sRGB color space.
(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.
Preset colors that you can choose from in the Color Swatches palette. The maximum number of color
swatches
swatches that you can load in Photoshop Elements: 8190.
T
A file format that is compatible with systems using the Truevision video board.
Targa (TGA) format
Selected channels in the Channels palette of Photoshop. Photoshop Elements doesn't have a
target channels
Channels palette.
Colors you specify for highlights, neutral grays, and shadows when you correct a photo.
target colors
The selected layer in the Layers palette.
target layer
The selected path in the Paths palette of Photoshop. Photoshop Elements doesn't have a Paths palette.
target path
A block of horizontal type that is laid out in a vertical line. Also called kuminoji or renmoji.
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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.
A layer that contains vector-based text.
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.
Tagged Image File Format. A digital image format widely used for images that are to be printed or published.
TIFF
TIFF images can be compressed losslessly.
A variation of a color produced by adding white, thus decreasing saturation and increasing lightness.
tint
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