Adobe 65045315 - Photoshop Elements Use Manual page 330

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10
Glossary
Data for vector paths stored on the clipboard. Vector paths are used with vector data such as text
clipboard path data
layers or shape layers.
To paint with the Clone Stamp tool. You must set a sampling point on the active layer before you paint with the
clone
Clone Stamp tool.
Files used to access character sets in double-byte fonts such as Japanese fonts.
CMap files
Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black—the inks most printers use to produce color images. Though Photoshop
CMYK
Elements does not support CMYK color mode, most desktop printers automatically convert to it.
An unwanted or unexpected color shift in a photo. For example, a photo taken indoors without a camera
color cast
flash may have too much yellow.
The component colors from which all colors in an image are created. Usually refers to red, green, and
color channels
blue (RGB).
Measures how much color information is available to display or print each pixel in an image. Greater color
color depth
depth means more available colors and more accurate color representation in the digital image.
The range of colors that a device can reproduce in any given color space.
color gamut
A system used to index or reference colors when the bit depth is insufficient to represent all
color lookup table (CLUT)
colors.
A system used to achieve consistent color as an image travels from one device to another (for
color management
example, from camera to computer, and computer to printer).
Determines how the components of a color are combined, based on the number of color channels in the
color mode
color model. Color modes include grayscale (1 channel), RGB (3 channels), and CMYK (4 channels), among others.
Photoshop Elements supports bitmap, grayscale, indexed, and RGB color modes.
Any system for specifying the components of color. The main color models are RGB, CMYK, and HSB.
color model
The conversion of RGB color data into CMYK data for printing.
color separation
A color mode designed for a particular device or purpose. For instance, Adobe RGB is the color space used
color space
by Adobe applications, and sRGB is the color space used by most monitors. Color spaces are important in color
management, where the color profile of an image is reconciled with the color space of the application or device on
which it is viewed. The color space used by Adobe applications is sometimes called the working space.
See "color lookup table
color table
(1) The position of a color along a continuum from warm (red) to cool (blue). (2) The degree of
color temperature
heat (in degrees Kelvin) that an object would have to absorb before it glowed in a certain color. Each color is associated
with a color temperature, as are various kinds of light.
A mathematical description of the color of a pixel determined from its color components.
color value
A representation of the colors in the visible spectrum arranged in a circle so that complementary colors
color wheel
are directly opposite each other.
Color management software provided by Apple.
ColorSync
Refers to any menu item you choose to perform a desired operation.
command
Two colors of light that, when combined, create white light, or two colors of ink that, when
complementary colors
combined, create black. Complementary colors are opposing colors on a color wheel.
A technique that reduces the file size of bitmap images.
compression
Any layer in Photoshop Elements that contains an image, text, or object.
content layers
(CLUT)" on page 324.
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