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The relative lightness or darkness of an image, which determines the intensity of colors. Also, the relative
brightness
lightness or darkness of any color. Compare luminance.
The brightness of an image or selection, usually measured as a percentage from 0% (black) to 100%
brightness value
(white).
A brush with preset settings for size, thickness and so on. Photoshop Elements includes several brush
brush preset
presets for you to choose from, and you can create your own as well. The maximum number of brush presets that
you can create in Photoshop Elements: 8000.
One of the following brush tool styles: brush, impressionist brush, or airbrush.
brush type
The selective darkening of a part of an image.
burning
C
A file used for virtual memory. The cache file speeds the performance of Photoshop Elements.
cache file
The dialog box for your monitor calibration software. For example, the Adobe Gamma dialog box.
calibrate dialog
A photo file containing unprocessed image information, exactly as it comes off the sensor before
camera raw file
in-camera processing. You can then process the file on your computer.
A format describing data exactly as it is captured by a camera, with no in-camera processing
camera raw format
applied. You can send camera raw files directly for processing in Photoshop Elements. Also called raw format. It is
not the same as Photoshop raw format.
The work space around an existing image, within the image window. Layer data may lie outside of the canvas,
canvas
but it will be clipped to the canvas when the image is flattened. You can change the size and color of the canvas by
choosing Image > Resize > Canvas Size.
Either a text or audio note attached to a photo.
caption
Portable hardware on which you can store, upload, or download photos, audio, video, and other data.
card reader
You can download data from a card reader into Photoshop Elements.
Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique. A group that defines communications
CCITT
standards. Now known as the ITU-T (International Telecommunications Union-Telecommunication Standard-
ization sector). The CCITT has developed a family of lossless compression techniques for black-and-white images.
A construct for describing the color data in an image. A black-and-white grayscale image has one channel,
channel
an RGB image has three, and a CMYK image has four. Ordinarily, a channel describes either red, green, or blue,
which are blended to create all colors.
The purity, or strength, of a color. Also called saturation. A fully saturated color contains no gray. Saturation
chroma
controls make colors more vivid (less black or white added) or more muted (more black or white added).
Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage. A group that defined universal color standards in the early 1930s. The
CIE
Lab color model was developed by CIE.
The temporary holding area for data stored with the Cut or Copy commands.
clipboard
Data for vector paths stored on the clipboard. Vector paths are used with vector data such as
clipboard path data
type 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
clone
the Clone Stamp tool.
Files used to access character sets in double-byte fonts such as Japanese fonts.
CMap files
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