Photoshop Terms

the amount of vertical space between lines of type

• kerning

• leading

• layer thumbnail

• marquee

a section within an image on which objects can be stored

• vignette

• style

• smart object

• layer

onscreen markers that help you precisely measure and position an object; they can be displayed using the view menu

• rulers

• tracking

• warping

• typeface

a series of dotted lines indicating a selected area that can be edited or dragged into another image

• kerning

• leading

• layer thumbnail

• marquee

a specific rectangular area within an image to which you can assign special features, such as a link or animation

• transform

• mask

• slice

• rulers

a collection of formatting attributes that can be saved and applied to specific characters or a paragraph

• vignette

• style

• smart object

• layer

contains a miniature picture of the layer's content and appears to the left of the layer name on the Layers panel

• kerning

• leading

• layer thumbnail

• marquee

the insertion of a uniform amount of space between characters

• rulers

• tracking

• warping

• typeface

a feature that lets you protect or modify a particular area; created using a marquee

• crop

• lossy

• lossless

• mask

controlling the amount of space between two characters

• kerning

• leading

• layer thumbnail

• marquee