Adobe ADBCD17648MC Manuel D’Utilisation

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8
Glossary

The softening of the detail in an image or parts of a image.

A standard file format for saving bitmap files in Windows. Windows can display BMP files on any type of display 

device.

A rectangular border around an image, shape, or text that you can drag to rotate or resize.

The relative lightness or darkness of an image, which determines the intensity of colors. Also, the relative 

lightness or darkness of any color. (See also “

The brightness of an image or selection, usually measured as a percentage from 0% (black) to 100% 

(white). 

A brush with preset settings for size, thickness and so on. Photoshop Elements includes several brush 

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.

The selective darkening of a part of an image.

A file used for virtual memory. The cache file speeds the performance of Photoshop Elements.

A format describing data exactly as it is captured by a camera sensor, with no in-camera processing 

applied. Also called raw format. (This format differs from “

The workspace around an existing image, within the image window. Layer data may lie outside of the 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.

Portable hardware on which you can store, upload, or download photos, audio, video, and other data. You 

can download data from a card reader into Adobe Bridge.

Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique. A group that defines communications 

standards. Now known as the ITU-T (International Telecommunications Union-Telecommunication Standardization 
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, 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.

See “

” on page  300.

Commission Internationale de l’Éclairage. A group that defined universal color standards in the early 1930s. The 

Lab color model was developed by CIE.

The temporary holding area for data stored with the Cut or Copy commands.

Data for vector paths stored on the clipboard. Vector paths are used with vector data such as text 

layers or shape layers.

To paint with the Clone Stamp tool. You must set a sampling point on the active layer (by holding the Alt key 

and clicking the mouse) before you paint with the Clone Stamp tool.

Files used to access character sets in double-byte fonts such as Japanese fonts.

Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black—the inks most printers use to produce color images. Though Photoshop 

Elements does not support CMYK color mode, most desktop printers automatically convert to it.