Adobe ADBCD17648MC Manuel D’Utilisation

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8
Glossary

A measure of the amount of light in which a photo was taken. Underexposed digital photos are too dark; 

overexposed ones, too light.

A plug-in for Photoshop Elements that enhances performance or adds features.

When used with painting tools, fade controls the number of steps until the paint flow fades to nothing.

Decrease in light as it travels from its source. Also the length of the transition between related colors in the 

Hue/Saturation dialog box.

A type style that allows you to apply a bold effect to a font family that does not include a bold style.

A computer-generated version of a font that simulates the appearance of an unavailable font.

File containing comments from an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. Photoshop Elements cannot open FDF files. 

The softening of an edge of a selection. 

A plug-in that allows Photoshop Elements to open different file types.

A type of layer that contains a solid color, a pattern, or a gradient as an interchangeable attribute.

A filter plug-in installed with Photoshop Elements and listed in the Filter menu.

Presupplied ways to alter the look of an image, for instance, to make it look like a mosaic, add unique lighting, 

apply distortions, and so on. 

Merging all visible layers into the Background layer to reduce file size.

A set of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols that share a common weight, width, and style. An 

example is Times Italic.

A collection of fonts with the same name but different styles. For instance, Times Italic, Times Bold, and 

Times Bold Italic all belong to the same font family.

An internal engine in Photoshop Elements that allows the application to use and display fonts.

A variant version of an individual font in a family. Italic, regular, and bold are font styles.

A high-bit image mode that can contain thousands of colors per channel. Photoshop Elements 

supports 8-bit or 16-bits per color channel, so an RGB image can be a total of 24-bit or 48-bit, depending on the bit 
depth per channel.

A layer masking an image in a photo creation. A frame layer borders an image and can be resized, rotated, 

or repositioned using the same methods used for images.

A tolerance setting for the Magic Wand tool and the Replace Color command. It controls the degree to 

which related colors are included in the selection. See Tolerance. 

The contrast resulting from darkening or lightening the midtones of an image. When you adjust 

the gamma, you change the brightness of the midtones without substantially affecting the highlights and shadows.

A softening effect applied through a bell-shaped distribution of tones and colors. 

Graphic image file format. A file format suitable for images that contain line art, large areas of a single color, and 

text. Web animations are done with images in GIF format.