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USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8
Glossary
Last updated 7/26/2011
stack Photos that you group together under one photo. You can create stacks when you have multiple photos of the
same subject and you don’t want them all to clutter up the Bridge Content panel.
stroke (1) An outline around an image or part of an image created with the Stroke command or with a drawing,
painting, or selection tool. (2) The characteristics of the lines created with one of the painting or drawing tools,
especially brushes.
subtractive primaries Cyan, magenta, and yellow. In theory, when pigments of these three colors are combined in
equal quantities, the result is black. Printers combine these colors in various proportions to represent all printable
colors. The additive primaries are used to combine colors of light, whereas the subtractive primaries are used to
combine colors of ink. (See also
“additive primaries” on page 290.)
swatches Preset colors that you can choose from in the Color Swatches panel. The maximum number of color
swatches that you can load in Photoshop Elements: 8190.
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Targa (TGA) format A file format that is compatible with systems using the Truevision video board.
target channels Selected channels in the Channels panel of Photoshop. Photoshop Elements doesn’t have a Channels
panel.
target colors Colors you specify for highlights, neutral grays, and shadows when you correct a photo.
target layer The selected layer in the Layers panel.
target path The selected path in the Paths panel of Photoshop. Photoshop Elements doesn’t have a Paths panel.
tate-chuu-yoko A block of horizontal type that is laid out in a vertical line.
temperature In regard to color, the degree of 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. (See also
“black body” on page 291.)
text layer A layer that contains vector-based text. (See also “layer” on page 297.)
thumbnail A small, low-resolution representation of an image. The program displays thumbnails of the photos you
are working on to help you find them and edit them.
TIFF Tagged Image File Format. A digital image format widely used for images that are to be printed or published.
TIFF images can be compressed losslessly.
tint A variation of a color produced by adding white, thus decreasing saturation and increasing lightness.
tolerance A measure of the precision with which certain tools work. The tolerance describes the difference in value
between adjacent pixels affected by a tool. If the tolerance is high, many more pixels are affected or selected than if the
tolerance is low.
tonal correction An adjustment made in the tones of an image: shadows, highlights, or midtones. You can adjust
highlight and shadow values to increase the tonal range, adjust the brightness of the midtones without affecting
shadow and highlight values, and so on.
transform To scale, shrink, enlarge, skew, distort, rotate, or change the perspective of a layer, selection, or shape.
transform bounding box The box that surrounds the portion of an image you are changing with a transform
command.
transition An effect added between two photos, for instance in a slide show, that affects the visual presentation of how
one photo changes to the other.
