Photoshop trivia

Photoshop Mini Quiz

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Question 1

Sharing a name with actress Aniston, what tropical-themed image was the first color photograph ever edited in Adobe Photoshop?

Photoshop co-creator John Knoll took the photo of his wife on a beach in Bora Bora in 1987. He used this digitized image to demonstrate the software to companies like Apple.

Question 2

Which brothers co-created Adobe Photoshop? One was a Star Wars VFX artist, and their surname matches the grassy hill tied to JFK.

Thomas wrote the initial code to display grayscale images on a monochrome monitor. His brother John, an ILM employee, encouraged him to develop it into a full image editor.

Question 3

Image editor Photoshop uses the Magic Wand tool to select areas of a picture based on what trait?

This tool selects adjacent pixels with matching tones. Users can adjust its tolerance setting to dictate how strictly the colors must match the originally clicked pixel.

Question 4

Design program Photoshop features a powerful tool called Content-Aware Fill to help users do what?

Introduced in Photoshop CS5, this feature analyzes surrounding pixels to seamlessly generate a replacement background. This makes it look like the object was never there.