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Photoshop Q/A

Q. Explain Different Types of Filters of Layers?

Filters are the ready-made effects that you can apply to the image that you are working with. Photoshop offers a wide variety of filters. They can be accessed from the Filters menu in the Photoshop Menu Bar. When you use any of the filter options available, a dialog box will open through which you can see a preview of the effect that you are going to apply on the image. This gives you information on how the image result will look after application.

Here are the many filter options on Photoshop:

§   Artistic - This filter enables you to achieve artistic effects. You can get some of the most distinct effects through this option.

§   Blur - This filter enables you to soften the look of an image. It can be used to soften the look of an entire image part of an image. You can use it to reduce the hard edges of an image.

§   Brush Strokes - This filter enables you to create artistic effects using brush strokes.

§   Distort - This filter enables you distort the image so that you can get a unique effect on the original image. This is one of the most interesting Photoshop effects to try out.

§   Noise - This filter is used for creating textures. Many texture effects can be added using the options available here.

§   Pixelate - It creates small cells in the image that you are working with, based on color similarity.

§   Render - This bring about cloud and light effects in the image that you are selecting.

§   Sharpen - This sharpens the soft edges in the image by increasing pixel contrast.

§   Sketch - This works much like the artistic filter, excepting here you get a hand draw effect on the image.

§   Stylize - This option enables you to create special stylish effects on the image.

§   Texture - This option enables you to create various types of texture effects that can really enhance the way your image looks.

§   Video - When you have image captured through video, you can use this command to smoothen them out.

§   Digimark - You have to use this option when you want to add a digital watermark to the image.Each of the filters enables you to create unique and stylistic effects on your image document.You can carry out so many variations in the image that you are working with and bring out some of the best results.

Q. Explain Different types of Tags used in HTML with help of examples?

HTML Tags

Types of HTML TagsTags are instructions that are embedded directly into the text of a HTML document. Each HTML tag describes that the browser should do something instead of simply displaying the text. In HTML, the tags begin with (<) and end with (>)

HTML tags can be of two types. They are

1. Paired Tags

2. Unpaired Tags

Paired Tags:

A tag is said to be a paired tag if the text is placed between a tag and its companion tag. In paired tags, the first tag is referred to as Opening Tag and the second tag is referred to as Closing Tag.

Example

<i>This text is in italics. </i>

Note: Here <i> is called opening tag. and </i> is called closing tag.

Unpaired Tags:

An unpaired tag does not have a companion tag or closing tag. Unpaired tags are also known as Singular or Stand-Alone Tags.

Example

<br> , <hr>

etc. These tags does not require any companion tag.

Tags Based on their utility

We can differentiate tags based on the purpose they used. Basically we have three types here

Formatting tags

We manage the size of the font, underline part of the text, make the text bold etc by using tags like <font>, <u>,<b> etc.

Tables , Div, span tags are used for layout and formatting of content.

 Tool to create your own basic HTML page with tags

Page Structure tags

Description , title , head , body etc are part of the page structure tags. They are part of the basic html page and does not directly affect the formatting of text or image.

Control tags

Form tags, Script tags, Radio buttons etc are part of the control tags. These tags are used to manage content or mange external scripts or libraries ( JQuery , Bootstrap )

All form tags like input text box, dropdown list, radio buttons etc are used for interaction with user. These tags can be formatted by using style properties.