A. RGB pigments
B. RGB dyes
C. CMY pigments
D. CMY dye
All the following are essential elements of conventional process
color printing except:
A. halftone screening
B. offset lithography
C. color separation
D. CMYK ink
Colors are created on a TV or computer monitor by:
A. RGB pigments
B. RGB phosphors
C. CMY dyes
D. CMY phosphors
Colorants used in various desktop digital color printers include
all the following except:
A. CMY dyes
B. CMYK dyes
C. CMYK toners
D. CMY phosphors
The most familiar application of additive color mixing is:
A. process color printing
B. photography
C. digital color printing
D. television
When equal amounts of two primary colors are mixed, the
resulting color's relationship to the third (unused) primary is called:
A. complementary
B. co-dependent
C. independent
D. subtractive
The complement of magenta is:
A. red
B. green
C. blue
D. yellow
Filters can be used to control the color of light. Imagine you
are lighting a scene in a photo studio, and you want to shine blue light on
the background. What color filter would you use?
A. red
B. green
C. blue
D. yellow
The subtractive color mixing system filters light using:
A. RGB pigments and dyes
B. CMY pigments and dyes
C. RGB phosphors
D. over-projection
When cyan is mixed in equal amounts with magenta, the resulting
color is:
A. red
B. blue
C. green
D. black
When cyan, magenta and yellow are mixed in equal amounts, the
resulting color is:
A. red
B. blue
C. green
D. black
The three color process produces a wide range of colors by
varying the strength of CMY colorants that are:
A. complementary
B. projected side-by-side
C. printed side-by-side
D. overprinted
As an experiment, you replace the CMY inks in a printing press
with RGB inks. Why will this experiment fail to produce a wide range of
intermediate colors?
A. because of ink impurities
B. because it's impossible to
produce RGB inks
C. because all color is absorbed
when two additive primaries are overprinted
D. all of the above
Your color computer monitor is an additive color mixing system.
Its color gamut is different from the gamut of a printing press. Which is
most likely to produce a greater range of light colors, as well as reds,
greens and blues?
A. color computer monitor
B. printing press
The basic building block for all digital images is the:
A. halftone screen
B. pixel
C. bit
D. halftone grid
To produce an image, a digital device must represent three
properties of a pixel. Which is not one of them?
A. size
B. color
C. angle
D. location
Your computer uses 8 bits to represent color values. How many
individual colors can you produce?
A. 16
B. 64
C. 256
D. 16.7 million
Which bit depth is most commonly used in today's desktop digital
imaging applications?
A. 8 bit
B. 24 bit
C. 32 bit
D. 64 bit
Color perception cannot exist without:
A. a light source
B. an illuminated object
C. a human observer
D. all of the above
You see more color, contrast and saturation as light increases
in:
A. angularity
B. intensity
C. spectral distribution
D. color temperature
The color spectrum is produced by variation in:
A. wavelengths of light
B. brightness
C. absorption
D. color gamut
Standardized viewing conditions are recommended for critical
color evaluation because:
A. all "white light" sources
have the same spectral distribution
B. all "white light" sources do
not have the same spectral distribution
C. all human observers are the
same
D. all human observers are not the
same
When setting up a color monitor, the color temperature or "white
point" you select varies depending on your final output medium. If your work
will be produced on a printing press, the recommended white point is:
A. 5000 K
B. 6500 K
C. 2800 K
D. 9300 K
When light strikes an object, it may be:
A. reflected
B. transmitted
C. absorbed
D. all of the above
When you use a densitometer, you are measuring the:
A. spectral distribution of
light
B. color temperature
C. amount of light reflected or
transmitted
D. amount of color saturation
If you have normal vision, you are an excellent judge of very
slight shifts in color when two samples are viewed:
A. with a different light
source for each sample
B. with a different color field
surrounding each sample
C. one after the other
D. side-by-side
Differences in the spectral distribution of skylight and
household tungsten lights change the appearance of objects. Yet your eye
adjusts to these overall color shifts automatically through a process
called:
A. chromatic aberration
B. chromatic adaptation
C. color contrast control
D. color vision deficiency
Color can be defined by three properties. Which is not among
them?
A. brightness (lightness)
B. hue
C. contrast
D. saturation
When you say "This object is green, that one is red," you are
referring to differences in which property?
A. brightness (lightness)
B. hue
C. contrast
D. saturation
When you see a color wheel on your computer monitor, one of the
three dimensions of color is missing. Which one?
A. brightness (lightness)
B. hue
C. contrast
D. saturation
Unlike a colorimeter, a spectrophotometer is an instrument that
measures:
A. density
B. CIE color values
C. wavelengths at many points
throughout the spectrum
D. color temperature
Which of these familiar imaging systems has the smallest color
gamut?
A. digital color printers
B. transparency films
C. conventional printing presses
D. color monitors
Brightness resolution can be increased by using:
A. more bits to define each pixel
B. fewer bits to define each pixel
C. a faster scanning speed
D. a higher sampling rate