TVET NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT

                     SCHOOL YEAR 2020-2021



OPTION/TRADE: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA

 

MODULE CODE: AIR301

TITLE: IMAGE/PORTRAIT RETOUCHING

RTQF LEVEL 3 COMPUTER APPLICATION

 

 

DURATION:  3HOURS

 

 

WEIGHT: 100 MARKS

 

 

INSTRUCTION TO CANDIDATES:

 

The paper is composed of three (3) main Sections as follows:

                                                                                      

Section I: This section is compulsory .                        55 Marks

Section II: This section is composed by three (3) compulsory. 30 Marks

Section III: attempt any one (1 ) out of two questions.        15 Marks

 

 

Note:

Every candidate is required to carefully comply with the above instructions. Penalty measures will be applied on their strict consideration.

 

 

Section I: This section is compulsory .                        55 Marks

 

I.Answer by true or false on the following statement. /10 MARKS

1.   Aperture refers to the size of the whole that lets light through a lens.true

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2.  CMYK Colours can generate/ provide RGB Colours.false  .

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3.  Adobe Photoshop cannot process vector images. True

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4.  Adobe Illustrator is used to create bitmap graphics imagesfalse

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II. Multiple choice questions/ 25 marks 

5. The smallest unit of storage that uses the digits such as 0 and 1.     is called: 

a) Bit           b) Kilobyte           c) Byte           d) Telobyte       e) Megabyte          f) Gigabyte 

 

6. The most popular file format used in digital image is called:  

a) GIF                     b) JPEG                       c) PDF                          d) IFF  

7. What is Adobe Photoshop?     

a) A graphic editing tool         b) A print lab           c) A word processing tool 

8. What does CMYK stand for? 

a) Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Pink                b) Colour, Magenta, Yellow, Black 

c) Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black              d) Cyan, Mauve, Yellow, Black 

9. Image to be printed on a colour printer are best created in which colour mode? 

a) Greyscale           b) CMYK           c) RGB             d) Indexed colour

 

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10. Explain the following terms: /5Marks

i)           A pixel :  is the smallest unit of digital image or graphic that can be displayed and represented on a digital display device.

 

ii)          Resolution is the number of dots, pixels that an image contains or that can be displayed on a computer monitor, television or other display device iii) Size the magnitude or dimensions of a thing or how big something .iv) .Compression is the process of making files smaller so that they take up less storage space and can be downloaded more quickly.

 

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11. . Write in full form the following terms:/5Marks

a) GIF, b) PNG, c) TIFFF ,d)PDF ,e)EPS

a)   GIF: Graphic Interchange Format

b)  PNG: Portable Network Graphic

c)   TIFFF: Tagged Image File Format

d)  PDF: Portable Document Format

e)   EPS: Encapsulated Post Script

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12. State the characteristic that the editor needs to keep in order to accomplish the client wishes. /5Marks

ANS: qualities of the appearance

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13.Complete  the  following  sentence  with  correct answer /5marks

a. A scanner can take a…………. of a picture, slide, book, or magazine and save it as an image file on your computer.

(Hardcopy

b. ………………………this is the type of retouching, that is used to sell or advertise a service or product.

 Commercial Retouching

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Section II: This section is composed by three (3) compulsory. 30 Marks

 

14.write  any  5 software tools used in  image and  photo retouching/ 10marks

Photoshop 

Lightroom 

Picasa 

Photoscape

Adobe , Photoshop elements, Colordraw

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15. Give three types of color mode used for preparing an image./10marks

RGB Color mode

CMYK Color mode

Grayscale mode

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16. Complete the following table by showing the Advantages And Disadvantages Of  Lossy Compression ./10marks

 

Advantages

Disadvantages

it significantly reduces the size

 

is that this is achieved with a loss of quality

Occupy small space

Reduce image quality

 

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Section III: attempt any one (1 ) out of two questions.        15 Marks

 

17. What is Lossy Image Compression and why it is irreversible. /15marks

Lossy compression means that some data from the original image file is lost. This process is irreversible. Once you have compressed an image this way, you can’t go back.

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18. Explain what is  Dodge tool and the Burn tool in term of Exposure (Light). ./15marks

The Dodge tool and the Burn tool lighten or darken areas of the image. These tools are based on a traditional darkroom technique for regulating exposure on specific areas of a print. Photographers hold back light to lighten an area on the print (dodging) or increase the exposure to darken areas on a print (burning). The more you paint over an area with the Dodge or Burn tool, the lighter or darker it becomes.

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