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timeline

The window that provides a schematic view of your program including all video, audio, and super-imposed video tracks in nonlinear editing programs such as Adobe Premier.

tolerance

A parameter of the Magic Wand and Paint Bucket tools that specifies the color range of the pixels to be selected.

Tool palette

In Photoshop, the area that contains icons for tools, also called the Toolbox. Some of the tool icons expand to provide access to tools that are not visible, bringing the entire number of tools to 50, plus paint swatches, Quick Mask icons, view modes, and the Edit In command. The Tool palette is a floating palette that you can move or hide.

tool tip

A GUI identifier that appears when you hover your cursor over a screen element and wait a few seconds. Photoshop includes tool tips for the tools on the Tool palette, as well as for many of its operations accessible from other palettes, the Options bar, dialog boxes, and windows .

tracking

The global space between selected groups of characters in text.

transparency scanner

A type of scanner that passes light through the emulsions on a piece of negative film or a color slide. A transparency scanner s dynamic range determines its capability to distinguish color variations.

trap

A technique used in preparing images for printing color separations. Misalignments or shifting during printing can result in gaps in images. A trap is an overlap that prevents such gaps from appearing along the edges of objects in an image.

Tritone

An image that has been separated into three spot colors.

tweening

From in betweening, a method for adding transitions between frames in animations.