ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

Cutting, pasting, enlarging, filling, selecting, blurring, burning - you name it, and Photoshop can do it. If you know how to, that is. Presenting a wide range of tools for any sort of Photo editing, Photoshop is easy to use and intensely complicated at the same time. Today, Adobe Photoshop has become the image editor of choice for graphics professionals. Few designers would argue that its position as the primary bitmap editing tools is rightly at the top of the pile, but this does not mean that there are no other choices for designers who can't, or don't want to, use Photochop.

Perhaps the only software ever to generate its own verb form, Photoshop is the flagship product of Adobe systems. Released in 1990 exclusively to Macintosh, it was the result of three years of development by a University of Macintosh PhD student named Thomas Knoll, who had begun working on it in 1987. The most significant Photoshop upgrade to date is considered to be Photoshop Version 3. Can you guess what this introduced ? Layers perhaps the single most important aspect of Photoshop development, and every Photoshopper's best friend.

Photoshop has strong ties with other Adobe software for media editing, animation, and authoring. The .PSD( Photoshop Document), Photoshop's native format stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, color spaces, ICC profiles, transparency, text , alpha channels and spot colors, clipping paths, and uotone settings. Photoshop's popularity means that the Psd format is widely used, and it is supported to some extent by most competing software. The .PSD file format can be exported to and from Adobe illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, and After Effects, to make professional standard DVDs and provide non-linear editing and special effect services, such as backgrounds, textures, and so on, for television, film, and web. Among its strong features, Photoshop can utilize the color models RGB, lab, CMYK, grayscale, binary bitmap, and duotone. It also has ability to read and write raster and vector image formats such as .EPS, .PNG, .GIF, .JPEG, and fireworks.