A popular high-end image editor for the Macintosh and Windows from Adobe. The original Mac versions were the first to bring affordable image editing down to the personal computer level in the late 1980s. Since then, Photoshop has become the de facto standard in image editing. Although it contains a large variety of image editing features, one of Photoshop's most powerful capabilities is layers, which allows images to be rearranged under and over each other for placement. Photoshop is designed to read from and convert to a raft of graphics formats, but uses its own native format for layers (.PSD extension). See Photoshop plug-in and Photoshopped.
Layers Are Often Essential
It would be extremely difficult to develop the CD-ROM jewel case cover below without layers. If only one layer were available, each and every image element would have to be aligned perfectly on top of the existing image. There would be no way to change the placement because each piece becomes merged into a single bitmapped image, replacing what was previously there. Without having all elements in view and being able to move them around in different ways, it would be virtually impossible to derive the most pleasing effect. See image editor.
Photoshop Layers
The image above is built in 23 layers plus a background layer, enabling the individual elements to be moved independently of the others. The layer window (below) shows the layers. The arrow is pointing to the view option (the "eye") in the chip shadow layer. Clicking the eye toggles between making the layer invisible and bringing it back into view.
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Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop. The CS rebranding also resulted in Adobe offering numerous software packages containing multiple Adobe programs for a reduced price. Adobe Photoshop is released in two editions: Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Photoshop Extended, with the Extended having extra features available. Adobe Photoshop Extended is included in all of Adobe's Creative Suite offerings except Design Standard, which includes the Adobe Photoshop edition.
Alongside Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Extended, Adobe also publishes Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, collectively called "The Adobe Photoshop Family" by Adobe. In 2008, Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Express, a free web-based image editing tool to edit photos directly on blogs and social networking sites.
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Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop. The CS rebranding also resulted in Adobe offering numerous software packages containing multiple Adobe programs for a reduced price. Adobe Photoshop is released in two editions: Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Photoshop Extended, with the Extended having extra features available. Adobe Photoshop Extended is included in all of Adobe's Creative Suite offerings except Design Standard, which includes the Adobe Photoshop edition.
Alongside Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Extended, Adobe also publishes Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, collectively called "The Adobe Photoshop Family" by Adobe. In 2008, Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Express, a free web-based image editing tool to edit photos directly on blogs and social networking sites.
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Adobe Photoshop will help me in......
Actually ,atleast I know that it's for editing photos,videos and other of that kind.I think it will help me in those things.I really dont know what to say but I expect that when I'm atleast good using this software,I would be able to say also how it help me because at present i will only say that it will help me just in image-editing.
Experience......
I didn't experience using photoshop that much, but my friends in the field said that it was exciting.
The first time i used it was obviosly confusing, I dont know what every tool is for.I didn't even know how to do the things i am asked to do.
I just expect that I will learn and enjoy using this software like the way that others do.
The first time i used it was obviosly confusing, I dont know what every tool is for.I didn't even know how to do the things i am asked to do.
I just expect that I will learn and enjoy using this software like the way that others do.
Adobe Photoshop is for...
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Early history
In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program, called Display, caught the attention of his brother John Knoll, an Industrial Light & Magic employee, who recommended Thomas turn it into a fully-fledged image editing program. Thomas took a six month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program, which had been renamed ImagePro.[3] Later that year, Thomas renamed his program Photoshop and worked out a short-term deal with scanner manufacturer Barneyscan to distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner; a "total of about 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped" this way.[4]During this time, John traveled to Silicon Valley and gave a demonstration of the program to engineers at Apple and Russell Brown, art director at Adobe. Both showings were successful, and Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988.[3] While John worked on plug-ins in California, Thomas remained in Ann Arbor writing program code. Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990 for Macintosh exclusively.[5]
Features
Further information: Comparison of raster graphics editors#Features
Photoshop has 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 duotone settings. This is in contrast to many other file formats (e.g. .EPS or .GIF) that restrict content to provide streamlined, predictable functionality.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 effects services, such as backgrounds, textures, and so on, for television, film, and the Web. Photoshop is a pixel-based image editor, unlike programs such as Macromedia FreeHand (now defunct), Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape or CorelDraw, which are vector-based image editors.
Photoshop uses color models RGB, lab, CMYK, grayscale, binary bitmap, and duotone. Photoshop has the ability to read and write raster and vector image formats such as .EPS, .PNG, .GIF, .JPEG, and Adobe Fireworks.
CS3
Smart Layers display the filter without altering the original image (here on Mac OS X)
CS3 Extended contains all features of CS3 plus tools for editing and importing some 3D graphics file formats, enhancing video, and comprehensive image analysis tools, utilizing MATLAB integration and DICOM file support.[7]
CS4
Photoshop CS4 features a new 3D engine allowing painting directly on 3D models, wrapping 2D images around 3D shapes, converting gradient maps to 3D objects, adding depth to layers and text, getting print-quality output with the new ray-tracing rendering engine. It supports common 3D formats; the new Adjustment and Mask Panels; Content-aware scaling (seam carving[8]); Fluid Canvas Rotation and File display options.[9] On 30 April, Adobe released Photoshop CS4 Extended, which includes all the same features of Adobe Photoshop CS4 with the addition of capabilities for scientific imaging, 3D, and high end film and video users. The successor to Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS4 is the first 64-bit Photoshop on consumer computers (only on Windows – the OS X version is still 32-bit only.)[10]CS5
Photoshop CS5 was launched on April 12, 2010.[11] In a video posted on its official Facebook page, the development team revealed the new technologies under development, including three dimensional brushes and warping tools.[12]A version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended was used for a Prerelease Beta. A large group of selected Photoshop users were invited to beta test in mid-February 2010.
Adobe Photoshop release history
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This table charts the Adobe Photoshop release history, starting with the first versions by independent creators Thomas and John Knoll in the summer of 1988. The license to distribute the program was purchased by Adobe Systems in September 1988.Version compatibility
- Mac OS 8.5/8.6/9.0-v6
- Mac OS 9.1/9.2-v7
- Mac OS X 10.2/10.3-v9 (CS2)
- Mac OS X 10.5/10.6-v12 (CS5) (Current)
- Windows 95-v5.5
- Windows NT 4/98/SE/ME-v7
- Windows 2000-v9 (CS2)
- Windows XP/Vista/7-v12 (CS5) (Current)
Version history
| Version | Platform | Codename | Release date | Significant changes | |
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| 0.63 | Macintosh | October 1988 | |||
| 1.0 | Macintosh | February 1990 | |||
| 2.0 | Macintosh | Fast Eddy | June 1991 |
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| 2.5 | Macintosh | Merlin | November 1992 |
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| Windows | Brimstone | ||||
| IRIX, Solaris | November 1993 | ||||
| 3.0 | Macintosh | Tiger Mountain | September 1994 |
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| Windows, IRIX, Solaris [1] | November 1994 | ||||
| 4.0 | Macintosh, Windows | Big Electric Cat | November 1996 |
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| 5.0 | Macintosh, Windows | Strange Cargo | May 1998 |
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| 5.5 | Macintosh, Windows | Strange Cargo | February 1999 |
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| 6.0 | Macintosh, Windows | Venus in Furs | September 2000 |
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| 7.0 | Mac OS 'Classic'/Mac OS X, Windows | Liquid Sky | March 2002 |
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| 7.0.1 | Mac OS 'Classic'/Mac OS X, Windows | August 2002 |
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| CS (8.0) | Mac OS X, Windows | Dark Matter | October 2003 |
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| CS2 (9.0) | Mac OS X, Windows 2000 / XP | Space Monkey | April 2005 |
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| CS3, CS3 Extended (10.0) | Universal Mac OS X, Windows XP SP2 or later | Red Pill | April 16, 2007 |
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| CS4, CS4 Extended (11.0) | Universal Mac OS X, Windows | Stonehenge | October 15, 2008[3] |
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| CS5, CS5 Extended (12.0) | Mac OS X, Windows | White Rabbit | April 30, 2010[4] |
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