Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop, or so-called Photoshop, Sotosop is made in the image editor software Adobe Systems is devoted to editing photos / drawings and manufacturing effects. The software is widely used by digital photographers and advertising company that is considered as the market leader (market leader) for image processing software, and, together with Adobe Acrobat, is regarded as the best product ever produced by Adobe Systems. Eighth version of the application is called by the name of Photoshop CS (Creative Suite), version called Photoshop CS2 nine, ten version called Adobe Photoshop CS3, and a version of the last (eleventh) was Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Photoshop is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Mac OS; versions 9 and above can also be used by other operating systems such as Linux using software such as CrossOver.

DevelopmentIn 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 his brother John Knoll, an employee at Industrial Light & Magic, who recommended Thomas to change the program into a full image editing program. Thomas took a six month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program, which has been renamed ImagePro. Later that year, Thomas changed the name of the program into Photoshop and work in the short term Barneyscan scanner manufacturers to distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner; "total of about 200 copies of Photoshop has shipped" this way.During that time, John traveled to Silicon Valley in California and gave a demonstration of the program to engineers at Apple Computer Inc. and Russell Brown, art director at Adobe. Both demonstrations were successful, and Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988. While John worked on plug-ins in California, Thomas remained in Ann Arbor to write program code. Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990 for Macintosh.FeaturesAlthough it was originally designed to edit images for paper-based printing, Photoshop is also used to produce images for the World Wide Web. Some versions also include an additional application, Adobe ImageReady, for this purpose.Photoshop also has strong ties with some software for media editing, animation, and other Adobe authoring. Native Photoshop file format,. PSD, can be exported to and from Adobe ImageReady. Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Encore DVD to make professional DVDs, provide non-linear image editing and special effects services such as backgrounds, textures, etc for television, movies, and websites. For example, Photoshop CS broadly supports making menus and buttons (button) DVD.Photoshop can accept the use of multiple color models:

    • RGB color models
    • Lab color models
    • CMYK color models
    • Grayscale
    • Bitmap
    • duotoneThe latest version, released in 2005, is version 9. The program is marketed under the name "Photoshop CS2." "CS" reflects its integration with applications Photoshop "Adobe Creative Suite and is called" 2 "because it is the second version released since Adobe to integrate the two products. There are some in addition to Photoshop CS2 such as multiple layer and selecting" warp, " curve version of the transform tool and the color replacement tool, previously present as a plug-in 8BF.For photography enthusiasts, Adobe provides a filter "reduce grain" (reduced grain) that can help optimize photos taken in low light. To "clarify" CS product differences with previous products Photoshop, Adobe Photshop eliminate eye symbol, which was presented in a form different from version 3 to version 7. Photshop CS and CS2 now use fur as an icon and a form of identification.Icons for Photoshop CS3 Beta.Photoshop CS3 beta version has been released for CS2 users on December 15, 2006. Unlike Photoshop CS and CS2 using feathers as its logo, Logo for the third edition of this form of typography, with the letters 'Ps' white and blue background gradient.Camera RAW 3.xThe latest version comes with Adobe Camera RAW, a plugin developed by Thomas Knoll which can read multiple formats of digital camera RAW files and import them directly into Photoshop. The initial version of the RAW plugin for Photoshop 7.0.1 is also available with an additional cost of $ 99 USD.While Photoshop is the industry standard image editing program aimed at profsional raster charts, the price offered is quite high, approximately U.S. $ 600. This situation provoked a few programmers to design the graphics hardware (graphics tools) with a more affordable price. To compete in this market, and to counter piracy products, Adobe introduced Photoshop Elements, a version of Photoshop is more minimalist, with affordable prices; under U.S. $ 100. This product is intended for home users and eliminates many professional features.File FormatPhotoshop has the ability to read and write raster and vector image format such as. Png,. Gif,. Jpeg, and others. Photoshop also has some typical file formats:

    . PSD (Photoshop Document) format stores an image in the form of layers, including text, masks, opacity, blend modes, color channels, alpha channels, clipping paths, and duotone settings. Popularity photoshop create this file format is widely used, thus forcing programmers other image editing program to add the ability to read PSD formats in their software.
    . PSB 'is the latest version of the PSD designed for files larger than 2 GB
    . PDD is another version of the PSD that only supports the features of the software PhotshopDeluxe.
ToolTool in Adobe Photoshop is a tool that can help users in editing. Adobe Photoshop CS3 memilikit 59 tools that can be used by the user. Tool - The tool consists of various tools with specific uses. Some of the tools - the tools available in Photoshop, among others:

    • History Brush Tool
    • Eraser Tool
    • Path Selection Tool
    • Direct Selection tool
    • Pen Tool
    • Shape Tool
    • Brush Tool
    • Audio Annotation Tool
    • Eyedropper Tool
    • Measure Tool
    • Text Tool
    • Hand Tool