Adobe Photoshop

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"Adobe Photoshop", or simply "Photoshop", is a Graphics softwaregraphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial Raster graphicsbitmap and s' on the Macintosh, later also for Microsoft WindowsMS Windows.

Adobe's 2005 'Creative Suite' rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS4 is the Adobe Photoshop release history11th 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 included in most of Adobe's Creative Suite offerings.

Photoshop's popularity, combined with its high retail price, makes Photoshop's Copyright infringement of softwarepiracy rate relatively high. Adobe countered by including SafeCast DRM starting with Adobe Photoshop CS.

Development

Early history
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In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale , an Industrial Light & Magic employee, who recommended Thomas turn it into a full-fledged and gave a demonstration of the program to engineers at Apple Inc.Apple and Russell Brown (Adobe)Russell Brown, art director at Adobe SystemsAdobe. Both showings were successful, and Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988. While John worked on Pluginplug-ins in California, Thomas remained in Ann Arbor, MichiganAnn Arbor writing program code. 'Photoshop' 1.0 was released in 1990 for Macintosh exclusively.

Features Photoshop has strong ties with other Adobe software for media editing, animation, and authoring. The ".PSD" (Photoshop Document), Photoshop's native format, stores an , 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 Adobe After EffectsAfter 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 raster graphicpixel-based or CorelDraw, which are vector graphicsvector-based , Lab color modellab, CMYK color modelCMYK, grayscale, binary bitmap, and duotone. Photoshop has the ability to read and write raster graphicsraster and vector graphicsvector , Portable Network Graphics.PNG, GIF.GIF, JPEG.JPEG, and Adobe Fireworks.

CS3


Photoshop CS3 is marketed with three main components of improvement over previous versions: 'Work more productively, edit with unrivalled power, and Compositingcomposite with breakthrough tools.' New features propagating productivity include streamlined interface, improved Camera Raw, better control over print options, enhanced PDF support, and better management with Adobe Bridge. Editing tools new to CS3 are the Clone Source palette and nondestructive Smart Filters, and other features such as the Brightness/Contrast adjustment and Vanishing Point module were enhanced. The Black and White adjustment option improves users control over manual grayscale conversions with a dialog box similar to that of Channel Mixer. Compositing is assisted with Photoshop's new Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools and improved technology.

CS3 Extended contains all features of CS3 plus tools for editing and importing some List of file formats3D graphics3D graphics file formats, enhancing video, and comprehensive integration and Digital Imaging and Communications in MedicineDICOM file support.

CS4

Photoshop CS4 features additions such as the ability to paint directly on 3D models, wrap 2D - Posted by Stephen Shankland (September 22, 2008) CNET News.); Fluid Canvas Rotation and File display options. - Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended. 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, Adobe Creative Suite 4Photoshop CS4 is the first 64-bit Photoshop on consumer computers (only on Windows – the OS X version is still 32-bit only.) five.

CS5

Adobe is currently developing Photoshop CS5, which is expected to be released in mid-2010.http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/16/could.arrive.in.photoshop.cs5/ 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.http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v539663368359

Language availability

Photoshop is available in the following languages:

Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

The Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Middle Eastern, and North African language versions are available from Winsoft.

Plugins


Photoshop functionality can be extended by add-on programs called Photoshop plugins which act like mini-editors that modify the so that the resultant ' to refer to photo editing or , to prevent its trademark from becoming a genericized trademark. Nevertheless, 'photoshop' is commonly used as a verb.. Its essential ubiquity in the high-end market almost assures that it will be inducted into reference works (such as dictionaries) as a viable definition for any type of computerised and other digital art, its relatively high suggested retail price has led to a number of List of raster graphics editorscompeting graphics tools, such as GIMP, Pixel , Paint.NET, 36- (for Windows only) and GraphicConverter (for Mac OSX only), becoming popular. To compete in this market, and to counter unusually high rates of copyright infringement of softwarepiracy of its high end products, the company introduced a consumer-oriented version of Photoshop as Adobe Photoshop Elements. A more user-friendly interface and new tools such as the 'red-eye' reduction brush were aimed firmly at the more casual functionality, for example, initially made Elements unsuitable for commercial prepress work; paradoxically, the ability of Adobe InDesign to enable an entirely RGB workflow has meant that Elements can now be used as part of a professional workflow..

See also
photo with Photoshop posterize and watercolor filters applied.
Adobe Photoshop Express
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Photoshop contest


References




en.wikipedia.org