| Adobe Photoshop is well known as a high quality | | | | Macintosh computers (which are of course very |
| software package for working with bitmap and | | | | popular with graphic designers and other creative |
| raster graphic images. It's not just that it's probably | | | | professionals) and for PCs running the Microsoft |
| the market leading program of this type, many | | | | Windows operating system. |
| people would say it's the defacto standard among | | | | Broadly speaking, each of the products contained |
| graphic design professionals for creating, editing and | | | | within the CS3 bundles, including, of course, Adobe |
| manipulating raster images. | | | | Photoshop, is mainly intended for professional use. |
| At the time of writing, the latest version of Adobe | | | | While that certainly should not (and does not) |
| Photoshop is known by the label CS3. CS3 stands for | | | | exclude ordinary folks from using the software, it |
| "Creative Suite 3", also refers to various bundles of | | | | does mean that if you want to get the most out of |
| design and development software programs that are | | | | the software, you should get proper training. By |
| available from Adobe Systems Incorporated. There | | | | proper training, I don't necessarily mean going to |
| are in fact several different CS3 bundles available, | | | | training classes (although that is an option) - books, |
| most but not all of which, include a version of either | | | | software training courses, DVDs or Internet web |
| Adobe Photoshop CS3 or Adobe Photoshop CS3 | | | | sites about Photoshop are all reasonable alternatives - |
| Extended. It should also be noted that versions of | | | | they key thing is to have some good quality material |
| the CS3 packages are available for both Apple | | | | available that teaches the program. |