| Adobe Photoshop is a software standard for many | | | | The traditional file formats of Photoshop are:o PSD - |
| professional graphic artists. It features many | | | | Photoshop Documento PSB - Large Document |
| powerful tools that can do basic to advanced image | | | | Formato PDD - PhotoDeluxe Document |
| manipulation efficiently with outstanding results. | | | | Thomas Knoll was the key person who started this |
| Photoshop is one of the prides of Adobe Systems, a | | | | amazing program we know today. It all started in |
| company leader in developing graphic applications. | | | | 1987 when Knoll wrote a program in order to display |
| Photoshop is an ideal software in producing great | | | | grayscale images on his Macintosh Plus. He was able |
| quality output for web designs, advertisements, | | | | to display monochrome images in his computer. He |
| posters, photography, desktop publishing, and many | | | | named his program Display. |
| other graphic works. | | | | Upon knowing this, John Knoll, Thomas' brother who |
| The latest development of the product is the | | | | was then working at Industrial Light and Magic, |
| Photoshop CS4, which will be released in September | | | | convinced Thomas to develop it into a full image |
| 2008. It features more advanced tools for enhancing | | | | editing software. Thomas spent six months together |
| images. | | | | with his brother in developing the software. From the |
| Features overview:o Capable of painting directly on | | | | name Display, they changed it to ImagePro. Adobe |
| 3D graphicso Wrap 2D images around 3D shapeso | | | | would buy license several years later and rename it |
| Convert gradient maps to 3D objectso Give depth to | | | | to Photoshop. |
| text and layerso Better print quality output together | | | | Barneyscan, a company that manufactures scanners |
| with the inclusion of latest ray-tracing providing | | | | decided to bundle the software with their products. |
| engineo Supports common 3D formatso Improved | | | | 200 copies of the software were shipped. The |
| Adjustment and Mask Panelso Fluid Canvas Rotationo | | | | software was then demonstrated by John Knoll at |
| File display optionso 64 bit compatible | | | | the Silicon Valley and Adobe impressed everybody, |
| Presently there are eight products of the Photoshop | | | | and later decided to purchase the license. After |
| software:o Adobe Photoshop CS3o Adobe | | | | further developments, Photoshop 1.0 was then |
| Photoshop CS3 Extendedo Adobe Photoshop | | | | released to the market in 1990 but for Macintosh |
| Elements 6.0 for Macintosho Adobe Photoshop | | | | only. |
| Elements 6.0 for Windowso Adobe Photoshop | | | | Eventually, more developments have been made with |
| Elements 6.0 & Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0o | | | | Photoshop. The Windows version was made available |
| Adobe Photoshop Express betao Adobe Photoshop | | | | eventually and reached a larger market. |
| Lightroom 2o Adobe Photoshop CS4 | | | | Because of the popularity of the software, it was |
| Adobe Photoshop can seamlessly work with other | | | | developed to support many other languages like |
| Adobe products such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe | | | | Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, |
| ImageReady, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, | | | | German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, |
| and Adobe Encore DVD. | | | | Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and |
| Photoshop uses the color models lab, RGB, CMYK, | | | | Swedish. |
| binary bitmap, grayscale, and duotone. It is capable of | | | | Third party plug-ins are also supported by Photoshop. |
| reading and writing both raster or vector images such | | | | These plug-ins provide more additional effects, which |
| as EPS, PNG, GIF, JPEG, Fireworks, and many other | | | | can be applied instantly to any images. Example is |
| file formats. | | | | brush plug-ins. |