ADOBE PHOTOSHOPA BRIEF OVERVIEW

What is Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for macOS and Windows.

Photoshop is considered one of the leaders in photo editing software. The software allows users to manipulate, crop, resize, and correct

color on digital photos. The software is particularly popular amongst professional

photographers and graphic designers. Starting from version uptil version 6 it has become more versatile

and is now a staple for print designers, web designers, video professionals and more.

A brief History of Photoshop

Photoshop was developed in 1987 by the American brothers Thomas and John Knoll, who sold the distribution license to Adobe Systems Incorporated in 1988.

A brief History of PhotoshopThomas 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 that Thomas turn it into a full-fledged image editing program. Thomas took a six-month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program. Later that year, Thomas renamed his program Photoshop

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.

Version History

Applications of Photoshop

Editing PhotosEditing Photos is Photoshop’s original use — it’s in the name after all. Even after a quarter of a century of competition, Photoshop is the most powerful image editor out there. You can modify any pixel in an image pretty much any way you’d like.

Applications of PhotoshopDigital Painting

Most paintings, cartoons, book covers, and other art that you see online isn’t created with a paintbrush, paints, and a canvas. It might not look like it but most of them are now “painted” using a computer. Photoshop is one of the most popular apps for doing just that.Digital painting uses technology to emulate old school, brush-in-hand, beret-on-head painting. With a Waccom graphics tablet you can draw or paint without having to use a mouse, or god-forbid, a touchpad.

Applications of PhotoshopGraphic Design

Although Adobe also has graphic design specific apps like InDesign and Illustrator in the Creative Cloud, many of their tools have been incorporated into Photoshop as well. For example, the Pen Tool is a staple in almost all Adobe’s apps.While Photoshop isn’t the best graphic design app out there, it is entirely competent. Something more specialized will make your life easier but there is very little you can’t do. If you’re going to do regular design work, investing time in learning one of the other apps is worth it, but if you just occasionally want to create a Christmas card, design your t-shirt, mock up a quick logo for your business, or even create a business card, Photoshop is perfect.

Applications of Photoshop

Web DesignOne of the most important steps in web design is creating a mock up: a finished design made in an app like Photoshop. It’s something that amateurs often skip. I know that when I first started designing websites, I jumped straight into coding rather than taking the time to plan out what I wanted the site to really look like. All I had was a rough vision in my head.

Applications of Photoshop

Editing VideoThe best thing about editing videos in Photoshop is that you get to use adjustment layers just as if you were editing a photo. If you want to convert a regular video you shot on your iPhone into a high contrast, black and white, film noir style clip, you can do it with just three layers.If you know how to edit photos but don’t know how to use apps like Premiere Pro and After Effects, Photoshop can be a great alternative. All the tools you’re familiar with are there. Another awesome feature of using Photoshop to edit videos is you can also create GIFs!

Future of Photoshop

Project Louper lets you search for images with images. Use any image as your starting point and Louper will search Behance for visually similar images.

Defusing Photobombs is a tool that's designed to detect distractions in a photograph and help you remove them using just one slider. When you add a photo to the tool, it'll analyse it to find what it thinks are the biggest distractions, and colour code those by how distracting they are – the more distracting, the brighter white they'll appear. Then, you can simply use the slide to remove the most distracting part.

Adobe is also bringing a special application known as Adobe XD just for the UI/UX Designers.