Early history
In 1987,
Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the
University of Michigan, began writing a program on his
Macintosh Plus to display
grayscaleimages on a monochrome display. This program, called Display, caught the attention of his brother
John Knoll, an
Industrial Light & Magicemployee, who recommended Thomas turn it into a fully-fledged image editing program. Thomas took a six month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program, which had been renamed ImagePro. Later that year, Thomas renamed his program Photoshop and worked out a short-term deal with scanner manufacturer Barneyscan to distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner; a "total of about 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped" this way.
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. While John worked on
plug-ins in California, Thomas remained in
Ann Arbor writing program code.
Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990 for Macintosh exclusively.
Features
Photoshop has ties with other Adobe software for media editing, animation, and authoring. The
.PSD (Photoshop Document), Photoshop's native format, stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with
masks,
color spaces,
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
After 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
pixel-based image editor, unlike programs such as
Macromedia FreeHand (now defunct),
Adobe Illustrator,
Inkscape or
CorelDraw, which are
vector-based image editors.
Smart Layers display the filter without altering the original image (here on Mac OS X)
New productivity features include a streamlined interface, improved Camera RAW support, 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 and contrast adjustment and Vanishing Point module were enhanced. The Black and White adjustment option improves 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
image stitchingtechnology.
CS3 Extended contains all features of CS3 plus tools for editing and importing some
3D graphics file formats, enhancing video, and comprehensive image analysis tools, utilizing
MATLABintegration and
DICOM file support.
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Photoshop CS4 features a new 3D engine allowing painting directly on 3D models, wrapping 2D images around 3D shapes, converting gradient maps to 3D objects, adding depth to layers and text, getting print-quality output with the new ray-tracing rendering engine. It supports common 3D formats; the new Adjustment and Mask Panels; Content-aware scaling (
seam carving); Fluid Canvas Rotation and File display options. 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,
Photoshop CS4 is the first
64-bit Photoshop on consumer computers (only on Windows – the OS X version is still 32-bit only.)
Photoshop CS5 was launched on April 12, 2010. 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.
A version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended was used for a Prerelease Beta. A large group of selected Photoshop users were invited to beta test in mid-February 2010.
Version history
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, and Hebrew versions are available from Winsoft.
Photoshop functionality can be extended by add-on programs called
Photoshop plugins which act like mini-editors that modify the image. The most common type are filter plugins that provide various image effects. They are located in the 'Filter' menu. Photoshop plugin API has become a standard, and many other image editors also support Photoshop Plugins.
Adobe Camera Raw (also known as ACR and Camera Raw) is a special plugin, supplied free by Adobe, used primarily to read and process
raw image files so that the resultant images can be processed by Photoshop. It is invoked by attempting to open such a file, rather than from the 'Filter' menu, but like other plugins is listed in the 'Help > About Plug-In' menu (as "Camera Raw"). It can also be opened via the
Adobe Bridge by clicking on any image and selecting 'File > Open in Adobe Camera Raw'.
Cultural impact
Photoshop and derivatives such as
Photoshopped, Shopped, and
Shooped have become verbs that are sometimes used to refer to images edited by Photoshop, or any image manipulating program. "Photoshop" is also used as a noun to refer to image editing programs
in general. Such derivatives are discouraged by Adobe.
What is Adobe Photoshop?
Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing software that is arguably the best program
and the most popular among professional photographers and graphic design artists. This program can be used to retouch old photographs, to create and modify images for the World Wide Web, change the color, size and scale of graphics and so much more.
All in high-quality.
With every version of Photoshop the features simply get better and better, simplifying the design process.
What’s New in Photoshop CS5?
Adobe Photoshop CS5 has definitely redefined digital imaging and simplified the design process more than the previous versions. With all the enhanced and new updates, users can complete their projects in a shorter period of time and with ease. Included in Adobe Photoshop CS5 is CS5 Extended, which includes breakthrough tools such as 3D graphics (to create and edit in 3D) and motion-based content. With these tools graphics, photographs and web sites will “pop” in a way they never could in the past.
Selections Made Easy
With Photoshop CS5 users can easily select image elements that could potentially be a pain in the past. Now, users can select hair, eliminate background colors around edges and so much more in fewer clicks using the refinement tools that are introduced.
Content-Aware Fill
FINALLY users can easily remove image detail easily with the Content-Aware Fill. This breakthrough technology can easily match lighting, noise and tone so it looks like it never existed. This is a feature that could have been used time and time again in the past, but now removing content from your photographs has never been easier!
Puppet Warp
This fun tool allows users to reposition any image element to create a visually appealing photo. In short, you can straighten a leg, arm, neck or any other element to make it more appealing. This can also work the other way around. Designers and photographers will love this feature because it can bring forth more creativity in their work, but even notice users can play around with the fun feature.
Automatic Lens Correction
In the past if you had a photo that was a little bit distorted; you might spend an hour or more trying to correct it with a variety of features the older versions of Photoshop had to offer. However, CS5 offers an Automatic Lens Correction feature that will not only save time, but it will correct any lens distortions with ease.
Superior Black-And-White Conversion
Yes, in the previous versions of Photoshop users had the ability to change their RGB or color photographs to black and white, but they pretty much always looked the same. With this enhanced feature users will be able to use the integrated Lab B&W Action to color images and create black and white images with ease and speed. The presets are also more striking.
Bottom Line:
Photoshop CS5 offers amazing features that any designer or photographer has been waiting for. With its enhanced and new features creating a masterpiece has never been easier! Seriously, this is what we have been waiting for. However, it does keep you wondering what is next. Better and even more advanced features? Indeed.
MY EXPERIENCE USING PHOTOSHOP CS5
On my first encounter using adobe photoshop CS5 i could say that i had troubles........ "NAKAKAIYAK" ---> dahil na guguluhan aq...dahil nahihirapan pa aq......
but sa kabila ng lahat......i could say that "LOVE IT!" ---> dahil i love editing.............
