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    • About Photoshop

      There are many different photo editing programs used to enhance, crop or add special effects to photos, but all still remain inferior to Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop is responsible for incredible photo editing features, allowing pictures to become seamless blended, new pictures to be created and special effects for photos, videos... more »

    • How to Use Photoshop Animation

      Creating animations in Photoshop may seem a little intimidating at first, but it's actually very easy and a lot of fun! Here's how to use Photoshop animation. more »

    • What Is HDR Photoshop?

      High Dynamic Range (HDR) is a term used when speaking of images and image processing. In simple terms, it makes images look like they would if viewed through 3D glasses. The film industry uses HDR to create special effects. An HDR image has noticeable differences between the detail in the brightest or lightest area, and the detail in... more »

    • Photoshop Alternative

      Photoshop is popular software that aids in editing and enhancing images. It's also possible to create elaborate designs from scratch using Photoshop. The drawback to Photoshop is its expensive price tag. more »

    • How to Use Photoshop Brushes

      Using brushes in Adobe Photoshop is one of the basic elements in using this software. Brushes allow you to paint and draw on images and are a major part in basic graphic design. Learning how to use brushes in Photoshop takes a little time and practice but its easy to do once you understand the basic steps involved. more »

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    • Intro to Photoshop

      Attempting to learn Photoshop can be an intimidating task, but once you get the basics down and...

    • Photoshop Adobe Basics

      Digital images take the form of art or photos from websites and cameras. With some tweaking,...

    • Adobe Photoshop 101

      Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. Let...

    • Photoshop Element Basics

      Photoshop Elements is a specialized version of the popular Adobe Photoshop image editing...

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    Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as "an industry standard for graphics professionals" and was one of the early "killer applications" on the Macintosh, later also for the PC.

    Adobes 2005 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8s renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS4 is the 11th 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 Adobes Creative Suite offerings.

    Photoshops popularity, combined with its high retail price, makes Photoshops piracy rate relatively high. Adobe countered by including SafeCast DRM starting with Adobe Photoshop CS.

    Development
    Early history

    In 1987, Thomas 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 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, which had been renamed ImagePro."history"> 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 wit read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe+Photoshop

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