The development of Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a software standard for many professional graphic artists. It has many powerful tools that can do basic to advanced image manipulation efficiently with outstanding results. Photoshop is one of the prides of Adobe Systems, a leader in the development of graphics applications.
Photoshop is an ideal software to produce high-quality output for web design, posters, photography, desktop publishing and many other graphic works.
The latest product is the Photoshop CS4, which will be released in September 2008. It has the most advanced tools for enhancing images.
Features summary:
Ö can paint directly on 3D graphics
Wrap or 2D images around 3D shapes
o convert gradient maps to 3D objects
o Give depth to text and layers
or better print quality output with the inclusion of the latter providing ray tracing engine
or supports common 3D formats
o Improved trim panels and mask
or fluid canvas rotation
or file viewing options
or 64-bit compatible
At present there are eight Photoshop software products:
or Adobe Photoshop CS3
or Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
or Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 for Macintosh
or Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 for Windows
or Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 and Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0
or Adobe Photoshop Express beta
or Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
or Adobe Photoshop CS4
Adobe Photoshop can perfectly work with other Adobe products such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Encore DVD.
Photoshop uses LAB color model, RGB, CMYK, binary bitmap, grayscale, and duotone. It can read and write both raster and vector images as many other file formats EPS, PNG, GIF, JPEG, Fireworks and.
The traditional file formats Photoshop are:
or PSD - Photoshop Document
or PSB - Large Document Format
or PDD - PhotoDeluxe document
Thomas Knoll was the key person who started this amazing program we know today. It all started in 1987 when Knoll wrote a program to display grayscale images on a Macintosh Plus. He was able to display monochrome images on his computer. He called his program screen.
Knowing this, John Knoll, brother of Thomas, who was then working at Industrial Light and Magic, convinced Thomas to develop a comprehensive program for image editing. Thomas spent six months with his brother in software development. From the display name, they changed it to ImagePro. Adobe would like to license several years later and rename it to Photoshop.
BarneyScan, a company that makes scanners decided to incorporate the software with their products. 200 were sent copies of the software. Then the software was demonstrated by John Knoll in the Silicon Valley and Adobe impressed everyone, and later decided to purchase the license. After further developments, Photoshop 1.0 was released to the market in 1990, but only for Macintosh.
Over time, more progress has been made with Photoshop. The Windows version was made available over time and reached a wider market.
Due to the popularity of the software, which has been developed to support many other languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian , Spanish and Swedish.
Third-party plug-ins are also compatible with Photoshop. These plug-ins provide more additional effects that can be applied immediately to images. Example is brush plug-ins .......