Monday, 26 October 2009

The Tools and Features of Adobe Photoshop

The Tools and Features of Adobe Photoshop 

Adobe Photoshop is three of the world's leading graphics editing programs, developed by Adobe Systems. Obtainable on Mac OS or PC, Photoshop is used as three of the leading picture design programs for the World Wide Web. The most recent version of Photoshop, or Photoshop CS2, "bridges" between other Adobe products such as Picture Ready, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, & Encore DVD to produce professional videos & DVDs. Photoshop uses a file format called a .PSD or .PDD to store multiple layers of an picture. Recently Adobe released a program called Photoshop Elements in order to give a less expensive version of Photoshop with plenty of of the same features. Although Adobe Photoshop is used primarily in doing touch-up for digital photos, it is also used for generating designs for web pages & professional companies.

Adobe Photoshop was originally created as a convenient & powerful way to retouch photos. Its most basic features include easily cropping & straightening photos that were either scanned ore taken with a digital camera. Under- or overexposed photos can be easily rescued with the retouch power of the Camera RAW & other plug-ins. Photos taken in difficult lighting situations can be perfected by a few clicks of a mouse. Filters & plug-ins can be used to make the picture seem elderly or change to black & white.

Plenty of web & graphics designers use Photoshop to generate & design company logos & commercials. Built in Photoshop effects & filters can make designing professional logos or commercials a speedy & simple method. With the power of layers & opacity, pics can be blended together & effects such as shadows, blurs, etc. are made possible. &, for those who desire to return to the finger painting days of their youth, Photoshop has a paintbrush tool with limitless brush shapes & textures for somebody who needs to let out their creativity.

Web designers thrive on Photoshop for making animations using Photoshop with other Adobe products. The things that can be done with Photoshop are literally limitless. This is truly & brilliant program.


Text editing has also become easily obtainable because of Photoshop. Perspectives, shapes, & type on a path are a few examples of the tons of brilliant text effects that are obtainable. Slimy, dripping letters or cloud-writing in the sky are made easy from filters & text effects built in to Photoshop.