Sometimes in
marriage albums, even a normal looking person looks o fair, wrinkle free,
handsome and smart. Wonder, how it is possible! Well, this is the magic of
PHOTOSHOP.
ABOUT PHOTOSHOP
Adobe
photoshop popularly known as photoshop, is graphics editing program develop by
Adobe Systems. Photoshop is widely- used by the millions of graphics artist,
web developers, photographers, as well as ordinary people. Most of the posters,
magazines covers, book covers, brochures etc. have all been created by the
Photoshop. Because of the popularity of the software, it has been accepted as “an
industry standard for graphics professionals” and is regarded as one of the
early “Killer applications” on the PC.
HISTORY OF
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
Adobe
Photoshop was developed by two American Brothers, Thomas and John Knoll. There
was a disturbance in license, that’s why they sold his distribution license to
Adobe Systems Incorporated in 1998. Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at University
of Michigan, began the writing of the code in Mackintosh. This program, called
Display. ‘Display” grab the attention of his brother, Thomas. Thomas took a
break for six months from his studies only for the ‘Display’. Thomas rename the
program from ‘Display’ to ‘ImagePro’ But this name is already taken so they
finally chose ‘Photoshop’.
FEATURES OF
PHOTOSHOP
- User-friendly interface.
- Photo-editing or photo manipulation in lesser time and little effort.
- Powerful tools to:
- Enhance or change the color of an image by adjusting the brightness and contrast, color balance, hue and saturation, levels curves etc.
- Crop or resize pictures without losing quality of an image.
- Remove the background with an Eraser tool.
- Select pricise parts of an image.
- Create graphics for the web applications with reduce file size thereby, helping in faster loading of the website. The files can be compressed by 10 to 50% of the original size. We can also make Animated Graphics (GIF).
- Layer effects – preserve the original stae of an image while manipulating another version of it through another layer. We can add as many layers as we need.
- We can also create 3D Icons.
FILE FORMAT AND OTHER
Photoshop
has it default extension, .PSD.
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