Sunday, July 06, 2008

The Photoshop Digital Imaging Editing Software

By David Peters

Photoshop is widely considered the best image-editing software in the world today by a long way, and it is not difficult to see why. Photoshop offers incredibly advanced effects which would previously have taken days or weeks to accomplish, and reduces them to the level of a few settings and a few clicks.

Many consider Photoshop to be a necessary tool for anyone working with graphics of any kind form print to web and even to broadcast media. Keep in mind though, that Photoshop does come with a larger price tag than most.

This has led to a huge number of cheaper competitors (who have been largely ignored), as well as rampant piracy of Photoshop itself. To counter this, a cheaper, simpler version of Photoshop called Photoshop Elements is now available, which is especially good for beginners.

How exactly did the Photoshop phenomenon begin? Photoshop development started in 1987 and was first introduced on the market in 1990. Adobe has continued to nurture and develop this product since, continuously implementing the advances in hardware power. Still today, to get the most from Photoshop, you should use purchase as much RAM as your budget will allow.

Adobe's hard work has not been the only factor in Photoshop being where it is today. The program's plugin design has allowed there to be are all types of plugins existing for more complex work, as well as some plugins that in reality cost more and do more than the program itself.

In this way, Photoshop is often used much like Windows, as a platform - and it would be a huge effort to get these plugins to run on any other software, making competitors effectively useless to anyone who relies on a plugin.

Photoshop for Windows and Mac OS (both OS 9 and OS X) are offered today. Should you desire to use it on Linux though, you will have to utilize Crossover Office, Codeweavers' program that lets some Windows software to run on Linux however it will be quite slow.

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