PHOTOSHOP So what is Photoshop all about Its

PHOTOSHOP

So what is Photoshop all about? • It’s a popular program for creating and modifying digital images. • It’s the most popular graphic editing software in the world! • It is produced by a company called Adobe Systems (who also owns Illustrator, In. Design, Dreamweaver, Flash…)

So how long has Photoshop been around? • In the late 1980’s two brothers, Thomas and John Knoll, who were fascinated by art and technology and whose dad was a photographer started playing around on their father’s Mac computer. • They began to develop software that could select and affect only certain parts of an image. They named it Photoshop. • In 1990 Adobe launched Photoshop 1. 0 • And it hasn’t stopped evolving. We are using Photoshop CS 5

Why use Photoshop? • It is the leading software in its field • With it you can: – Create original artwork – Design graphics for the web – Edit , adjustments, and manipulate photographs – Design layouts

• Key Points About Pixel (aka Bitmap aka Raster) Images – – – Not scalable without loss of resolution Fixed resolution of pixels on a grid Confined to a rectangular background Good for photorealistic images and mimicking painting Photoshop is a popular bitmap editing program PSD, JPEG, JPG, GIF are common bitmap formats