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Who does not know Adobe Photoshop? If you hear the word photography, the term is also usually immediately comes to mind. There are photos, no photo editing. Not only the fans of photography, graphic designers also often use this software.

Adobe Photoshop is an image editor software made by Adobe Systems Incorporated, a computer software company from America since 1982, based in San Jose, California, United States. The inventor, John Warnock and Charles Geschke, previously worked at Xerox PARC, and stop when they decided to develop and sell the PostScript language description.

Photoshop is a special software for editing or correcting the results of a photo or image and create or add effects to photos / images. This device was first introduced as Adobe's flagship product in 1989, which is a graphical correction program for the Macintosh. This application was created by Thomas Knoll and John Knoll in the early summer of 1988, which was later purchased licensed by Adobe Systems in September 1988.

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat referred to as the best product ever produced by Adobe Systems to gain appreciation of International Standard, ISO 32000-1: 2008. Nowadays these devices have been widely used by professional digital photographers, graphic designers, and advertising companies. The resulting popularity of the company which includes the ranks of pioneers is still difficult to compete with, so Adobe can be regarded as a market leader (market leader) for image processing software or image.

Adobe Photoshop Features

Initially, Photoshop designed by Thomas Knoll, PhD., a graduate of the University of Michigan who created the program to display an image format or display of black-and-white or grayscale into a monochrome display. This program, called Display, then ogled John Knoll, his brother who worked at Industrial Light Magic, and it is suggested that perfected to become an image editing program or corrections.

They then collaborated and created Photoshop. Now, along with innovation, this software can also be used to correct the images, add effects or filters to the image, change the image, even producing images for the World Wide Web. Some of the final version also features additional applications, namely Adobe ImageReady.

Photoshop has a close relationship with some software for media editing, animation, and other Adobe authoring. Native Photoshop file format (PSD) can be exported to and from Adobe ImageReady. Photoshop can accept the use of several color models, as follows.

• RGB color models
• Lab color models
• CMYK color models
• Grayscale
• Bitmap -Duotone

Version of Adobe Photoshop

In 1990, Adobe launched the first series of this software to the public, with labels Adobe Photoshop 1.0. Along with the development of its management, renewal programs continue to be planted on this application until Adobe continues to launch new versions for the broad market.

From the start version 2.0 (also known as Fast Eddy code), version 2.5 (codenamed Merlin for compatibility on the Macintosh, and Brimstone for Windows), version 3.0 (codename Tiger Mountain), version 4.0 (codenamed Big Electric Cat), version 5.0 ( codename Strange Cargo), version 5.5 (codename still Strange Cargo), version 6.0 (codenamed Venus in Furs), version 7.0 (codename Liquid Sky), and version 7.0.1.

Photoshop CS is the name of the eighth version of this application. CS first version was released in October 2003. Owned real difference is the version of Adobe Photoshop earlier than this version is able to process raw or raw format media from a variety of digital cameras and also supports extensive corrections for 16-bit color images.

Ninth and subsequent versions of Adobe Photoshop CS continues to use the term (which is an acronym of the Creative Suit), and followed by the serial number on the back, which is Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Photoshop CS3 for the tenth version, a version of Adobe Photoshop CS4 for the eleventh version, and Adobe Photoshop CS5 for twelve versions, and the latter was released on the market in March 2012 is the Adobe Photoshop CS6.

Version nine was released in 2005 and marketed under the name Photoshop CS2. This version has some extras, such as selecting multiple layers and warp, curve version of the transform tool and the color replacement tool.

Adobe also provides filters reduce again (to reduce the grain) for photography enthusiasts. This filter helps to optimize photo taken during low light conditions. Photoshop CS and CS2 wear fur as icons and shape identification.

On December 15, 2006, released a beta version of Photoshop CS3 to CS2 users. The logo is different from the previous version, the typefaces with the letters Ps shaped white and blue gradient background.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 (Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 4) is a new version of Adobe Photoshop program issued by Adobe Systems Incorporated. CS4 is available in two versions and is a refinement of previous versions.

This version of software includes print, mobile, interactive, film and video production. Products issued by Adobe Photoshop CS4, ie Design Premium, Web Premium, Production Premium, and Master Collection.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 introduces up to 30 features or equipment, such as Content-Aware Fill, Refine Edge, Mixer Brush, Bristle Tips, Puppet Warp, and others. The development of this feature is also supported by the results of innovation Photoshop lovers community.

While Adobe Photoshop CS6 even support for video editing or correction. The advanced features in this version are known to straighten tool which by this equipment the user can draw a straight line at any angle on the image, and the straight line will automatically orient and adapt itself to the media image. The line can instantly change the horizontal, vertical, or oblique, according perspective drawing.

File Format

Adobe Photoshop capable of reading and writing images with raster and vector formats like png, gif, jpeg, etc.. Some typical file format owned Photoshop is as follows.

• PSD (Photoshop Document), which is the format that stores images in the form of layers, including text, mask, opacity, blend modes, color channels, alpha channels, clipping paths, and duotone settings.
• PSB, which is the latest version of the PSD is designed for files with size more than 2 GB.
• PDD, which is another version of the PSD and is only able to support software features PhotoshopDeluxe.

Tools

In Adobe Photoshop, the "Tool" is a tool that serves to help users in editing. Here are some of the tools available in Photoshop.

• History Brush Tool
• Eraser Tool
• Path Selection Tool
• Direct Selection Tool
• Pen Tool
• Shape Tool
• Brush Tool
• Audio Annotation Tool
• Eyedropper Tool
• Measure Tool
• Text Tool
• Hand Tool

Impact to Photography Industry

The development of software for Adobe Photoshop is the correction of digital images greatly affect the photographic industry, namely the creation of photo retouching and photo manipulation or photo creation.

Maximize the end result may be less than perfect photos like a professional photographer, to manipulate or change the total picture until the final result is more imaginative, is now able to be done by an amateur.

Photoshop has become the standard in the industry at the time of the digital revolution. Many photographers are now "requires" the use of this software, given its function is really needed and value added.

However, there is still a photographer who prefers shooting as perfect as possible of the need to correct the image again, which takes more time. Especially for fans of analog photography. Regardless, the existence of Adobe Photoshop gives a color of its own in the photography industry and the people that work in the world-creations of imagination images and photos.