Software for Digital Image Editing

submitted: Jul 5th 2008 | by: DavidPeters | Total views: 1 | Word Count: 341 | PDF View | Print Article

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 higher price tag has resulted in a large number of cheaper rivals (the majority of which are considered inferior) and the blatant piracy of Photoshop itself. To combat this practice, Photoshop has introduced a scaled down version of the original program known as Photoshop Elements which has been a favorite amongst beginners.

How did Photoshop get into this dominant position? Well, development started in 1987, with the first release in 1990. Since then, Adobe has been improving the software continuously, constantly taking advantage of advances in hardware power. Even now, to get the best performance out of Photoshop, you should buy as much RAM as you can afford.

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 manner, Photoshop is frequently used in the same aspect as Windows as a springboard. It would be a tremendous endeavor to get these plugins to run with any other software, making competitors essentially ineffective to those using a plugin.

Today, you can get Photoshop for Windows and Mac OS (both OS 9 and OS X). If you want to use it on Linux, however, you will have to use Crossover Office, Codeweavers' program that allows some Windows software to run on Linux, but it will be quite slow.

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