Sep 29, 2011
Adobe’s Photoshop software has long been the gold standard by which other photo editing and image creation tools have been measured, and for good reason. On the Internet, you can find plenty of free and paid Photoshop tutorials, while people in the eBook publishing business have produced entire digital tomes devoted to spreading knowledge about this award winning design software. Photoshop’s incredible popularity ensures that the .PSD file format is widely used, and is usually supported to some extent by most competitors’ software. This proprietary file format provides non-linear editing and special effects services like backgrounds, textures, and stamp tools for the Web, film, and television. The primary strength of Photoshop is as its pixel based image editor. Vector based image editors are not as desired by design artists as pixel based editors, which is just one more reason Adobe Photoshop is the first choice for design professionals. Below, this infographic shows all the stages of development of Photoshop up to its current incarnation as part of Adobe CS5 — a creativity suite including several other of the company’s most popular design and publishing software titles.
