What is Photoshop?

Photoshop is an image editing and manipulation software made by Adobe. Adobe’s catalogue of software includes other very popular apps like After Effect, Illustrator and Lightroom. Originally formed in 1988, Photoshop is now a huge industry favourite when it comes to graphic design and image editing. Photoshop is not free and will cost £19.97 per month for a subscription to just Photoshop or £49.99 per month for full access to the Adobe Creative Cloud. The Photoshop software is perfect for animating and compositing digital art, making it a very versatile app for many different things. It is available for use on both iOS and Windows PCs. 

The raster graphics editor has quite a simple user interface making it easy to pick up and learn how to use as opposed to other software and has many benefits as to why it is an invaluable industry tool. The uses of Photoshop are vast, and the capabilities of the software are huge making it an extremely worthwhile investment. These uses include photo restoration, animation, website layout, website graphics and the cropping and resizing of images. 

On Photoshop there is a complete surplus of industry-level tools at the user’s disposal. The sheer number of tools on Photoshop means that users are able to create industry-level images and tools are always being added to. This allows users to have endless creative capabilities on the software. Photoshop also has its own library of stock images allowing you to speed up your process, cutting out the time it takes to search for other stock images. The software also allows you to edit any type of photo file without needing any extended software which makes it extremely simple to use and cost-efficient. This is furthered by the point that there are endless possibilities on what you can create using photoshop – business cards, logos and professional-looking images to post to social media to name but a few. The software also has its own collection of readily available and designed templates making it even easier for you to produce the highest quality of images for your brand. Th resize feature is also one that is highly useful when it comes to the customisation of images for different social media platforms as well as for website designs. The program itself works smoothly and system failures and crashes are scarce, and any crashes are handled well by their team of customer support advisors.

Not only can one edit images on Photoshop, but the ability also to edit videos and animated videos is there too. Through Photoshop, you can edit videos and animations frame by frame using the abundant tools on the program. 

Photoshop has dominated the mainstream when it comes to professional quality image and video editing software due to the endless capabilities of the software. The ever-growing number of tools and the quality of these tools allow any user at any level to produce industry-standard content, so it is no surprise that Photoshop has so effectively dominated the market of editing software in the past 30 years.