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Photoshop is a large graphic design software program created by the Adobe company. The app Photoshop was originally designed as a comprehensive solution for creating, editing and retouching any type of raster image. Since then, Photoshop has evolved a full slate of tools that allow users to do so much more. Photoshop merges both needs sketching and rendering. Adobe Photoshop is used by designers, web developers, graphic artists, and photographers. Fine artists use it to draw, sketch and even paint digitally. Photographers use it to adjust and transform their photos with color and lighting. Production designers use it to create web-ready digital images.
Use Photoshop when
- It’s time to retouch photos. Need to color correct a photo? Or tame some flyaway hair? Or digitally zap a zit? Photoshop = photos. And there’s no better tool.
- You need to edit artwork for digital or print. That could be a photo, painting, drawing, or anything else. Photoshop is the right tool to make sure every line, shadow and texture is in place. Then, you can use that artwork anywhere, either on its own or in a Illustrator or InDesign project.
- You want digital images for the web like social media images, banner ads, email headers, videos etc. Creating these images in Photoshop will ensure they’re right size and optimized for the web.
- You have to create a website or app mockup. Layers make it easy to move UI elements around, and because Photoshop is a pixel-based editing program, you’ll know that your design is sized correctly for any screen size.
- You want to get fancy with animation and video. Today, cameras can not only shoot fantastic photos, but they can also capture some pretty sweet video, too. Photoshop makes it easy to cut together simple video clips and add graphics, filters, text, animation and more.
Photoshop offers benefits to users of all skill levels.
Touch Ups
Photoshop offers the benefit of touching up photos that may be otherwise ruined by an errant speck of dust, an unwanted person or item in the background intruder, or a subject’s clothing stain. Tools such as the software’s “Clone” tool can be used to copy a matching area of the same picture and place it over-top of the unwanted area, creating a seamless image. For example, using the clone tool, a desired photo of a sunny sky that has an unwanted bird in the shot can be edited to remove the bird from the scene without the viewer seeing any discoloration or missing spots.
Layers
Photoshop is one of the only graphics software programs that allows users to work in layers. Layers are a way of stacking designs, then removing or hiding them to see how your work looks.
Colour Change
Photoshop gives even the most basic user the opportunity to create a colour palette of opportunity. Through some of Photoshop’s selection and color enhancement tools, a user may quickly change the color of a model’s eyes, switch the hue on a sweatshirt to include it in a catalog, or add a tie-dye pattern to a blanket. Photoshop also allows graphical alterations such as changing a color photo to black and white or sepia. Another option is to add spot colour, such as when a black-and-white photo features one or a few individual spots with bright bursts of color, calling attention to an item such as a flower, balloon or shoe.
When most people think of graphic design, they think Photoshop. And it’s true: Photoshop is the most powerful app for both creating and enhancing images. Layers make it simple to develop templates that can be edited and rearranged with one click. The adjustment tools are much more powerful than any of the other apps and allow tiny tweaks to be made to color, contrast, brightness and more.
