Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc. for Windows and macOS. It was originally created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll.
"Photoshop It" is slang which unfortunately promotes software owned by one of the worst computer software companies in existence today.
Although Adobe Photoshop is the market dominate application for image manipulation it is not necessarily the best. Adobe licensing is Draconian as in very strict and overreaching, backed by Adobe's overly aggressive legal civil team some companies are now waking up and avoiding Adobe like the plague.
The User Interface of Adobe Photoshop has never been intuitive. It takes considerable training to become proficient in the software. When compared to Jasc Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Photoshop is far more difficult to use because the UI is not logically constructed for the common computer user. It should be noted that Paint Shop Pro does more than Paint Shop Pro, however, it has been matched in features by a Free Open Source competitor called Gimp.
It is difficult to understand why graphic artists and desktop publishers continue to fork out big fees for Adobe software when FOSS Gimp can accomplish the same tasks in relatively the same way and is much more cost effective often being completely free.
Related Pages
- GIMP - Graphics software equal to Adobe Photoshop while also being Free and Open Source
- Paint Shop Pro - Discontinued graphics software that once served as a nice alternative to Adobe Photoshop
- XnView - A simple Linux utility that can open Photoshop, PSP, and most other graphic file types including the ability to export to other formats.
- Common Graphic File Formats for Images