Adobe Photoshop

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Adobe Photoshop CC Running on Windows.
Developer(s) Adobe Systems
Initial release
February 19, 1990;
24 years ago
Stable release
CC (14.2.1),
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/ 18 February
2014; 3 months ago
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Development
status
Active
Written in
C++;
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Formerly Pascal
(v1.0.1)
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Operating system
At least Windows 7 or Mac OS X
10.7
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Platform
IA-32 (Windows only) and x86-
64
Available in 27 languages
Type Raster graphics editor
License Proprietary
Website adobe.com/photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems.
Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe
Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS6 is the 13th major release of Adobe Photoshop. The
CS rebranding also resulted in Adobe offering numerous software packages containing multiple
Adobe programs for a reduced price. Adobe Photoshop is released in two editions: Adobe
Photoshop, and Adobe Photoshop Extended, with the Extended having extra 3D image
creation, motion graphics editing, and advanced image analysis features.
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Adobe Photoshop
Extended is included in all of Adobe's Creative Suite offerings except Design Standard, which
includes the Adobe Photoshop edition. However, in 2013, Adobe announced a new brand,
Creative Cloud. And the Photoshop version included in this suite is named Photoshop CC. The
CC version (Originally 14.0, and will be continuously maintained and upgraded) has 3D content
as Photoshop Extended, which means the standard version is canceled.
Alongside Photoshop and Photoshop Extended, Adobe also publishes Photoshop Elements and
Photoshop Lightroom, collectively called "The Adobe Photoshop Family". In 2008, Adobe
released Adobe Photoshop Express, a free web-based image editing tool to edit photos directly
on blogs and social networking sites. In 2011, a version was released for the Android operating
system and the iOS operating system, followed by a release of a version for Windows 8 in
2013.
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Adobe distributes Photoshop in Windows and Macintosh versions.
Contents
1 Early history
2 File format
3 Language availabilities
4 Plugins
5 Tools
o 5.1 Pen Tool
o 5.2 Measuring and navigation
o 5.3 Selection
5.3.1 Cropping
5.3.2 Slicing
5.3.3 Moving
5.3.4 Marquee
5.3.5 Lasso
5.3.6 Quick Selection
5.3.7 Magic Wand
5.3.8 Eraser
o 5.4 Video Editing
o 5.5 3D Extrusion
o 5.6 Mobile integration
o 5.7 Camera Raw
o 5.8 3D Printing Tools
o 5.9 Color Replacement Tool
6 Cultural impact
o 6.1 Magazines
o 6.2 Photoshop disasters
o 6.3 Photoshop contest
7 Version history
o 7.1 Older versions
o 7.2 CS
o 7.3 CS2
o 7.4 CS3
o 7.5 CS4
o 7.6 CS5
o 7.7 CS6
o 7.8 CC
o 7.9 Photoshop Touch
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Early history
In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan began writing a program on
his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program, called
Display, caught the attention of his brother John Knoll, an Industrial Light & Magic employee,
who recommended that Thomas turn it into a full-fledged image editing program. Thomas took a
six-month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program. Thomas
renamed the program ImagePro, but the name was already taken.
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Later that year, Thomas
renamed his program Photoshop and worked out a short-term deal with scanner manufacturer
Barneyscan to distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner; a "total of about 200 copies
of Photoshop were shipped" this way.
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During this time, John traveled to Silicon Valley and gave a demonstration of the program to
engineers at Apple and Russell Brown, art director at Adobe. Both showings were successful,
and Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988.
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While John
worked on plug-ins in California, Thomas remained in Ann Arbor writing code. Photoshop 1.0
was released on February 19, 1990 for Macintosh exclusively.
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The Barneyscan version
included advanced color editing features that were stripped from the first Adobe shipped version.
The handling of color slowly improved with each release from Adobe and Photoshop quickly
became the industry standard in digital color editing. At the time Photoshop 1.0 was released,
digital retouching on dedicated high end systems, such as the SciTex, cost around $300 an hour
for basic photo retouching.
File format
Photoshop files have default file extension as .PSD, which stands for "Photoshop Document." A
PSD file stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These
include layers with masks, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, clipping paths, and
duotone settings. This is in contrast to many other file formats (e.g. .JPG or .GIF) that restrict
content to provide streamlined, predictable functionality. A PSD file has a maximum height and
width of 30,000 pixels, and a length limit of 3 Gigabytes.
Photoshop files sometimes have the file extension .PSB, which stands for "Photoshop Big" (also
known as "large document format"). A PSB file extends the PSD file format, increasing the
maximum height and width to 300,000 pixels and the length limit to around 4 Exabytes. The
dimension limit was apparently chosen arbitrarily by Adobe, not based on computer arithmetic
constraints (it is not close to a power of two, as is 30,000) but for ease of software testing. PSD
and PSB formats are documented.
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Because of Photoshop's popularity, PSD files are widely used and supported to some extent by
most competing software. The .PSD file format can be exported to and from Adobe's other apps
like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, and After Effects, to make professional standard
DVDs and provide non-linear editing and special effects services, such as backgrounds, textures,
and so on, for television, film, and the web. Photoshop's primary strength is as a pixel-based
image editor, unlike vector-based image editors. Photoshop also enables vector graphics editing
through its Paths, Pen tools, Shape tools, Shape Layers, Type tools, Import command, and Smart
Object functions. These tools and commands are convenient to combine pixel-based and vector-
based images in one Photoshop document, because it may not be necessary to use more than one
program. To create very complex vector graphics with numerous shapes and colors, it may be
easier to use software that was created primarily for that purpose, such as Adobe Illustrator or
CorelDRAW. Photoshop's non-destructive Smart Objects can also import complex vector
shapes.
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Language availabilities
Photoshop is available in more than 20 languages. These are the following:
Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French,
German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian,
Spanish, Swedish, Romanian, Turkish and Ukrainian. Arabic and Hebrew are added as of
Photoshop CS6.
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Plugins
Main article: Photoshop plugin
Photoshop functionality can be extended by add-on programs called Photoshop plugins (or plug-
ins). Adobe creates some plugins, such as Adobe Camera Raw, but third-party companies
develop most plugins, according to Adobe's specifications. Some are free and some are
commercial software. Most plugins work with only Photoshop or Photoshop-compatible hosts,
but a few can also be run as standalone applications.
There are various types of plugins, such as filter, export, import, selection, color correction, and
automation. The most popular plugins are the filter plugins (also known as a 8bf plugins),
available under the Filter menu in Photoshop. Filter plugins can either modify the current image
or create content. Below are some popular types of plugins, and some well-known companies
associated with them:
Color correction plugins (Alien Skin Software,
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Nik Software,
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OnOne Software,
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Topaz Labs Software,
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The Plugin Site,
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etc.)
Special effects plugins (Alien Skin Software, Auto FX Software,
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AV Bros.,
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Flaming Pear Software,
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etc.)
3D effects plugins (Andromeda Software,
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Strata,
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etc.)
Adobe Camera Raw (also known as ACR and Camera Raw) is a special plugin, supplied free by
Adobe, used primarily to read and process raw image files so that the resultant images can be
processed by Photoshop.
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It can also be used from within Adobe Bridge.
Tools

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Upon loading Photoshop, a sidebar with a variety of tools with multiple image-editing functions
appears to the left of the screen. These tools typically fall under the categories of drawing;
painting; measuring and navigation; selection; typing; and retouching.
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Some tools contain
a small triangle in the bottom right of the toolbox icon. These can be expanded to reveal similar
tools.
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While newer versions of Photoshop are updated to include new tools and features,
several recurring tools that exist in most versions are discussed below.
Pen Tool
Photoshop includes a few versions of the pen tool. The pen tool creates precise paths that can be
manipulated using anchor points.
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The free form pen tool allows the user to draw paths
freehand, and with the magnetic pen tool, the drawn path attaches closely to outlines of objects in
an image, which is useful for isolating them from a background.
Measuring and navigation
The eyedropper tool selects a color from an area of the image that is clicked, and samples it for
future use.
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The hand tool navigates an image by moving it in any direction, and the zoom tool
enlarges the part of an image that is clicked on, allowing for a closer view.
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Selection
By using path selection tool, we can select path nodes.
Cropping
The crop tool can be used to select a particular area of an image and discard the portions outside
of the chosen section. This tool assists in creating a focus point on an image and excluding
unnecessary or excess space.
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Cropping allows enhancement of a photos composition while
decreasing the file size. The "crop" tool is in the tools palette, which is located on the right side
of the document. By placing the cursor over the image, the user can drag the cursor to the desired
area. Once the Enter key is pressed, the area outside of the rectangle will be cropped. The area
outside of the rectangle is the discarded data, which allows for the file size to be decreased.
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The "crop" tool can alternatively be used to extend the canvas size by clicking and dragging
outside of the existing image borders.
Slicing
The "slice" and slice select tools, like the crop tool, are used in isolating parts of images. The
slice tool can be used to divide an image into different sections, and these separate parts can be
used as pieces of a web page design once HTML and CSS are applied.
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The slice select tool
allows sliced sections of an image to be adjusted and shifted.
Moving
The move tool can be used to drag the entirety of a single layer or more if they are selected.
Alternatively, once an area of an image is highlighted, the move tool can be used to manually
relocate the selected piece to anywhere on the canvas.
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Marquee
The marquee tool can make selections that are single row, single column, rectangular and
elliptical.
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An area that has been selected can be edited without affecting the rest of the image.
This tool can also crop an image; it allows for better control. In contrast to the crop tool, the
"marquee" tool allows for more adjustments to the selected area before cropping. The only
marquee tool that does not allow cropping is the elliptical. Although the single row and column
marquee tools allow for cropping, they are not ideal, because they only crop a line. The
rectangular marquee tool is the preferred option. Once the tool has been selected, dragging the
tool across the desired area will select it. The selected area will be outlined by dotted lines,
referred to as marching ants. These dotted lines are called marching ants, because the dashes
look like ants marching around the selected area. To set a specific size or ratio, the tool option
bar provides these settings. Before making a selecting an area, the desired size or ratio must be
set by adjusting the width and height. Any changes such as color, filters, location, etc. should be
made before cropping. To crop the selection, the user must go to image tab and select crop.
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Lasso
The lasso tool is similar to the "marquee" tool, however, the user can make a custom selection by
drawing it freehand.
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There are three options for the "lasso" tool regular, polygonal, and
magnetic. The regular "lasso" tool allows the user to have drawing capabilities. Photoshop will
complete the selection once the mouse button is released. The user may also complete the
selection by connecting the end point to the starting point. The marching ants will indicate if a
selection has been made. The "polygonal lasso" tool will only draw straight lines, which makes it
an ideal choice for images with many straight lines. Unlike the regular "lasso" tool, the user must
continually click around the image to outline the shape. To complete the selection, the user must
connect the end point to the starting point just like the regular lasso tool. "Magnetic lasso" tool is
considered the smart tool. It can do the same as the other two, but it can also detect the edges of
an image once the user selects a starting point. It detects by examining the color pixels as the
cursor move over the desired area. A pixel is the smallest element in an image. Closing the
selection is the same as the other two, which should also should display the marching ants
once the selection has been closed.
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Quick Selection
The quick selection tool selects areas based on edges, similarly to the magnetic lasso tool. The
difference between this tool and the lasso tool is that there is no starting and ending point. Since
there isnt a starting and ending point, the selected area can be added onto as much as possible
without starting over. By dragging the cursor over the desired area, the quick selection tool
detects the edges of the image. The marching ants allow the user to know what is currently
being selected. Once the user is done, the selected area can be edited without affecting the rest of
the image. One of the features that makes this tool especially user friendly is that the SHIFT key
is not needed to add more to the selection; by default, extra mouse clicks will be added to the
selection rather than creating a new selection.
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Magic Wand
The magic wand tool selects areas based on pixels of similar values. One click will select all
neighboring pixels of similar value within a tolerance level set by the user. If the eyedropper tool
is selected in the options bar, then the magic wand can determine the value needed to evaluate
the pixels; this is based on the sample size setting in the eyedropper tool. This tool is inferior to
the quick selection tool which works much the same but with much better results and more
intuitive controls. The user must decide what settings to use or if the image is right for this
tool.
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Eraser
The eraser tool erases content based on the active layer. If the user is on the text layer, then any
text across which the tool is dragged will be erased. The eraser will convert the pixels to
transparent, unless the background layer is selected. The size and style of the eraser can be
selected in the options bar. This tool is unique in that it can take the form of the paintbrush and
pencil tools. In addition to the straight eraser tool, there are two more available options
background eraser and magic eraser. The background eraser deletes any part of the image that is
on the edge of an object. This tool is often used to extract objects from the background. The
magic eraser tool deletes based on similar colored pixels. It is very similar to the magic wand
tool. This tool is ideal for deleting areas with the same color or tone that contrasts with the rest of
the image.
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Video Editing
In Adobe CS5 Extended edition, video editing is comprehensive and efficient with a broad
compatibility of video file formats such as MOV, AVI, MPEG-4, and FLV formats and easy
workflow. Using simple combination of keys video layers can easily be modified, with other
features such as adding text and the creation of animations using single images.
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3D Extrusion
With the Extended version of Photoshop CS5, 2D elements of an artwork can easily become
three-dimensional with the click of a button. Extrusions of texts, an available library of materials
for three-dimensional, and even wrapping two-dimensional images around 3D geometry.
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Mobile integration
Third-party plugins have also been added to the most recent version of Photoshop where
technologies such as the iPad have integrated the software with different types of applications.
Applications like the Adobe Eazel painting app allows the user to easily create paintings with
their fingertips and use an array of different paint from dry to wet in order to create rich color
blending.
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Camera Raw
With the Camera Raw plug-in, RAW images can be processed without the use of Adobe
Photoshop Lightroom, along with other image file formats such as JPEGs, TIFFs, or PNGs. The
plug-in allows users to remove noise without the side-effect of over-sharpening, add grain, and
even perform post-crop vignetting.
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3D Printing Tools
Requiring Photoshop version 14.1, users can now create and edit designs for 3D printing. After
downloading 3D photo models from numerous online services, users can add color, adjust the
shape or rotate the angles. Artists can also design 3D models from scratch.
http://mashable.com/2014/01/16/photoshop-3d-printing/
Color Replacement Tool
The Color Replacement Tool allows you to change the color, while maintaining the highlights
and shadows of the original image, of pieces of the image. By selecting Brushs and right
clicking, the Color Replacement Tool is the third option down. What is important to note with
this tool is the foreground color. The foreground color is what will be applied when painting
along the chosen part of the image with the Color Replacement Tool.
Cultural impact
Main article: Photoshopping
Photoshop and derivatives such as Photoshopped (or just Shopped) have become verbs that are
sometimes used to refer to images edited by Photoshop,
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or any image manipulating program.
Such derivatives are discouraged by Adobe
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because, in order to maintain validity and protect
the trademark from becoming generic, trademarks must be used as proper nouns.


A landscape photo composited and manipulated in Photoshop.
Magazines
Before any type of print media is published, whether it is a magazine, newspaper, or even novel
it is likely the case that Photoshop has been used to enhance and clean up the imagery on many if
not all of the pages. Magazines use Photoshop and many of its tools in order to enhance the
imagery and text in their publications. Many Health and Beauty Magazines employ in-house
designers to retouch photos of models to enhance their beauty. They add finishing touches to the
imagery by using tools that balance color and add drop shadows, among other edits.
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Photoshop disasters
For comedic effect, some websites publish so-called Photoshop disasters, that is, pictures that
contain obvious Photoshop mistakes. Those mistakes range from missing limbs to overdone
photo retouching on fashion models.
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Photoshop contest
Main article: Photoshop contest
A Photoshop contest (or "photochop contest") is an online game in which someone posts an
image, and other people manipulate the image using a raster graphics editor such as Photoshop.
Version history
Main article: Adobe Photoshop version history
Older versions

This section requires expansion. (February 2013)
Adobe has published thirteen versions before Photoshop CS1.
In February 2013 Adobe donated the source code of the 1990 1.0.1 version of Photoshop to the
Computer History Museum.
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CS
The first Photoshop CS was commercially released in October 2003.
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Photoshop CS increased
user control with a reworked file browser augmenting search versatility, sorting and sharing
capabilities and the Histogram Palette which monitors changes in the image as they are made to
the document.
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Match Color was also introduced in CS, which reads color data to achieve a
uniform expression throughout a series of pictures.
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CS2
Photoshop CS2, released in May 2005, expanded on its predecessor with a new set of tools and
features.
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It included an upgraded Spot Healing Brush, which is mainly used for handling
common photographic problems such as blemishes, red-eye, noise, blurring and lens
distortion.
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One of the most significant inclusions in CS2 was the implementation of Smart
Objects, which allows users to scale and transform images and vector illustrations without losing
image quality, as well as create linked duplicates of embedded graphics so that a single edit
updates across multiple iterations.
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Adobe responded to feedback from the professional media industry by implementing non-
destructive editing as well as the producing and modifying of 32-Bit High Dynamic Range
(HDR) images, which are optimal for 3D rendering and advanced compositing. FireWire
Previews could also be viewed on a monitor via a direct export feature.
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Photoshop CS2 brought the Vanishing Point and Image Warping tools.
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Vanishing Point
makes tedious graphic and photo retouching endeavors much simpler by letting users clone, paint
and transform image objects while maintaining visual perspective.
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Image Warping makes it
easy to digitally distort an image into a shape by choosing on-demand presets or by dragging
control points.
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The File Browser was upgraded to Adobe Bridge, which functioned as a hub for productivity,
imagery and creativity, providing multi-view file browsing and smooth cross-product integration
across Adobe Creative Suite 2 software.
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Adobe Bridge also provided access to Adobe Stock
Photos, a new stock photography service that offered users one-stop shopping across five elite
stock image providers to deliver high-quality, royalty-free images for layout and design.
Camera Raw version 3.0 was a new addition in CS2, and it allowed settings for multiple raw
files to be modified simultaneously.
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In addition, processing multiple raw files to other formats
including JPEG, TIFF, DNG or PSD, could be done in the background without executing
Photoshop itself.
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Photoshop CS2 brought a streamlined interface, making it easier to access features for specific
instances. In CS2 users were also given the ability to create their own custom presets, which was
meant to save time and increase productivity.
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CS3

Smart Objects display filters without altering the original image (here on Mac OS X)
CS3 improves on features from previous versions of Photoshop and introduces new tools. One of
the most significant is the streamline interface which allows increased performance, speed, and
efficiency. There is also improved support for Camera RAW files which allow users to process
images with higher speed and conversion quality. CS3 supports over 150 RAW formats as well
as JPEG, TIFF and PDF.
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Enhancements were made to the Black and White Conversion,
Brightness and Contrast Adjustment and Vanishing Point Module tools. The Black and White
adjustment option improves control over manual grayscale conversions with a dialog box similar
to that of Channel Mixer. There is more control over print options and better management with
Adobe Bridge. The Clone Source palette is introduced, adding more options to the clone stamp
tool.
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Other features include the nondestructive Smart Filters, optimizing graphics for mobile
devices,
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Fill Light and Dust Busting tools.
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Compositing is assisted with Photoshop's new
Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools and improved image stitching technology.
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CS3 Extended includes everything in CS3 and additional features. There are tools for 3D graphic
file formats, video enhancement and animation, and comprehensive image measurement and
analysis tools with DICOM file support.
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The 3D graphic formats allow 3D content to be
incorporated into 2D compositions.
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As for video editing, CS3 supports layers and video
formatting so users can edit video files per frame.
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CS3 and CS3 Extended were released in April 2007 to the United States and Canada.
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They
were also made available through Adobes online store and Adobe Authorized Resellers.
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Both
CS3 and CS3 Extended are offered as either a stand-alone application or feature of Adobe
Creative Suite.
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The price for CS3 is US$649 and the extended version is US$999.
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Both
products are compatible with Intel-based Macs and PowerPCs, supporting Windows XP and
Windows Vista.
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CS3 is the first release of Photoshop that will run natively on Macs with Intel
processors: previous versions can only run through the translation layer Rosetta, and will not run
at all on Macs running OS X 10.7 or later.
CS4
CS4 features smoother panning and zooming, allowing faster image editing at a high
magnification. The interface is more simplified with its tab-based interface
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making it cleaner
to work with. Photoshop CS4 features a new 3D engine allowing the conversion of gradient
maps to 3D objects, adding depth to layers and text, and getting print-quality output with the new
ray-tracing rendering engine. It supports common 3D formats; the new Adjustment and Mask
Panels; Content-aware scaling (seam carving
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); Fluid Canvas Rotation and File display
options.
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The Content-aware scaling allows users to intelligently size and scale images,
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and
the Canvas Rotation tool makes it easier to rotate and edit images from any angle.
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Adobe released Photoshop CS4 Extended, which has the features of Adobe Photoshop CS4, plus
capabilities for scientific imaging, 3D, motion graphics,
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accurate image analysis
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and high-
end film and video users. The faster 3D engine allows users to paint directly on 3D models, wrap
2D images around 3D shapes and animate 3D objects.
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As the successor to Photoshop CS3,
Photoshop CS4 is the first x64 edition of Photoshop on consumer computers for Windows.
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The color correction tool has also been improved significantly.
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CS4 and CS4 Extended were released on 15 October 2008.
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They were also made available
through Adobes online store and Adobe Authorized Resellers.
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Both CS4 and CS4 Extended
are offered as either a stand-alone application or feature of Adobe Creative Suite. The price for
CS4 is US$699 and the extended version is US$999.
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Both products are compatible with Intel-
based Mac OS X and PowerPCs, supporting Windows XP and Windows Vista.
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CS5


A 2D landscape designed in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended.
Photoshop CS5 was launched on 12 April 2010.
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In a video posted on its official Facebook
page, the development team revealed the new technologies under development, including three-
dimensional brushes and warping tools.
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In May 2011, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 (CS5.5) was released, with new versions of some of the
applications. Its version of Photoshop, 12.1, is identical to the concurrently released update for
Photoshop CS5, version 12.0.4, except for support for the new subscription pricing that was
introduced with CS5.5.
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CS5 introduces new tools such as the Content-Aware Fill, Refine Edge, Mixer Brush, Bristle
Tips and Puppet Warp.
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The community also had a hand in the additions made to CS5 as 30
new features and improvements were included by request.
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These include automatic image
straightening, the Rule-of-Thirds cropping tool, color pickup and saving an 16-bit image as a
JPEG.
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Another feature includes the Adobe Mini Bridge which allows for efficient file
browsing and management.
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CS5 Extended includes everything in CS5 plus features in 3D and video editing. A new materials
library was added, providing more options such as Chrome, Glass, and Cork.
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The new
Shadow Catcher tool can be used to further enhance 3D objects.
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For motion graphics, the
tools can be applied to over more than one frame in a video sequence.
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CS5 and CS5 Extended were made available through Adobe's online store, Adobe Authorized
Resellers and Adobe direct sales.
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Both CS5 and CS5 Extended are offered as either a stand-
alone application or feature of Adobe Creative Suite 5.
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The price for CS5 is US$699 and the
extended version is US$999.
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Both products are compatible with Intel-based Mac OS and
Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
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CS6
Photoshop CS6, released in May 2012, added new creative design tools and provided a
redesigned interface
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with a focus on enhanced performance.
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New features have been added
to the Content-Aware tool such as the Content-Aware Patch and Content-Aware Move.
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Adobe Photoshop CS6 brought a suite of tools for video editing. Color and exposure
adjustments, as well as layers, are among a few things that are featured in this new editor. Upon
completion of editing, the user is presented with a handful of options of exporting into a few
popular formats.
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CS6 brings the "straighten" tool to Photoshop, where a user simply draws a line anywhere on an
image, and the canvas will reorient itself so that the line drawn becomes horizontal, and adjusts
the media accordingly. This was created with the intention that users will draw a line parallel to a
plane in the image, and reorient the image to that plane to more easily achieve certain
perspectives.
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CS6 allows background saving, which means that while another document is compiling and
archiving itself, it is possible to simultaneously edit an image.
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CS6 also features a
customizable auto-save feature, preventing any work from being lost.
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Photoshop CS6 was released on May 7, 2012.
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The price for CS6 is US$699 and the extended
version is US$999. Students, however, even those who are homeschooled, can receive a
significant discount on Photoshop.
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With the newest Photoshop version 13.1.2, Adobe has dropped support for Windows XP (even
on native x64 for Windows XP x64); thus, the last version that works on Windows XP is 13.0.1.
Adobe also announced that it will quit selling perpetual licenses to new creative suite packages,
but will continue to support Photoshop CS6 for OS compatibility and will provide bug fixes and
security updates as necessary.
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CC
Photoshop CC (14.0) was launched on June 18, 2013. As the next major version after CS6, it is
only available as part of a Creative Cloud subscription, the full version of which costs $49 every
month. Major features in this version include All-new Smart Sharpen, Intelligent Upsampling,
and Camera Shake Reduction for reducing blur caused by camera shake. Editable Rounded
Rectangles and an update to Adobe Camera Raw (8.0) were also included.
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Since the initial launch, Adobe has released two additional feature-bearing updates. The first,
version 14.1, was launched on September 9, 2013. The major features in this version were Adobe
Generator, a Node.js-based platform for creating plug-ins for Photoshop. Photoshop 14.1 shipped
with two plug-ins, one to automatically generate image assets based on an extension in the layer
name, and another to automatically generate assets for Adobe Edge Reflow.
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The latest version (14.2) was released on January 15, 2014. Major features include Perspective
Warp, Linked Smart Objects, and 3D Printing support.
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Photoshop Touch

This section requires expansion. (June 2012)
Photoshop Touch is an application designed specifically for tablets and touchscreen devices. It
includes many of the features of the personal computer version, including layers, selection tools,
adjustments, and filters. Edited files can be synced with Adobe Creative Cloud. Photoshop touch
is currently available on iOS and Android. There are two iOS versionsone designed for iPad
and the other for iPhone and iPod touch; both require iOS 5.0 or later. Android versions can be
installed on any Android handset (4.0 and up) and tablets (3.1 and up).
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