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Computing | Photoshop An image manipulation program by Adobe Systems, Inc.. Home (http://www.adobe.com/Apps/Photoshop.html) [Summary?] (1995-07-05). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Photoshop® is a bitmap graphics editor, published by Adobe®. It is the market leader for commercial bitmap image manipulation. As with most of other Adobe's applications, Photoshop is available for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows. It has also been released for Unix.
Photoshop Version 6 main screen
Larger version
The development of Photoshop started in 1987 by the brothers Thomas and John Knoll, although it was not until 1990 that the program was first released by Adobe. The program was intended from the start as a tool for manipulating images that were digitized by a scanner, which was a rare and expensive device in those days.
Although primarily designed to edit images for paper-based printing, Photoshop is used increasingly to produce images for the World Wide Web. Recent versions have been shipped with a separate application, ImageReady, which provides a more specialised set of tools for this purpose.
As of 2003, Photoshop is at version 8, called CS by Adobe to reflect its integration with their "Creative Suite".
The term photoshopping is a neologism, meaning 'editing an image,' regardless of the program used. Adobe discourages use of the term out of fear that it will undermine the company's trademark. It is sometimes used with a derogatary intent by artists to refer to images that have been retouched instead of originally produced. A common issue amongst users of all skill levels is the ability to avoid in one's work what is referred to as "the Photoshop look" (although such an issue is intrinsic to many graphics programs).
Photoshop is generally considered one of the best (if not the best) image editing programs. Its main disadvantage is its hefty price; in that way, it is similar to 3D Studio Max: it is one of the best programs, but it is not the most popular, because of its price. This has allowed competing programs such as Jasc Software's Paint Shop Pro and The GIMP Team's GIMP to become popular. To capture this lost market share, Adobe has introduced a much less expensive program called Photoshop Elements that consists of Photoshop minus some of the high-end output capabilities, useful for editing photos from consumer digital cameras and for doctoring images for the web but not as useful for professional prepress work.
See also Photoshop tennis, Photoshop contest.
External link
- Official Page
- A history of Photoshop written on the application's tenth anniversary
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Photoshop."
Crosswords: PHOTOSHOP |
| Specialty definitions using "PHOTOSHOP": hue, saturation, brightness. (references) |
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| "Dark" by Jan Klau Commentary: "Just playing around with photoshop...." | "Heavy rain at sunset" by Paula Ikonen Commentary: "Taken from my balcony during a thurderstorm. No Photoshop used. Image is a bit blurred though I used a tripod. ." |
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Economic History | Australia | Industry-standard tools include most Macromedia products (especially Dreamweaver, with its quality HTML generator), Adobe Photoshop (the standard in the publishing and content industries), and Jasc Paintshop Pro (an affordable graphics graphics package, which has proven a favorite in the retail space as well). (references) |
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| "PHOTOSHOP" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PHOTOSHOP" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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| Words within the letters "h-h-o-o-o-p-p-s-t" | |
-3 letters: photos. | |
-4 letters: hoops, hoots, photo, phots, phpht, poohs, poops, shoot, sooth, stoop, tophs, topos. | |
-5 letters: hoop, hoot, hops, host, hots, oohs, oops, oots, opts, phot, pooh, poop, pops, posh, post, pots, shoo, shop, shot, soot, soph, soth, spot, stop, toph, tops, tosh. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-h-o-o-o-p-p-s-t" | |
+2 letters: photophores. | |
+3 letters: photophobias, prophethoods. | |
+4 letters: anthroposophy. | |
+5 letters: anthropomorphs, ophthalmoscope, ophthalmoscopy, orthophosphate, phosphoprotein, phosphorolytic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 48 4F 54 4F 53 48 4F 50 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .... --- - --- ... .... --- .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001000 01001111 01010100 01001111 01010011 01001000 01001111 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P H O T O S H O P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0048 004F 0054 004F 0053 0048 004F 0050 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)504249544953424950 |
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