Adobe Photoshop is the most popular software available for editing photographs and images. It can be used for everything from fixing your digital photos to creating graphics for a website. As a program it is used by everybody from law enforcement to medical offices - not to mention that it is most commonly used by artists and graphic designers.
What Photoshop is Designed For
As an image-editing program, Photoshop is designed to allow you to correct and edit images that you have loaded into it from a scanner or digital camera. The most basic process would go like this: You take a photograph, edit it, and you print it out for display.
When you are editing your photos or graphics in Photoshop, you are actually working with small squares of color which are known as pixels. What you are doing when you edit your work is changing and adjusting the pixels. This may be done in larger groups, or on an individual basis.
Common Uses of Photoshop
The average user of Photoshop will usually be using it for corrective purposes such as removing "red-eye" from a picture or removing wrinkles. This is a great use for the program. Gone are the days when your pictures were unusable due to errors that you couldn't identify until after your roll of film was developed. Now you can simply scan or upload your troubled pictures and fix them yourself.
In recent years Photoshop has become more powerful and is used a great deal by graphic designers and fine artists. Thanks to its large number of preset brushes, you can even paint directly on a digital canvas - saving you all of the set-up and cleanup time associated with physical painting.
While everybody has a favorite use for Photoshop, I use it to create graphics for my screen printing projects.
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