Adobe photoshop is one of the company's most famous image processing software, _set_ image scanning, editing, graphics production, advertising creative, image input and output in one of the graphic image processing software, the majority of graphic design and computer art lovers favorite. Adobe was founded in 1981, is one of the largest PC software company.
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The invention photoshop
The main designer historical icons of Photoshop Thomas Knoll's father Glenn Knoll is a professor at the University of Michigan, is also a photography enthusiast, a darkroom in the basement of his home. His two sons, Thomas and John grew up with his father to play the darkroom, but John seems to PC was just beginning to be more interested in the issue. After Thomas also fascinated by the PC, and in 1987 to buy Apple Computer (Mac Plus) to help his doctoral thesis. Thomas discovered that Apple can not display black and white images with gray, so he wrote a program Display. And his brother (brother?) John Lucas then directed the movie Star Wars special effects production company Industry Light Magic to work on the program was interested in Thomas. Two brothers in the next year or so to Display constantly modified to a more powerful image editing program, into the renamed several times, in a show they accepted a proposal to audience participation program was renamed Photoshop. At this point the Display / Photoshop already has Level, color balance, saturation adjustments. Also John wrote some programs became the basis for the plug (Plug-in) for. They are the first commercial success of Photoshop to a company with selling scanners, called Barneyscan XP, version 0.87. Meanwhile John continued to look for other buyers, including SuperMac and Aldus without success. Eventually they found Adobe's Russell Brown, Adobe's artistic director. Russell Brown has been in the study at this time whether to consider another company Letra_set_'s ColorStudio image editing program. After he read the Photoshop program considered more promising Knoll brothers. In August 1988 they decided to cooperate verbally, but the real legal contract until next April to complete. Contract inside a keyword is to get Adobe Photoshop "license to distribute", that was not the issue of the right to buy out all copyright. Knoll brothers fortune which later laid the foundation. Through the efforts of Thomas and other Adobe engineers, Photoshop version 1.0.7 in February 1990 formally issued. John Knoll is also involved in a number of developing plug-ins. The first version is only a 800KB floppy disk (Mac). In the early 1990s the U.S. printing industry occurred in relatively large changes in prepress (pre-press) computerization began to spread. Photoshop version 2.0 adds the CYMK printing feature is the beginning of the separation task to the user, a new industry desktop publishing (Desktop Publishing-DTP) resulting.
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版本历史
6.0 the Macintosh, Windows hair of Venus in September 2000 to update the user interface, the "dissolution" of the filter layer mode / mixed layer
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Applications
For most people understand PHOTOSHOP is limited to "a good image editing software" does not know its many applications, in fact, a very wide range of applications PHOTOSHOP in images, graphics, text, video, publishing all aspects of are involved. Consider the following description: 1, Graphic Design Graphic design is the most widely used in the field PHOTOSHOP, whether we are reading a book cover, or on the street to see and poster, posters, prints with rich images of these planes, and basically need PHOTOSHOP software for image processing. 2, fix photos PHOTOSHOP with a powerful image retouch function. Using these features, you can quickly repair a damaged old photos, you can also spot the person's face to repair defects. 3, advertising photography Advertising photography as a visual very demanding work, the final product is often modified to go through to get PHOTOSHOP satisfactory results. 4, video creative PHOTOSHOP specialty is creative images by processing the original PHOTOSHOP irrelevant objects can be grouped together, you can also use the "狸猫换太子" means to make great changes occurred image beyond recognition. 5, artistic text When the text encountered PHOTOSHOP treatment, have been doomed no longer common. PHOTOSHOP can make use of a variety of changes in the text and use the text after the artistic process and add effects. 6, page production Popularity of the network is to encourage more people need to have a PHOTOSHOP important reason. Because in the production of web pages PHOTOSHOP is essential image processing software. 7, architectural renderings late modification In the production of three-dimensional architectural renderings include many scenes, characters and scenes with King, including color PHOTOSHOP often need to add and adjust. 8, painting Since PHOTOSHOP good painting and color features many illustrations design often use a pencil to draw a draft and then fill with PHOTOSHOP way to draw illustrations. In addition, very popular in recent years are mostly pixel art works created by designers using PHOTOSHOP. 9, three-dimensional rendering or processing Tietu In the three-dimensional software, if we can produce a sophisticated model, the model can not be applied to realistic Tietu, can not get a better rendering. In fact in the production of the material, in addition to relying on the software itself has material functions, the use of a suitable material PHOTOSHOP can create three-dimensional software can not be also very important. 10 wedding photo design More and more wedding present to start using a digital camera, which also designed the wedding photos will have to deal with becoming an emerging industry. 11, visual creativity Visual creativity and design is a branch of the art of design, such designs often do not have a very clear business purpose, but because he was for the majority of design enthusiasts to provide a broad design space, so more and more design enthusiasts began learning PHOTOSHOP and visual creativity with personal characteristics and style. 12 icon making While making use of icons in the sense PHOTOSHOP overkill, but using this software to create icons indeed very beautiful. 13, interface design Interface design is an emerging field, has been more and more software companies and developers attention, although not yet to become a new career, but I believe that soon there will certainly be a professional interface designer career. Do not currently used in the interface design of specialized software, so most designers use are PHOTOSHOP. The above lists 13 major areas PHOTOSHOP applications, but in fact it applied more than these. For example, the current video post-production and two-dimensional animation, PHOTOSHOP also been applied.
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Features
From the functional point of view, Photoshop can be divided into image editing, image synthesis, school-color and special effects section. PHOTOSHOP interface Image editing is the basis of image processing, the image can do all kinds of transformation, such as zoom, rotate, skew, mirror, perspective and so on. Can be duplicated, spot removal, repair, modification of damaging the image and the like. It has a very large use in wedding photography, portrait processing production, removing part of the portrait is not satisfied, beautification process, people get very satisfactory results. Image compositing several images sucked through a layer operations, application of synthetic complete tool to convey a clear sense of the image, which is the only way art design. photoshop provides drawing tools allow external images and ideas well integrated, making it possible to synthesize seamless image. School-color is one of the tremendous and powerful features in photoshop, can be easily and quickly carried the image of light and dark colors, color-coded adjustment and correction can also be switched in different colors to suit the image in different areas such as web design, printing , multimedia applications and other aspects. Special effects in photoshop mainly done by the filter, channel and integrated application tools. Image effects, including production of the word creative and special effects, such as painting, relief, plaster painting, drawing and other techniques commonly used in traditional art photoshop effects can be completed. The production of a variety of special effects is the reason the word art designers keen to study a lot of photoshop.
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The latest version
CS4 version September 23, 2008 official release, Photoshop CS4 Adobe company claims to be the largest in the history of a product upgrade. Two versions of Photoshop CS4, namely: Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended Two versions are detailed below: ● Adobe Photoshop CS4 Take full advantage of unrivaled editing and compositing capabilities, a more intuitive user experience and significant productivity enhancements. Is ideal for the following persons: Professional photographers * Serious amateur photographers * Graphic Designer * Web Designers ● Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended Adobe Photoshop CS4 to get all the features, plus tools for editing 3D models and animations based on the content and the implementation of advanced image analysis. Is ideal for the following persons: Film, video, and multimedia professionals * The use of three-dimensional graphics and animation and Web Designers Manufacturing professionals * Medical professionals * Architects and Engineers * Researchers * In addition, adobe also provides a new version of Lightroom: ● Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 master digital photography workflow. Import, manage, and showcase large volumes of photographs or modify a single image. Is ideal for the following persons: Professional photographer Serious amateur photographers * Use of PHOTOSHOP In addition to the software contains all the features of Adobe Photoshop CS3, but also adds some special features, 3D and streaming video, animation, image analysis, such as the depth of support. Two versions into the interface is somewhat different, but look at Photoshop CS3 10.0 Extended CS4 Extended version with the user interface is almost identical. A toolbox into scalable single for long and short double bar. 2, Quick Mask mode and screen toolbox switching mode switching method has also changed. 3, _select_ Tools toolbox options, one more group _select_ion mode, you can decide to choose their own groups or separate layers 4, more than a quick _select_ion tool kit Quick _Select_ion Tool, Magic Wand should shortcut version, you can not add any shortcuts election, according to the _select_ed area can hold the same as painting, very magical. Of course, there are new options bar, add, subtract three modes available, quickly _select_ the color images are very large differences intuitive and fast. In addition, photoshop cs4 will support GPU acceleration. Held in Santa Clara, California in spring 2008 Editor's Day, NVIDIA and Adobe has brought new hope: Code "Stonehenge" (Stonehenge) in Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite Next (ie CS4) will be added to the GPU, physics acceleration support. With GPU acceleration support, open a 2GB, 4.42 gigapixel image file will be very simple, just open a 500 million pixel file on eight-core Intel Skulltrail system as quickly, while the image to zoom with Photoshop, it will not rotate there is no delay; addition to a Photoshop 3D accelerated panorama presentation, the most time-consuming work that no longer a headache. Another impressive new features of Photoshop CS4 is not only can import 3D models, but also add text and pictures on its surface, and as directly as in the model surface rendering natural. The Chinese word processing CS4 will have problems, this is a BUG. Online public beta version of Adobe Photoshop Adobe, March 28, 2008, announced the online edition PS program "Photoshop Express" has been open public beta. As a rich Internet application (RIA), Photoshop Express offers 2GB of space free, online users can store, manage, edit and share their photos, and through Facebook and other social networking sites to upload and download, or provided in Adobe gallery on display in another. Photo editing, Photoshop Express did not pursue a professional Photoshop, but to provide a simple one-button operation, enabling Pop Color (eyedropper), Sketch (sketch), Distort (distorted) and other effects, even if the user does not experience in image editing can easily grasp. Photoshop Express is a free open source framework using Adobe Flex production, support IE, Firefox, Safari and other browsers, you need to install the Flash Player 9, will support multi-language version of the currently available only in English, the official launch.
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Photoshop的使用
. For PDD PhotoDeluxe the Document: This format is only used to support the Photo Deluxe. Photo Deluxe is now to stop development.
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Products
Adobe was founded in 1982, is one of the largest PC software company, Chinese translation: Adobe, Headquarters: San Jose, California, to include web, print, video, wireless and broadband applications including pan-network communication ( Network Publishing) provides an excellent solution. Adobe's graphics and dynamic media creation tool that allows users to create, manage and disseminate works and reliable content with rich visual effects. Adobe is headquartered in San Jose, California, an annual turnover of over 1.2 billion U.S. dollars.