Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop CS6 software delivers even more imaging magic, new creative options, and the Adobe Mercury Graphics
Engine for blazingly fast performance.Get consistent formatting with
type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to
vector objects, easily create custom strokes and much more.
Editorial review
Victor Hugo Buezo Nistahuz
Senior editor
The following review written by one of the Software Informer contributors applies to version 12.0
It
was 1990 when Thomas Knoll was working on a program to display
grayscale images. This program was called "Display", and was destined to
become the well-known Photoshop, whose market grew rapidly in the 90s
thanks to the invention of the digital camera.
Nowadays, Photoshop allows you to do whatever you want - you just need
to know the appropriate techniques and apply some imagination.
Photoshop
CS5 has an easy-to-understand and familiar interface. It has the same
distribution it had in CS4 but with some improvements. For example,
there is a new Mini Bridge, which though it does not have all the
functionality you get out of Bridge, at least now you will not need to
leave Photoshop to use it.
In the digital world, we call anything
that performs some processing “a filter”, and Photoshop has a lot of
them for easy access and use. There are filters for enhancing,
distorting, deforming, adding light or darkness, creating a texture,
rendering, and more. By applying one or more of these filters you can
get better pictures or very “unreal” objects - you can have fun just
finding out what each filter does. A nice one in this version is the
automatic correction lens, useful to eliminate the distortion found in
some pictures.
Photoshop is great for photographers, because it
helps a lot with postproduction with all its restoring and enhancing
tools. We all have these pictures with unwanted people, objects, or with
stains - now it is incredibly easy to take them away with the new
automated tools. Before CS5, it was difficult to select curly fur or
hair, but now complex selections are made easy.
Graphic designers
have always seen Photoshop as their favorite tool. Many people draw
comics or graphic novels, or make conceptual designs employing
Photoshop. There are also new tools for this people - for example, the
extraordinary new paint effects, an improved HDR imaging for amazing
results, or the efficient workflow that allows us to work with different
layers at the same time. All of this gives a great boost to graphic
designers’ productivity rate.
If you want more, you can extent
Photoshop possibilities by adding plug-ins. As Photoshop has become a
standard, its API plug-in is a standard as well. There are lots of
plug-ins that work with any editor, and the great majority of them are
used to add an effect to an image. You can get some from Adobe itself,
either free or by purchase, and there are many more developed by third
parties.
Photoshop is really a good software application, but it
also has some deficiencies. For example, I have always found Photoshop
to be a somehow slow runner - it is as if Adobe never optimizes their
products. The 3D interface was a bit confusing to me and also a bit
slow, even with the OpenGL and GPU acceleration, 1.5 GB are not enough
for Photoshop. It demands at least two, and I got quite a few "Not
enough RAM" messages. Programs such as "Maya" and "3D Studio" from
Autodesk can show tons of verticals, textures, and light sources in the
same machine, while Photoshop has problems displaying simpler objects -
that means that something is wrong.
Photoshop has made a great
impact in our culture, since people say that an image is a "Photoshopped
image" when modified with this program. As soon as you start using it,
you immediately feel comfortable with its environment, its tools and
filters, and you understand why Photoshop has had such a great impact.
When one thinks about editing images, Photoshop is the first option that
comes to mind - it is indeed the best product from Adobe.
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