Archive for October, 2011

The Development of Adobe Photoshop

October 11th, 2011

Adobe Photoshop is a software standard for many professional graphic artists. It features many powerful tools that can do basic to advanced image manipulation efficiently with outstanding results. Photoshop is one of the prides of Adobe Systems, a company leader in developing graphic applications.

Photoshop is an ideal software in producing great quality output for web designs, advertisements, posters, photography, desktop publishing, and many other graphic works.

The latest development of the product is the Photoshop CS4, which will be released in September 2008. It features more advanced tools for enhancing images.

Features overview:
o Capable of painting directly on 3D graphics
o Wrap 2D images around 3D shapes
o Convert gradient maps to 3D objects
o Give depth to text and layers
o Better print quality output together with the inclusion of latest ray-tracing providing engine
o Supports common 3D formats
o Improved Adjustment and Mask Panels
o Fluid Canvas Rotation
o File display options
o 64 bit compatible

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A Review of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0

October 9th, 2011

Adobe has really pulled out all the stops to come up with a really good photo workflow management tool that is unsurpassed in the market at the moment. I find that managing digital photos and the digital photography ‘workflow’ (i.e. image capture, editing, sharing) is a tedious task.

There are not many software tools out there to help manage your digital photos yet provide in-depth editing capabilities.

Adobe Photoshop Elements provides some capabilities, but it is essentially a ‘lightweight’ program that is more suitable for novices. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 compares well with ACDSee, which is a more ‘prosumer’ image editing and digital photo workflow program.

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