What is photo shop? Explain its features.

Adobe Photoshop is one of the world's leading graphics editing programs, developed by Adobe Systems. Available on Mac OS or PC, Photoshop is used as one of the leading image design programs for the World Wide Web. Photoshop uses a file format called a .PSD or .PDD to store multiple layers of an image. Although Adobe Photoshop is used primarily in doing touch-up for digital photos, it is also used for creating designs for web pages and professional companies. 

Adobe Photoshop was originally created as a convenient and powerful way to retouch photos. Its most basic features include easily cropping and straightening photos that were either scanned ore taken with a digital camera. Under or overexposed photos can be easily rescued with the retouch power. Photos taken in difficult lighting situations can be perfected by a few clicks of a mouse. Filters can be used to make the picture seem old or change to black and white. 

Many web and graphics designers use Photoshop to create and design company logos and advertisements. Built in Photoshop effects and filters can make designing professional logos or advertisements. Text editing has also become easily accessible because of Photoshop

Photoshop-Features:

Layers : With Layers palette, you can draw or design various elements of your document independently in layers and stack them up as per the order of display. With this advantage, control over every single object is catered at the click of a mouse. Mistakes happen, but the effects of the mistake are limited to the part of the canvas, you can choose to work on the particular part and leave the rest of the canvas as it is. This benefit is lacking in the traditional painting method.

Apart of the above merits, a layers palette has grown into a dominating feature along with Photoshop in these years. It comes with layer masks, blending modes, opacity, fill, lock, group and many other options that add more value to the Layer palette. Without Layers palette, the control of Photoshop cannot be imagined today.

Selection Tools: Photoshop’s selection tools are so handy to use that designers worldwide are addicted to the set of selection tools Photoshop offers. Though there are a bunch of competitive software and open source software designed to give tough competition for Photoshop. Users are still stuck with Adobe’s Photoshop software due to the ease its tools provide.

Selection tools make life easy for photographers, Graphic designers and every professional that is associated with multimedia. The precision of selection has been improved over years, and the detail we obtain is fabulous.

The Marquee selection tools: Magic Wand selection that uses pixel color sample and controls the range of color through tolerance. The set of Lasso tools that uses manually, pixel color and hands-free selection process are all intended to serve the purpose of various industries depending on their workflows.

Pen tool: When we look back in time where multimedia software is shipped without a pen tool, we remember the software is nothing more than a bunch of color palettes. Today, Photoshop cannot be imagined without a Pen tool. Though pen tool by nature works for drawing paths along with the anchor points, the creative scope it provides is limitless. The tool is designed so flexibly, that the designer can draw any shape or edit the existing shapes as good as he is using his bare hand. The amount of control we have through placing the anchor points in the right places is taken further with the three types of Anchor points that can allow you to draw and edit paths precisely.

Retouching Tools: As the name itself suggests, Photoshop is a software intended to edit raster images and mostly used for correction of images at the initial stages. As the tides of change hit the technological word, Photoshop has extended to every industry including Print, 3D, The Web and a lot more. But the name remains the same as Photoshop.

Retouching tools are an accumulation of various tools such as Stamp tool, Pattern Stamp tool, Spot Healing tool, Healing tool, Patch tool, Redeye tool and much more. Though the numbers are more, every tool has its importance. The tools were proved highly helpful for the lasting problems that are facing photographers. Tools like Redeye, patch tool and healing tools came so much handy for graphic designers and photographers that they brought down the manual work for almost hundred percent. The manual work which was carefully done for a long time was simply managed in a click and drag.

Photoshop 3D: The attribute that made Photoshop the number one multimedia and Graphic designing product in the world is its quick adaptability to the changing technologies. Adobe has proved this time and time again in the last two decades.

When Adobe understood the world is moving towards the web technology, they are quick in finding solutions that are badly needed for the web industry. Equally in the recent years when there is a boom for the 3D Industry, Adobe found the right spot.