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Software for Digital Image Editing

By: David Peters

In today's market there is one image-editing software that stands out above the rest. The program is Photoshop and it is easy to understand its appeal due to the amazingly high performance effects offered and the ease with which they are used. Photoshop offers the ability to perform all of your graphic editing needs with only a few simple clicks and in a fraction of the time that it would have taken most other programs.

Photoshop does come with a price tag that some may consider high, especially when there are freeware editors available, but with the wide expanse of features it offers, it is considered a vital program for anyone working with any graphics medium from print to the web and even to movies and television.

This has led to a huge number of cheaper competitors (who have been largely ignored), as well as rampant piracy of Photoshop itself. To counter this, a cheaper, simpler version of Photoshop called Photoshop Elements is now available, which is especially good for beginners.

How exactly did the Photoshop phenomenon begin? Photoshop development started in 1987 and was first introduced on the market in 1990. Adobe has continued to nurture and develop this product since, continuously implementing the advances in hardware power. Still today, to get the most from Photoshop, you should use purchase as much RAM as your budget will allow.

Adobe's hard work has not been the only factor in Photoshop being where it is today. The program's plugin design has allowed there to be are all types of plugins existing for more complex work, as well as some plugins that in reality cost more and do more than the program itself.

In this way, Photoshop is often used much like Windows, as a platform - and it would be a huge effort to get these plugins to run on any other software, making competitors effectively useless to anyone who relies on a plugin.

Photoshop for Windows and Mac OS (both OS 9 and OS X) are available today. For those wanting to use it on Linux, you will have to use Crossover Office, Codeweavers' program that permits some Windows software to operate on Linux, but it will be quite slow.

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