Adobe+Photoshop

= Adobe Photoshop =

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program designed and sold by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Now in its 21st year of production, Photoshop remains the industry standard for graphics programs, and the incorporation of the "creative suites" or CS allows Adobe to sell combined programs at a reduced price. Among its many capablities are functions such as Originally intended for Mac users only, Photoshop now works with Windows and Linux as well. Its CS variations are now up to CS5, released in 2010.
 * image correction
 * color, contrast, and tone control
 * editing and enhancing images by resizing, removing unwanted "noise," and image replacement
 * using the painting and drawing toolset to subtract, add, or enhance images as a "digital canvas."

History
Photoshop's interesting history began with two brothers, John and Thomas Knoll, working out of their father's darkroom in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After acquiring a Macintosh in 1987, Thomas realized that gray-scale images could not be displayed on the computer's monochrome display. To work around this, he and John began building systems of image-programming that eventually culminated in the application, "Display." After tinkering again with the program, they started shopping around "ImagePro" in 1988. Despite being turned down in Silicon Valley, a company named BarneyScan was interested enough to distribute what was now called "Photoshop" with their own slide scanners. Eventually, Adobe became ennamored with the product and agreed to a license. Photoshop 1.0 was shipped out in February 1990.

**References**
Adobe CS5 Features (2011). Retrieved from http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/features.html

Story, Derrick (2000). From darkroom to desktop—how Photoshop came to light. Retrieved from http://www.storyphoto.com/multimedia/multimedia_photoshop.html