Adobe Photoshop Overview

Adobe Photoshop software lets you create original artwork, correct color, retouch and composite scanned images, and prepare professional-quality separations and output with more flexibility than ever before.

Close your eyes. Now picture that image -- the one you've been wanting to create for a long time. And imagine the ability to create and produce it right from your desktop. Because now it's possible with Adobe Photoshop software, the award-winning, industry-standard program for desktop image design and production.

For designers, Adobe Photoshop provides unlimited creative options. Start with a blank screen or scan an image directly into the program. Then create separate layers -- much like transparent "sheets of acetate" -- on which you can combine graphic elements, and paint and edit without changing the original background image. Add color, change it or take it away. Import Adobe Illustrator files. Choose from more than 40 filters to generate dazzling special effects. And export all or part of an image to a page layout program.

For photographers, Adobe Photoshop opens up a new world of flexibility and control for processing and enhancing images. With a complete set of tools for color correction, retouching, dodging and burning, saturating and desaturating color, masking, lighting effects and more, you can quickly composite diverse scenes and create dazzling special effects.

For service bureaus and prepress professionals, Adobe Photoshop rivals the capabilities of dedicated, high-end prepress systems at a fraction of the cost. Scan, correct and separate continuous tone images. View a CMYK "soft proof" of an image while in RGB mode. Perform on-screen color editing in CMYK mode. Easily preview out-of-gamut colors. Selectively replace colors and precisely adjust the amount of ink on a given color plate. And generate high-quality monotones, duotones, tritones and quadtones.

Whether you work in the Macintosh or Windows environment, Adobe Photoshop provides the same professional feature set and file format. So you can freely exchange files between platforms. The program runs native on Power Macintosh and takes full advantage of the latest operating system enhancements for Windows. Adobe Photoshop comes with a Deluxe CD-ROM in addition to a high-density disk set.

Adobe Photoshop. No matter how you look at, it's a camera for your mind.

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