Adobe Photoshop is probably the most well-known photo editing software. Since its beginning in 1988, Photoshop has made leaps and bounds in terms of quality and features. Photoshop 3.0, in 1994, added layers. This revolutionized photo editing and is perhaps the most useful tool in the program. The fifth edition added things like the lasso tool, editable text, and made more advanced creations possible. Photoshop 7.0 brought in vector text, the healing brush, and custom brushes. Under the Creative Suite editions, canvas size increased, automatic alignment, a new UI, and dozens of other features. However, the biggest changes in the past 5 years under Creative Cloud have been a collection of stock images and the pen tool being imported from Illustrator. Photoshop 2020, though, is not part of this series and this decade could be a big one for photo editors.
So, what will happen in the near future regarding Photoshop? Well, some things have already begun. In October, Photoshop 2021 rolled out. Turning photos into GIFs, adding new image filters, automatic colorization of black and white pictures, changing facial features, and combining photos are some of this year's features. These are great, but do they really make up for the past few years? Some useful features that could be added I'd like to see are lower costs, better tutorials for new users, and improvements to existing tools. New tools would be nice to see, but I don't expect any massive features will be added to Photoshop early this decade. In my dream world, we will receive a new UI, more customization, and cool new tools such as one that can blend brush strokes into surrounding pixels to match the color better. We can only hope that this decade is better than the last when it comes to Photoshop features, but at least the program still works. I will keep designing and hoping. Summary
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For most of the first quarter of school and part of the second quarter, I exclusively worked in Adobe Photoshop for school projects. Now, I have begun to use Adobe Illustrator for a couple of projects. They are two similar programs, but they each have their own unique features. In Illustrator, you can't edit online pictures, which is a drawback in my opinion. However, you can easily make shapes and cartoonish artwork, which is fun. In Photoshop, you can't easily make those, but you can edit pictures. Illustrator is more widely used for artwork and logos, while Photoshop is used for photo editing. I can't define one as the superior because they do different things. I prefer working in Photoshop because it seems more magical and realistic. You just can't place your head on the body of Thanos in Adobe Illustrator. Also, Illustrator is a vector program, meaning that there are no pixels, so the program doesn't support JPEG format. If you export it as a JPEG, then the image changes from vector to bitmap, and it can lose some of its original effect. Photoshop naturally converts to JPEG, so no effect is lost in the conversion. Overall, there are some cool things that you can do in Adobe Illustrator, but they don't compare to the fun I have in Adobe Photoshop. There are obviously pros and cons to both programs, so don't go thinking any application is perfect. Nevertheless, I would still almost always choose Photoshop over Illustrator because you can do most of the same things and more things in Photoshop.
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Adobe Photoshop is a magical program that can do everything from distorting images to adding unrealistic elements to a photograph. There are many tools and techniques that can be used to create things in photoshop, but I prefer one in particular. Some tools are the clone stamp, the spot healing brush, the text tool, and the eraser tool. An extremely useful tool is the magic wand tool. It is great for removing backgrounds, transferring images, and much more. However, it is not the most helpful tool. Techniques include a variety of things, including strategies to consider and other tools. The liquify technique is very fun to mess around with, but it is also not my go-to choice for usefulness. In my opinion, the best tool is the brush tool. Although simple, it is magnificently useful and helpful. It can be harder to do certain things with the brush tool than other tools, but you can still do them well. Therefore, if many other tools didn't exist, the brush could potentially take their place instead of having a new tool. The brush tool can paint backgrounds white, color sections a certain way, and even create a whole new vibe of the image. As I mentioned above, the liquify technique is fun to use, although it is not always useful. I would place it as my favorite tool or technique to use because it can distort images so easily and give anyone a good laugh. The brush tool and the liquify technique are definitely great things to use in Adobe Photoshop. They can change an image drastically and help contribute to your final goal.
I have a lot of thoughts on the morality of using Abode Photoshop to enhance appearances of people. Photoshop is used in this way by countless magazines, photographers, and more to make their models look better and I think it is morally wrong. Doing this shows us, citizens of the world, the 'ideal' man or woman, making us depressed and feeling ugly because of these unrealistic and deceiving beauty standards. This method is extremely misleading, but there are times where it is beneficial. For example, many professional photo-shoppers make a living cheering people up by making them look prettier. Also, it's always hilarious to see a face swap with animals or humans; humor is a very widespread way that photoshop is used. I think these two ways are fine as long as they don't go too far. Someone trying to be funny might accidentally offend somebody else, and photoshopping someone to look better so they can post it to social media platforms can hurt others by thinking they aren't pretty enough. This prompts them to hire a photo-shopper and then it happens to someone else. It's a vicious cycle in the world, damaging but also sometimes building up people. A lot of Americans and, really, citizens from all around Earth think this is okay, but I don't. I believe using photoshop to make people appear more attractive is usually wrong and most of the time people should refrain from doing it. Sometimes it can be alright, but most of the time it is malevolent and can make someone very depressed. Summary
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