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Application software Photoshop

Advantages:

Powerful, in many fields, it and Coredraw are the main tools of graphic design, but Photoshop focuses on the various effects of bitmap design, such as digital post-processing and packaging design, including the original image through a variety of filters and other functions to produce effects, as well as mouse painting creation, In the three-dimensional design in the field of post-rendering can not be separated from Photoshop, Web page production to use and flash to use a lot of material also need Photoshop to deal with, Photoshop application of many fields. For example, medicine. Photo processing-Graphic advertising design. Getting started is easy, you can spoof emoticons, fix photos, and the required computer configuration is not a very high disadvantage.

Disadvantages:

The vector aspect is weak. Photoshop occupies a relatively large amount of system resources.

To be proficient is very difficult, very effective process complex.

History of Photoshop

1988, the first official release of PS only 800KB 3.5-inch disc

February 1990, Photoshop1.0 version released.

February 1991, Photoshop2.0 version released.

September 1994, Photoshop3.0 version released.

November 1996 Photoshop4.0 Release

The 4.0 version is still unpublished, and the 5.0 version has been put on the agenda. During the 4.0 release, some of the new features of version 5.0 have begun to be studied and some have been successfully programmed. September 1997, Herasimchuk and another interface designer Katjatimmi and some alpha testers discussed the new features of version 5.0.

May 1998 Photoshop 5.0 officially released. One year after the release of Photoshop 5.5

In September 2000, Photoshop 6.0 was released and improved, and Photoshop was exchanged more smoothly with other adobe tools

Photoshop 6.0 introduces the new "shape" feature. But the real big improvement was in the 7.0 edition of March 2002.

In September 2003, Adobe again brought a surprise to Photoshop users, and the new version of Photoshop no longer continues to be called Photoshop 8.0, which is known as Photoshop Creative Suite, the Photoshop CS

April 4, 2005, the official release of image processing software Photoshop CS Second Edition, the United States and Canada will start the official listing in May.

March 27, 2007, Adobe officially released its latest version of--creative Suite 3, its design software suite. This new release is the largest ever in Adobe's history.

September 23, 2008, Adobe announced the launch of the industry's milestone product--adobe®creative suite®4 product family.

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