Adobe Photoshop

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If we asked you to name an image editing software, I think that Adobe Photoshop would be the first answer from the vast majority of you. For the most basic tasks as well as for the most demanding, it has become an essential tool. We are going to make a concrete point on some of the functionalities of the software and on what Adobe Photoshop can bring to you…

But let’s start with the presentations… Adobe Photoshop is a software for graphic design and computer-assisted image processing created in 1990. It is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of software (see our Adobe Creative Cloud suite article for more information), but is also available as an individual license for those who don’t need the full suite. You can get Photoshop in a version that is compatible with your computer, whether it’s running Windows or macOS, and now also for your iPad. Finally, a free lightweight version called Photoshop Express is available for mobile devices for Android and iOS systems as well as on the Microsoft Store.

Adobe Photoshop is today a complete tool allowing you to retouch photos but also to practice digital painting or create animation effects. If you’re on iPad, you can control your retouching and painting with a stylus with your fingertips. When it comes to photo editing, if it’s simply a matter of cropping or correcting colors or edges, we’ll probably prefer its twin brother, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (see our Adobe Photoshop Lightroom article for more information), which is better suited to this type of task. Unlike Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop allows you to work on raster images, i.e. images composed of pixels (see our article DTP for more information on raster images).

Do you want to make certain elements of an image disappear, combine several of them or create effects ? Thanks to Photoshop, it’s possible. Photoshop always provides you with the simplest tools to create and insert geometric shapes such as rectangles or ellipses into your compositions. You can also draw freehand with a pencil or brush and create regular curves with the pen tool also found in Illustrator. Photoshop of course allows you to insert text or gradients into your image, which you can customize as you wish. You will also find the layer and mask tools that allow you to easily remove elements from your image, modify their display parameters separately, change their order of superimposition or add effects.

Photoshop is no exception among Adobe products, leveraging the artificial intelligence of Adobe Sensei (see our article Adobe Sensei, artificial intelligence to serve creation for more information) to provide you with an intelligent selection tool. If you want to select an object with complex contours, a rough selection on your part to indicate the object to Sensei should be sufficient to allow him to make a highly accurate selection on his own.

Finally, by storing and synchronizing projects in the cloud, Adobe Photoshop lets you start a project on your iPad and finish it on your computer and vice versa. Your files are accessible where you want them and when you want them on all your devices.