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Also known as Adobe Photoshop Extended, Display, ImagePro

raster graphics editor with limited vector graphics and 3D graphics editing capabilities

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Developer
Adobe
Image
Photoshop-screenshot.JPG
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Commons category
Adobe Photoshop
IPA transcription
əˈdəʊbɪ ˈfəʊtəʃɒp
topic's main category
Category:Adobe Photoshop
operating system
iPadOS
copyright license
shareware
inception
1990-02-19
software version identifier
27.5
social media followers
718000
language of work or name
multiple languages
official blog URL
blogs.adobe.com/photoshop
short name
Ps
business model
software as a service
publication date
1990-00-00
native label
Adobe Photoshop
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Encyclopedic overview

Adobe Photoshop is a proprietary raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS. It was created in 1987 by Thomas and John Knoll. It is the most used tool for professional digital art, especially in raster graphics editing, and its name has become genericised as a verb (e.g., to "photoshop" an image, "photoshopping", and "photoshop contest") although Adobe disapproves of such use.

Photoshop can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models. Photoshop uses its own PSD and PSB file formats to support these features. In addition to raster graphics, Photoshop has limited abilities to edit or render text and vector graphics (especially through clipping path for the latter), as well as 3D graphics and video. Its feature set can be expanded by plug-ins; programs developed and distributed independently of Photoshop that run inside it and offer new or enhanced features.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adobe Photoshop” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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