It's used to edit photos.
Simply put, to edit photos.
Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as "an industry standard for graphics professionals" and was one of the early "killer applications" on the Macintosh, later also for MS Windows.
Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS4 is the 11th major release of Adobe Photoshop. The CS rebranding also resulted in Adobe offering numerous software packages containing multiple Adobe programs for a reduced price. Adobe Photoshop is included in most of Adobe's Creative Suite offerings.
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To edit and manipulate pictures, it has most of Photoshop features.
You can save Lab images in PSD, PSB, Photoshop EPS, Photoshop PDF, Photoshop Raw, TIFF, Photoshop DCS 1.0, and Photoshop DCS 2.0 formats.
Photoshop can be used to create animated GIF pictures from a sequence of images, however, cannot be used to create 3D animations or animated videos, Photoshop is only for image editing.
The most commonly used features in adobe photoshop is the editing tools for pictures.
You can rank your images in Photoshop Bridge, which is program for searching images on computer, adding tags, ranking and so on. Photoshop Bridge comes with Photoshop, so if you have Photoshop installed you have and Bridge. See related link.
Photoshop is a commonly used professional image editing software. I would recommend this.
There is no such option in Photoshop. If you mean Vector Photoshop shapes then the shapes can be used for infinite things in Photoshop such as layers, masks, as frames, as a source for selections, as a source for actual brushes, for patterns, for exporting to other applications, used in shape blurs, used as cookie cutters in Photoshop elements. Illustrator vector brushes exist as do expression and Xara vector brushes and many others but sadly, as yet, Photoshop has no vector format brushes.
Image editing
Everywhere in the World, Photoshop is best image manipulation software and can be used for wide variety of tasks: printing, web, design..
Yes it does. I've even used Photoshop 7 on an Intel core.
Photoshop is one such tool for that. Pixlr is another tool which can be used like Photoshop.
Yes there are several programs available. Photoshop can be used everywhere.