What is Adobe Photoshop ??

 

Existence Of Photoshop

John Knoll, who worked for Industrial Lightand Magic (ILM) at the time,envisioned the possibilities of computer-generated special effects, and decided to experiment with them himself, soliciting his brother Thomas help for his purposes. Together, they invested inan Apple Macintosh II—the first one that supported colour—and began building on an application John had started as a hobby : Display. One thing led to another, and as they added more and more features, Display became Photoshop 1.0, which was released in 1990 on a single floppy disk. While it was a big hit from the beginning itself.

The above image is the screenshot of the first Adobe Photoshop Floppy Disk which i got on the internet.

What does Photoshop Do ?

Photoshop fanatics will probably make convincing arguments about how Photoshop is so awesome it can even cure world hunger, but there’s probably still some time for that. What Photoshop is brilliant at is its original purpose—special effects. Using Photoshop, even the blandest image can be given a new lease on life. It doesn’t end there, though. With its extremely powerful image-editing tools, Photoshop can be used to correct eventhe most disastrous flaws in pictures—from red eyes in photographs to undesirable smears of colour. Image Ready, which comes bundled with Photoshop, offers a host of features you can use for Web graphics—creating animated GIFs, mouse roll-overs, and somevery aggressive compression tools that will ensure your images are the smallest possible size without compromising on their quality.

Source : Fastrack from ThinkDigit.com