Edit and Enhance

By Sarah Jane Udall
Columnist

With groundbreaking tools, Photoshop allows you to be more efficient, and more creative than ever in your design work.

Introduction to Photoshop

Photoshop is one of the newest and trendiest software programs currently used in graphic design. Nearly everyone ranging from beginners, to experienced graphic designers is using Photoshop to edit and enhance their design work. Photoshop is a computer graphics editing program that was developed and published by Adobe Systems. Photoshop is the market leader for computer graphic image manipulation, and probably the most well known and widely used piece of software among graphic designers, as well as other professionals such as photographers, interior designers, and engineers. With groundbreaking creative tools, such as more efficient editing, processing, and file handling, Photoshop provides you with unprecedented possibilities in graphic design work, allowing you to create your best work in less time.

Before you begin a training course in learning to use Photoshop, you should already have a basic understanding of graphic design concepts, and computer-aided design software. A training course in Photoshop will teach you how to manipulate and customize images using different prescribed tools and techniques, and do such things as create compositions of several layers, design graphics with high resolution, manage color at the pixel level, or manipulate digital images.

Conclusion

Photoshop has been helping graphic designers bring their visions to life through advertisements, magazine layouts, billboards, logs, and just about every other multi-media medium. Although primarily designed to edit images for print, Photoshop is being used increasingly to produce images for the Web, and more recent versions of Photoshop include more specialized tools for this purpose. Today, Photoshop is becoming even more well known and widely used than ever because it delivers a broader scope of tools for a graphic designer. Knowledge of Photoshop can provide proof of your skills in graphic design, and will ensure clients of your ability to do the job they require. As a graphic designer using Photoshop, you will be a part of the massive movement in graphic design into the broader use of this popular product.

Author Bio

Sarah Jane Udall is a freelance writer currently living in New York City. Her previous experience includes working for Global Village Communications in Washington, D.C., and in the Creative and Development departments of VH1 and MTV networks as a production assistant, and a copywriter, as well as doing script revision, press releases, and writing for an online newspaper. Sarah Jane holds a B.S. in Political Science and English Literature from the University of Utah.

Posted on: January 27, 2006

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