All about Photoshop

You may have heard of Adobe Photoshop even if you've never worked with images on your computer. It’s available for both Windows and Mac which is an extremely powerful application that's used by many professional photographers and designers. You can use Photoshop for almost any type of image editing, from touching up photos to creating high-quality graphics.


What is adobe Photoshop ?

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor software developed and published by Adobe Inc. for Windows and macOS. It is the predominant photo editing and manipulation software on the market for image creation.

Use of Photoshop

Photoshop is the most important tool in this digital world. There are various uses like: image editing, retouching, creating image compositions, and adding effects, typographical, graphical, creative, and professional uses of Adobe Photoshop in our daily life. Such as product design, website mockup designs, business card designs, movie poster designs, various types of digital content, branding, advertising and marketing material designs, etc. are common uses of Adobe Photoshop in our daily life.

How to get Photoshop ?

Photoshop is a paid-for image-editing software, but you can download a free version of the software for a seven days trial for both Windows and macOS from Adobe’s website. You can get the full version, at absolutely no cost, which gives you access to all the latest features and updates. You also don't need any card to access the trial.
    
    Downloading free Photoshop in any other way is illegal and definitely not recommended. Not only is it software piracy, it’s also unsafe. You’ll put your machine at risk of viruses and malware; risks that won't exist if you either download the free Photoshop trial, or pay for the software upfront. 
    
    If you're thinking about purchasing or upgrading to the latest version of Adobe Photoshop, there are some important things to consider before you buy. For example, you'll need to learn more about the different purchasing options and choose the version of Photoshop that's right for you.

    To buy Adobe Photoshop proper, you'll need a Creative Cloud membership. There are a number of different options: you can choose a Single App plan, which will give you just Photoshop CC; or a plan that includes more of Adobe’s creative apps.

Working with Photoshop

Tools panel in Photoshop

The Tools panel (shown by mark 1), where you'll be able to select different tools for editing images, is one of the most important features in Photoshop. Once you've chosen a tool, you'll be able to use it with the current document. Also your cursor will change according to the tool to reflect the currently selected tool.
    You can also click and hold over a tool to select different types of that tool. For example, if you click and hold on the Rectangle tool (shown by mark 2) then you will be able to select different Shape tools, like the Rectangle tool, Rounded Rectangle tool, Elliptical Tool, Polygon Tool, Line Tool, and Custom Shape Tool (shown by mark 3) .

Showing and hiding panels

To show or hide any panel, click the Window menu, then click on the desired option panel (currently visible panels are indicated by a check mark)(shown by mark 4).

    You can click on the double arrow given on top right corner(shown by mark 5) to show and hide a panel temporarily.
If you want to get default positions of tool panels then you may go to Windows> Workspace and then select Reset Essential option(shown by mark 6).

Moving Panels

You can move tool panels by clicking and holding on it’s top area(shown by mark 7) and dragging to your desired place as shown in example.

Photoshop-workspace


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