Photoshop is a graphics program developed by Adobe Systems, Inc for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Photoshop is used to design and edit photographic images. It is the image-editing tool choice for most designers and publishers and allows you to manipulate pictures and create special effects.You can build complex images from many single images and recolor, retouch, and remove images from their backgrounds.

It is her grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary, and Tina wants to design a personalized greeting card for them. She has some very creative ideas, which she plans to implement with Adobe Photoshop.

What is Photoshop all about?

Photoshop is the most powerful image editing software, developed by Adobe Systems, Inc. for both Windows and Macintosh platforms. It has an intuitive and user-friendly interface that makes it very easy to work with this complicated program. This makes it immensely popular with graphic designers, web designers, photography professionals, architects, artistes, as well as hobbyists.

The Photoshop Workspace

A Welcome screen appears when you launch Photoshop. At this point, you can refer to the Tutorials to master the Photoshop techniques.

If you do not want to see this screen every time you launch the program, simply uncheck the "Show this dialog at start up".

After launching Photoshop, Tina reaches the working space. Here she sees a palette, plus the other tools. Let's look at them one at a time.