Photoshop Software & its History

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.

 Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the12th major release of Adobe Photoshop.


The newest version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 software redefines digital imaging with breakthrough tools for photography editing, superior image selections, realistic painting, and more. And now, use it with creativity-boosting mobile apps.

This one is the Oldest Photoshop Program.

Version History of Photoshop

• Photoshop 1:- The first release of Photoshop was successful despite some bugs, which were fixed in subsequent updates.                      
• Photoshop 2:- Photoshop 2 (1991.06). Photoshop 2.0 added support for paths, which allow the user to create and manipulate line based drawings.
• Photoshop 2.5:- Photoshop 2.5(1992.11) Photoshop 2.5 was the first version to support Microsoft Windows; in November 1993 IRIX and Solaris support was also added.
• Photoshop 3:- (1994.09) Layers allow the user to isolate different parts of the image onto different layers.  
• Photoshop 4:- Photoshop 4.0 (1996.11) Solaris and IRIX support discontinued. New features introduced in 4.0 were Adjustment layers and macros.
• Photoshop 5:- Photoshop 5.0 (1998.05) added editable type, the history palette, colour management, and the magnetic lasso tool.
• Photoshop 5.5:- Photoshop 5.5 (1999.02) was the first version of Photoshop to be bundled with ImageReady. It also made the addition of the the Save for Web feature and the extract filter.
• Photoshop 6:-Photoshop 6.0 (2000.09) updated the interface and added vector shapes, the liquify filter, and the layer styles dialogue box.
• Photoshop 7:- Photoshop 7.0 (2002.03) was the first version with Mac OS X support. Photoshop 7.0 made text fully vector, added the healing brush, and updated the painting engine.
• Photoshop 8/CS:- (View) Photoshop 8/CS (2003.11) discontinued support for Mac OS 9. New features in Photoshop 8 are the lens blur filter, Camera RAW 2.x, the Shadow/Highlight command, Smart guides, a real-time histogram, a highly modified slice tool, the match colour command, Macrovision copy protection, scripting support for Javascript and other languages, and the ability to detect and block images of banknotes.
• Photoshop 9/CS2:- Photoshop 9.0 and 9.02/CS2 (2005.02) introduced Smart objects, Image warp, the spot healing brush, the red eye tool, the lens correction filter, smart sharpen, smart guides, Camera 3.x, vanishing point, HDRI (high dynamic range imaging) support, extra smudging options like scattering and improved layer selection which added the ability to select multiple layers. Memory management for 64-bit powerPC G5s was the only major improvement in performance over previous versions
• Photoshop 10/CS3:- Photoshop 10/CS3 (2007.04.16) added native support for Intel Macs and improved launch times over previous versions. Photoshop CS3 no longer includes ImageReady, a program that had been bundled with Photoshop since version 5. Improvements in Photoshop CS3 include the Quick Select tool, smart filters, improvements to cloning and healing, Auto Align and Auto Heal, more complete HDRI support, a revised user interface, black and white conversion adjustment, mobile device graphic optimization, Alterations to Curves, Vanishing Point, Channel Mixer, Brightness and Contrast, and the Print dialog.
• Photoshop CS4:- Photoshop CS4 is the 11th version of Adobe's venerable and industry-standard imaging application. It's hard to imagine that Adobe can continue to make large changes to Photoshop.
• Photoshop CS5:- (Latest one)Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the12th major release of Adobe Photoshop.

About Windows 8

Microsoft's upcoming operating system has a dual personality: one for businesses and one for consumers.

Windows 8 Review

                Windows 8 Operating System is not like the previous versions of Windows; Microsoft has taken a different path with this operating system. The new interface has had a complete revamp. One of the biggest things about Windows 8 is the Metro interface that gives you a modular design when viewing apps and programs that you want to access. The Metro UI has moved beyond the Windows Phone experience, and became the standard interface for just about any Microsoft product.

                Upon its initial release Windows 8 did not gain much popularity. The start button that had been part of Windows since 1995, is absent in Windows 8. Instead, if you want to view applications and programs, you must click to the bottom left corner of the screen where the start button used to be or simply press the start button on the keyboard. This new feature and Metro UI were, in case of some people, few setbacks of Windows 8.

Windows 8 also brought touch to the desktop, a feature which previously has only been confined to the smartphones. Although it is a great feature, touch still isn’t the primary means of interacting with a notebook.