Adobe PhotoShop Review - the Best Photo Editing software

Adobe Photoshop CS2
This is my absolute favorite program, I use it all the time for editing photos and graphics.
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X.

Photoshop was created first time in 1988. Since then, it has become the de facto industry standard in raster graphics editing, such that the terms "photoshopping" and "photoshop contest" were born. It can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models including RGB, CMYK, Lab color space (with capital L), spot color and duotone.

Photoshop has vast support for graphic file formats but also uses its own PSD and PSB file formats which support all the aforementioned features. In addition to raster graphics, it has limited abilities to edit or render text, vector graphics (especially through clipping path), 3D graphics and video. Photoshop's featureset can be expanded by Photoshop plug-ins, programs developed and distributed independently of Photoshop that can run inside it and offer new or enhanced features.

GET THIS, highly recommended, I use it all the time. ... and the best thing it's available FREE as a legal download. Adobe actually gives away this awesome program. Why? because this Adobe Photoshop CS2 version, released in 2005, is discontinued and replaced by another program (Adobe Photoshop CC in 2014). I'm sure if you are a professional photographer you want the newest version, however this version CS2 is VERY good.

Photoshop is a revolutionary piece of software that not only changes images, but also changes lives. Photoshop has become the foundation on which many freelance designers make their living, it is a vital piece of kit in any designer’s artists’s tool-belt.

Without Photoshop there would be no impossibly beautiful women plastered on the front of magazines, without Photoshop everyone would be seen as they are, warts and all, and without Photoshop the selfie rebellion might have looked a little different.

That’s not to say that everyone alters their images, but these days it is incredibly common for most people, from well-paid magazine artists, to self-obsessed teenage girls, to use Photoshop on a daily basis.

The most recent versions of Photoshop include a number of 3D modelling improvements and video editing, giving you the same control over your videos that it gave you over your images for many years.

The Adobe Photoshop interface is rich and plentiful, which is one of the reasons why it has become so popular, but at the same time this is one of its few downfalls. Although it has been used by many amateurs across all professions, the interface can be a little confusing to these amateurs at fist. There is a lot going on, a lot to do and a lot to learn about, which often puts the inexperienced user off.

Adobe Photoshop CS2 review in PC Magazine. editor rating: outstanding
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1781938,00.asp