Knowra Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor for editing, compositing, and creating digital images. Its layered workflow and extensive selection, masking, and retouching tools make it a standard for image manipulation.
Raster graphics : Digital images represented as grids of colored pixels. Photoshop edits pixel-based images directly, unlike editors built around geometric paths.
Photo retouching : The correction or alteration of photographs to improve appearance or remove unwanted details. Photoshop is widely used to repair, reshape, and refine photographic images.
Adobe Illustrator : Adobe’s vector graphics editor for creating scalable illustrations, typography, and logos. Illustrator edits resolution-independent paths, while Photoshop primarily edits pixel grids.
Thomas Knoll : An American software engineer who co-created Adobe Photoshop with his brother John Knoll. Thomas Knoll began the image-processing software that became Photoshop.
Digital imaging : The capture, processing, storage, and display of images in digital form. Photoshop helped make extensive post-capture image editing a routine part of digital imaging.
Layers (digital image editing) : Stacked image components that can be edited and displayed independently in a composite. Layers let Photoshop users combine and revise image elements without flattening them.
Digital compositing : The combination of visual elements from separate sources into one image. Photoshop layers and masks let artists assemble images from multiple sources.
GIMP : A free, open-source raster graphics editor for image manipulation and painting. GIMP offers many comparable raster-editing operations without Photoshop’s proprietary licensing.
John Knoll : An American visual-effects supervisor and software developer who co-created Adobe Photoshop. John Knoll helped turn his brother’s image utility into a commercial graphics editor.
Image manipulation : The alteration of images through editing, transformation, or recombination. Photoshop’s name became closely associated with the broader practice of image manipulation.
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