ABOUT:

Adobe Photoshop  is the industry standard for photo editing and manipulation. It is by far the most featured out of all the Adobe products, and contains tools to do just about everything with any type of image. Adobe provides wide-span use of Photoshop in mobile, tablet, and desktop PCs and Macs. A wide variety of tutorials can be found anywhere on the Internet to make presentation media seem professional, creative, and expressive.

Supported

PC, Mac, tablet, and smartphones

Pros

• Edit any image of any type to produce quality images
• Variety of features
• Industry Standard
• Integration with the rest of the Adobe Suite

Cons

• Advanced techniques are somewhat hard to use
• Pixels (Photoshop is raster software) are difficult to work with sometimes
• There is a learning curve – you will likely need tutorials to learn Photoshop.

Examples

Tablet to PC integration is a very useful Photoshop feature for any inspiration to follow your way.

Uses

Most uses of Photoshop include assets for web design, image manipulation for flyers, posters, and other types of paper media, and fixing up images in post-processing for photography. Note that Adobe Lightroom is commonly used with Photoshop to achieve dynamic lighting situations, and is included in the purchase of the CC version of Photoshop from Adobe.