Adobe Photoshop is a program designed to alter photos and images. The program can also be used to create images and logos. Photoshop consists of tools that can be used to remove certain parts of images or photos and tools that can be used to add or alter the images.
The effects that can be utilised in Photoshop make it a versatile program, but some of the names of the effects can make it hard to understand what exactly the effect does to the image. The program is ideal for changing photos in a way that improves it, like changing the colour balance or removing red-eyes and other things that compromises the quality of the photo. If there is something that is not on the photo you can easily add it.
The layers that can be used in Photoshop make it easy to create new images and to alter those images afterwards. Layers simplifies the process by allowing you to view the image with and without the altercations that you have made. Layers can also be used to add colours to the photo that was not there before and can effects can be added and removed using layers. Sometimes, when layers are not named correctly, it is difficult to distinguish between which layer contains which images.
Flaws in photos can be removed using the clone stamp and healing brush tools. This allows you to utilise another part of the photo that is similar to the part with the flaw to paint over the part that you want to remove. Something that bothers me about Photoshop is that while you can add or remove parts of the photo it rarely looks 'real' in that you can see that the image is altered and it is very difficult to make not make the image look altered. To make an image that looks like it is the original takes a lot of time and effort that not everyone is willing to make.
A thing that I really like about Photoshop is that if the problem that you have with a image is small like you want to remove something that is in the middle of an environment that looks the same it is easy to remove. You can also vastly improve a photo by making the colours more vibrant.
You can also add and alter text with Photoshop. Something that I enjoy is adding the text to a path. This means that you can make text that does not run in a straight line but text that can be written in different shapes. You can also add masks to objects or to text. This allows you to make an image on top of another image or pattern and then make the pattern part of the image by locking them together. It is sometimes difficult to create a sufficient mask when the layers are not ordered correctly.
Overall Photoshop is a great program for altering or creating and editing images. Photoshop is easy to use and has a good setup for beginners.
