"Photoshop" - the most famous graphic editor. The best assistant to artists, photographers, designers and just creative people. In this article, we offer the reader a closer look at this program: find out the types of Photoshop, the types of processing in this program, the styles used, and commonly used tools. So you can choose the most suitable kind of graphics editor.
"Photoshop 1.0"
This type of "Photoshop" is the starting version of the program. I saw the light in 1990. Functionally, it closely resembled the well-known Windows application, Paint. But for its time it was a fairly "advanced" program.
Since then, developers have tried every year to release a more advanced version of their product, to supply it with new useful tools.
"Photoshop 7.0"
This kind of "Photoshop" came out in 2002. He was distinguished by the presence of an important tool - "Brush recovery". Also here, the user already had the opportunity to adapt the desktop of the program to his needs.
The version for both Windows and Mac OS has been released.
"Photoshop 8.0"
The peculiarity of this type of "Photoshop" is the first CS version. It was she who gave rise to a number of developments in this series. In particular, the program supported scripts and the ability to work with several layers of the image, to combine them into groups.
CS2 Version
This kind of "Photoshop" in the photo for the first time allowed to remove the effect of "red eyes". Some changes have touched the control panel, the location of the tools on it.
CS3 Version
This type of "Photoshop" from the list was characterized by a more accelerated process of loading the start window. In general, users noted increased program performance.
The novelty was released in 2007. It was adapted for Windows Vista, but it also worked very well with Windows 7. In addition, the developers adapted it to work with portable devices.
"Photoshop SS 2014"
We can say that with this version begins a new era of Photoshop. The fact is that in 2014, Adobe released large-scale updates for its products. Including for "Photoshop".
The new version began to run even faster, although it was loaded with additional features and effects. But at the same time, it began to “eat” much more RAM - by 30-60 MB.
The settings for the toolbar and desktop have changed. In particular, windows have become more compact, fonts are more convenient.
We list the main advantages:
- Continuous display of the Advanced window regardless of the operating mode.
- Instant tracking of the distance between the selected objects, the borders of the picture.
- Tooltips appear while copying objects.
- Font search, instant display of the font on the object.
- Ability to embed PNG files with a weight of up to 2 GB.
- Adding new types of blur and so on.
"Photoshop SS 2015"
Development saw the light, respectively, in 2015. She was distinguished by the following:
- Speeding up the launch of the program, working with images.
- Implementation of Designe Space. The tool allows you to work with a large set of tools, but at the same time perform fewer mouse movements.
- Access to your own database of stock images from the developer.
- Change of design.
- Simplified file export.
- Updated Creative Cloude.
- Adding additional styles to object layers and so on.
The difference between CS and SS
Creative Suite is an older version of the famous graphic editor. In particular, it does not support working with some modern plugins, cloud storage. But it is compatible with mobile devices, it has an updated set of tools for intellectual correction of objects.
Creative Cloud, on the other hand, supports cloud storage. The version also allows you to synchronize work on a project between a computer and a mobile device. Additional codecs are added, the program supports more plugins and formats.
"Online Photoshop"
"Photoshop" is a rather "weighty" program, which is also presented only in a paid version. An excellent alternative would be the online version of the program. In this case, you upload the photo to an Internet resource, where you can also work with it without installing bulky software on your computer.
The famous Russian-language editor is online-fotoshop.ru. Externally, the desktop toolbar is similar to the Adobe product window. However, the online version has more modest functionality.
Varieties of processing in the program
Of course, today there are a lot of types of processing in Photoshop. We can say that each author has his own unique. However, we will highlight the types of art in Photoshop, which have the greatest popularity:
- Glamor. Luxurious and brilliant style. The best features of the image are emphasized, and the flaws are masterfully hidden.
- Fashion. Fashion photos. The main task is to highlight accessories, nuances of model clothes, jewelry. A gentle image is created, in the course of light pastel colors, natural shades and so on.
- Vogue. As if you see the front cover of a glossy magazine. Soft colors and shades are preferred.
- Beauty. Processing is typical for portraits, close-up photographs. The features of the facial features of the model, her makeup are emphasized.
- High Key. Delicate, aerial shots. The retoucher finally displays an almost snow-white image with grayish, bluish halftones.
- Low key On the contrary, these are artworks in dark, almost black tones with a minimum of light. Contrasting work to enhance the silhouette.
- Instagram. Processing in a trendy style of a popular social network - with a color scheme distorted at the request of the customer, avoiding natural shades.
- "Grunge". The so-called rebellious style. Contrast, with blurry contours, muted shades, contaminated textures.
- Swag. Defiant, vibrant processing, like the images in the photo. The emphasis is on model poses, jewelry, and luxurious outfits.
- "Club style". Bright and positive photos from parties, night clubs, with the imposition of special effects.
- "Pop Art". The stylization for the work of artists working in this style is the removal of small details, deliberate brightness, color spots.
- Esquire Processing for business photos of successful gentlemen. Aged blur, glare of light. Much attention is paid to giving expressiveness to the eyes of the model.
- Pin-up. "Advertising" processing in the style of once popular postcards with female images.
- "Retro". Stylization of a modern picture to an old one: soft colors, sepia or b / w, stylized scuffs and scratches.
- "Vintage". The emphasis is on the romantic image and elements of exquisite luxury.
- Fantasy. Turning photography into fantastic art, a picture with your own world.
- "Vanilla". Popular for romantic and wedding photos. Giving the image softness, using beige, pinkish tones.
- "Street photography." The emphasis is on the naturalness of the image.
- "Pencil drawing." The photo is more like a sketch, a sketch.
Layer styles
Imagine the types of styles in Photoshop:
- Stroke The layer is surrounded by color, gradient, color transition. Useful when working with objects that have sharp boundaries. For example, with text.
- Shadow. Adds a shadow to the contents of the layer.
- Inner shadow. Creating the effect of the so-called "flooded frame" - the shadows here will be cast inside the image.
- External glow. A light source located outside the boundaries of the working layer is added.
- Inner glow. A light source located inside the working layer is added.
- Embossing. This style adds a combination of dimming and highlighting to the working layer.
- Gloss. Adding a special internal dimming, creating a kind of glossy effect.
- Overlay gradient, color, pattern.
Styles in Photoshop can be adjusted using the following options:
- Height.
- Angle.
- Blend Modes.
- Smoothing.
- Color.
- Circuit.
- Pull off.
- Bias.
- Global coverage.
- Depth.
- Gradient.
- Gloss contour.
- The wobble.
- Knocking out a layer of falling shadow.
- Noise.
- Dimming and backlight mode.
- Pattern.
- Opacity.
- Position.
- Softening.
- A source.
- Style.
- Scope.
- Method.
- Texture.
Color fill
To achieve the desired result, working in Photoshop with color, it is important to decide on a tool such as Fill and adjust it correctly.
There are two types of fillings in Photoshop - they are hidden behind the icon "A bucket with a drop":
- "Fill". Simple overlay of color, tint. Suitable for drawing patterns, geometric shapes. This is the shading of backgrounds and objects, as well as a way of depicting abstract lines and pictures.
- "Gradient". The same fill, only a few colors seamlessly fading into each other. Thanks to this tool, the borders between the shades in the image are almost invisible. They emphasize the outline of the borders and color transitions.
Fill in Photoshop can be additionally configured:
- Determining the source of the fill.
- Pattern fill.
- Fill mode.
- Transparency fill.
- Tolerance
- Smoothing.
- Application to all layers.
Blur gallery
In this section, we look at the types of blur in Photoshop:
- Blur on the field. This implies the creation of gradient blur. Defined by gradient points that have a certain degree of blur. It is possible to add several “pins” to the photo and determine the blur level for each of them.
- Aperture Blur. What it is? Simulation of shooting at shallow depth of field. You can add multiple focus points, which is not possible with real photography.
- Tilt shift. This kind of blur in a graphic editor imitates the effect obtained using a shift lens. A high-sharpness area is determined, smoothed to the edges of the selected area. Thus, you can simulate photographing miniature objects.
- Blur contour. A curious effect with which you can create motion blur along the contour. I must say that "Photoshop" will automatically combine the effect of several such blurry applied to a single image.
- Blur rotation. This and rotation, and blur the image along one or more specified points. You can adjust the center point, shape, blur size and other parameters.
This concludes our acquaintance with one of the most famous graphic editors, offering great opportunities for the retoucher, and for the designer, and for the artist. We hope that you will continue to get to know him in your work!