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Kiersten Meehan, Adobe Photoshop

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Research Report: Adobe Photoshop

 

By Kiersten Meehan, Sensory Analysis Team

 

                                                                                     Adobe Photoshop

 

Abstract:

            Adobe Photoshop, developed by Adobe Systems (Shantanu Narayen being the CEO), is an online image editing and design engine, which consists of multiple packages (available in over 20 different languages) capable of serving a wide variety of editing purposes. It is a project-friendly space that facilitates analytical projects such as those that specifically involve technologically based literary interpretative methods.     

 

Description:

            Adobe Photoshop is a computer-based graphic design tool providing its users with an uncomplicated photo or video editing system. Adobe Photoshop is especially ideal for photographers, print designers, web designers, interactive designers, business executives with visual presentations and video professionals. It is also effective and beneficial to hobbyists such as photography or video enthusiasts as well as for less serious purposes such as casual design projects, family memorabilia, or the restoration of old/damaged photos. Its many practical and easy-to-use features allow one to adjust, distort and share images any way the user pleases. With a 4.5 star rating (out of 5), which is displayed on its informational website, Adobe Photoshop is seemingly appraised by many users and provides satisfying results. Not only does this program include the standard editing mechanisms such as cropping or retouching but it also has many other impressively advanced tools. Some the program’s most notable attributes include, but are not limited to, its 3D video/picture editing, texture options and project management components.

            Adobe Photoshop’s 3D editing features and associated tools provide a variety of options when it comes to modifying or enhancing images. For instance, it administers the adding or reducing of shadows as well as editing scene illumination and other lighting aspects of the image. Similarly, specific coloring (ex: filters) and shaping (ex: rounding edges, stroke application) can be changed according to the user’s preference as well. Regarding such features, multi-layering/multi-path selection tools allow for even complex images to be modified in an effective but simple fashion. Another convenient component is the ‘intelligent upsampling’ option, which facilitates the enlarging of an image without injuring the image’s original clarity. It is also important to note that this 3D editing program does all this in a nondestructive fashion allowing for the original image to remain intact and for all changes to be entirely reversible (even after pushing ‘save’).

            Another useful aspect of Adobe Photoshop is that it provides tools for ‘texture’ application and editing. The sharpness of an image or video can easily be modified, which is especially convenient when it comes to shake reduction. This is often caused by slow shutter speed, long focal length, inadequate camera quality, the motion provided by the subject itself or an unsteady hand. This set of tools therefore counters the many limiting adversities photographers/designers often face. On the other side of the spectrum, blur effects are also available. It allows its user to blur many aspects of the image while also giving the option to perhaps sharpen a specific focal point or maybe even bloat, magnify or liquefy certain elements of the work. All of these modifications are also applied in a nondestructive manner.

            Adobe Photoshop also comes equipped with many unique mechanisms that facilitate project building. An explicit example of this would certainly include its auto-save and auto-recovery controls. This element of the program actually saves and stores all changes automatically, reducing loss of files or interruption in progress. Adobe Photoshop also provides many sharing/publishing options, flexible enough to benefit just about any user and for a wide-variety of different projects. The program’s various already-made template options are yet another beneficial factor when it comes to projects or presentations. Lastly, Adobe Photoshop provides in-depth tutorials regarding each and every one of its tools for better understanding and use.   

 

Statement of Relevance:

            More specifically speaking, Adobe Photoshop serves to be especially utile for analytical projects involving pictorial representations of literary texts. Projects of such a unique quality require certain literary characteristics to be properly funneled into each respective image. This program will allow for literary elements such as tone or mood to be conveyed properly. This will be specifically done through many of the program’s tools previously described, such as coloring/filtering options or shadowing and lighting adjustment controls. Important subject matter as well as key themes found in the text can be enhanced or made more apparent through Photoshop’s blurring/sharpening effects. It will also allow analysts to combine different textual concepts or ideas through layering options. Punctuational aspects, such as questioning or line breaks, are also possible to incorporate through Adobe’s stroke applications. The ‘project friendly’ qualities will also come into play by contributing to the organization of the overall project through its numerous templates and sharing options. Overall, Adobe Photoshop fundamentally serves as a medium to make projects like these not only possible but as effective as they possibly can be. It proves to be a necessary tool when trying to replicate literary intricacies accurately, aesthetically and creatively. Without many of these editing options, the purpose behind a project like this (comparing sensory interpretation to literary interpretation) and its results might be distorted or unreliable, thus unfortunately compensating the project’s overall credibility. All in all, Adobe Photoshop’s photo editing software proves to be quite competent for projects such as these.

           

Other related sources that would potentially further an analytical project such as this include:

Adobe Illustrator

Narayen, Shantanu. “Adobe Illustrator”, AdobeSystems, n.d., Web. 18 Nov 2013. <http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html>

Adobe Dreamweaver

Narayen, Shantanu. “Adobe Dreamweaver”, AdobeSystems, n.d., Web. 18 Nov 2013. <http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html>.

           

            Sources:

            Adobe Photoshop

Narayen, Shantanu. “Adobe Photoshop CC”, AdobeSystems, n.d., Web. 18 Nov 2013. <www.adobe.com/photoshop>.

 

 

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