ASSIGNMENT #1

Information technology in
business

Name: syed salman mohiuddin
Section: c
Topic: Adobe photoshop
Date: 07-03-13
Submitted to: Dr saad azhar





Contents
Q1 :What is the main purpose of adobe Photoshop? ................ 3
Q2: History of adobe photoshop and versions available? .......... 3
Q3: Licensing of photoshop? ...................................................... 6
Q4: price range of photoshop?? ............................................. 6
Q5: Other similar softwares serving the same purpose as
photoshop? ................................................................................. 6
GIMP: 6
GIMP stands for GNU image manipulation program, and it
is one of the oldest and most well known alternatives to
Photoshop in existence 6
Krita: 7
Krita has been lauded for ease of use and won the Akademy
Award for Best Application in 2006 7
Paint.NET 7
Q6: Advantages over other softwares of photoshop? ................ 7





Q1 :What is the main purpose of adobe Photoshop?
Answer:
Photoshop is a graphics and image editing program by Adobe Systems. It is what most professionals
consider to be the leader and industry standard in commercial and personal image manipulation. It is
used to manipulate or enhance digital photographs and to create original digital artwork.

Q2: History of adobe photoshop and versions available?
Answer:
In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, found out that his new Mac Plus (third model
of computer in Macintosh line) failed to display grayscale images on its 1-bit black and white display.
Then his brother, John Knoll, who was in charge of the special effects department for Industrial Light and Magic on
the 1st Star Wars movie showed interest in the project and recommended that it be developed into a full image
editing program. Hence it was named Display. The Knoll brothers then renamed Display to Image-Pro. Image-Pro
could be used for rack card printing too and that wasnt the only thing it could do.
Image-Pro had many advanced features for displaying images so in the year 1988, Knoll brothers started to sell
Image-Pro commercially. And for this purpose they renamed Image-Pro to Photoshop.
The Knoll brothers approached many companies, but none of them were ready to purchase Photoshop. In Sept.
1988, a deal was struck between the Knoll brothers and Adobe. All the wholesale rights of Photoshop were
purchased by Adobe. The Knoll brothers started working on their product and released the first version Photoshop
1.0 in 1990.
VERSIONS AND Computer Hardware requirements:
VERSION FEATURES REQUIREMENT
PHOTOSHOP1
Color correction facility with
balance, hue and saturation and
Image Output Optimization was
introduced also
Curves, Levels, and Clone tool were
introduced in this version,
In this version they introduced
rasterizer for Adobe Illustrator files.

8 MHz, color screen and at least 2 MB
RAM,
Mac System 6.0.3,
68000 processor,
Floppy drive
PHOTOSOP 2
Slight changes like paths in which it
furnishes with creation of line based
drawings and thus it becomes easier
in manipulating. And for this
purpose Pen Tool was introduced,
CMYK color mode support,
Masking was introduced.

Mac System 6.0.7,
4 MB RAM,
68020 Processor,
32-bit QuickDraw,
Floppy drive
PHOTOSHOP 2.5
Supported Microsoft Windows for the first
time.
Also supports IRIX, Solaris.
Slight changes like Palettes were
introduced and 16 bit channel support.
PHOTOSHOP 3
Layers and Tabbed palettes were
introduced in this version which became
an easy process in manipulating images
Mac system 7.0,
16MB RAMS,
68020 processor,
25MB hard drive capability,
Floppy drive.
PHOTOSHOP 4
Adjustment layers and macros were
introduced in this version.
They designed interface as the same like
other Adobe Products
Mac System 7.1,
Mac system 7.1.2 for Power Macintosh,
16 MB RAM, 68030 processor,
25MB hard drive capability,
Color monitor with an 8-bit video card,
CD-ROM drive,
Supports Macintosh and Windows only.
PHOTOSHOP 5
Undo command for multiple times,
Managing color and Magnetic Lasso
was introduced in this version.

Mac System 7.5.5,
32 MB RAM,
G3 processor,
60 MB hard drive capability,
Supports Macintosh and Windows only.
PHOTOSHOP 5.5
Supports Macintosh and Windows only.
Save Web feature was added and the
extract feature was introduced in this
version,
Image slicing property was first time
introduced and added rollover effects.
Mac System 7.5.5,
32 MB RAM,
G3 processor,
60 MB hard drive capability,
Supports Macintosh and Windows only.
PHOTOSHOP 6
Vector shapes,
Liquify Filter,
Layer styles,
Dialog box were added,
User Interface was updated.
Mac OS 8.5,
64 MB RAM,
G3 processor,
125 MB hard drive capability,
Color display carrying 800 x 600
resolution and
8-bit color video card,
CD-ROM drive,
Supports Macintosh and Windows only.
PHOTOSHOP 7
Healing Brush tool was introduced,
Designed Text in vector,
And Photoshop file browser was first time
introduced.
Mac OS 9.1 or Mac OS X 10.1.3,
128 MB RAM,
G3 processor,
320 MB hard drive capability,
Color display carrying 800 x 600
resolution and
16-bit color video card,
CD-ROM drive,
Supports Mac OS Classic/Mac OS X,
Windows.
PHOTOSHOP CS
Camera RAW 2.x,
Highly modified Slice Tool,
Shadow/Highlight command,
Match Color command,
Lens Blur filter,
Smart Guides,
Real-Time Histogram was introduced in
this version.
A feature that detects and ignores images
of banknotes was added.
Mac OS X 10.2.4,
192 MB RAM,
G3 processor,
320 MB hard drive capability,
Carrying 1024 x 768 resolution of monitor
with 16-bit video card and
CD-ROM drive,
Supports Mac OS X only.
PHOTOSHOP CS2
Camera RAW 3.x,
Smart Objects,
Image Warp,
Spot healing brush,
Red-Eye tool,
Lens Correction filter,
Smart Sharpen,
Smart Guides,
Vanishing Point was introduced,
It furnished Memory management for 64-
bit power PC G5s.
Mac OS X 10.2.8,
320 MB RAM,
G3 processor,
750 MB available hard drive space,
Carrying1024 x 768 resolution of monitor
with 16-bit video card and
CD-ROM drive,
Supports Mac OS X, Windows 2000 / XP.
PHOTOSHOP CS3
Black-and-white conversion adjustment,
Auto Align and Auto Blend,
Smart (non-destructive) Filters,
Mac OS X 10.4.8,
512 MB RAM,
G4 processor,
Mobile device graphic optimization was
introduced in this version,
Furnishes native support for Intel base
Macintosh platform and improved support
for Windows Vista,
Revised user interface, alterations to
Curves, Vanishing Point, Channel Mixer,
Brightness and Contrast, and the Print
dialog were also introduced.
Features like cloning and healing were
improved.
2 GB available hard drive space,
1024 x 768 monitor resolution with 16-bit
video and
64 MB of VRAM, DVD-ROM drive,
Supports Mac OS X, Windows XP.
PHOTOSHOP CS4
New Adjustments window,
Use dodge/burn without affecting other
areas,
Auto blend feature improved,
Content aware cropping,
Pixel grid for editing individual pixels,
New Adjustments panel,
New Masks panel,
Content aware scaling,
Extended depth of field ,
Fluid canvas rotation,
Smoother panning,
Smoother zooming,
Support for colour-blind,
3D object painting,
3D object/property editing,
3D animation,
2D conversions to 3D,
Volume rendering
1.8GHz or faster processor,
Microsoft Windows XP with Service
Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended)
or Windows Adobe Photoshop CS4
Vista Home Premium, Business,
Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service
Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP
and 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista),
512Mb of RAM (1Gb recommended),
1Gb of available hard-disk space for
installation; additional free space
required during installation (cannot
install on flash-based storage devices),
1024768 display (1,280800
recommended) with 16-bit video card,
Some GPU-accelerated features require
graphics support for Shader Model 3.0
and OpenGL 2.0
DVD-ROM drive,
QuickTime 7.2 software required for
multimedia features,
Broadband Internet connection required
for online services

PHOTSHOP CS5
Content Aware Fill,
Intelligent selection technology,
Advanced HDR processing,
Improved raw processing,
Extended painting effects,
Localised Warp tool,
Auto lens correction,
Workspace management,
Advanced 3D options (CS5 Extended),
and 30 JDI (Just Do it) additions
Windows XP (Service pack 3) Vista
Home, Business or Enterprise Edition,
Windows 7 Mac,
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD
Athlon 64 processor
Memory: 1GB RAM + 1Gb Hard-disk
space
Monitor Resolution: 1024X768
(1280800 recommended)
Windows Mac OS
OS X v10.5.7 or 10.6.3 or later,
Multicore Intel processor,
1GB RAM + 2Gb Hard-disk space







Q3: Licensing of photoshop?
ANSWERS:
2.4 Server Use. You may install the Software on Computer file server(s) within your
Internal Network only as permitted The total number of users (not the
concurrent number of users) able to use the Software on such Computer file server(s)
may not exceed the Permitted Number.
By way of example, the foregoing does not permit you to install or access (either directly
or through commands, data or instructions) the Software:

(a) from or to a Computer not part of your Internal Network,
(b) for enabling web hosted workgroups or services
available to the public,
(c) by any individual or entity to use, download, copy or
otherwise benefit from the functionality of the Software unless licensed to do so by
Adobe,
(d) as a component of a system, workflow or service accessible by more than the
Permitted Number of users
(e) for operations not initiated by an individual user
Q4: price range of photoshop??
ANSWERS:
Its depends on the version it starts from 25 $ to 350$
Q5: Other similar softwares serving the same purpose as photoshop?
Answer:

GIMP:
GIMP stands for GNU image manipulation program, and it is one of the oldest
and most well known alternatives to Photoshop in existence

Krita:
Krita has been lauded for ease of use and won the Akademy Award for Best
Application in 2006

Paint.NET
Paint.NET has grown out of a simple replacement for the well known MSPaint into
a fully featured open source image editor with a wide support base.


Q6: Advantages over other softwares of photoshop?
Answer:
Photoshop is a large graphic design software program created by the Adobe company. It enables
a novice photographer to touch up recent photos, and experienced graphic design professionals to
create advertisements, logos and marketing pieces. Through a vast collection of filters, tools and
palettes, Photoshop offers benefits to users of all skill levels.