Adobe Photoshop, or normally known as Photoshop, has
becoming a must in this digital driven century. Almost every image around us
such as advertisement, billboards and websites were manipulated or retouched in
some way by Photoshop. Without Photoshop, these effects apply on the images
need to be edited or do some exposure in the dark room in order to get the same
effects as a few clicks done by Photoshop. Because of Photoshop, designers and
photographers can have more adequate times to enhance their creativity such as
inserting new shapes or designs that we can’t see in the reality.
During 23 years of developments, Adobe Photoshop slowly
improving and adding new tools and functions to help simplifying the works of
designers. From an ordinary image editing software, Photoshop slowly developed
into multimedia software that can support website design and video editing. In
creative industry, it is hardly to find any designers that do not know about
Photoshop. It has slowly becoming the basic in the creative industry. Without
Photoshop, the designers nowadays may not know how to continue their work and
the visual satisfaction we enjoy nowadays will certainly cannot be achieved.
There is also a joke about Photoshop that environment activist
should thanks to Photoshop because the designers no longer need to crumple
heaps of sketches paper when the ideas need to be redeveloped. Rex Crowle, an England
designers said before that before the invention of Photoshop, the amount of
forest he destroyed were certainly a lot more than now. Imagine how many
minutiae need to be manipulate by designers in order to satisfy the clients and
if without using Photoshop, how many tons of paper will be wasted? Is the
invention of Photoshop that promote paperless design in the creative industry
and this is certainly saving a lot of trees from being cut down and produce
into papers.
As Photoshop is currently progressing into its third decade,
let’s be grateful to what Photoshop have contributed to our digital life and we
should always bear in mind that do not misuse the Photoshop as it is a
technology that invented to bring benefits to our society, but not the drawbacks
and misunderstanding.
References:
- 第一证券水晶球. (2012) Photoshop对我们生活的影响. Available at: http://cz1sjq.blog.sohu.com/236794404.html. [Accessed 31 July 2013] Annotation: This is a chinese website that basically talk about how the present of Photoshop affecting our life. It show some different perception about Photoshop contribution which I find very interesting and meaningful.
- Pfiffner, P. (2010) Looking back at 20 years of Adobe Photoshop. Available at: http://www.macworld.com/article/1146194/photoshopturns20.html. [Accessed 31 July 2013] Annotation: This website show the change of Photoshop in 20 years and how Photoshop contribute to the creative industry.
