Reformation of Adobe Photoshop in Design Industry

Adobe Photoshop, known as the best software published by Adobe, has obviously shows its roles in changing the design industry. The existence of Adobe Photoshop has totally changes the process of designing, from ideas developing to completing the final artworks.

Before the invention of Adobe Photoshop, designers need to create an idea drawing on sketch papers multiple times in order to do multiple changes of effects on the idea. This process is very time consuming and it is very hard to make a same sketch over and over again by using hand drawing. They need to make sure the original concept stay alive in their minds while doing the sketches and this is very hard to be done by most of the designers. Whenever they have new inspiration, they need to redraw the idea and then add in their inspiration immediately before the inspiration fades away. The invention of Adobe Photoshop surely creates a new reformation in design industry. With Adobe Photoshop, designers can create various exceptional ideas base on their inspiration by using just a single concept. This is because Adobe Photoshop allow the designers to make multiple copies of same concept drawing digitally which means the designers only need to produce an original concept drawing and reuse the drawing multiple time on Photoshop by Layer duplicating ability. This ability not only save designers a lot of time, it also reduce designers’ mental burden as they no longer need to worry about ideas fading away during drawing them out on papers. The abilities of Adobe Photoshop to empower the productivity of designers make it become a must for different designers to learn it in order to survive in design industry.

Adobe Photoshop is equipped with tons of tools and functions that certainly will enhance the creativity of designers. These tools and functions may looked complicated in first glance, but when the designers get familiar with the user interface, they will thanks Photoshop for given them the chances to go extra miles in their designing. They can access the tools and functions everywhere in Photoshop to enhance their efficiency and productivity. In addition, Adobe Photoshop is able to save files into more than 20 software formats because it is compatible with other software. Sometimes, a masterpiece is not only created by using single software, so the ability of Adobe Photoshop to compatible with different software make it becoming the first choice among the designers compared to other image editing software such as Gimp and CorelDraw.

The tons of tutorials only also reflect the popularity of Adobe Photoshop among the designers as these tutorials are almost created by designers to help the other designers. In a nutshell, Adobe Photoshop certainly creates a huge reformation in design industry. It is easy to use, user friendly interface and time saving. Most importantly, Adobe Photoshop have create a new digital culture in todays’ digital decade.

References:

• Chen, C. (2009) Impact of Photoshop on Graphic Design. Blog. http://charleschen.tumblr.com/post/163844581/impact-of-photoshop-on-graphic-design. [Accessed: 26 July 2013] Annotation: The article from this blogsite is very interesting. It help me to differentiate the workflow of designer before and after the invention of Photoshop. From this blog, I understand how Photoshop impact the the designers and the benefits of Photoshop to creative industry.