The Popularity of Adobe Photoshop

In design industry, it has become a common sense that everyone knows about Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop do not get famous for nothing. Currently, Adobe Photoshop is the most popular software offered by Adobe and known as a recognized industry leader in image editing. So, how popular is Adobe Photoshop? Here are some statistics about Adobe Photoshop.

Number of Fans: 5,272,028

People Talking About: 26,983

500,000 Photoshop CS6 betas downloads in the first week

Adobe released this video on the achievement of 5 Millions Facebook Fans on the Official Photoshop Page which is a huge number. 

When people think about editing images, Adobe Photoshop is the first option that comes to mind. Adobe Photoshop has completely seized the market with its high performance and popularity among the designers or even casual users. The high piracy rate of Adobe Photoshop because of its high retail price can be seen as the side mirror to show how popular the Adobe Photoshop is. In most of the designing education academy, Adobe Photoshop is one of the main software the students need to learn while in the designing industry nowadays, every designer either web designers, graphic designers or multimedia designers need to arm themselves with Photoshop knowledge and skills in order to survive in this industry.

Besides its comprehensive function, Adobe Photoshop also gets famous because of the huge resources and tutorials either in analogue or digital formed. You can search tons of tutorials online when you are learning the Photoshop. The default files extension of Adobe Photoshop known as .PSD which stands for “Photoshop Document”, stores images with support for most imaging option available in Photoshop. The PSD file is so popular that it even supported to some extent by most competing software. The popularity of Adobe Photoshop also can be seen in the way that almost every printing shop recognize PSD file and runs Adobe Photoshop in their printing computers. Till todays, Adobe Photoshop is available in more than 20 languages and expected to grow more in future time. Photoshop is indeed the best product form Adobe.

References:

• Wikipedia. (2001) Adobe Photoshop. Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop. [Accessed 22 July 2013] Annotation: This website is useful for me as it have all comprehensive information and some history about Photoshop. 

• ZINX. (2013) Adobe Photoshop CS6 Statistics / Video. Available at: http://thezinx.com/2013/06/26/adobe-photoshop-statistics-video.html. [Accessed 22 July 2013] Annotation: I found the video that show the statistics of Adobe Photoshop CS6 on this website.

• Socialbakers. Adobe Photoshop Facebook Page Statistics. Available at: http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-pages/6147239684-adobe-photoshop. [Accessed 22 July 2013] Annotation: This website have many statistic about Photoshop and the image I used in my blog is from this website.

• Brass, J. (2013) The Cloud, Piracy, and Product Dominance. Available at: http://janbrass.org/tag/photoshop/. [Accessed 22 July 2013] Annotation: This website help me in providing information about the benefits of Photoshop.

• Victor Hugo Buezo Nistahuz. (2013) Adobe Photoshop. Available at: http://adobe-photoshop.software.informer.com/. [Accessed 22 July 2013] Annotation: This website have the specification of Photoshop and some review of Photoshop which help me to compile the information about Photoshop in my blog.