Digital Imaging Software

Creativity Unleashed

Presentation: Jessica Thomas

Put Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 software in your hands and see what you can create.

Photoshop• Thomas Knoll began writing

the program in 1987• Originally named Display ,

then ImagePro• published by Adobe Systems• The current market leader for

commercial bitmap and image manipulation software

• Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990 for Macintosh exclusively.

• Cost: Ridiculously Expensive… But worth it

Photoshop Features

• The .PSD (Photoshop Document), Photoshop's native format

• New Adjustments and Masks panels • Read and write raster and vector image formats

such as .EPS, .PNG, .GIF, .JPEG, and Fireworks• Auto-alignment of layers and Auto-blending of

images • Animation and flash creation

Brighten Images

Enhance Photos

Special Effects

Extremely user-friendly and easy photo editing software, offering users a wide variety of possibilities in the fields of Design Graphic, Photo Editing and Enhancing, Image Editing and much more!

Photo Pos Pro• Created by: The Power Of

Software company ltd. formed in 1999

• Capable of running on systems having Windows 98/Me/XP/Vista.

• Cost: Recently became Free!

Photo Pos Pro Features

• Offers beginning users a Help system which they can follow step by step

• Support of scanners and digital camera

Supports:

Layering & MaskingRich Text toolsGradientsPatterns and Texture

"GIMP is our answer to the current lack of free (or at least reasonably priced)

image manipulation software for GNU/Linux and UNIX in general.“- Spencer

Kimball & Peter Mattis

GIMP

• Originally known as the General Image Manipulation Program

• GNU Image Manipulation Program• Initially released January 1996• Created by Spencer Kimball & Peter Mattis• Any system capable of running Gnome 2, KDE 3.2,

Windows 2000, Mac OS X and later versions should be able to run GIMP

• Multilingual • Cost: It’s FREE!

GIMP Features

• Customizable Interface• Photo Enhancement• Digital Retouching• Hardware Support• File Formats

Online Resources

• To download or purchase software:– ttps://www.photoshop.com/– http://www.photopos.com/– http://www.gimp.org/

• Used for this Presentation:– http://www.wikipedia.org/– http://google.com/– Yolanda McSwain– April Scales

• http://arosephotography.carbonmade.com

Thank You