Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended-Windows

Why Adobe Photoshop CS5? 

Since the very first edition of Photoshop was released in 1990, it has proven itself to be a reliable and cutting edge graphic design and editing tool. It is powerful enough to be used by graphic professionals on a daily basis, but it remains simple enough to be useful to those just wanting to make simple photo edits. 

Adobe Photoshop is the program used to edit the popular .psd file. This file contains all the details of the image being created or edited and can quickly be changed at anytime to make adjustments to the image. 

The latest version of Adobe Photoshop is the one we sell. It is Creative Suite version 5 or CS5. It was launched on April 12^th, 2010 and since it was released , it has been a best seller. This the12th  version of the popular Adobe product, with over 20 years of experience built into it. 

 Photoshop has become so widely adopted that the verb has been coined “photoshopped”, meaning that an image has been manipulated to some extent by a graphic editing program of some sort, including Adobe Photoshop. For example, you may hear someone say when taking a picture of a family, “Jim isn’t here, but we can just Photoshop him in the picture later”. That shows how the public in general views this powerful and intuitive computer program. 

How Useful is Adobe Photoshop? 

What can you use Photoshop to accomplish with your images? For one, the tools that are provided to crop, straighten, resize, color correct, and color enhance are the best in the industry. For example, the healing brush tool can be used to quickly and easily remove a blemish, like a pimple or stretch mark, from someone’s skin in an instant. 

The magic wand tool is useful for quickly cutting out areas of like color in an image such as the white background of a logo or photograph. The pen tool is often used to cut out precisely around a person, shape, or object to remove it or the background from an image. This allows you to layer one cutout on top of another to produce lifelike graphical designs. 

Photoshop plugins are another powerful option that are available after purchasing this product. With a plugin, you can extend the usefulness of the actual program beyond what it was originally capable of. Currently there are  plugins that let you create smoke, fire, water, and lightning to add to your images. Plugins can be installed to add filters to images to make them look like watercolor paintings or charcoal drawings. The aftermarket plugins for Adobe Photoshop make the possibilities endless for the consumer, whether you want to impress your friends by creating awesome family photo’s or if you want to design moving graphics for your target audience. 

Will my computer run Photoshop CS5? 

Editing images with Adobe Photoshop is a power intensive process for your computer. Because of that it is wise to make sure that your current computer can support the software. There are two versions, one for Apple/Mac computers and one for Windows/PC. 

• At least a Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 bit processor.
  
• 1-2 GB of memory or ram.
  
• Windows XP or greater on windows, or Mac OSX 10.5.7 or greater.
  
• You will need to have 1-2 GB of hard drive space as well for the Photoshop program files themselves.
  
• Lastly, you will need a DVD drive to run the installation disk, or an high speed internet connection to download the trial from Adobe and then insert the license key provided when you purchase from Little Soft Shop.
  
  

Lastly, you will need a DVD drive to run the installation disk, or a high speed internet connection to download the trial from Adobe and then insert the license key provided, when you purchase from Little Soft Shop. 

 Adobe Photoshop extended version is also available with the Adobe Design Premium and Web Premium CS5 collections. 

Adobe Photoshop CS5 will provide you with years of usefulness with the current set of tools that it offers. With our money back guarantee, you have nothing to lose by buying Photoshop today!