What is Adobe Photoshop and how long does it take to learn how to use it??

Question

I never have used it but am curious.

Answer 1

Photoshop is a digital photo editing/graphic design program. As far as how long it would take to learn, there is no answer to that question. You could do basic stuff right away, and as for the highly advanced stuff, it depends on how much effort you put in to learning it.

Answer 2

Photoshop is extremely advanced photo editing software. I have one year of training with it at school and know that even with this there is no way I am even close to knowing all there is that you can do with it. Because of how advanced it is it requires a pretty powerful computer.

You can try it out if you want by clicking here: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/
This is a free 30 trial of the software but it requires you to create an account on the Adobe website.

I will warn you right now that if you decide that you want it after the trial it will cost you anywhere from 600-1,000 dollars. I purchased it myself for 700 dollars off at a student discount website but this requires that either you or someone in your family be a full time student of a K-12 school or a college.

Photoshop is pretty advanced, so if you are just doing basic editing, don't get it. Most likely if you don't know what it is, it wont be worth the $1,000 price tag for you.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Adobe photoshop is a vector based computer graphics design program. Vector based means it uses vectors (mathematical equations) instead of pixels so when you resize objects they don't get "fuzzy". It is the professional standard in photo editing but it is also very expensive.

The time to learn photoshop depends on what you plan to do and how far you want to get into it. If you want to learn plainly how to use it buy it, then get a book. Don't just jump into it as I have used it before (30 day free trial from abobe) and the menus are grouped together in a very confusing manner. Of course this is a great tool if you can afford the high price.

The website for the program is adobe.com, just navigate to photoshop area in the adobe store to buy it.

Answer 4

Photoshop is a drawing and image manipulation program. It's fairly advanced and it's great for creating web graphics, editing pictures, and lots more. It's not too hard to learn the basics of Photoshop. In fact, you can probably start it up and learn much just by playing with it. To learn the more advanced features, I suggest buying yourself a good book on Photoshop, there are plenty of them out there. Or look up some Photoshop tutorials on the web, they are quite plentiful. Overall Photoshop is a great art program. But if you want to start out with something a little less advanced, I highly recommend Jasc Paint Shop Pro. Or you can always toy around with Microsoft Paint which is built into Windows. It's very basic, but it gives you a little taste of what you can do with programs like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. Good luck.

Answer 5

Adobe Photoshop lets you manipulate images (including any type of photo or graphic in many file formats) which you load up or create right in the application itself.

One of the greatest features Photoshop provides is called Layers. And so in this regard, among others, it stands out because with this feature (which actually provides a great number of additional tools you can use to manipulate your images) you can keep your original image on one layer and add to your image using additional layers, instead of destroying the original image by painting on it. This used to be a huge advantage over other applications, but now other applications have implemented layers as well.

There are simply too many features to talk about. But Photoshop has always been favored among others applications because of it intuitive interface. Because of its huge assortment of features, it can look a little intimidating. However, nobody insists that you should use every feature. It really depends on the direction you want your creativity to go, and you will soon find that you will use certain tools to manipulate the images more than others. Indeed, you may even find yourself never using some tools at all! But its nice to know that they are there for you to learn and be able to expand your creativity with, should you ever find the need.

For a while, Adobe Photoshop's competitor was Corel Draw, which offers many features to manipulate images. But the interface has its differences, and it really lost its edge along the road, being subject to business buy-outs and transfer of ownership among several companies. Nevertheless, there are many who would rather use Corel Draw even today rather than Photoshop, because it is what they learned, and the interface is what they are used to. And don't forget the many other applications out there that provide many features you will find in Photoshop -- just in the end, I've always found that Photoshop was the final resting place of manipulation for my images, be they photos or web graphics.

However, since Photoshop is so robust, it does cost more than other software. One of the other great things about buying Adobe software is that they have designed the applications to work with each other more fluidly, and they all share the same familiar user interface.

For instance, if you have an image with transparency in a certain layer set, instead of importing the file as a flattened bitmap image, each application will preserve the layers and the settings within those layers so that you can change it to look better. You won't have to go back into the paint application to manipulate the image again, save it, then import it again to see how it looks with the other content you have.

Some people need this ability. They need to be exact with their work. A lot of people don't care so much about it, and so other and cheaper applications have appeared that offer rudimentary features found in Photoshop for, of course, a much smaller price tag.

But Photoshop is the Daddy!

Answer 6

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics program deigned to create images, whether it be by combining photographs, text effects, special effects or just doing some retouching to an old photograph. Depending on how much you want to learn there are so many sites which offer tutorials on how to use it, and even books which come with CD's of tutorials.

I have listed just a sampling of sites which have tutorials for basic to advanced Photoshop techniques. Enjoy!

Answer 7

it's an image-editing program, just like paint, but with WAY more stuff to do and is more better. it depends on how well you learn. there is no way to exactly perfect in photoshop, for when youre graphic designing, there are tons of styles. Basically, though, to get the hang of it and make somewhat good graphics, I'd say a few months. I know a lot of people who's been using it for months and still suck, honestly, so it really depends.

Answer 8

Adobe photoshop is a very advanced image editing and production program. You can find numerous tutorials on the web.

Answer 9

Photoshop is picture authoring program. I have been using it for years to take pictures and modify them for the web. You can also create graphics, slideshows, etc. The learning curve is steep. But, if you have a specific thing you are trying to do, You can learn how to that in a few hours. It is a massive program

Answer 10

It's an image manipulation program. It's a very advanced graphics tool that allows designers to create, edit, manipulate images.

It takes a couple of hours to learn how to use it. It takes years to become truly good with it.