InDesign CS versions updated with the 3. Adobe worked on the provision of a ‘Drag and Drop’ feature and this became available after but was restricted to dropping graphics and images, not text. Adobe developed the CS3 application integrating Macromedia products , rather than recompiling CS2 and simultaneously developing CS3. By this time ‘Drag and Drop’ of type was made available. Unfortunately, there are no workarounds for these known issues.

It does not provide any editing client; rather, it is for use by developers in creating client—server solutions with the InDesign plug-in technology. Newer versions can, as a rule, open files created by older versions, but the reverse is not true. They feature:. InDesign has spawned 86 user groups in 36 countries with a total membership of over 51, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Desktop publishing software. CC List of languages. Retrieved March 14, Retrieved December 4, Archived from the original on August 28, Retrieved February 5, Adobe Developer Connection. Adobe Systems. Retrieved November 24, Archived from the original PDF on June 4, Retrieved April 29, Retrieved December 6, The results can be saved to a new layer. This feature has now been imported in Photoshop.

By default, the multiple undo option remains enabled. After the inclusion of multiple undo feature, you can avail of following commands within the Edit menu. The name of step or action which would be undone or moved forward while clicking the commands would be displayed against respective Undo and Redo sub-menus in Edit menu.

The modifications in layer visibility can also be undone by default. Elements can be moved with ease on the Photoshop canvas while they are being transformed. Earlier, a reference point would appear when the element is getting transformed but now the it hidden by default now. In the Type layer within the document, you can start editing the text quickly by double-clicking with the Move tool. Tools no longer have to be switched for editing text.

With Auto-commit functionality, cropping, transforming, placing or entering text has become a breeze. In order to auto-commit the changes made during cropping or transforming, you need to carry out below actions:. If you are keying in text in the Type layer, you have to perform below actions for auto-committing the changes made:.

This exciting new feature of Photoshop allows for proportion transforming of different layer types by default. Layers can be a pixel, bitmaps, smart objects etc. However, by default non-proportional transformation is still prevalent for vector shapes and paths. When the layer is transformed, the practice of holding the Shift key during corner handle dragging for resizing the selected layer has been done away with.

Shift was pressed for constraining the proportions of the layer. Now the proportional layer resizing happens every time you are dragging the corner handle for layer transforming and moving. If you hold the Shift Key, the layer would be resized in non-proportional manner while the corner handle would be dragged.

It prevents accidental movement of workspace panels. This would prove more useful when Photoshop is access on stylus or tablet. To preview how various blend mode option look after the change, you just have to scroll over them. Just scroll different options from Layer Style dialog option in the Layers panel.

You can now have the brush strokes painted in a completely symmetric manner. From the Options bar, just click on the Butterfly icon. While painting, live reflection of brush strokes start appearing across symmetry line. You can create complex symmetric patterns with relative ease. Navigate to the fly-out menu of Color panel for choosing Color Wheel. This wheel allows visualization of the complete color spectrum to facilitate easy choosing of colors dependent on various harmonies.

You can select analogous and complementary colors among others. You can now start with Photoshop Home screen swiftly. In the Options bar, a new Home icon has been provided. You can click on the same for accessing the Home screen at any time. Clicking on the icon would also allow you to know about the latest features, access the learning resources, or go to the open documents directly.

In the Learn panel, you have access to an in-app tutorial. Upon completing a tutorial, you can put in use custom images for pulling off the desired look within a short time. This feature which is already available in Adobe Illustrator was demanded by Photoshop users since long. This demand of customers has now been acceded to.

Spacing among the objects can be distributed now. The objects could already be distributed in Photoshop through even spacing of center points. However, if the size of objects varied, they can be evenly spaced now with this feature. In every input box which is built for accepting numerical values, simple mathematical calculations can now be performed.

The outcome would be reflected in the numeric field. This feature can be used for swiftly calculating multiples of number or division values. Earlier in Photoshop, the layer name which would exceed the designated space was displayed as initial letters followed by ellipses…… The end letters were truncated. Now, the layers with longer names are displayed using the starting and ending letters of the layer with ellipses in the intervening space.

By using the Match Font functionality, search for Japanese fonts has been enabled. The text present within the selected portion of the image can be detected using Adobe Sensei in match Font. The licensed Japanese fonts on the device can be matched now. Workspace and image masking can now be done with ease in latest Photoshop version. Now you can exercise better control to scale the Photoshop UI.

The UI can be adjusted for getting right font size without depending on other apps. In the most recent Photoshop version, support for 5 South East Asian languages has been included. Documents with text in aforesaid scripts can now be included. To be able to use the languages in seamless manner on Windows OS, the Language and Fonts pack for respective scripts must be installed.

In the version Through this, the compositing architecture has been modernized. Adobe CC was also recognized for its enhanced cloud-based services that were designed to help creatives gain easy access to collaborative tools and design assets. It needs to be noted that the bit version of Windows for Adobe Photoshop CC is not supported any more. This version brought along the Frame Tool, which is a new tool that can be used to create image placeholders.

This version also enabled features such as auto-commitment and multiple undo modes and allowed for controls to prevent accidental panel moves. This version featured a layers panel that came equipped with live blend mode previews, which allowed users to scroll over multiple blend mode options faster. This version came with other features such as Color Wheel and controls that allowed users to see long layer names, complement font with Japanese fonts, distribute spacing in the same way they would do in Illustrator, and overturn document view.

This version came equipped with a new compositing engine that features modernized architecture which can be optimized easily on all platforms. Photoshop version 21 was launched on November 4, , and it came equipped with advanced features such as the Content Aware Fill Workspace that allowed users to use a new workspace to choose pixels and to apply them while being able to rotate, scale, and mirror the original pixels.

Users can now use the Frame tool to undertake masking processes smoothly and to convert shapes or text into frames that can either be filled with images or used as placeholders. Users can now use the Symmetry mode to apply brush strokes in a uniform manner, even on curved surfaces. Using this mode, creatives can now define axes and select different types of presets.

Photoshop brings along presets improvements. This version now features an enhanced library of gradients, layer styles, shapes, patterns, and swatches.

These elements have now been transferred from the Presets Manager to Photoshop Panels. This version also features the Object Selection tool, which consists of 2 flavors- rectangle and lasso. Users can utilize this tool to pull an object to a photo, after which Photoshop would automatically select the object for the users. The introduction of Photoshop Among the most noted inclusions are:.

The new version features new GPU-based algorithm that helps users to get brighter bokehs, blurrier edges for objects that are located in the forefront, and realistic specular highlights. The algorithm also generates a realistic bokeh look and manages proper color handling for LAB and CMYK color modes apart from enabling better specular highlights in images. This enhancement allows users to repetitively fill several portions of an image without the need to leave the Content-Aware workspace.

This feature also allows users to test source pixels from all layers that are visible. Once you apply the fill, you should use the Polygonal Lasso tool in the Content-Aware Fill area to create another selection. You can now select the new Sample All Layers option to test source pixels from all layers in the document.

You will be able to locate the Sampling Area Options on the right side of the Content-Aware fill panel. If you want to use the new options, you have to select an image and a portion in that image, which you wish to fill.

The new version promises improvements in terms of efficiency and performance. This version promotes a faster and smoother workflow by facilitating operations with regard to panning, zooming, and navigating. The user interface of the new Photoshop version is more receptive to mouse and stylus movements. You will be able to notice enhanced responsiveness to your inputs as well as other enhancements in other UI interactions related to dragging and painting operations.

Additionally, this version comes with updates that address key vulnerabilities and security flaws that were left unexplored and unaddressed in the previous versions. Below are some popular types of plugins, and some well-known companies associated with them:. Adobe Camera Raw also known as ACR and Camera Raw is a special plugin, supplied free by Adobe, used primarily to read and process raw image files so that the resulting images can be processed by Photoshop.

Upon loading Photoshop, a sidebar with a variety of tools with multiple image-editing functions appears to the left of the screen. These tools typically fall under the categories of drawing ; painting ; measuring and navigation ; selection ; typing ; and retouching. These can be expanded to reveal similar tools. In some newer versions hovering along the tools gives a small Video glimpse of the tool.

Photoshop includes a few versions of the pen tool. The pen tool creates precise paths that can be manipulated using anchor points. The free form pen tool allows the user to draw paths freehand, and with the magnetic pen tool, the drawn path attaches closely to outlines of objects in an image, which is useful for isolating them from a background.

The Clone Stamp tool duplicates one part of an image to another part of the same image by way of a brush. The duplication is either in full or in part depending on the mode. The user can also clone part of one layer to another layer.

The Clone Stamp tool is useful for duplicating objects or removing a defect in an image. Photoshop provides an array of shape tools including rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, polygons and lines. These shapes can be manipulated by the pen tool, direct selection tool etc.

In addition, Photoshop provides its own shapes like animals, signs and plants. The eyedropper tool selects a color from an area of the image that is clicked, and samples it for future use. Selection tools are used to select all or any part of a picture to perform cut, copy, edit, or retouching operations. The crop tool can be used to select a particular area of an image and discard the portions outside the chosen section. This tool assists in creating a focus point on an image and unnecessary or excess space.

The crop tool is in the tools palette, which is located on the right side of the document. By placing the cursor over the image, the user can drag the cursor to the desired area. Once the Enter key is pressed, the area outside the rectangle will be cropped. The area outside the rectangle is the discarded data, which allows for the file size to be decreased. The slice and slice select tools, like the crop tool, are used in isolating parts of images.

The slice tool can be used to divide an image into different sections, and these separate parts can be used as pieces of a web page design once HTML and CSS are applied. The move tool can be used to drag the entirety of a single layer or more if they are selected.

Alternatively, once an area of an image is highlighted, the move tool can be used to manually relocate the selected piece to anywhere on the canvas. The marquee is a tool that can make selections that are a single row, single column, rectangular and elliptical.

This tool can also crop an image; it allows for better control. In contrast to the crop tool, the marquee tool allows for more adjustments to the selected area before cropping. The only marquee tool that does not allow cropping is the elliptical.

Although the single row and column marquee tools allow for cropping, they are not ideal, because they only crop a line. The rectangular marquee tool is the preferred option.

Once the tool has been selected, dragging the tool across the desired area will select it. The selected area will be outlined by dotted lines, referred to as “marching ants”. To set a specific size or ratio, the tool options bar provides these settings. Before selecting an area, the desired size or ratio must be set by adjusting the width and height. Any changes such as color, filters, location, etc. To crop the selection, the user must go to the image tab and select crop.

The lasso tool is similar to the marquee tool, however, the user can make a custom selection by drawing it freehand. The regular lasso tool allows the user to have drawing capabilities. Photoshop will complete the selection once the mouse button is released. The user may also complete the selection by connecting the end point to the starting point. The “marching ants” will indicate if a selection has been made. The polygonal lasso tool will draw only straight lines, which makes it an ideal choice for images with many straight lines.

Unlike the regular lasso tool, the user must continually click around the image to outline the shape. To complete the selection, the user must connect the end point to the starting point just like the regular lasso tool. Magnetic lasso tool are considered the smart tool. It can do the same as the other two, but it can also detect the edges of an image once the user selects a starting point.

It detects by examining the color pixels as the cursor moves over the desired area. Closing the selection is the same as the other two, which should also should display the “marching ants” once the selection has been closed.

The quick selection tool selects areas based on edges, similarly to the magnetic lasso tool. The difference between this tool and the lasso tool is that there is no starting and ending point.

For this reason, the selected area can be added onto as much as possible without starting over. By dragging the cursor over the desired area, the quick selection tool detects the edges of the image.

The “marching ants” allow the user to know what is currently being selected. Once the user is done, the selected area can be edited without affecting the rest of the image. One of the features that makes this tool especially user friendly is that the SHIFT key is not needed to add more to the selection; by default, extra mouse clicks will be added to the selection rather than creating a new selection.

The magic wand tool selects areas based on pixels of similar values. One click will select all neighboring pixels of similar value within a tolerance level set by the user.

If the eyedropper tool is selected in the options bar, then the magic wand can determine the value needed to evaluate the pixels; this is based on the sample size setting in the eyedropper tool. This tool is inferior to the quick selection tool which works much the same but with much better results and more intuitive controls.

The user must decide what settings to use or if the image is right for this tool. The Eraser tool erases content based on the active layer.

If the user is on the text layer, then any text across which the tool is dragged will be erased. The eraser will convert the pixels to transparent, unless the background layer is selected. The size and style of the eraser can be selected in the options bar. This tool is unique in that it can take the form of the paintbrush and pencil tools. In addition to the straight eraser tool, there are two more available options — background eraser and magic eraser.

The background eraser deletes any part of the image that is on the edge of an object. This tool is often used to extract objects from the background. The magic eraser tool deletes based on similar colored pixels.

It is very similar to the magic wand tool. This tool is ideal for deleting areas with the same color or tone that contrasts with the rest of the image. Using simple combinations of keys video layers can easily be modified, with other features such as adding text and creating animations using single images. With the Extended version of Photoshop CS5, 2D elements of an artwork can easily become three-dimensional with the click of a button.

Extrusions of texts, an available library of materials for three-dimensional, and even wrapping two-dimensional images around 3D geometry. Third-party plugins have also been added to the most recent version of Photoshop where technologies such as the iPad have integrated the software with different types of applications.

Applications like the Adobe Eazel painting app allows the user to easily create paintings with their fingertips and use an array of different paint from dry to wet in order to create rich color blending. The program will feature cloud syncing with other devices and a simpler interface than the desktop version. The plug-in allows users to remove noise without the side-effect of over-sharpening, add grain, and even perform post-crop vignetting.

From version Artists can add color, adjust the shape or rotate the angles of imported models, or design original 3D models from scratch. The Color Replacement Tool allows the user to change the color, while maintaining the highlights and shadows of the original image, of pieces of the image. By selecting Brushes and right clicking, the Color Replacement Tool is the third option down. What is important to note with this tool is the foreground color.

The foreground color is what will be applied when painting along the chosen part of the image with the Color Replacement tool. Photoshop and derivatives such as Photoshopped or just Shopped have become verbs that are sometimes used to refer to images edited by Photoshop, [47] or any image manipulation program. The same happens not only in English but as the Portuguese Wikipedia entry for image manipulation attests, even in that language, with the trademark being followed by the Portuguese verb termination -ar, yielding the word “photoshopar” to photoshop.

Such derivatives are discouraged by Adobe [6] because, in order to maintain validity and protect the trademark from becoming generic , trademarks must be used as proper nouns. Photoshop’s naming scheme was initially based on version numbers, from version 0. Adobe published 7 major and many minor versions before the October introduction of version 8. In February Adobe donated the source code of the 1. The first Photoshop CS was commercially released in October as the eighth major version of Photoshop.

Photoshop CS increased user control with a reworked file browser augmenting search versatility, sorting and sharing capabilities and the Histogram Palette which monitors changes in the image as they are made to the document.

Match Color was also introduced in CS, which reads color data to achieve a uniform expression throughout a series of pictures. Photoshop CS2, released in May , expanded on its predecessor with a new set of tools and features. It included an upgraded Spot Healing Brush, which is mainly used for handling common photographic problems such as blemishes, red-eye, noise, blurring and lens distortion. One of the most significant inclusions in CS2 was the implementation of Smart Objects, which allows users to scale and transform images and vector illustrations without losing image quality, as well as create linked duplicates of embedded graphics so that a single edit updates across multiple iterations.

Adobe responded to feedback from the professional media industry by implementing non-destructive editing as well as the producing and modifying of Bit High Dynamic Range HDR images, which are optimal for 3D rendering and advanced compositing. FireWire Previews could also be viewed on a monitor via a direct export feature.

Image Warping makes it easy to digitally distort an image into a shape by choosing on-demand presets or by dragging control points. The File Browser was upgraded to Adobe Bridge, which functioned as a hub for productivity, imagery and creativity, providing multi-view file browsing and smooth cross-product integration across Adobe Creative Suite 2 software.

Camera Raw version 3. Photoshop CS2 brought a streamlined interface, making it easier to access features for specific instances. In CS2 users were also given the ability to create their own custom presets, which was meant to save time and increase productivity.

CS3 improves on features from previous versions of Photoshop and introduces new tools. One of the most significant is the streamlined interface which allows increased performance, speed, and efficiency. There is also improved support for Camera RAW files which allow users to process images with higher speed and conversion quality. The Black and White adjustment option improves control over manual grayscale conversions with a dialog box similar to that of Channel Mixer.

There is more control over print options and better management with Adobe Bridge. The Clone Source palette is introduced, adding more options to the clone stamp tool. Other features include the nondestructive Smart Filters, optimizing graphics for mobile devices, [53] Fill Light and Dust Busting tools.

CS3 Extended includes everything in CS3 and additional features. There are tools for 3D graphic file formats, video enhancement and animation, and comprehensive image measurement and analysis tools with DICOM file support. As for video editing, CS3 supports layers and video formatting so users can edit video files per frame. They were also made available through Adobe’s online store and Adobe Authorized Resellers. CS4 features smoother panning and zooming, allowing faster image editing at a high magnification.

The interface is more simplified with its tab-based interface [56] making it cleaner to work with. Photoshop CS4 features a new 3D engine allowing the conversion of gradient maps to 3D objects, adding depth to layers and text, and getting print-quality output with the new ray-tracing rendering engine.

 
 

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Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc. It was originally created in by Thomas and John Knoll. Since then, the software has become the industry standard not only in raster graphics editing, but in digital art as a whole.

The software’s name is often colloquially used as a verb e. In addition to raster graphics, Photoshop has limited abilities to edit or render text and vector graphics especially through clipping path for the latter , as well as 3D graphics and video. Its feature set can be expanded by plug-ins ; programs developed and distributed independently of Photoshop that run inside it and offer new or enhanced features.

Photoshop’s naming scheme was initially based on version numbers. However, in October following the introduction of Creative Suite branding , each new version of Photoshop was designated with ” CS ” plus a number; e. With the introduction of the Creative Cloud branding in June and in turn, the change of the ” CS ” suffix to ” CC ” , Photoshop’s licensing scheme was changed to that of software as a service subscription model.

As of November , Adobe has also released a full version of Photoshop for the iPad , and while initially limited, Adobe plans to bring more features to Photoshop for iPad. Photoshop was developed in by two brothers Thomas and John Knoll , who sold the distribution license to Adobe Systems Incorporated in Thomas Knoll, a Ph.

Thomas took a six-month break from his studies in to collaborate with his brother on the program. Thomas renamed the program ImagePro, but the name was already taken. During this time, John traveled to Silicon Valley and gave a demonstration of the program to engineers at Apple and Russell Brown, art director at Adobe.

Both showings were successful, and Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September Photoshop 1. The handling of color slowly improved with each release from Adobe and Photoshop quickly became the industry standard in digital color editing. At the time Photoshop 1. The list price of Photoshop 1.

Photoshop was initially only available on Macintosh. The Windows port led to Photoshop reaching a wider mass market audience as Microsoft ‘s global reach expanded within the next few years. Photoshop files have default file extension as.

PSD , which stands for ” P hoto s hop D ocument”. This is in contrast to many other file formats e. JPG or. GIF that restrict content to provide streamlined, predictable functionality. A PSD file has a maximum height and width of 30, pixels, and a length limit of two gigabytes. These formats are required to use the file in publications or on the web. Photoshop can also create and use files with the extension. PSB, which stands for “Photoshop Big” also known as “large document format”.

The dimension limit was apparently chosen arbitrarily by Adobe, not based on computer arithmetic constraints it is not close to a power of two, as is 30, but for ease of software testing. Photoshop functionality can be extended by add-on programs called Photoshop plugins or plug-ins. Adobe creates some plugins, such as Adobe Camera Raw, but third-party companies develop most plugins, according to Adobe’s specifications.

Some are free and some are commercial software. Most plugins work with only Photoshop or Photoshop-compatible hosts, but a few can also be run as standalone applications.

There are various types of plugins, such as filter, export, import, selection, color correction, and automation. The most popular plugins are the filter plugins also known as a 8bf plugins , available under the Filter menu in Photoshop. Filter plugins can either modify the current image or create content.

Below are some popular types of plugins, and some well-known companies associated with them:. Adobe Camera Raw also known as ACR and Camera Raw is a special plugin, supplied free by Adobe, used primarily to read and process raw image files so that the resulting images can be processed by Photoshop. Upon loading Photoshop, a sidebar with a variety of tools with multiple image-editing functions appears to the left of the screen.

These tools typically fall under the categories of drawing ; painting ; measuring and navigation ; selection ; typing ; and retouching. These can be expanded to reveal similar tools. In some newer versions hovering along the tools gives a small Video glimpse of the tool. Photoshop includes a few versions of the pen tool.

The pen tool creates precise paths that can be manipulated using anchor points. The free form pen tool allows the user to draw paths freehand, and with the magnetic pen tool, the drawn path attaches closely to outlines of objects in an image, which is useful for isolating them from a background.

The Clone Stamp tool duplicates one part of an image to another part of the same image by way of a brush. The duplication is either in full or in part depending on the mode.

The user can also clone part of one layer to another layer. The Clone Stamp tool is useful for duplicating objects or removing a defect in an image. Photoshop provides an array of shape tools including rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, polygons and lines. These shapes can be manipulated by the pen tool, direct selection tool etc. In addition, Photoshop provides its own shapes like animals, signs and plants.

The eyedropper tool selects a color from an area of the image that is clicked, and samples it for future use. Selection tools are used to select all or any part of a picture to perform cut, copy, edit, or retouching operations. The crop tool can be used to select a particular area of an image and discard the portions outside the chosen section.

This tool assists in creating a focus point on an image and unnecessary or excess space. The crop tool is in the tools palette, which is located on the right side of the document.

By placing the cursor over the image, the user can drag the cursor to the desired area. Once the Enter key is pressed, the area outside the rectangle will be cropped. The area outside the rectangle is the discarded data, which allows for the file size to be decreased.

The slice and slice select tools, like the crop tool, are used in isolating parts of images. The slice tool can be used to divide an image into different sections, and these separate parts can be used as pieces of a web page design once HTML and CSS are applied. The move tool can be used to drag the entirety of a single layer or more if they are selected. Alternatively, once an area of an image is highlighted, the move tool can be used to manually relocate the selected piece to anywhere on the canvas.

The marquee is a tool that can make selections that are a single row, single column, rectangular and elliptical. This tool can also crop an image; it allows for better control. In contrast to the crop tool, the marquee tool allows for more adjustments to the selected area before cropping. The only marquee tool that does not allow cropping is the elliptical. Although the single row and column marquee tools allow for cropping, they are not ideal, because they only crop a line.

The rectangular marquee tool is the preferred option. Once the tool has been selected, dragging the tool across the desired area will select it. The selected area will be outlined by dotted lines, referred to as “marching ants”. To set a specific size or ratio, the tool options bar provides these settings. Before selecting an area, the desired size or ratio must be set by adjusting the width and height.

Any changes such as color, filters, location, etc. To crop the selection, the user must go to the image tab and select crop.

The lasso tool is similar to the marquee tool, however, the user can make a custom selection by drawing it freehand. The regular lasso tool allows the user to have drawing capabilities.

Photoshop will complete the selection once the mouse button is released. The user may also complete the selection by connecting the end point to the starting point. The “marching ants” will indicate if a selection has been made. The polygonal lasso tool will draw only straight lines, which makes it an ideal choice for images with many straight lines.

Unlike the regular lasso tool, the user must continually click around the image to outline the shape. To complete the selection, the user must connect the end point to the starting point just like the regular lasso tool.

Magnetic lasso tool are considered the smart tool. It can do the same as the other two, but it can also detect the edges of an image once the user selects a starting point. It detects by examining the color pixels as the cursor moves over the desired area. Closing the selection is the same as the other two, which should also should display the “marching ants” once the selection has been closed.

The quick selection tool selects areas based on edges, similarly to the magnetic lasso tool. The difference between this tool and the lasso tool is that there is no starting and ending point. For this reason, the selected area can be added onto as much as possible without starting over. By dragging the cursor over the desired area, the quick selection tool detects the edges of the image.

The “marching ants” allow the user to know what is currently being selected. Once the user is done, the selected area can be edited without affecting the rest of the image. One of the features that makes this tool especially user friendly is that the SHIFT key is not needed to add more to the selection; by default, extra mouse clicks will be added to the selection rather than creating a new selection.

The magic wand tool selects areas based on pixels of similar values.

 

Adobe Premiere Pro Manual (PDF) – Teaching & Learning Knowledge Base

 

Adobe Inc. Its flagship products include Adobe Photoshop image editing software; Adobe Illustrator vector-based illustration software; Adobe Acrobat Reader and the Portable Document Format PDF ; and a host of tools primarily for audio-visual content creation, editing and publishing. Adobe offered a bundled solution of its products named Adobe Creative Suite , which evolved into a subscription software as a service SaaS offering named Adobe Creative Cloud. In , Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in its LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution.

As of , Adobe has more than 26, employees worldwide. It also has major development operations in Noida and Bangalore in India. The company was started in John Warnock’s garage. Adobe’s corporate logo features a stylized “A” and was designed by graphic designer Marva Warnock, John Warnock’s wife. Their investors urged them to work something out with Jobs, so they agreed to sell him shares worth 19 percent of the company. Jobs paid a five-times multiple of their company’s valuation at the time, plus a five-year license fee for PostScript, in advance.

The purchase and advance made Adobe the first company in the history of Silicon Valley to become profitable in its first year. Warnock and Geschke considered various business options including a copy-service business and a turnkey system for office printing.

Then they chose to focus on developing specialized printing software and created the Adobe PostScript page description language. PostScript was the first truly international standard for computer printing as it included algorithms describing the letter-forms of many languages. Adobe added kanji printer products in They weren’t able to work with Compugraphic, but then worked with Linotype to license the Helvetica and Times Roman fonts through the Linotron Warnock described the language as “extensible”, in its ability to apply graphic arts standards to office printing.

Adobe’s first products after PostScript were digital fonts , which they released in a proprietary format called Type 1 , worked on by Bill Paxton after he left Stanford.

Apple subsequently developed a competing standard, TrueType , which provided full scalability and precise control of the pixel pattern created by the font’s outlines, and licensed it to Microsoft. In the mids, Adobe entered the consumer software market with Illustrator , a vector -based drawing program for the Apple Macintosh.

Illustrator, which grew from the firm’s in-house font-development software, helped popularize PostScript-enabled laser printers. For example, the fiscal year ended on November 27, In , Adobe introduced what was to become its flagship product, a graphics editing program for the Macintosh called Photoshop. Stable and full-featured, Photoshop 1. In , Adobe acquired Ares Software Corp. Adobe released Adobe Media Player in April Adobe offered a discount on Dreamweaver for GoLive users and supports those who still use GoLive with online tutorials and migration assistance.

On June 1, Adobe launched Acrobat. On November 10, , the company laid off a further employees. Adobe’s was marked by continuing front-and-back arguments with Apple over the latter’s non-support for Adobe Flash on its iPhone , iPad and other products. As part of the acquisition, the source code of PhoneGap was submitted to the Apache Foundation , where it became Apache Cordova. In November , Adobe announced that they would cease development of Flash for mobile devices following version Instead, it would focus on HTML 5 for mobile devices.

In December , Adobe opened a new ,square-foot 26, m 2 corporate campus in Lehi, Utah. In , Adobe endured a major security breach. Vast portions of the source code for the company’s software were stolen and posted online [49] and over million records of Adobe’s customers have been made readily available for download.

A class-action lawsuit alleging that the company suppressed employee compensation was filed against Adobe , and three other Silicon Valley -based companies in a California federal district court in The joint effort will speed time to showcase and enhance the execution of new Sensei-powered services for Adobe Creative Cloud and Experience Cloud clients and engineers. The deal is closed on June 19, In September , Adobe announced its acquisition of marketing automation software company Marketo.

In January , Adobe announced its acquisition of 3D texturing company Allegorithmic. The event took place online and saw over 21 million total video views [59] and over 2. The software giant has imposed a ban on the political ads features on its digital advert sales platform as the United States presidential elections approach.

On August 19, , Adobe announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Frame. On September 15, , Adobe Inc formally announced that it will add payment services to its e-commerce platform this year, allowing merchants on their platform a method to accept payments including credit cards and PayPal.

Adobe Photoshop Elements. Adobe Acrobat DC. Adobe Premiere Elements. Adobe Character Animator. Adobe Presenter Video Express.

A microstock agency that presently provides over 57 million high-resolution, royalty-free images and videos available to license via subscription or credit purchase methods. In , Adobe acquired Fotolia, a stock content marketplace founded in by Thibaud Elziere, Oleg Tscheltzoff, and Patrick Chassany which operated in 23 countries. In March , Adobe released its Adobe Experience Platform, which consists family of content, development, and customer relationship management products, with what it calls the “next generation” of its Sensei artificial intelligence and machine learning framework.

In , Adobe was ranked 16th. Adobe received a five-star rating from the Electronic Frontier Foundation with regards to its handling of government data requests in Adobe has been criticized for its pricing practices, [76] [77] with retail prices being up to twice as much in non-US countries.

Adobe’s Reader and Flash programs were listed on “The 10 most hated programs of all time” article by TechRadar.

Hackers have exploited vulnerabilities in Adobe programs, such as Adobe Reader, to gain unauthorized access to computers. A report by security researchers from Kaspersky Lab criticized Adobe for producing the products having top 10 security vulnerabilities. Observers noted that Adobe was spying on its customers by including spyware in the Creative Suite 3 software and quietly sending user data to a firm named Omniture.

Adobe has been criticized for pushing unwanted software including third-party browser toolbars and free virus scanners, usually as part of the Flash update process, [92] and for pushing a third-party scareware program designed to scare users into paying for unneeded system repairs.

On October 3, , the company initially revealed that 2. Many of the credit cards were tied to the Creative Cloud software-by-subscription service. After stealing the customers’ data, cyber-thieves also accessed Adobe’s source code repository, likely in mid-August Published on a server of a Russian-speaking hacker group , [] the “disclosure of encryption algorithms, other security schemes, and software vulnerabilities can be used to bypass protections for individual and corporate data” and may have opened the gateway to new generation zero-day attacks.

Hackers already used ColdFusion exploits to make off with usernames and encrypted passwords of PR Newswire ‘s customers, which has been tied to the Adobe security breach. In , Adobe acquired Aldus Corp. Furthermore, there have been reports that with changing subscriptions it is possible to avoid paying this fee. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. American multinational software company.

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