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Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop is released in two editions: Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Photoshop Extended, with the Extended having extra 3D image creation, motion graphics editing, and advanced image analysis features.

History

First Photoshop Version 0.63 for Macintosh released on October 1988

First Photoshop V2.5 for windows is released on November 1992

Latest Photoshop version CS5 and CS5 Extended released on April 30, 2010

Photoshop CS5.1 released on 3^rd May 2011.

Photoshop CS6 ( Beta ) in progress

Features

The .PSD (Photoshop Document), Photoshop's native format, . PSD format is limited to a maximum height and width of 30,000 pixels. Photoshop's popularity means that the .PSD format is widely used, and it is supported to some extent by most competing softwarePhotoshop has the ability to read and write raster and vector image formats such as .EPS, .PNG, .GIF and .JPEG.

System Requirements

Adobe Photoshop CS5, Your computer system must have the following minimum requirements for installing :

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended); or Windows 7
• 1GB of RAM
• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0

• 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation
• 1024×768 display (1280×800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM

• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor
• 1GB of RAM

• 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1024×768 display (1280×800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM

• Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6
• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

Languages

Photoshop is available in the following languages:

Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

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