Adobe Photoshop is one of the world’s leading graphics editing programs, developed by Adobe Systems. Available on Mac OS or PC, Photoshop is used as one of the leading image design programs for the World Wide Web. The most recent version of Photoshop, or Photoshop CS2, “bridges” between other Adobe products such as Image Ready, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, and Encore DVD to produce professional videos and DVDs. Photoshop uses a file format called a .PSD or .PDD to store multiple layers of an image. Recently Adobe released a program called Photoshop Elements in order to give a less expensive version of Photoshop with many of the same features. Although Adobe Photoshop is used primarily in doing touch-up for digital photos, it is also used for creating designs for web pages and professional companies.
Adobe Photoshop was originally created as a convenient and powerful way to retouch photos. Its most basic features include easily cropping and straightening photos that were either scanned ore taken with a digital camera. Under- or overexposed photos can be easily rescued with the retouch power of the Camera RAW and other plug-ins. Photos taken in difficult lighting situations can be perfected by a few clicks of a mouse. Filters and plug-ins can be used to make the picture seem old or change to black and white.
Many web and graphics designers use Photoshop to create and design company logos and advertisements. Built in Photoshop effects and filters can make designing professional logos or advertisements a quick and simple process. With the power of layers and opacity, pictures can be blended together and effects such as shadows, blurs, etc. are made possible. And, for those who desire to return to the finger painting days of their youth, Photoshop has a paintbrush tool with countless brush shapes and textures for anyone who just needs to let out their creativity.
Text editing has also become easily accessible because of Photoshop. Perspectives, shapes, and type on a path are just a few examples of the tons of amazing text effects that are available. Slimy, dripping letters or cloud-writing in the sky are made easy from filters and text effects built into Photoshop.
Web designers thrive on Photoshop for making animations using Photoshop with other Adobe products. The things that can be done with Photoshop are literally endless. This is truly and amazing program.
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Jeff OReilly is an author of several books on many topics and a leader in seo and website production. Web Design
Imagine the following nightmare: you’ve worked hard on your site for
months, tweaking it until it looks perfect. You’ve got great content,
excellent graphics and a wonderful design. Thousands of visitors are
pouring in every day, and you are getting dozens of guestbook entries
all telling you how wonderful you’ve done and hundreds of emails
praising your good work.
One day you go to access your site and you get an error. Your site
does not respond. You feel a little annoyed and try again a few
minutes later … your browser still times out. This goes on for
hours and then for a full day. You feel panic rising in your gorge
and your chest tightens up. You haven’t slept and your wife is
getting worried.
You’ve tried over and over to call your host’s support number and it
does not pick up. Their website doesn’t show any problems … it’s a
weekend so they are all at home watching the game.
Monday comes and you finally get an automated response to one of your
panicky emails. Your host
- has had a hard disk crash and didn’t have a backup …
- or they didn’t have any money and closed their doors …
- or a hacker attacked their site and wiped out all of the files
- or your made a mistake with FTP and accidentally deleted all your
work
- or the host got hit by the dreaded xyz virus …
- or “fill in the blank”
And you didn’t have a backup of your site.
I have even read report about one user who had over a gigabyte on his
website of years of hard work with no backup of his own. His host
decided he was getting too much traffic and simply deleted his site.
The poor guy and to send a note to everyone on his email list begging
people to check their browser cache’s to see if they could send him
the graphics and pages … it took six months but he rebuilt his site
(and now he has a backup).
The moral of the story … backup your web site. I don’t care whether
you’ve got it on Homestead, AOL or Addr.com, if you don’t make your
own backup you are taking the chance that you could loose all of your
work … forever.
How do you back up your site? What I do is make sure that I edit my
site on my OWN hard drive, then upload it as I make changes. That way
I always have my own copy (and, of course, I make a backup of that
also). If you don’t or can’t do that, then just use FTP to copy the
files to your own hard drive once in a while.
If you have no other choice, you can use the “Save As…” functions
to save the graphics and HTML pages. Note that if you do this you
will capture your sites banners also so this is not the preferred
method.
So backup your site. You will be glad that you did.
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