Photoshop is the most commonly used photo manipulation tool in the world and it has become so ubiquitous that photoshop has become a verb meaning to digitally manipulate a photograph or image. This term, which originated in the early 1990s (a mere five years after the application was released, according to the OED), became so common that it was added to Merriam-Webster in the late-2000s, marking the complete take over of Photoshop as the default photo manipulation application. If you are going to learn digital art, you are almost certainly going to need to learn how to use Photoshop and everyone from professional graphic designers to freelance artists to amateur designers will rely on Photoshop as a key tool within their repertoires.

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　　What is Photoshop? Released in 1987, Photoshop quickly established itself as one the easiest and most accessible photo manipulation applications on the market. Photoshop is a raster-graphics editing application, meaning it utilizes pixel based image manipulation tools, and it has become one of the most commonly used digital art and editing tools in the world (raster or otherwise). Originally distributed by the company, Adobe acquired the rights to Photoshop in 1995 and since that point it has been one of the flagship applications in Adobes creative design suite (now named the Adobe Create Cloud). The application is utilized in a wide range of fields, including everything from print publishing and web design to graphic artistry, advertising and public activism. Photoshop has become a vital tool in virtually every industry that utilizes graphic design, so it is important to understand what it is and how it works if you are aiming to pursue a creative career.