PSD is a file format specifically for Adobe Photoshop files. PSD files can be created in Photoshop by either saving new files or by creating PSD copies of existing. Create awesome text effects with these free Photoshop text styles with the click of a button. Styles are Photoshop files that contain preset configurations to instantly get a ready made effect with the click of a button.

English (United States), English (United Kingdom), Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Romanian, Turkish and Ukrainian, Website Adobe Photoshop is a developed and published by for. It was originally created in 1988.

Since then, this software has become the industry standard not only in editing, but to as a whole; it even went to the point that the software's name itself has become a, leading to its usage as a verb (e.g. 'to photoshop an image', ', and ') although Adobe discourages such use. Photoshop can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and supports,, and several including,,,,. Photoshop uses its own PSD and PSB file formats to support these features. In addition to raster graphics, this software has limited abilities to edit or render text and (especially through for the latter), as well as. Its feature set can be expanded by; 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. However, in October 2002 (following the introduction of branding), each new version of Photoshop was designated with ' CS' plus a number; e.g., the eighth major version of Photoshop was Photoshop CS and the ninth was Photoshop CS2. Photoshop CS3 through CS6 were also distributed in two different editions: Standard and Extended.

With the introduction of the branding in June 2013 (and in turn, the change of the ' CS' suffix to ' CC'), Photoshop's licensing scheme was changed to that of rental model. Historically, Photoshop was bundled with additional software such as,,, and Adobe Camera RAW. Alongside Photoshop, Adobe also develops and publishes,,,,. Adobe also plans to launch a full-version of Photoshop for the in 2019. Collectively, they are branded as 'The Adobe Photoshop Family'. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Early history [ ] Photoshop was developed in 1987 by brothers and, who sold the distribution license to Adobe Systems Incorporated in 1988.

Thomas Knoll, a Ph.D. Student at the, began writing a program on his to display images on a monochrome display. This program (at that time called Display) caught the attention of his brother John, an employee, who recommended that Thomas turn it into a full-fledged image editing program. Thomas took a six-month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program. Thomas renamed the program ImagePro, but the name was already taken.

Later that year, Thomas renamed his program Photoshop and worked out a short-term deal with scanner manufacturer Barneyscan to distribute copies of the program with a; a 'total of about 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped' this way. During this time, John traveled to and gave a demonstration of the program to engineers at and Russell Brown, art director at. Both showings were successful, and Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988. While John worked on in California, Thomas remained in writing code.

Photoshop 1.0 was released on February 19, 1990 for Macintosh exclusively. The Barneyscan version included advanced color editing features that were stripped from the first Adobe shipped version. 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 1.0 was released, digital retouching on dedicated high-end systems (such as the ) cost around $300 an hour for basic photo retouching.

File format [ ] Photoshop document.psd image/vnd.adobe.photoshop? No Website Photoshop files have default file extension as.PSD, which stands for 'Photoshop Document.' A PSD file stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with, transparency, text, and,, and settings. This is in contrast to many other file formats (e.g.,.JPG or.GIF) that restrict content to provide streamlined, predictable functionality.

A PSD file has a maximum height and width of 30,000 pixels, and a length limit of two gigabytes. Photoshop files sometimes have the file extension.PSB, which stands for 'Photoshop Big' (also known as 'large document format'). A PSB file extends the PSD file format, increasing the maximum height and width to 300,000 pixels and the length limit to around 4. 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 30,000) but for ease of software testing. PSD and PSB formats are documented. Because of Photoshop's popularity, PSD files are widely used and supported to some extent by most competing software.