Photoshop – Will You Use It?

Adobe Systems, best known for their vector-based illustration program Adobe Illustrator, is taking a swing at the commercial image manipulation market with the launch of Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop promises to bring the power of a full professional-grade photo lab to your office computer (assuming your shop is fortunate enough to have one), but the real question is, “Will you use it?”

Adobe Photoshop includes an impressive array of image manipulation tools, including a number of pre-built filters which will no doubt bring a timeless sense of class and style to any image. Of course, before you can do anything with the program, you have to get the image onto your computer to begin with- and there’s the rub. While Photoshop makes manipulating digital images a breeze, it does nothing to help with the difficult and expensive process of digitizing photos. It’s not as if we can all afford to have our own photo scanners at our desks.

Priced at $999, half the cost of competitor Letraset’s Colorstudio, Adobe Photoshop is poised to bring image manipulation to the masses. Although, one has to wonder if this is a good thing. Imagine a world where everyone, clients included, would have access to such powerful tools. Terrifying.

Adobe Photoshop is a novel idea with some pretty neat features, but a piece of software will never replace a fully-staffed art department equipped with a dark-room, airbrushes and a case of X-ACTO knives. At best it will most likely remain a niche supplement, used only on very rare occasions.

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