Adobe Photoshop Overview


A Camera for Your Mind

Adobe Photoshop 3.0.1 software on Silicon Graphics workstations optimizes the power of IRIX to let you create original artwork, generate realistic or interpretive textures and backgrounds, correct color, retouch and composite scanned images, and prepare professional quality separations and output for print and for the World Wide Web.


Adobe Photoshop software lets you create original artwork, correct color, retouch and composite scanned images, and prepare professional-quality separations and output with more flexibility than ever before.

Close your eyes. Now picture that image -- the one you've been wanting to create for a long time. And imagine the ability to create and produce it right from your desktop. Because now it's possible with Adobe Photoshop software, the award-winning, industry-standard program for desktop image design and production.

For designers, Adobe Photoshop provides unlimited creative options. Start with a blank screen or scan an image directly into the program. Then create separate layers -- much like transparent "sheets of acetate" -- on which you can combine graphic elements, and paint and edit without changing the original background image. Add color, change it or take it away. Import Adobe Illustrator files. Choose from more than 40 filters to generate dazzling special effects. And export all or part of an image to a page layout program.

For photographers, Adobe Photoshop opens up a new world of flexibility and control for processing and enhancing images. With a complete set of tools for color correction, retouching, dodging and burning, saturating and desaturating color, masking, lighting effects and more, you can quickly composite diverse scenes and create dazzling special effects.

For service bureaus and prepress professionals, Adobe Photoshop rivals the capabilities of dedicated, high-end prepress systems at a fraction of the cost. Scan, correct and separate continuous tone images. View a CMYK "soft proof" of an image while in RGB mode. Perform on-screen color editing in CMYK mode. Easily preview out-of-gamut colors. Selectively replace colors and precisely adjust the amount of ink on a given color plate. And generate high-quality monotones, duotones, tritones and quadtones.

Adobe Photoshop. No matter how you look at, it's a camera for your mind.

The world's leading photo design and production tool.

Product Strengths

* Provides the most image-editing functionality for the price of any production tool available on the platform.

* Maintains the same file formats across all platforms making file transfer in multi-platform production environments painless.

* Has the same award-winning user interface on all platforms making it possible for any Adobe Photoshop user to jump right in on UNIX with no learning curve.

* Is designed to work seemlessly with complimentary applications that create titles and text, such as Adobe Illustrator and Type On Call.

* Has been optimized to take advantage of real-time processing capabilities and asynchronous I/O, which allows for direct throughput of data between disk and memory. This substantially enhances performance on large files and other computationally intensive graphic operations.


Adobe Photoshop Third Party Support

* Filters: KPT (Kai's Power Tools), SOFTIMAGE Painterly Effects, and more.

* Scanners: Full range of SCSI scanners is supported

* Printers: Adobe PostScript compatible

* Tablets: Graphics tablets providing support for Silicon Graphics platform


Adobe Photoshop offers unlimited creative options:

* Start with a blank screen or scan an image directly into the program. Then create separate layers-much like transparent sheets of acetate-on which you can combine graphic elements, paint, and edit without changing the original background image. Add color, change it, or take it away. Import Adobe Illustrator files directly. Choose from more than 40 special effects and utility filters to create dazzling special effects. And export all or part of an image to a variety of file formats.


You need Adobe Photoshop if you are:

* Creating, designing or producing color, multitone, or black and white images.

* Scanning, printing, publishing or producing output for any medium including film and video, pre-press, or the World Wide Web.

* Creating presentations with high-quality graphics. Analyzing and editing detailed scientific and engineering images.


Contact Information

To find out more about Adobe products call

1(800)83 FONTS(36687) or 1(408)986-6555

and get the name of your local Adobe Authorized UNIX Reseller.