Photo Shop 5

Raising photo design and production to exhilarating new heights, Adobe Photo shop 5.5 brings you innovative artistic tools and enhanced Web features. Photo shop is the first integrated tool set for taking your images from concept to completion in print and on the Web, maximizing your efficiency while helping you achieve the finest-quality output in both media.

Consistent Adobe Tools
Based on the Adobe standard user interface, Adobe Photo shop 5.5 allows users to move smoothly and quickly between environments without breaking the creative flow. Photo shop now includes a set of advanced features for optimizing and compressing Web graphics.

Create Superior Web Graphics
Adobe Photo shop 5.5 provides new tools for creating and optimizing the most advanced Web graphics. Multiple LiveView panels in Photo shop 5.5's new Save for Web window let designers quickly find the best compression options, translating into shorter image download times and higher quality Web graphics. The new Lossy GIF feature dramatically reduces file size, as much as 10-50% smaller than previously possible, with minimal loss of image quality. Advanced Web features are available in the Adobe ImageReady software component, where designers can slice large graphics into HTML tables with the new Slice tool and create powerful JavaScript rollovers without writing a line of code. Layer-based animations and image maps make these a snap.

Expand Creative Possibilities
Adobe Photo shop 5.5 software addresses the tedious and time-consuming task of image-masking with the new Background Eraser and the Extract Image command. Users can quickly create instant transparency with the color decontamination capabilities of these tools so images can be cleanly composited on another background, saving hours of working with complex selections. Photo shop 5.5's new creativity features extend even further with the new Art History Brush, which allows users to create an entirely new genre of images by interactively applying realistic paint strokes.

Example of Graphic created using Photo shop 5.5

Each part of the whole graphic have been inserted onto it's own Layer, where some of those Layers have been made transparent.
Some of the tools used to manipulate this graphic were the Lasso,Magnetic Lasso, Move, Magic wand, Paintbrush,Marquee and Type

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