Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is Adobe's photo editing and compositing software for desktop, web and mobile, sold by subscription on individual and team plans.

Adobe Photoshop is image editing and compositing software for photographers, designers and retouchers who need control of a picture at the pixel level. It is made by Adobe, the San Jose company behind the Creative Cloud line, and it runs on the desktop, in a browser and on phones and tablets under one subscription. Photoshop Elements is a separate Adobe product with its own name and its own buy flow, and the web and mobile versions of Photoshop are editions of this subscription rather than products of their own. Work in Photoshop is built on layers. Adjustments such as Clarity, Dehaze and Grain sit in the Layers panel and stay editable, so texture, atmosphere and sharpness can be changed without altering the original pixels. Masks limit any adjustment to part of the frame, and subject selection separates a person or an object from a background. Retouching runs through the Spot Healing Brush, the Patch tool and the Clone Stamp. Generative Fill replaces a selection with AI generated content that matches the surrounding image, and Generative Expand continues a scene past the edge of the original frame. Photoshop suits people whose work is judged on the finished image: professional photographers, retouchers, agency and in house designers, and students learning the craft. Photographers who also catalog and develop their shoots usually take the plan that pairs it with Lightroom, and creative teams standardise on it so that everyone works in the same tools and the same file format. Businesses buy it per licence with an admin console, and individuals buy it on their own account. The application sits at the centre of a wider Adobe workflow. Firefly supplies the generative models behind fill, expand and background replacement, Lightroom handles cataloguing for photographers on the plan that includes both, and Adobe Express turns a finished image into social and marketing layouts. Adobe also names Topaz Labs models among the partner options it offers around the app. The everyday jobs are portrait and product retouching, compositing several photographs into one scene, removing or replacing a background, and extending a crop past the edge of the frame the camera captured.