Photoshop: Posting Pictures on The Media

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Throughout the recent years, Photoshop has become a widespread phenomenon amongst the world. With the rapidly developing inventions of camera’s and devices with cameras on them; posting pictures on social media has become extremely popular. Along with that, the pressure to appear perfect in said pictures has increased dramatically. Society has become exceedingly focused on the idea of perfect, and what perfect looks like. Especially now, with growing photo sharing phone applications such as Instagram, photo editing is becoming even more popular. Photoshop has proven to have many beneficial uses; however, it also has very negative consequences such as false perceptions, and misleading people.
Firstly, in 1987, Thomas and John Knowll created Photoshop (“Adobe Photoshop”). After discovering that his laptop was unable to show grayscale images, Thomas Knowll started working to find a solution (History of Photoshop: Journey from Photoshop 1.0 to Photoshop CS5). John and Thomas's original creation was named "Display" as it was a full image editing program, however it later developed into what was called "Image-Pro" and finally into “Photoshop” (History of Photoshop: Journey from Photoshop 1.0 to Photoshop CS5). The Knowll brothers were originally turned down by numerous companies after presenting their idea of Photoshop (History of Photoshop: Journey from Photoshop 1.0 to Photoshop CS5). Finally in 1990 after selling the rights of Photoshop to Adobe; the first version of Photoshop 1.0 was released (History of Photoshop: Journey from Photoshop 1.0 to Photoshop CS5). Ever since the establishment of Photoshop, it has become a widely spread used tool in many job fields such as architecture and advertising (“Adobe Photoshop”). Photoshop cr...

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