Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc. for

Windows and macOS. It was originally created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll. Since then,

the software has become the industry standard not only in raster graphics editing, but in digital

art as a whole. The software's name has thus become a generic trademark, leading to its usage as

a verb ( e.g. "to Photoshop an image", "Photoshopping", and "Photoshop contest" ) although

Adobe discourages such use. Photoshop can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers

and supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models including RGB, CMYK,

CIELAB, spot color, and duotone. Photoshop uses its own PSD and PSB file formats to support

these features. In addition to raster graphics, Photoshop has limited abilities to edit or render text

and vector graphics (especially through clipping path for the latter), as well as 3D graphics and

video. Its feature set can be expanded by plug-ins; programs developed and distributed

independently of Photoshop that run inside it and offer new or enhanced features.

Photoshop's naming scheme was initially based on version numbers. However, in October 2002

(following the introduction of Creative Suite branding), each new version of Photoshop was

designated with "CS"; plus a number; e.g., the eighth major version of Photoshop was Photoshop

CS and the ninth was Photoshop CS2. Photoshop CS3 through CS6 were also distributed in two

different editions: Standard and Extended. With the introduction of the Creative Cloud branding

in June 2013 (and in turn, the change of the "CS"; suffix to "CC", Photoshop's licensing scheme

was changed to that of software as a service subscription model. Historically, Photoshop was

bundled with additional software such as Adobe Image Ready, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Bridge,

Adobe Device Central and Adobe Camera RAW.

Alongside Photoshop, Adobe also develops and publishes Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Light

room, Photoshop Express, Photoshop Fix, Photoshop Sketch and Photoshop Mix. As of

November 2019, Adobe has also released a full version of Photoshop for the iPad, and while

initially limited, Adobe plans to bring more features to Photoshop for iPad. Collectively, they are branded as "The Adobe Photoshop Family"