Sunday, October 7, 2012

Lecture Post: Photoshop


My entrepreneurial idea is one for an app that would run on both Apple and Android products, particularly smartphones, iPads and tablets.  The app, called “Connected” is one that allows you to stay in touch with your friends easily no matter where you are.  Using Apple and Android integrated software, this app automatically shows the location of your closest friends via GPS right on your mobile device.  You will never lose your friends again!


Photoshop is the industry standard term for most pictures editing programs.  Photoshop CS6 is the latest version and is part of the Adobe suite of editing software programs.  As we learned from our lab this week, Photoshop also features a basic online editing program that allows for basic photo adjustments such as white balance, cropping, and brightness/contrast.  Photoshop allows for many different opportunities, whether it be editing photos for businesses like Magazine companies or editing photos for Facebook posting.  

Photoshop CS6 currently costs $300 for purchase of the software that can be downloaded or installed via CD.  However, Photoshop, like many other software products will soon become incorporated into cloud computing.  Users will pay based on a time usage system.  So instead of paying $300 for the program, users might pay $5 for each day they actually need the program, or something to that effect.  Also, the program itself will be fully accessible via the Cloud (on the internet). 

Photoshop CS6 features many more features that the online free basic version does.  Users can do thousands of different things with any photo they choose.  Users can also output various types of files types that include but at not limited to jpeg, gif, and png files.   Photoshop can be very useful to my app, Connected.  Using Photoshop, we can design user-friendly interfaces for each tab in the app that will work for any type of mobile device.  We can customize our app with any colors, layouts or design features we want, all through Photoshop.  Photoshop will certainly be a valuable tool in creating a layout that is intriguing and pulls in users.  It will also be critical in designing a easily understandable and efficient interface layout. 

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