Software

PAINT SHOP PRO - Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor, which in later editions became a vector graphics editor too. Corel is the company behind the paint shop pro series. Used alot by home computer users due to the low price in which it is retailed at due to the lack of content compared to programmes such as photoshop. However there are many third party applications and downloads avaible which contain features similar to those in photoshop, so this software is very useful and fully expandable.



PHOTOSHOP - Currently the leading commercial editing and manipulation software available for graphical production, photoshop features alot of content used by a wide range of people, from professionals to home users. Developed by adobe, photoshop hosts hundreds of editing features from simple light filters to layers, which allow the image to be cut up and edited on top of the existing image without affecting it. The standard save format in photoshop is alot larger than standard formats such as .jpg, as it uses its own specific file type (.PSD).



Here is my example of using layers in Photoshop;













As you can see I have inserted a film character on top of this office image, however he is layered behind the desk partition.