Adobe SystemRuaa Ahmed – Rawdha AlSuwaidi

Outline•Definition of Adobe•Purpose of Adobe•Adobe’s Effects on people’s life•History of Adobe•Adobe’s Development•Types of Adobe

1. Adobe InDesign• Who uses it• Why is it used• Languages• Latest version

2. Adobe Illustrator• Who uses it• Why is it used• Languages• Latest version

3. Adobe Photoshop• Who uses it• Why is it used• Languages• Latest version

•References

Definition of Adobe

A Smartphone, games, websites and video’s are all touched by Adobe technology.

Adobe is a computer software company that focus on the creation of creativity and multimedia software products.

It provides creative multimedia software products such as Adobe Photoshop.

Purpose of Adobe

Adobe’s purpose is to enable people to produce innovative digital content by it’s tools and services, spread it across media and devices, and then measure it based on user data.

Adobe’s Effects on People’s Life

Adobe helps students to achieve success by offering them the tools to improve critical digital collaboration and creativity skills needed in today’s technology global workforce.

Also, Adobe helps business to achieve better and larger business success, enhance their communications, and strengthen their brands by providing them with solutions that combine both digital media creation and data-driven marketing.

History of Adobe Adobe’s creation and Establishment

Adobe’s creation was first started with the establishment of a computer software company called “Adobe systems incorporated”

 

“Adobe system Incorporated” was founded in December 1982 in United states, California.

Charles Geschke and John Warnock established Adobe after leaving Xerox Parc to their sell the postscript page description language created adobe.

The company name “Adobe” came from Adobe creek in Los altos, California, which was behind one of the company’s founder’s house.

Adobe’s Development from Past to Present

Historically, Adobe Company focused on creating multimedia and creativity software products towards rich Internet application software development.

Later, the company started to improve each year by adding newer software products such as Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex.

It started to have major development operations in many countries such as San Francisco and Washington.

In 1995, Adobe company ranked as one of the most remaining places to work by Fortune magazine ever since. And by 2007, It ranked as the 9th largest software company in the whole world.

Types of Adobe System

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Who uses it? It is used by many people including

Graphic Designers

Journalists

Web Designers

Why is it used? It is used to design and preflight engaging

page layouts for print or digital distribution with built-in creative tools and precise control over typography.

Integrate interactivity, video, and audio for playback on tablets, smartphones, and computers.

Languages Adobe InDesign is available in the following

languages

Arabic (Middle Eastern version), Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (International & United States), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew (Middle Eastern version), Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

Latest Version Adobe InDesign CS5.5 is the latest version

Adobe Illustrator

Who uses it? Graphic Designers

Animators

Why is it used? It is used to create victor graphics

Languages Adobe Illustrator is available in the following

languages

Arabic (Middle Eastern version), Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (International & United States), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew (Middle Eastern version), Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

Latest Version Adobe illustrator CS5 is the latest version

Adobe Photoshop

Who uses it? Fashion Designers

Photographers

Graphic Designers

Web Designers

Textile Designers

Why is it used? It is used to correct lens distortions,

chromatic aberration, and vignetting automatically, or customize precise corrections with the improved Lens Correction filter in Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 software.

It also straighten crooked images quickly, and correct overexposed areas without affecting the rest of the image.

Languages Adobe Photoshop is available in the

following languages

Arabic (Middle Eastern version), Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (International & United States), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew (Middle Eastern version), Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

Latest Version Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the latest version

Reference Adobe Press. (2006). Adobe InDesign CS2.

California: Peachpit.

Adobe Press. (2007). Adobe Photoshop CS3. California: Peachpit.

Cohen, L. S. (2004). Illustrator CS . California: Peachipt Press.

Learning. (2011). Retrieved October 22, 2011, from Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/learning/

The History of Adobe. (2011). Retrieved October 22, 2011, from WebHostingReport: http://www.webhostingreport.com/learn/adobe.html