Enjoy unlimited creative options

With innovative special-effect options and powerful painting and drawing tools, there's no limit to the results you can achieve with Photoshop.

Painting tools

The powerful Photoshop paint engine lets you simulate traditional painting techniques, including charcoal, pastel, and wet or dry brush effects. Choose from the many preset brush styles on the Photoshop CD, or use the Brushes palette to create your own unique effects. See Working with brushes and Selecting preset brushes.

Drawing tools

Draw resolution-independent vector shapes instantly with the line, rectangle, ellipse, polygon, and custom shape tools. Or use the pen tool to draw just as you would in Adobe Illustrator. Because they're vector shapes, you can edit them easily. See Drawing shapes and paths.

Layer effects

Shadows, glows, bevels, embossed effects, and more--with the Layer Styles dialog box, adding three-dimensional effects to a layer is quick and easy. You can apply any combination of layer effects, then save the combination as a style and apply it to other layers instantly. To edit or delete the effect, simply open the Layer Styles dialog box and change the settings. See Using layer effects and styles.

Color effects

Choose solid colors from swatch libraries, define your own colors in Color palette, or use the gradient tools to create a gradual blend between multiple colors. Use the Layers palette to change the opacity of an image or to apply a blending mode that affects the way the color in one layer interacts with the layers below. See Using the gradient tool (Photoshop) and Setting opacity and blending options.

Filters

Photoshop includes more than 95 special effect filters--from fine-art effects, to motion blurs, to lighting effects and distortions.See Previewing and applying filters.

Pattern Maker

Create seamless patterns automatically. Simply make a selection and apply the Pattern Maker plug-in to generate textures and background patterns. See Generating patterns.

Transformation tools

Scale, rotate, distort, or skew images easily. Apply the 3D Transform filter to simulate three-dimensional effects such as jar labels and boxes. Use the Liquify command to interactively push, pull, pucker, or bloat an image. See Transforming objects in two dimensions, Transforming objects in three dimensions, and Using the Liquify command.