35 years ago today, on 19 February, 1990, Adobe shipped Photoshop 1.0, an application that made professional-level image processing accessible to the public for the first time, and went on to be the company’s most popular and lucrative piece of software. It changed the world, and its cultural status has been cemented ever since the verb form of its name entered the conversational lexicon. Everyone knows what “photoshopped” means, and most of us don’t remember a time when that wasn’t the case.
No matter your skill level or art style, Photoshop is one of the best software packages for digital artists. Check out our list of the best Photoshop tutorials to learn how to get the most out of it, and our roundup of the best laptops for Photoshop to make sure you have the right hardware for heavy image processing.
