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Photoshop is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap (RASTER) and image manipulation and is the best-known piece of software produced by Adobe Systems. It has been described as "an industry standard for graphics professionals."

Although primarily designed to edit images for paper-based printing, Photoshop is used increasingly to produce images for the World Wide Web. Versions between 5.5 and CS2 used to bundle a related application, Adobe ImageReady, to provide a more specialized set of tools for this purpose.

Photoshop also has strong ties with other Adobe software for media editing, animation and authoring. Files in Photoshop's native format, .PSD, can be exported to and from Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Adobe Encore DVD.