is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It was launched in 1990 and updated several times. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as "an industry standard for graphics professionals" and was one of the early "killer applications" on the Macintosh, later also for the PC.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 is the 11th major release
of Adobe Photoshop. The CS rebranding also resulted in Adobe offering numerous software packages containing multiple Adobe programs for a reduced price. Adobe Photoshop is included in most of Adobe's Creative Suite offerings. Photoshop's popularity, combined with its high retail price, makes Photoshop's piracy rate relatively high..
The current market leader is Adobe Photoshop.
One of the early “killer applications” on the Macintosh was Adobe