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Over the next few weeks, I plan on starting an introduction to the digital arts, at least one from my experience as a developer, designer, a student and now a training center owner.

Adobe has long been the most powerful of the royal families involved in the vast kingdom of the digital arts. The Adobe King, I believe is definitely Photoshop with his strong and tightly knit family that makes up the entire court of Photoshop products. However in recent years Adobe’s royal family has spread across the visual and print spectrum with its vast improvements by adding the likes of InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, and so many other dynamic programs. As I go, I will try to hit on all of the programs and many other that are also very good at playing their roles in the digital arts kingdom.

Let’s begin by taking a look at each of the Photoshop members and how they became the royal family of photo digital editing.

The Adobe Photoshop family has become not only a rich family but a diverse family.

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop CS3

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2

The Photoshop history oddly enough doesn't start with trying to edit photographs. It started more in the world of fonts, printers, Microsoft, Macintosh, and the genius of John Warnock. John Warnock.was a scientist working at Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). SPARC an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. (click to read more)

While at SPARC, Warnoc invented the Adobe PostScript. I'm sure you have heard of it but may not know or care what Adobe PostScript is... so, simply put it is a way to constantly print what you create. Almost the first WYSIWYG for the computer. OK, I know this is the borrowing part butthis is desktop publishing in its infancy.

Postscript was designed for the Macintosh and programs like Microsoft Word and Excel. That's right Microsoft had its early years on a Mac. These early years is how Macintosh gained such dominence in the graphic's world and the world of digital design. For years and really even today, if you tell someone you are a graphic designer they will naturally awesome you use a Mac but that is changing.... maybe.