Is there life after Photoshop?

In the 1990s its popularity exploded thanks to an exceptional array of transformational tools. It was helped along because it was often illegally passed around by friends and easily downloaded from the internet if you knew where to look, BBC News reports. The software could be found everywhere from big-budget design studios to student bedsits. Several years ago the chief executive then of Adobe, makers of Photoshop, told me that nine out of 10 images that we see anywhere around us, including those found on food packaging, billboards, catalogues and paint cans, for example, have been processed in Photoshop. No wonder it became a verb too. But in June this year, Photoshop did the unthinkable (although Adobe had been thinking about it for some time). It became subscription-only software, no longer available as a boxed product in retail stores where one price bought unlimited creativity. Now ideas, images and designs can only flow within strict time limits - unless the meter is fed. Read more