Computers and the Internet

Computer software and the Internet have been just as influential in digital photography as have the cameras themselves. It is not really possible to use a digital camera without using a computer to store images and/or to download them to online storage spaces. Much has happened to enable this, from the software that comes with just about all cameras for uploading images to a computer hard drive to websites designed for storing and showing images.

The first version of the image-editing tool Photoshop was released by Adobe in 1990. This software, which has become the industry standard, was originally designed for manipulating images that were scanned into a computer. Photoshop really came into its own in version 3.0 with ...

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