Digital Art, Graphic information, DPaint Manipulation Program, Paint Shop Pro Photopaint Photoshop
Issue Date:
2007
Publisher:
Institute of Information Theories and Applications FOI ITHEA
Abstract:
The desire to create unique things and give free rain to one's imagination served as a powerful impetus
to the development of digital art and design software. The commoner was the use of computers the wider variety
of professional software was developed. Nowadays the creators and computer designers are receiving more and
more new and advanced programs that allow their ideas becoming virtual reality. This research paper looks at the
history of the development of graphic editors from the simplest to the most modern and advanced. This brief
survey includes the history of different graphic editors’ creation, their features and abilities. This paper highlights
the two basic branches of graphic editors – these that are in free use and commercial graphic editors design
software. The researcher selected the most powerful and influential graphic editors design software brands like
Paint.NET and GIMP among free software and commercial Adobe Photoshop. This paper also dwells upon the
way digital art transferred from the exclusively professional business into the hobby for ordinary users. This
research paper bears implications for those who are interested in features and potentiality of most popular
graphic editors design software.