Game Design Foundations (Wordware Game and Graphics Library)

Adobe Photoshop (www.adobe.com)

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 is a graphics editing application that has tremendous tools, features, and plug-ins. The interface has basic components, such as the menu bar, toolbox, the options bar, and palettes.

The toolbox includes Adobe Online and functions like Marquee, Move, Lasso, Magic Wand, Crop, Slice, Airbrush, Paintbrush, Clone Stamp, History Brush, Eraser, Gradient, Blur, Path Component Selection, Type (enter text), Pen, Rectangle, Notes, Eye Dropper, Hand, Zoom, Change Foreground or Background Color, Edit in Standard Mode, Edit in Quick Mask Mode, Full Screen Mode, Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar, Standard Screen Mode, and Jump to ImageReady (for web graphics by Adobe). The menu bar includes functions under categories such as File, Edit, Image, Layer, Select, Filter, Window, and Help.

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 in April 2002 retailed for $609 for the Mac (Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X) and Windows XP. This new version features the “healing brush,” which easily retouches digital photos (removes dust, scratches, blemishes, and wrinkles while preserving shading, lighting, and textures). It also has a file browser to organize images, rotate, sort, rank, and batch rename images, scripting support for JavaScript, AppleScript, and Microsoft Visual BASIC. An enhanced distorting or liquify tool is available to allow viewing of other layers and to zoom, pan, and undo multiple steps. There is a pattern maker to create realistic or abstract patterns like grass, rocks, and sand and a search and replace text feature that supports multiple languages and a spell checker.