Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
You can easily install Adobe Photoshop, the industry-standard photo editing and manipulation software in your system provided that you have the bare minimum system requirements as specified by Adobe to run it efficiently and smooth, some of the first things is the operation system(OS) – Windows, MAC, Linux and the hardware configuration such as hard disk space, RAM memory, processor, graphics card, internet connection and so on, therefore once you have all these ready you need to follow the steps for downloading and installing your preferred Photoshop version (latest is Photoshop CC) from the Adobe website.
Before installing you need to check a few system properties which as listed below:-
- Hard Disk space 5GB or more free space in C:\ drive to install application and work.
- Ram 4GB or more valued (8GB recommended).
- Processor Intel or AMD with 64 bit supported 4GHz or faster.
- Operating system Windows or iOS with 64bit configuration.
- Internet connection must be good enough to register and get necessary requirements of software activation, subscription notifications and access to all online services and more.
Installing Photoshop
Below is the step by step details for installing Photoshop CC 2018 the latest version.
Step 1: To download and install the latest version of Photoshop visit the official webpage of Adobe Photoshop. This webpage contains all the latest features include in Photoshop.
https://www.adobe.com/in/products/photoshop.html and select the free version (30 days) trail pack. Click on buy now to purchase a plan pack from Adobe.
- Once we click on the buy now we will be directed to below web page select your plan and get a serial code for Photoshop access through Adobe official email after purchase. This serial number will be shared by Adobe official subscription email services don’t share it with others keep it secured.
https://www.adobe.com/in/creativecloud/plans.html
- This page has software access for multiple prepossesses like individual usage, Business or professional needs, students and teachers also use as well as schools and universities. And also has a cloud plan to save and access data from anywhere at any time using the internet. We can have corporate and education discounts if we purchase service packs more in number at once. For this, we need to contact adobe marketing or service team for more clear details. Below is the link for contacting Adobe service and marketing related quires.
https://helpx.adobe.com/in/contact.html
Step 2: We need to be registered (if new) or sign in (account exists) into Adobe official page https://www.adobe.com/in/we can use Facebook and Google credentials to create new registrations. Check your suitable plan or mode of installation and select it.
Step 3: Register or sign in into the Adobe page to get access of the apps accesses using CC version. We can use Facebook and Google account to sign in quickly. Project data can be saved in the cloud and can be easily accessed at any point in time. Updates and notifications related messages will be sent to the registered email Id.
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Step 4: After login, we can see our detail on the home page then open a new tab on your browser and open https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/download-availability.html here we have a list of Adobe cloud services application select Photoshop 64 bit from the list and download it based on “OS”.
- These are the list of application and services provided by Adobe download the required software with correct Operating System bit configuration 32bit or 64bit.
Step 5: Once the folder with all supporting file of Photoshop setup is available, unzip it as a folder and identify the setup folder and then run (double click on .exe) to execute the setup file wizard after downloaded.
Step 6: Once the setup launches it seeks for few configuration details such as the Adobe asking for the trial pack if you want trial pack select try option if you have Photoshop plan package purchased select install. This selection helps in getting connect package of your Photoshop with duration and added features and attribution based on the plan selected.
Step 7: Then we can see Adobe Software License agreement opened so go through the terms and conditions and select the language preferred before accepting the terms and conditions of Adobe Software License agreement.
After that Click on Accept.
Step 8: A digital numerical serial number will be sent to your registered emailed by Adobe If you have subscribed to any pack that serial number helps in activating your package, after getting it to type serial number in the column and once the complete number is typed click on NEXT, for free trial version it will not ask any serial number these users will be directly sent to the next step of installation by wizard.
Step 9: As per plan we can select the list of application required from the form package and choose preferred language and location to save the installation files and once they are given then click on install.
- Installation may take some time as the application will be installed on the device. Device must be OS of 64 bit, processer of 4Ghz or more and Hard disk space of minimum 5 GB check this parameter so that installation will be done smoothly.
Step 10: Once the installation procedure is completed we have a complete list of applications as per plan or free version are selected which will be installed and ready to use, below we can see that Photoshop is installed successfully. Followed by options to see a few basic videos which deal with how to handle Photoshop at the beginning phase of working.
Step 11: We can find Photoshop application shortcut available on desktop and in the application list, we can see Photoshop installed double click or right-click the application and select run as administrator. The application will be launched in our device
Step 12: Photoshop application gets opened and ready to use will all the tools. With multiple tools on the menu bar, layer pane, tools pane and all the latest updates and feature of Photoshop.
Step 13: Create a new file of different dimensions required and access All tools of Photoshop such as Brushes, Pen, Clone stamp and all other tools will be accessible along with all creating, editing and saving right on the individual file aspects base on a project. Artists can explore by turning their Ideas into Image, gif or any other file formats of Photoshop and bring them to reality or the visual world of digital graphics.
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