Adobe Photoshop is the premier professional photo editing and graphics tool. With this program, creative power is limitless. For the purpose of collage and digital scrapbooking, photoshop has all the tools that could ever be needed.

Some key features are, of course the layers palette, eraser tool, healing tool, and curves.

Layers: Allows you to work with each layer or photograph separately without affecting the other layers.

Eraser: The collage artist’s best friend. The eraser brush can be used to erase any part of a picture you don’t want.

Healing: This tool can fix blemishes and imperfections in a photo, get rid of that pimple and that ring of food around a child’s mouth.

Curves: Adjust the lighting of a photo, fix dark photos, etc…

Of course, with Photoshop, the actions and plugins available are countless. The ability to create your own actions for repeated procedures, for example, putting a watermark on an image, is simple.

Photoshop is full-fledged software for the professional graphic designer or digital photographer. The learning curve is long, it can be difficult to learn to use Photoshop to it’s full potential and is intimidating to newcomers, but numerous tutorials are available online.