It is a powerful and versatile product with hundreds of functions aimed at professional digital artists. The 12th major version of Photoshop, called CS5, is considered the Swiss army-knife of imaging software. So Adobe, in all its wisdom, gave the Photoshop name to all their image processing software, resulting in confusion throughout the world. This made it nearly impossible for software not named Photoshop to compete in the same space.
Photoshop, originally launched 21 years ago, became synonymous with image processing. Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Lightroom are all Photoshop versions by marketing yet they are products serving different purposes.
