Photoshop 2025 Review: Part 1 - Just Like a Fine Wine, Adobe Photoshop Improves with Age, but Also Develops More Complex Flavors, Textures and Tones

​By Jack Neubart
Photographer, photo-technical writer, musician/composer, software developer, birder.
Text and images ©2025 Jack Neubart. All rights reserved.

​Picture it: the sun rises slowly, as if pacing itself, revealing the dawn of humankind. (The orchestra plays the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey, hitting a resounding crescendo, then slowly fading as another image emerges…) On the horizon lies a figure of massive proportions, soon to be awakened, and, once awakened, finds itself propelled forward. The flurry of movement is beguiling and bewildering. Upon reaching the digital stage, it will have reached a pinnacle of being. It will rise on eagle’s wings and soar into the heavens!

Well, that may be a passable opener for a novel, but, really, it’s not that far from the truth. Adobe Photoshop has been around for a long time. And I’m happy to say, I had the pleasure of working with this giant of digital image editing in its formative stages.
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Back then, I was new to image editing, as were we all. And, truth be told, I was a bit intimidated by all this new technology. There was a handful of notable editing apps out there back then – I tested them all. But, of those, Photoshop was the only one to stand the test of time. And, yes, it has soared, if not on eagle’s wings, then certainly on its own merits.

Okay, it's actually a sunset, but you get the picture. And it was processed in Adobe Photoshop 2025. ©Jack Neubart. All rights reserved.

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