The Medium is Photoshop

If Photoshop is to be considered a medium, then its contents are the brushes, erasers, filters, text tools, and various image editing tools included.

What Photoshop does to society is create artists out of people who never thought they had any skill, or for that matter people with no skill. It is no longer necessary to splurge on paints and canvasses and lessons to create art. Society can now create works of art on their computers with clicks of the mouse and clacks of the keyboard.

At the same time Photoshop can be a weapon. Not a deadly one, per se, but a mental one. People can use Photoshop's contents as a tool for humiliation. A person's head can be pasted on the body of someone in a degrading position. Collages of hate can be made. In addition, another negative aspect is the issue of Fair Use. People in the internet age take and edit whatever image they please in Photoshop, despite the fact that it may be copyright infringement.