[Photoshop]History

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Photoshop's developers, Thomas and John Knoll began development on Photoshop in 1987. Version 1 was released by Adobe in 1990. The program was intended from the start as a tool for manipulating images that were digitized by a scanner, which was a rare and expensive device in those days.

 

 

Recently I happened upon a copy of Photoshop 1.0. This is what it looks like. It is a very primitive program by modern standards and doesn't have a quarter of the functionality that today's Photoshop CS2 (version 9.0) has. It's interesting to see how far it has come

 

 

The most obvious thing lacking was layer support, which was introduced in version 3.0 sometime in 1993. PS 1.0 included primitive selection tools and basic image filters/adjustments, as seen above.

 

 

In this picture you can see Photoshop's whopping two palettes, which let the user pick a brush, color, and pattern.

 

 

This is Photoshop's preferences dialog box, believe it or not. You could set up separation, interpolation method, and column size, among others.

 

 

There was even (very primitive) type support in PS1.0, as you can see here. You could set font leading, spacing, style, and alignment — and you had to write your text into the type dialog, after which it was placed into your image.

 

 

And this is how it looks compared to Photoshop CS2. ;-)

 

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More informations:

 

In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program, called Display, caught the attention of his brother John Knoll, an Industrial Light & Magic employee, who recommended Thomas turn it into a full-fledged image editing program. Thomas took a six month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program, which had been renamed ImagePro.Later that year, Thomas renamed his program Photoshop and worked out a short-term deal with scanner manufacturer Barneyscan to distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner; a "total of about 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped" this way.

 

During this time, John traveled to Silicon Valley and gave a demonstration of the program to engineers at Apple and Russell Brown, art director at Adobe. Both showings were successful, and Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988.[1] While John worked on plug-ins in California, Thomas remained in Ann Arbor writing program code. Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990 for Macintosh exclusively.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop