Without Adobe Photoshop, the Internet will be completely different than what we are seeing today. This earth shaking graphics designing and editing computer software is developed and published by Adobe Systems. The 11th major version of Adobe Photoshop – Adobe Photoshop CS4 – just released 7 months ago, while, in fact, Photoshop has continuously existed and evolved for more than 20 years.
Adobe published an official brief review of 20 years of Photoshop history
, however, there are much more facts about Photoshop’s history are worth to highlight.
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Infant Stage
In 1987, Thomas Knoll, the son of a professor, began developing a program, called Display, to display grayscale images on his Macintosh Plus. His brother John Knoll who worked for Industrial Light & Magic quickly realized the commercial potential of Display, and recommended Thomas to turn it into a full-fledged image editing program. Thomas worked on the program and renamed it Photoshop in 1988. They then began to distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner. But Photoshop was not well known until John met Russell Brown, art director at Adobe. Soon Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988.
In 1990, Photoshop 1.0 was released for Macintosh exclusively.