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== '''Infant Stage''' ==
== '''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.