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| − | 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 [http://www.adobe.com/ Adobe Systems]. The 11th major version of ''Adobe Photoshop'' – [http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/?promoid=DNOWM ''Adobe Photoshop CS4''] – just released 7 months ago, while, in fact, ''Photoshop'' has continuously existed and evolved for more than 20 years.
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| − | ''Adobe'' published an official brief review of [http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/dialogbox/pshistory.html 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 ==
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| − | 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.
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| − | In 1990, ''Photoshop'' 1.0 was released for ''Macintosh'' exclusively.
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| − | ''The original application icons designed by John Knoll.''
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| − | == Teenage ==
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| − | Started from 1990, ''Photoshop'' updated its versions in a relatively fast pace. With interesting codenames for different versions, such as ''Fast Eddy'', ''Brimstone'', ''Big Electric Cat'', and ''Venus in Furs'', ''Photoshop'' went all the way from version 1.0 to 7.0. In August 2002, ''Photoshop'' released version 7.0.1. Many significant features were developed during this time, including ''Paths''(2.0), ''Layers''(3.0), ''Color Management''(5.0), and ''Healing Brush''(7.0).
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| − | In less than a decade, Photoshop became an important member of [http://www.softwareking.com/adobe.html Adobe software] family. It was not only a famous computer software brand, but also a standard tool for graphic editing, web designing, media editing, and more.
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| − | == Interesting Facts ==
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| − | * ''Photoshop'' was available for ''Windows'' operating system in November 1992, after seeing ''Windows''' continuously increasing popularity. ''Photoshop'' was at version 2.5 with codename ''Brimstone'' at that time.
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| − | * However, one of the current major competitor of ''Photoshop'' is [http://www.microsoft.com/Silverlight/ ''Silverlight''], a graphic editing program belong to [http://www.softwareking.com/microsoft.html ''Microsoft'' software] family.
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