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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 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.
== Teenage ==
== Teenage ==
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 to version 7.0.1 in August 2002. Many significant features were developed during this time, including ''Paths''(2.0), ''Layers''(3.0), ''Color Management''(5.0), and ''Healing Brush''(7.0).
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 of graphic editing, web designing, media editing, and more.
== Interesting Facts ==
Photoshop immediately joined Windows operating system in November 1992, with Version 2.5 and codename Brimstone.
One of the major of Photoshop is [http://www.microsoft.com/Silverlight/ Silverlight], a graphic editing program belong to [http://www.softwareking.com/microsoft.html Microsoft software]