It's been 20 years when this evil software came to our life, already. Photoshop could be seen almost everywhere from publishing industry to schools these days, and even news industry.
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.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. (Wikipedia) It became the killer app for Macintosh.
1990
After hard working with Adobe engineers, Thomas finally worked out a new version of Photoshop, 1.0.7. It was only a diskette with 800KB capacity, the program by then was pretty much like Paint in Windows, pencil, coloring, change scale of pictures, eraser.
1991
Industrial Light and Magic, ILM used photoshop created several films and get much positive judgment.
Photoshop 2.0 came out. It started Illustrator, CMYK color and Pen tool.
1993
Photoshop 2.5 came to the market, the major character of this version is that it became available in Windows. In this version, Photoshop gain 2 more new function, Filter and Palette.
1994
Photoshop had introduced into Journalism, the Time Magazine cover with O.J. Simpon became the first news picture which been processed through Photoshop.
Photoshop 3.0 brought to market this year, and Layer function came into this application. It allows users to process pictures in different layers and combine them into one. Quite easy for now, but it was very creative at that time.
1995
Suddenly, there were many photo editing software in the market, of course, they all try to brought down Photoshop. Live Picture was one of them, the engineers claimed that the Layer function of Photoshop was plagiarism.
Adobe finally realized how important Photoshop was, they decided to buy the copyright of Photoshop, and paied 3450 million dollars.
1996
Coded Big Electric cat, Photoshop 4.0 was published in 1996. The major change of this version is the user interface. Adobe decided that Photoshop would be unified with other products of the company, and there would be some changes about the working flow. Some users was a bit dissatisfied about these changes, some even started a protest; but after a while, they took it quite well. Meanwhile, 4.0 also introduced a non-destructive adjustment layers, action, macro, grid, guides, and free transform tools.
1997
Live Picture, number one competitor of Photoshop, dive into a bitter struggle this year, John Sculley, former CEO of Macintosh went for emergency assistance.
1998
Photo 5.0 came to market. This time, History was brought into concept. It's different to Undo, and quite popular in picture software area.
1999
This is a second X.5 of Photoshop, 5.5. The major change made Photoshop start to support imagines for website.
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