#AdobePhotoshop #Software - The origins of Photoshop date back to when Tom Knoll wanted to
showcase grayscale images on his monochrome display, which was on his
Macintosh Plus. It was then suggested that he should turn this program,
which he called "Display," into a full image-editing program.
The first known version of the software was released in 1988. Of
course, a 1988 release would make Photoshop 27 years old. However, this
version wasn't released to the public, even though it was the first
known version of the software, being version 0.07. September 1989 was when Adobe bought Photoshop.
At the time, the creators of Photoshop had been in talks with both
Supermac and Aldus, which were other software companies.
Both, however,
turned down the deal, eventually leading to a deal between Photoshop and
Adobe. This would be huge for both companies, launching them into
success. After a couple of other in-progress versions, Photoshop 1.0 was
finally released to the public in 1990. At the time, it cost around $300
per hour for photo retouching. Photoshop eventually became one of the first cross-platform software, with a Windows version being released in November 1992. Another milestone came in Photoshop version 5.5, which allowed users
to "Save for web." What this essentially meant was that users could
export their images in a format and quality that would be appropriate
for the slow web speeds of the time.
Version 6.0 was also rather significant, adding support for vector
shapes. This feature was very well received by users of Photoshop
because of the fact that vector images use points and lines rather than
pixels. This allows vector-based images to be much more clear when
zoomed in. Next up was version 7.0, which introduced a number of new tools in
the brush palette, including the healing brush tool and the ability to
create custom brushes. One of the biggest new features, however, was
introduced in version 7.0.1 with the addition of Raw 1.x support. Raw
photos are essentially completely uncompressed images, allowing for all
the data captured by the camera to be shown. While this makes for the
best image quality, it also leads to huge file sizes.
Photoshop is currently at version 15.0, known as Creative Cloud 2014.
Photoshop is now a subscription-based service, allowing users to pay a
monthly fee rather than the hundreds of dollars for the software
outright. Photoshop continues to be the most revered and dominant image-editing
service, showing no signs of stopping. Its past has laid a great
framework for its future, as it continues to add support for new
versions of Raw photos, among other important features.