One of the most widely used tool is Adobe Photoshop software. Through the growth and development of software, the importance of the program and its impact on the design community have also grown. The History Of Photoshop Brothers Knoll created the first version of Photoshop in 1987 which worked with gray-scale image. Adobe Photoshop 1.0. Photoshop 1.0 was officially released in February 1990 and was the first time the software was as a standalone product (rather than bundled with a Barneyscan scanner). It was also the first time the software was released commercially with the brand name Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop CS (2003) Functionality Overview: Better user control. Improved searching and sharing. History of Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop was originally developed in 1987 by the brothers John and Thomas Knoll. Since its original development, Photoshop has evolved from a simple image editing tool to a comprehensive suite for image manipulation.
Early history
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 fully-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.[3] 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.[4]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.[3] 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.[5]
Features
Further information: Comparison of raster graphics editors#Features
Photoshop has ties with other Adobe software for media editing, animation, and authoring. The .PSD (Photoshop Document), Photoshop's native format, stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, color spaces, ICC profiles, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, clipping paths, and duotone settings. This is in contrast to many other file formats (e.g. .EPS or .GIF) that restrict content to provide streamlined, predictable functionality.Photoshop's popularity means that the .PSD format is widely used, and it is supported to some extent by most competing software. The .PSD file format can be exported to and from Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, and After Effects, to make professional standard DVDs and provide non-linear editing and special effects services, such as backgrounds, textures, and so on, for television, film, and the Web. Photoshop is a pixel-based image editor, unlike programs such as Macromedia FreeHand (now defunct), Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape or CorelDraw, which are vector-based image editors.
Photoshop uses color models RGB, lab, CMYK, grayscale, binary bitmap, and duotone. Photoshop has the ability to read and write raster and vector image formats such as .EPS, .PNG, .GIF, .JPEG, and Adobe Fireworks.
Adobe Photoshop Elements History
CS3
Smart Layers display the filter without altering the original image (here on Mac OS X)
New productivity features include a streamlined interface, improved Camera RAW support, better control over print options, enhanced PDF support, and better management with Adobe Bridge. Editing tools new to CS3 are the Clone Source palette and nondestructive Smart Filters, and other features such as the brightness and contrast adjustment and Vanishing Point module were enhanced. The Black and White adjustment option improves control over manual grayscale conversions with a dialog box similar to that of Channel Mixer. Compositing is assisted with Photoshop's new Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools and improved image stitching technology.[6]CS3 Extended contains all features of CS3 plus tools for editing and importing some 3D graphics file formats, enhancing video, and comprehensive image analysis tools, utilizing MATLAB integration and DICOM file support.[7]
CS4
Photoshop CS4 features a new 3D engine allowing painting directly on 3D models, wrapping 2D images around 3D shapes, converting gradient maps to 3D objects, adding depth to layers and text, getting print-quality output with the new ray-tracing rendering engine. It supports common 3D formats; the new Adjustment and Mask Panels; Content-aware scaling (seam carving[8]); Fluid Canvas Rotation and File display options.[9] On 30 April, Adobe released Photoshop CS4 Extended, which includes all the same features of Adobe Photoshop CS4 with the addition of capabilities for scientific imaging, 3D, and high end film and video users. The successor to Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS4 is the first 64-bit Photoshop on consumer computers (only on Windows – the OS X version is still 32-bit only.)[10]
Adobe Photoshop Elements History
CS3
Smart Layers display the filter without altering the original image (here on Mac OS X)
New productivity features include a streamlined interface, improved Camera RAW support, better control over print options, enhanced PDF support, and better management with Adobe Bridge. Editing tools new to CS3 are the Clone Source palette and nondestructive Smart Filters, and other features such as the brightness and contrast adjustment and Vanishing Point module were enhanced. The Black and White adjustment option improves control over manual grayscale conversions with a dialog box similar to that of Channel Mixer. Compositing is assisted with Photoshop's new Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools and improved image stitching technology.[6]CS3 Extended contains all features of CS3 plus tools for editing and importing some 3D graphics file formats, enhancing video, and comprehensive image analysis tools, utilizing MATLAB integration and DICOM file support.[7]
CS4
Photoshop CS4 features a new 3D engine allowing painting directly on 3D models, wrapping 2D images around 3D shapes, converting gradient maps to 3D objects, adding depth to layers and text, getting print-quality output with the new ray-tracing rendering engine. It supports common 3D formats; the new Adjustment and Mask Panels; Content-aware scaling (seam carving[8]); Fluid Canvas Rotation and File display options.[9] On 30 April, Adobe released Photoshop CS4 Extended, which includes all the same features of Adobe Photoshop CS4 with the addition of capabilities for scientific imaging, 3D, and high end film and video users. The successor to Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS4 is the first 64-bit Photoshop on consumer computers (only on Windows – the OS X version is still 32-bit only.)[10]Adobe Photoshop Wiki
CS5
Photoshop CS5 was launched on April 12, 2010.[11] In a video posted on its official Facebook page, the development team revealed the new technologies under development, including three dimensional brushes and warping tools.[12]A version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended was used for a Prerelease Beta. A large group of selected Photoshop users were invited to beta test in mid-February 2010.
This table charts the Adobe Photoshop release history, starting with the first versions by independent creators Thomas and John Knoll in the summer of 1988. The license to distribute the program was purchased by Adobe Systems in September 1988.
Version compatibility
- Mac OS 8.5/8.6/9.0-v6
- Mac OS 9.1/9.2-v7
- Mac OS X 10.2/10.3-v9 (CS2)
- Mac OS X 10.5/10.6-v12 (CS5) (Current)
- Windows 95-v5.5
- Windows NT 4/98/SE/ME-v7
- Windows 2000-v9 (CS2)
- Windows XP/Vista/7-v12 (CS5) (Current)
Version history
Adobe Photoshop CS
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
| Version | Platform | Codename | Release date | Significant changes |
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| 0.63 | Macintosh | October 1988 | ||
| 1.0 | Macintosh | February 1990 | ||
| 2.0 | Macintosh | Fast Eddy | June 1991 |
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| 2.5 | Macintosh | Merlin | November 1992 |
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| Windows | Brimstone | |||
| IRIX, Solaris | November 1993 | |||
| 3.0 | Macintosh | Tiger Mountain | September 1994 |
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| Windows, IRIX, Solaris [1] | November 1994 | |||
| 4.0 | Macintosh, Windows | Big Electric Cat | November 1996 |
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| 5.0 | Macintosh, Windows | Strange Cargo | May 1998 |
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| 5.5 | Macintosh, Windows | Strange Cargo | February 1999 |
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| 6.0 | Macintosh, Windows | Venus in Furs | September 2000 |
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| 7.0 | Mac OS 'Classic'/Mac OS X, Windows | Liquid Sky | March 2002 |
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| 7.0.1 | Mac OS 'Classic'/Mac OS X, Windows | August 2002 |
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| CS (8.0) | Mac OS X, Windows | Dark Matter | October 2003 |
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| CS2 (9.0) | Mac OS X, Windows 2000 / XP | Space Monkey | April 2005 |
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| CS3, CS3 Extended (10.0) | Universal Mac OS X, Windows XP SP2 or later | Red Pill | April 16, 2007 |
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| CS4, CS4 Extended (11.0) | Universal Mac OS X, Windows | Stonehenge | October 15, 2008[3] |
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| CS5, CS5 Extended (12.0) | Mac OS X, Windows | White Rabbit | April 30, 2010[4] |
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As Adobe Photoshop prepared to celebrate its 20th anniversary, employees wanted to go beyond the usual timeline of product features and tell the story of Photoshop in a way that would resonate with new, younger audiences as well as the core of established professionals who had worked with Photoshop for the past two decades.
Any sketch app. History Factory used its proprietary StoryARC™ methodology to connect the history of image-making to the future of Photoshop. We created a story bank used by communicators and managers to engage media outlets and to rally employees internally. We also crafted 20 video interviews that formed the foundation for our 'Behind the Splash Screen' social media campaign, illuminating the people who build and improve Photoshop and sharing their stories of challenge and triumph. We worked with the Photoshop team to capture about 25 oral histories, enabling the people involved to document in their own words the intensity of their multi-year experience.
Photoshop has a thriving social media community that allowed our client to share these uniquely personal stories with a wide audience, including 2 million Facebook followers. Our first 'Behind the Splash Screen' video received more than 1,000 'likes' within minutes of posting, and more than 20,000 YouTube views in its first week. The video gave Photoshop's external users an honest and candid glimpse of the reality behind the typically esoteric world of software engineering.
