Adobe Photoshop

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Adobe Photoshop Development

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 screen. This program, called Display, caught the attention of his brother John Knoll, an employee at Industrial Light & Magic, who recommended Thomas converting his program to a full-fledged image editing program. Thomas took a six month break from studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program, which had been renamed ImagePro.[1] After that year, Thomas changed the name of the program to Photoshop and worked briefly with scanner manufacturer Barneyscan to distribute copies of the program with slide scanners; “a total of about 200 Photoshop copies have been shipped” this way.[2]

During that time, John traveled to Silicon Valley in California and gave demonstrations of the program to engineers at Apple Computer Inc. and Russell Brown, art director at Adobe. Both demonstrations were successful, and Adobe decided to purchase a license to distribute in September 1988.[1] While John worked on plug-ins in California, Thomas remained in Ann Arbor writing code. Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990 specifically for the Macintosh.[3]

Adobe Photoshop Alternative

There are several software that can be used instead of Photoshop, the most famous of which is Corel Photo-Paint (one package with CorelDRAW, Corel Painter, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI and Ulead PhotoImpact). Other software includes Helicon Filter, GIMP, openCanvas, Paint.NET, Photoscape and Pixel image editor.

Adobe Photoshop  Culture

The word Photoshopping appears as a neologism, meaning “to edit an image”, although image processing itself does not use Photoshop as its program (much like Google can now be used as a verb). Adobe discourages use of the term[4] out of fear that it will undermine the company’s trademark. The term photoshop is also used as a noun referring to the altered image.

Photoshopping images for humorous purposes has become popular among members of several websites such as Something Awful and Fark. Photoshop contest has also become a tradition for users of this software.