History Photoshop 1.0 to Photoshop CS5

‘Photoshop’, today is the most popular and profitable application that supports layers, filters, brushes, text, 3D objects, videos, etc. Photoshop is mainly used for bitmap image and to do image manipulation tasks effectively. At the beginning, Photoshop was known as “Display” to show grayscale images on a monochrome display. In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, found out that his new Mac Plus (third model of computer in Macintosh line) failed to display grayscale images on its 1-bit black and white display. To crack this disadvantage of Mac Plus, Thomas began coding a program that could solve the problem. Then his brother, John Knoll, who was in charge of the special effects department for Industrial Light and Magic on the 1st Star Wars movie showed interest in the project and recommended that it be developed into a full image editing program. Hence it was named ‘Display’. The Knoll brothers then renamed Display to Image-Pro. Image-Pro could be used for rack card printing too and that wasn’t the only thing it could do. Image-Pro had many advanced features for displaying images so in the year 1988, Knoll brothers started to sell Image-Pro commercially. And for this purpose they renamed Image-Pro to “Photoshop”. The Knoll brothers approached many companies, but none of them were ready to purchase Photoshop. In Sept. 1988, a deal was struck between the Knoll brothers and Adobe. All the wholesale rights of Photoshop were purchased by Adobe. The Knoll brothers started working on their product and released the first version Photoshop 1.0 in 1990. So up to this, you have seen the development and Journey of “Display”-“Image-Pro” to “Photoshop.” Now you will see the development of Photoshop versions from the beginning.


VERSION HISTORY 

Photoshop 1.0

Released in: 

February 1990 Requirements: 8 MHz, color screen and at least 2 MB RAM, Mac System 6.0.3, 68000 processor, Floppy drive Features: Color correction facility with balance, hue and saturation and Image Output Optimization was introduced also Curves, Levels, and Clone tool were introduced in this version, In this version they introduced rasterizer for Adobe Illustrator files. 

 Photoshop 2.0

Released in: 

June 1991. Was named with the codeword “Fast Eddy”. Requirements: Mac System 6.0.7, 4 MB RAM, 68020 Processor, 32-bit QuickDraw, Floppy drive. Features: Slight changes like paths in which it furnishes with creation of line based drawings and thus it becomes easier in manipulating. And for this purpose Pen Tool was introduced, CMYK color mode support, Masking was introduced. 

 Photoshop 2.5 

Released in: 

November 1992. Was named with the codeword “Merlin Brimstone”. Requirements: Supported Microsoft Windows for the first time. Also supports IRIX, Solaris. Features: Slight changes like Palettes were introduced and 16 bit channel support. 

 Photoshop 3.0 

Photoshop 3.0 that supports Macintosh was launched In September 1994 and the same version that supported Windows, IRIX and Solaris was launched in November 1994. Was named with the codeword “Tiger Mountain”. Requirements: Mac system 7.0, 16MB RAMS, 68020 processor, 25MB hard drive capability, Floppy drive. Features: Layers and Tabbed palettes were introduced in this version which became an easy process in manipulating images. 

 Photoshop 4.0 

Released in:

 November 1996. Was named with the codeword “Big Electric Cat”. Requirements: Mac System 7.1, Mac system 7.1.2 for Power Macintosh, 16 MB RAM, 68030 processor, 25MB hard drive capability, Color monitor with an 8-bit video card, CD-ROM drive, Supports Macintosh and Windows only. Features: Adjustment layers and macros were introduced in this version. They designed interface as the same like other Adobe Products. 

 Photoshop 5.0 

Released in: 

May 1998. Was named with the codeword “Strange Cargo”. Requirements: Mac System 7.5.5, 32 MB RAM, G3 processor, 60 MB hard drive capability, Supports Macintosh and Windows only. Features: Undo command for multiple times, Managing color and Magnetic Lasso was introduced in this version. 

 Photoshop 5.5 

Released in: 

February 1999. Was named with the codeword “Strange Cargo”. Requirements: Mac System 7.5.5, 32 MB RAM, G3 processor, 60 MB hard drive capability, Supports Macintosh and Windows only. Features: Supports Macintosh and Windows only. Save Web feature was added and the extract feature was introduced in this version, Image slicing property was first time introduced and added rollover effects. 

Photoshop 6.0 

Released in: 

September 2000. Was named with the codeword “Venus in Furs” Requirements: Mac OS 8.5, 64 MB RAM, G3 processor, 125 MB hard drive capability, Color display carrying 800 x 600 resolution and 8-bit color video card, CD-ROM drive, Supports Macintosh and Windows only. Features: Vector shapes, Liquify Filter, Layer styles, Dialog box were added, User Interface was updated. 

 Photoshop 7.0 

Released in: 

March 2002. Was named with the codeword “Liquid Sky”. Requirements: Mac OS 9.1 or Mac OS X 10.1.3, 128 MB RAM, G3 processor, 320 MB hard drive capability, Color display carrying 800 x 600 resolution and 16-bit color video card, CD-ROM drive, Supports Mac OS ‘Classic’/Mac OS X, Windows. Features: Healing Brush tool was introduced, Designed Text in vector, And Photoshop file browser was first time introduced. 

 Photoshop CS 

Released in: 

October 2003. Was named with the codeword “Dark Matter”. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2.4, 192 MB RAM, G3 processor, 320 MB hard drive capability, Carrying 1024 x 768 resolution of monitor with 16-bit video card and CD-ROM drive, Supports Mac OS X only. Features: Camera RAW 2.x, Highly modified “Slice Tool”, Shadow/Highlight command, Match Color command, Lens Blur filter, Smart Guides, Real-Time Histogram was introduced in this version. A feature that detects and ignores images of banknotes was added. 

 Photoshop CS2 

Released in: 

April 2005. Was named with the codeword “Space Monkey”. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2.8, 320 MB RAM, G3 processor, 750 MB available hard drive space, Carrying1024 x 768 resolution of monitor with 16-bit video card and CD-ROM drive, Supports Mac OS X, Windows 2000 / XP. Features: Camera RAW 3.x, Smart Objects, Image Warp, Spot healing brush, Red-Eye tool, Lens Correction filter, Smart Sharpen, Smart Guides, Vanishing Point was introduced, It furnished Memory management for 64-bit power PC G5s. 

 Photoshop CS3 

Released in: 

April 2007. Was named with the codeword “Red Pill”. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.8, 512 MB RAM, G4 processor, 2 GB available hard drive space, 1024 x 768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video and 64 MB of VRAM, DVD-ROM drive, Supports Mac OS X, Windows XP. Features: Black-and-white conversion adjustment, Auto Align and Auto Blend, Smart (non-destructive) Filters, Mobile device graphic optimization was introduced in this version, Furnishes native support for Intel base Macintosh platform and improved support for Windows Vista, Revised user interface, alterations to Curves, Vanishing Point, Channel Mixer, Brightness and Contrast, and the Print dialog were also introduced. Features like cloning and healing were improved. 

 Photoshop CS4

Released in: April 2008 Requirements: 

Windows 1.8GHz or faster processor, 

Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Adobe Photoshop CS4 Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista), 

512Mb of RAM (1Gb recommended), 

1Gb of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices), 

1024×768 display (1,280×800 recommended) with 16-bit video card, 

Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 DVD-ROM drive, 

QuickTime 7.2 software required for multimedia features, 

Broadband Internet connection required for online services.

Mac

PowerPC G5 or multicore Intel processor,

Mac OS X v10.4.11-10.5.4, 512Mb of RAM (1Gb recommended), 

2Gb of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices), 

1024×768 display (1,280×800 recommended) with 16-bit video card, Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 DVD-ROM drive,

QuickTime 7.2 software required for multimedia features, Broadband Internet connection required for online services. 

Features: 

New Adjustments window, Use dodge/burn without affecting other areas, Auto blend feature improved, Content aware cropping, Pixel grid for editing individual pixels, New Adjustments panel, New Masks panel, Content aware scaling, Extended depth of field , Fluid canvas rotation, Smoother panning, Smoother zooming, Support for colour-blind, 3D object painting, 3D object/property editing, 3D animation, 2D conversions to 3D, Volume rendering. 

Photoshop CS5 

Requirements: 

Windows XP (Service pack 3) Vista Home, Business or Enterprise Edition, Windows 7 Mac, Processor: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor Memory: 1GB RAM + 1Gb Hard-disk space Monitor Resolution: 1024X768 (1280×800 recommended) Windows Mac OS OS X v10.5.7 or 10.6.3 or later, Multicore Intel processor, 1GB RAM + 2Gb Hard-disk space Features: Content Aware Fill, Intelligent selection technology, Advanced HDR processing, Improved raw processing, Extended painting effects, Localised Warp tool, Auto lens correction, Workspace management, Advanced 3D options (CS5 Extended), and 30 JDI (Just Do it) additions.

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All About Photoshop

Ten years ago this month, Adobe shipped Photoshop 1.0. "Has it really been that long?"
It has.
The story of one of the original "killer apps" begins in Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) with a college professor named Glenn Knoll. Glenn was a photo enthusiast who maintained a darkroom in the family basement. He was also a technology aficionado intrigued by the emergence of the personal computer. His two sons, Thomas and John, inherited their father's inquisitive nature. And the vision for future greatness began with their exposure to Glenn's basement darkroom and with the Apple II Plus that he brought home for research projects.
"Photography was a hobby of mine in high school," explained Thomas in an interview for the Michigan Engineer. "In dad's darkroom, I learned how to make black-and-white and color prints, how to balance color and contrast."
While Thomas learned about image manipulation in the basement darkroom, John was attracted to the odd-shaped box known as a personal computer that his dad had brought home. "The first real computer I ever actually sat down and used was in 1978. I was a 16-year-old high school student when my dad got an Apple II Plus with 64k of RAM," John recalls during an interview for his AppleMastersbiography.
"Another memory that is really fixed in my mind" John adds, "was in 1984 when I picked up a copy of Time magazine that had a little article about the Macintosh, and I thought, wow, look at this thing!" A couple of months later Mr. Knoll had purchased one of the first Macs available on the open market.
Even though Thomas loved hands-on darkroom work, he too had a keen interest in computers and programming. In 1987 he purchased an Apple Macintosh Plus to help him with his Ph.D. work on the "processing of digital images." Much to his disappointment, the Mac couldn't display gray-scale levels in his images. To solve that problem, Thomas wrote a subroutine to simulate the gray-scale effect.
Thomas's work led to more subroutines and chunks of image programming. These bits of computer magic caught John's attention during a visit he paid to Ann Arbor while on vacation from his job at Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) in Marin, California. "The work Thomas was doing had to do with how a computer could recognize a predefined object in a digitized picture," John recalls in an interview with Terrence Masson for the book, "CG 101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference".
"Image processing is the fundamental basis of any of that kind of work, and Tom had written a bunch of image processing tools," John adds. "As Tom showed me his work, it struck me how similar it was to the image processing tools on the Pixar [image computer John had just seen a graphics demo on at ILM]."
"There were a bunch of command line driven shell tools much like the Unix C shell command line interface of the Pixar." Shortly there after, John and Thomas pulled these pieces of code together and Thomas built an amazing little application called "Display."

John Knoll. Photo by Jeff Schewe.

"I was delighted," John said, "but I started asking for more. What if Display could save images in other formats so I could print them in another program? I used Display to open a couple of sample images that I got from the ILM computer graphics department, but they looked too dark on my screen—suddenly I needed gamma correction tools too." John's requests distracted Thomas from his thesis work, but he too was intrigued by the possibilities of image editing on a personal computer.
This cycle of refinement continued over a period of months and led to an improved version of the application that became "ImagePro" in 1988. At this point John began suggesting to Thomas that they turn ImagePro into a commercial application.

Thomas Knoll. Photo by Jeff Schewe.

"My fellowship money had run out and my wife was expecting our first child," Thomas explained during the Michigan Engineer interview. "I was feeling pressure to finish what I was doing and find a job."
In early 1988, Thomas decided to give himself six more months to finish a beta version of ImagePro and let John shop it around Silicon Valley. Interestingly enough, many of the Silicon Valley companies that John approached were cool to the idea of their image manipulation program. SuperMac turned it down because they didn't understand how ImagePro could complement their already popular product, PixelPaint.
But one company, BarneyScan, did show some interest. They offered to bundle (on a short term basis) what was now called "Photoshop" with their slide scanner. A total of about 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped with their scanners, according to Jeff Schewe in his article, "Photoshop: a Decade of Image-Editing Excellence."

The original application icons designed by John Knoll.

In September 1988, the Knoll brothers' luck changed. John presented a demo to Adobe's internal creative team, and they loved the product. A license agreement was struck soon after, and Photoshop 1.0 was shipped in February 1990 after 10 months of development.
Thomas has remained involved with the project all along. He never did have time to finish his thesis. John has continued his career at ILM, serving as visual effects supervisor on projects such as "Mission Impossible" (1996), "Star Trek: First Contact" (1996), and "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" (1999). Glenn Knoll is still working as a professor for the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. But he now uses a Powerbook G3 at home. And the darkroom in the basement has since been replaced by, yes, you guessed it, Photoshop.

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