Let's Go Back To Photoshop's Beginning
Perhaps you may be wondering how Photoshop started? Or perhaps
you do not care so long as it is there to bring life to images,
photos and texts you will be fine?
Whatever the reason may be, it is still better to look back in
order to move further...
The Discovery
John Knoll was then working at Industrial Light and Magic while
Thomas Knoll was studying his Ph. D. on image processing at the
University of Michigan. Both of them worked on a larger, more
cohesive computer application which they called Display. They
experimented further in order to give it more features like
gamma correction, loading, saving different file formats and
others. To cut the story short, Display became ImagePro in the
year 1988. The sold it as a commercial application.
Transition comes
ImagePro was given a new name when they potential publisher
suggested PhotoShop during the duo's demo. Actually, it just
stuck. Fortunately, PhotoShop became a big hit that most
software companies switched to it. So far, only Adobe proved to
be its competent contender. PhotoShop was then sold wholesale
but only licensed and distributed. Royalties were still going to
the Knolls. Knoll brothers further incorporated other features
to improve the software. Eventually, through the encouragement
of John and Russell Brown PhotoShop became the biggest dynamo in
image enhancement. It was finally launched in February in the
year 1990.
Imaging made digital
The release of PhotoShop in the E-commerce web development world
is a great success. And that success continued. The development
of version 2.0 made it more accepted and loved. The new version
added new features such as Pen tool, Duotones, import and
rasterisation of Illustrator files and support for CMYK color.
Mark Hamburg also added B