Photoshop's main designer Thomas Knoll Dad Glenn Knoll is a professor at the University of Michigan, and it is also a photographer, his basement is a dark room. His two sons Thomas and John followed Dad to play dark room, but John seems to be more interested in personal computers who have just started. Since then, Thomas also fits a personal computer and buys an Apple computer (Mac Plus) in 1987 to help his doctoral thesis.
Thomas found that Apple computer could not show black and white images with grayscale, so he wrote a program display. And his brother (your brother?) John At this time, at this moment of the Star Wars Director Lucas, the company INDUSTRY LIGHT MAGIC work, which is very interested in Thomas's procedures. Two brothers have continuously revised DISPLAY for more powerful image editing programs for more than one year, and they have accepted a visit to Photoshop by a exhibition. At this time, Display / Photoshop already has Level, color balance, saturation and other adjustments. In addition, John wrote some programs to become the foundation of plug-in.
Their first business success is to hand over Photoshop to a scanner company and sell, named Barneyscan XP, version is 0.87. At the same time, John continues to find other buyers, including Supermac and Aldus have no success. In the end they found Adobe's Russell Brown, Adobe Art Director. Russell Brown has been studying whether to consider another company Letrast's Colorstudio image editing program. After reading Photoshop, he thought that the process of the Knoll Brothers was more promising. In August 1988, they decided to cooperate, and the real legal contract was completed in April.
One keyword in the contract is Adobe to get Photoshop "license to distribute" is the right to issue instead of buying all copyrights. This laid the foundation for the later Knoll brothers. (Because even Adobe does not expect "Photoshop so great, they only sign a license contract, not directly bought it directly. Despite this, according to the agreement, the Roller brothers can get at least 250,000 US dollars in the first two years. The copyright fee, this at the time, but a huge amount!)
Through Thomas and other Adobe engineers, Photoshop version 1.0.7 was officially released in February 1990. John Knoll has also participated in some plug-ins. The first version has only one 800KB floppy disk (MAC).
In the early 1990s, the US printing industry had a relatively large change, and pre-press is mainly popularized. Photoshop adds a Cymk function in version 2.0 that is the print factory to hand over the point-color task to the user, and the Desktop Publishing-DTP is generated.
2.0 Other important new features include vector editing software that supports Adobe, Illustrator file, duotones, and Pen Tool. The minimum memory demand increases from 2MB to 4MB, which has a great impact on improving software stability. From this version, Adobe starts to use the code, and the code of 2.0 is Fast EDDY, officially issued in June 1991.
The next version Adobe decides to develop the Windows version, the code is Brimstone, and the MAC version is Merlin. The strange thing is that the official version number is 2.5, which is different from the normal software issuance sequence number, because the number after the decimal point is usually left to the modification upgrade. This version adds Palettes and 16-bit file support. 2.5 The main features of version 2.5 are often recognized as supporting Windows. At this point, Photoshop 's main competitors in the Mac are Colorstudio of Fractal Design, and Windows is Aldus's Photostyler. Photoshop far exceeds Colorstudio from the beginning, and the Windows version needs to catch up with the opponent after a period of improvement.
The important new feature of version 3.0 is Layer, the Mac version is released in September 1994, and the Windows version is released in November. Although there is another software Live Picture also supports the concept of Layer, and the industry also has a rumored photoshop engineer plagiarized the concept of Live Picture. In fact, Thomas has already started researching the concept of Layer very early.
The main improvement of version 4.0 is the user interface. Adobe decides to unify the Photoshop user interface and other Adobe products, and the program uses the process also changed. Some old users have contradict this, even some users to protest to the online website. But after a period of use, they still accepted a new change.
Adobe aware of the importance of Photoshop, they decided to buy Photoshop copyright, 1995, Adobe ended the license agreement with the Rolle Brothers and bought 34.5 million US dollars bought the ownership of Photoshop! !
Version 5.0 introduced the concept of History (history), which is different from the general UNDO, causing cheers in the industry at the time. Color management is also a new feature of 5.0, although some disputes have caused some disputes, it has been proven to be a major improvement in Photoshop history. The 5.0 version was officially released in May 1998. One year later, Adobe issued an X.5 version again, this time is version 5.5, which mainly adds support web features and IMAGE READY 2.0.
Version 6.0 issued in September 2000 mainly improved the smooth exchange of other Adobe tools, but real significant improvements To wait until version 7.0, this is an incident in March 2002.
Prior to this, most pictures of Photoshop also came from scanning, in fact, most of the features of Photoshop basically and did not have a relationship with digital cameras starting from the late 1990s. Version 7.0 adds picture modification tools such as Healing Brush, and some basic digital camera functions such as EXIF data, file browsers, etc.
After enjoying huge business success, Photoshop has begun to feel threats in the 21st century, especially software that dedicated to digital camera original files, including software and other competitors provided by each manufacturer, such as Phase One (Capture ONE). Thomas Knoll, which has retired, second-line, is responsible for led a group to develop PS RAW (7.0) plugin.
In September 2003, Adobe gave everyone a surprise, the new version Photoshop is not called 8.0, and is called Photoshop Creative Suite. The CS version improves the original original file plugin andcomes a part of the CS. More new features are developed for digital cameras, such as intelligent adjustment of different regional brightness, mirror audioba correction, etc.
