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20 Years of Photoshop

Simon 20th February 2010

Adobe Photoshop turned 20 years old on Thursday. Initially developed by brothers Thomas and John Knoll in 1987 and published by Adobe on the Macintosh in 1990, Photoshop is now the industry standard image manipulation software application used by people in various creative fields and industries. And even today, Photoshop sets itself apart from its competitors with a combination of revolutionary technologies such as layers, channels, levels, curves and paths as well as various other tools, filters and features.

To celebrate, Adobe have launched a minisite, including a video (below) featuring the creators of Photoshop — Thomas Knoll, John Knoll, Steve Guttman, and Russell Brown. There are also various other celebratory posts on John Nack’s blog, Photoshop News et al.

Personally, although I have been using Macs for the past twenty years, and Windows for almost fifteen years, I had not really touched Photoshop until version 5, a little over ten years ago. Still, like many others, Photoshop has allowed me to study and have a career in the design industry. Ask anyone in photography, illustration, fashion design, product design, automotive design, publication design, graphic design, web design, animation, film production or visual effects and they’ll almost be guaranteed to have a copy of Photoshop running on their machine.

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