What is the History of Adobe Photoshop?

Photoshop is the most of the best purchasing pixel(photo) editing Software in the world.

Glen Knoll was a excellent College Professor. Glen Knoll Hobbies Computer, Photography. Glen Knoll is two brothers Thomas knoll and john knoll.

Back in the fall of 1987 Thomas knoll was doing PhD at the university of Michigan. He was doing PhD on image processing. Began He was wrote a programming code to display gray-scale image on his Macintosh Plus (Black and white bitmap monitor).other word Thomas knoll make a first Grayscale-image program. Software(code) name was decided called “Display”.

Caught the attention of his brother, john worked at Industrial and Magic (ILM) in California. John help him He asked his brother Thomas to help him program a computer to process digital image files, and Display was a great starting point. So began their collaboration.

John bought a new M ac apple Macintosh II, first color screen mode l. Thomas reedit the code for his program(Display). John developed image processing routines that would later become filter plug-ins.

And Thomas create soft-edged selection, he add more feature as level, color balance ,hue and saturation,

In 1988 john thought they start the selling of this software commercially, Thomas six moth break of his studies. When john seen an ad in MacWeek for another pixel image application,(image pro) he was very nervous. But once John had checked out the competition, of which there was very little, they realised ImagePro was way ahead of anything currently available.

How to create the name of Photoshop?

Thomas select the different names of his software, Each time he found one he liked, it had already been taken. Then, during a program demo, he confided to someone that he was having problems naming the program. The confidant suggested Photoshop, and that became the program’s working name. John started shopping around for a company to invest in Photoshop. He called on SuperMac. A very small deal was worked out, and the First time public iteration of the software was introduced as Barneyscan XP .About 200 copies of the program,

After subsequently john returned to adobe for demo of their software, Russell Brown is an Adobe art Director, Russell Brown very liked the software, john were successful of the demonstration, and finally adobe decide to buy the license to distribute Photoshop.

Adobe decided to keep the working name Photoshop. Thomas wrote all the code for the application in Ann-Arbor, while John developed and wrote plug-ins in California.

Between April 1989 and the official release of the program early in 1990, development continued, with no official beta testers. At Adobe, Russell Brown and others worked with the program and made suggestions. Thomas would write and then rewrite the code, while John, Russell, and Fred pushed him to add features. John was particularly good at coaxing Thomas to make improvements. Finally, in February1990, Photoshop 1.0 shipped.