Photoshop Training in Adyar

Adobe Photoshop:

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• Below is a complete timeline of all Adobe Photoshop releases up to the present day.
• Photoshop 0.63 is where it all started. This was the very first version of Photoshop ever created and although it was a fully functioning program, it was never released to the general public (as you can see from the "Not for distribution" tag on the image above).
• Photoshop 0.63 was created for Alpha testing by its creators a staggering 25 years ago back in October 1988. This was the first version of the software created by Thomas Knoll and his brother that was officially named Photoshop later down the line.
• Photoshop 0.63 was officially created on 2nd October 1988.
• 'Bond' was the developers codename given to Adobe Photoshop 0.63.

1989: Photoshop 0.87:

• In March 1989, the second version of Photoshop was created. It was dubbed Photoshop 0.87 by its creators.
• This was the first version of Photoshop to be commercially distributed after Thomas Knoll and his brother formed a partnership with the scanner company, Barneyscan.
• Barneyscan purchased 200 copies of Photoshop to ship along with their scanners. It might seem like a rather insubstantial event, but this was the first time image editing software (as primitive as it was back then) was made available to the public.
• Photoshop 0.87 only ran on a Macintosh computer. It wasn't available for Windows until late-1992.
• Following a successful partnership with Barneyscan, Thomas Knoll and his brother John sought further partnerships and licensing agreements with the likes of Aldus and Supermac.
• Both of these companies turned the two brothers and their software away. It was only when the Knoll brothers met with Adobe executives that they really hit the jackpot.
• Photoshop 1.0 was officially released in February 1990 and was the first time the software was made available to the public as a standalone product (rather than bundled with a Barneyscan scanner).
• It was also the first time the software was released commercially with the brand name Adobe Photoshop.
• Following the initial success of Adobe Photoshop 1.0, Adobe Photoshop 2.0 was released in June 1991 along with a plethora of new features.
• One of the most notable new features in Adobe Photoshop 2.0 was the Paths feature.
• This allowed users of the application to trim around an object and then save that 'path' for use in the future.
• It was added by the newly appointed engineer, Mark Hamburg.
• Mark was hired by Adobe to work on the software after the success of the initial release.
• Previously, Thomas Knoll was the only engineer that worked on the software.
• Photoshop 2.0 also included support for CMYK and EPS rasterization was added to the application.
• Both of these features remain in the current version of Adobe Photoshop, although they have been greatly improved since the release of Photoshop 2.0.
• Stability was also improved in Adobe Photoshop 2.0 as the application required double the amount of RAM of its predecessor (4 megabytes rather than the 2 megabytes required by Photoshop 1.0).
• Adobe Photoshop 2.5 was officially released in November 1992, around 17 months after the release of Photoshop 2.0.
• Photoshop 2.5 was a notable release as it was the first version of the application that was released for both Mac and Windows.
• The software had to be completely rewritten for the Windows operating system which made the release a time consuming affair.
• The initial Windows release was also found to have a memory bug so Adobe offered the Photoshop 2.5.1 patch a few months later.
• Mark Hamburg, one of the engineers who had worked on the software, offered to make house calls to those Windows users who had been affected by the memory bug prior before releasing the 2.5.1 patch.
• Photoshop 2.5 brought a host of new features to the application too.
• It was the first version of Adobe Photoshop with 16-bit per channel support and Filters were given their own menu on the toolbar.
• Adobe Photoshop 3.0 was released in September 1994 and November 1994 for Mac and Windows respectively.
• It was version 3.0 that brought one of the most important Photoshop features ever to the software; Layers.
• Thomas Knoll was responsible for the introduction of layers and it completely revolutionised image editing.
• Before Photoshop 3.0, users would have to save various versions of their designs as entirely different files and if they needed them, they would load them back up.
• The layers feature got rid of the need for this process by allowing designers to use a number of layers within each project.
• Layers are essentially different slides of images that combine to make the final design.
• Different layers would be used for different sections of the image, thus allowing the designer to manipulate different parts of the image individually, without affecting other parts of the design.
• For example, an image of a supermodel outdoors might be made up of two layers; the model and then the background.
• Both parts of the image could be edited separately as they were on different layers.
• Layers is a historic feature and they are still used in today's version of Photoshop.