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The History of Photoshop

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the cutting-and-pasting dept.

Gammu writes "For the past fifteen plus years, Photoshop has turned into the killer app for graphics designers on the Mac. It was originally written as a support app for a grad student's thesis and struggled to find wide commercial release. Eventually, Adobe licensed the app and has sold millions of copies." Achewood's Chris Onstad also offers a different take of how it all went down.

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  1. Re:Lack of colour display by Hognoxious · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... or a second mouse button.

    --
    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  2. Why the Fuck is this in the APPLE category? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    PHOTOSHOP is CROSS PLATFORM. It sells more on Windows than Mac

    So WHY THE FUCK do you slashdot homosexuals put it in the "APPLE" category?????????