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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. But Does It Run On Linux? by morari · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Oh :(

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    1. Re:But Does It Run On Linux? by conares · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dont worry, we got the Gimp!;)

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    2. Re:But Does It Run On Linux? by morari · · Score: 4, Funny

      Linux User #1: Bring out the Gimp. Linux User #2: But the Gimp's sleeping. Linux User #1: Well, I guess you're gonna have to go wake him up now, won't you?

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  2. Re:Lack of colour display by setirw · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...or a minimize button! :-)

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  3. Re:A question for large print graphics designers.. by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your message is written with such a serious tone, and I'll bite.
      Do a slashdot search for any of the following terms, and you'll quickly be drawn into threads about why :
          * GIMP;
          * CMYK;
          * Plugin xXx will do what you're looking for;
          * But it won't do it in 32-bit colour with customized colourmap support unless you compile it yourself and since I use gentoo I'm still waiting for KDE to finish compiling;
          * Yur momma is teh BOM in bed;
          * Hitler used Photoshop;
          * Suck a cock and die.

          I always read those threads, mainly because I am interested in German history and human psychology. I couldn't give a rat's ass about Photoshop or graphic design.

  4. Apple category? by LocalH · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know, it runs on Windows too.

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  5. Adobe 'warezes' it's own product? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Personally, I think Adobe themselves upload the lastest hacked copies of Photoshop to the usual places. Somebody should mod you as 'funny'. I have noticed with some degree of amusement that software pirates and the warez crowd as a whole are usually also delusional enough to think they are actually helping the companies whose products they are ripping off but you have just taken that delusion to a new level.
  6. Negative? by m1sha · · Score: 2, Funny

    >>"Unfortunately, few commercial software companies did not see the point in Photoshop." And this didn't not not mean success for them at this stage?