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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. A question for large print graphics designers... by LingNoi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Photoshop is put on a pedestal as being THE ONLY program you should use to edit images.

    I was wondering why that is?

    Is it because graphics designers who do large print are used to using Photoshop and do not see a point in switching to an unknown program?
    Is it because there are no alternatives that have the features they need?

    Are free programs such as the GIMP just not on par? I have used Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and GIMP but I don't really see why Photoshop is hallmarked as the best. That being said I am not a graphics expert so I was wondering if someone who is and used these programs for more then 5 minutes could give me a good answer.

  2. What did the Knolls Get? by twitter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A considerable empire and fortune have been built around PhotoShop. Adobe had sold 3,000,000 coppies by year 2000. I presume they have sold about as much since. I wonder how the creators were rewarded and what they think of the monster. Here are some questions the article raises but does not answer:

    • Does PhotoShop still use the Knoll framework?
    • Do they still contribute?
    • How much of the profits did the Knoll brothers get?
    • Do they think it was worth closing off?
    • Do they approve of other Adobe/M$ licensing deals that keep secret importand details about the way cameras and scanners work.

    I'm relatively sure they don't come around here and fanboy dis GIMP.

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.

  3. Re:Eventually? by Pseudonym · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not only has the front-end been rewritten several times, they've released the framework that they use as open source.

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