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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. 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.