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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:"professional-level", what do you mean? by fishboy · · Score: 1, Troll

    Those are meaningless comparisons. None of the designers in my circle know or give a shit about GIMP, because we all make our money with Photoshop and the rest of CS3, not some half-ass open source also-ran. If you aren't going to hire someone to do your graphics because they know the industry standard software suite but don't know some mickey-mouse wannabe program, best of luck to you.