20 Years of Photoshop

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @08:01AM from the worth-it-for-the-screenshots dept.

benwiggy writes "Photoshop turned 20 on 10th February 2010. Here's an excellent history, including how the Knoll family created one of the biggest apps of all time. The article also has screenshots of the workspace through the versions."

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Photoshop anniversary contest suggestion by Chris+Burke · 2010-02-17 08:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Photoshopping photos over 20 years old to show people using Photoshop. Then claim they are legit. "Photoshop is over 20 years old, you can clearly see here they were using it during the Civil War!"

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This must be fake. by Cowclops · 2010-02-17 08:15 · Score: 4, Funny

This article looks totally photoshopped, its probably fake.
4chan by cosm · 2010-02-17 08:18 · Score: 4, Funny

pics or it didnt happen

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Re:Nostalgia by ColdWetDog · 2010-02-17 08:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Unfortunately, Adobe has some smart people in Marketing. I'm sure they have a pile of new features hidden in a source code repository that lies underneath an unassuming bungalow in a suburb near Burbank. Every 18 months, senior marketing staff, cleverly disguised as Roto-Rooter workers, go to this stash and pull a few likely features.

These get grafted on to Photoshop with the idea that they are just flashy and / or important enough to get people to upgrade. Thus, Photoshop CS(x) + 1 is born.

Then, the evil bit folks trot out the latest activation code tweaks to the dismay of right thinking folk everywhere.

And somewhere in a damp basement cell, the Bridge team codes on, hoping that if they ever get it right, they might be let out into the sunshine some day.

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Obligatory XKCD Refence by Temujin_12 · 2010-02-17 08:35 · Score: 4, Funny

http://xkcd.com/331/

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Re:Sigh by Jeremy+Erwin · 2010-02-17 08:35 · Score: 2, Funny

You're just saying that to obscure your interest in counterfeiting.
Or should we say... by zoom-ping · 2010-02-17 08:52 · Score: 4, Funny

Twenty years of lens flare.
Re:May be a good time to discuss alternatives by Anonymous Coward · 2010-02-17 08:58 · Score: 1, Funny

Between jpegtran, exiftool, and ImageMagick you could probably do all of those things. The nice thing is that you can use them from the command line; no GUI bloat necessary, although ImageMagick has a GUI.

Yeah, I can't possibly imagine why anyone would want a GUI when manipulating images...
Re:Gimp vs. PS by Bobfrankly1 · 2010-02-17 11:41 · Score: 5, Funny

What PS has what GIMP does not have?
A grammar check?