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Photoshop 1.0 Recreated On iPhone

Posted by timothy on from the when-time-loops-collide dept.

Dotnaught writes "Photoshop co-creator Russell Brown asked Ansca Mobile to re-create Photoshop 1.0, originally introduced in 1990, for the iPhone. The resulting app, created in three days using the Corona SDK, was distributed to 50 attendees of an event celebrating Photoshop's 20th anniversary. Programmer Evan Kirchhoff in a blog post explains that Ansca took the project on to prove its claims about how Corona makes iPhone development faster."

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  1. Oh no, this means in two years... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Windows 3.1 will be released for the iPhone. Hrm, that is 2012.

  2. Photoshop without patent problems! by H4x0r+Jim+Duggan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Photoshop from exactly 20 years ago - the only way to reliably avoid software patent problems!

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    1. Re:Photoshop without patent problems! by SCPRedMage · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Poorly.

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    2. Re:Photoshop without patent problems! by toriver · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You forgot the other way:

      1. You write a confusing patent application that will take two years to process. You submit it in year X.
      2. You keep amending and altering that application every year so the process starts anew. It still shows the X year of filing.
      3. Someone who is actually innovative invents something. You rapidly amend your patent so that it describes that invention.
      4. The patent is eventually awarded, and you sue the actual inventor for infringement because as everyone can see, you held a patent since year X on that particular idea.

  3. Re:Unimpressed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Way to *completely* miss the point.

    It's not that a re-creation of Photoshop 1.0 can run on the iPhone. It's that it look three days to write from scratch. It's a demo of the SDK capabilities, not the iPhone's capabilities.

  4. Re:Well... by gyrogeerloose · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...I suppose I'm the only person who wants someone to recreate Claris CAD.

    Speaking as someone who was once forced to use Claris CAD daily in his job as a technical illustrator, I'd say "yes."

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  5. Oh really? PS1 "Real pros never need undo" by dbIII · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Photoshop doesn't have a simple GUI either, nor does AutoCAD and a pile of other things that give you more options than can be easily thought of all at the same time.
    Sometimes people just have to stop whining and read the manual. Gimp gets a rough deal because all those people that spent ages learning photoshop look at gimp and get angry about learning where each option is all over again.
    I must be getting close to twenty years since I as a complete photoshop newbie asked on a newsgroup where "undo" was and was mercilessly flamed by about a dozen that said things like "real professionals will never need undo". Photoshop 1 was obviously crap compared to both the current photoshop and the current gimp. Later it was fairly dismal compared to the gimp of the time with no undo and very limited support for different image formats - even though gimp was aimed at simpler stuff than photoshop. I never intended to be a "pro" and the gimp did the job I wanted so I've never been able to justify the expense since.
    In this case "Colors" is probably the better app to compare it with on an iPhone or NDS anyway.

  6. Re:oblig "gimp vs photoshop"/"iphone vs n900" by mdwh2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But where was the front page news about GIMP for the N900?

    Oh sorry, I forgot, this is Slashdot. Nostalgia for Apple fans, and stuff that hasn't been released yet.