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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. Re:Photoshop without patent problems! by Evan+Kirchhoff · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To be clear, this was done for the official Photoshop anniversary event, and demoed by Russell Brown at that show. The number of copies we gave out afterwards was limited by Apple's ad-hoc install process for iPhone dev accounts. A wider release would obviously involve some lawyers signing off on things, not to mention all the interface style guide violations in putting 1990 Mac UI on iPhone (I have no idea how App Store reviewers would react to that!)