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Search in content. Search in excerpt. Blog Category History 1. Blog Tags design graphics design Photoshop. Recent Post. Today in this article, we will try to cover all the things together in a frame so that you get a clear idea about the history of Photoshop and its growth by years. Later, we will try to let you know-. In Simple words, Adobe Photoshop or shortly Photoshop is an extremely powerful graphic design software that helps to execute all the image editing and retouching tasks with its smart tools.
This application is widely used by designers, photographers, web developers, marketing coordinators, art directors, webmasters, and artists from different media. These all have different purposes to develop that have some special characteristics. Like any precious invention of technology, Photoshop was not also discovered in a day.
It took several years to reach this stage and give access to many advanced features for the users. Later in , it was released as Adobe Photoshop 1. This simple query may arise to the people who are being introduced with this special tool.
They are brothers namely Thomas Knoll, a software engineer, and John Knoll, a visual effects supervisor. It was a big step indeed! Initially, it was known as ImagePro. After being familiar with the name, the question may arise- why was Photoshop invented? In the earlier time of its invention, Knoll brothers designed this program with a view to providing an easy solution for image editing.
Later, it made a huge improvement in releasing the updated versions. In , Adobe realized how complex Photoshop was becoming and that they might be losing some of their audience to other companies who were creating more streamlined software. Elements stripped out the complex features of Photoshop and left only the essentials that a beginner or average user would need.
The UI was simplified to be more friendly to users who were not as computer savvy. Along with the simplicity came a reduced price tag. Elements was successful enough that Adobe continues to create the software today.
Version 7. Adobe introduced the Healing Brush and made text fully vectorized. A new file system made graphics easier to find, custom brushes increased flexibility, and the Mac version had fixed its stabilization issues.
The first Creative Suite version of Photoshop, version 8. It included the Counterfeit Deterrence System which allowed Photoshop to recognize images of paper money and prevent users from printing them. To support the increasing power of computers and consumer demands, this version added support to edit files over 2GB and increased the canvas size to support up to , pixels in either direction.
This version also included many useful filters, commands, and tools that made Photoshop better, one addition at a time. Photoshop CS2 released in , adding new features in various categories. Red Eye Removal came over from Photoshop Elements, they added the ability to select multiple layers, and the Vanishing Point tool was added to allow for perspective editing.
This version also saw the addition of Smart Objects, allowing designers to maintain quality when scaling layers. It took nearly two years to release Photoshop CS3, but in , Adobe released the next version. On both Mac and PC, Photoshop ran much better, and users saw faster load times.
As smartphones started becoming popular, Photoshop CS3 added graphic optimization for mobile devices. There were additional tools added as well, but this version was mostly just an optimized edition. Photoshop CS4 launched in and sped up zooming and panning.
These features had a lot of lag before, but in CS4 these were basically instant. This version saw another UI change to simplify it, including tabs that allowed users to have multiple projects open at once.
In , Adobe released Photoshop CS5, which offered several improvements and features. During the use of CS5, Adobe introduced a subscription system for the first time. The community had a hand in this release, and adds 30 features suggested directly by users. This made selecting an area of an image to edit a much simpler and intuitive process.
The Magnetic Lasso tool is still present in Photoshop today. Fact: When introduced in Photoshop 5. With more designers than ever using Adobe Photoshop for web design projects, Adobe added a massive time-saving feature in version 5. This allowed designers to save their images using an in-built preset which optimised images for use on the web.
It allowed designers greater control over the quality of their images which in-turn, allowed them to save images in smaller file sizes a much needed feature given the appalling dial-up speeds of the day. Many of the features of ImageReady were eventually simplified and incorporated into a later version of the Photoshop software.
Fact: 'Strange Cargo' was the developers codename for Photoshop 5. It shared the same codename as Photoshop 5. Fact: Photoshop 5. This allowed designers to easily remove an image from its background. Adobe Photoshop 6. Photoshop 6. Vector Shapes gave users the ability to simply draw vector shapes and create them into bitmap images. It was a feature that was applauded by Photoshop users. A Custom Shapes Palette was also added which gave users the ability to use vector shapes to draw, rather than using lines.
Text was also updated so that users could add text directly to an image rather than first having to type it into a text box.
This gave users a lot more control and flexibility when it came to blending the various elements of their designs. The Crop tool and Marque tool were also separated in the release of version 6. Fact: Adobe Photoshop 6. With each release of Adobe Photoshop, the application was becoming more and more complicated due to the addition of new features. Because of this, Adobe was concerned that they might lose a significant chunk of their market share to less-complex rivals as they found that many users were deterred by the complexity of the software.
To overcome this problem, Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Elements in Adobe Photoshop Elements was an entirely new piece of software that incorporated many of the fundamental Photoshop features, while neglecting the more advanced image editing features. The application featured a completely redesigned UI that was designed with simplicity in mind. Although this user interface might have appeared rather counter-intuitive for existing Photoshop users, it was perfectly intuitive for the average user.
It also allowed Adobe to introduce their image editing software to a less computer-savvy audience, many of whom upgraded to a full version of Photoshop at a later date after getting to grips with Photoshop Elements. It was aimed at those who wanted to do simple tasks such as image resizing and basic image editing.
Many people still use Photoshop Elements today for less advanced image editing tasks. Fact: Adobe Photoshop Elements was sold at roughly a sixth of the cost of the full-featured Adobe Photoshop software. Fact: Since the release of the original Photoshop Elements software, there have been a total of thirteen iterations of the software released.
Adobe Photoshop 7. Version 7. It also introduced an upgrade to text which made all text fully vector. This allowed designers to resize their text with ease without losing any of the quality. A new file system was also added to version 7. Graphics that were in a folder could be easily renamed using the Batch Rename feature and engineers added a number of other useful commands that made working with large quantities of images easier than ever.
Along with the Healing Brush tool, the Patch Tool was also added. Users had the ability to create their own custom brushes from their own designs too. Perhaps one of the most important changes within Adobe Photoshop 7. Previously, Mac users running Photoshop on OSX found themselves frustrated when the application would crash in the middle of their work. This problem was solved in version 7. Fact: Photoshop 7.
Fact: A patch version 7. Adobe Photoshop CS Creative Suite was released in October and a whole host of new and exciting features were included. Photoshop CS featured a number of improvements to the Slice Tool, along with many new filters and commands including the Match Colour command and Lens Blur filter. Smart Guides were also implemented in Photoshop CS. Essentially, this allowed Photoshop CS to recognise bank notes and disallowed duplication by refusing to print the notes if requested by the user.
Another extremely useful feature was the ability to edit files over 2GB in size. With many digital cameras taking photos with increasingly large file sizes, this feature was welcomed by photographers and image editors alike.
Photoshop CS also allowed documents up to , pixels in either dimension. The File Browser was greatly improved in Photoshop CS too, making it easier than ever to work with images inside the application. Layer Groups was another great addition as this allowed a number of Layers to be grouped together, thus allowing users to apply a variety of effects to a certain group of Layers and not to others.
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