The origin of ps

The birth process of photoshop Glenn Knoll, the father of Thomas Knoll, the main designer of Photoshop, is a professor at the University of Michigan and a photography enthusiast. His basement is a darkroom. His two sons, Thomas and John, have been playing darkroom with their father since childhood, but John seems to be more interested in the personal computer just released at that time. Later, Thomas became fascinated with personal computers and bought an Apple computer (Mac Plus) at 1987 to help his doctoral thesis. Thomas found that the Apple computer at that time could not display black and white images in gray scale, so he wrote a program to display it himself. And his brother (brother? John is now working in Industry Light Magic, the film special effects production company of Star Wars director Lucas. He is very interested in Thomas' program. More than a year later, the two brothers replaced Display with a more powerful image editing program. After several renaming, they accepted the suggestion of an exhibitor at an exhibition and renamed the program Photoshop. At this point, Display/Photoshop has been adjusted in color scale, color balance and saturation. In addition, John also wrote some programs that later became the basis of plug-ins. Their first commercial success was to hand over Photoshop to a scanner company for matching and selling. The name is Barneyscan XP, and the version is 0.87. Meanwhile, John continued to look for other buyers, including SuperMac and Aldus, but without success. Finally, they found Russell Brown, the artistic director of Adobe. Russell Brown is already studying whether to consider another company Letraset's ColorStudio image editing program. After seeing Photoshop, he felt that the Knoll brothers' program was more promising. 1August, 988, they verbally decided to cooperate, and the real legal contract was not completed until April of the following year. One of the key words in the contract is that Adobe has obtained Photoshop's "distribution license", which means authorizing the distribution rather than buying out all copyrights. This laid the foundation for the Keno brothers to become rich later. Thanks to the efforts of Thomas and other Adobe engineers, Photoshop version 1.0.7 was officially released in February 1990. John knoll also participated in the development of some plug-ins. The first version only had an 800KB floppy disk (Mac). In the early 1990s, great changes have taken place in the American printing industry, and prepress computerization began to spread. The CYMK function added by Photoshop in version 2.0 is that the printing factory began to hand over the color separation task to users, and a new industry desktop publishing-DTP came into being. Photoshop version history 1985, Apple Computer Company of the United States took the lead in introducing Macintosh Macintosh series computers with graphical interfaces. 1986 In the summer, Thomas Knoll, a graduate student at the University of Michigan, wrote a program that can display gray-scale images on Macintosh Plus. At first, he named the software display, but later this program was discovered by his brother john knoll, who worked for Industrial Light and Magic Company (which used to do special effects for Star Wars 2). John suggested that Thomas use this program for business value. John also participated in the development of early photoshop software, and he developed the plug-in. In a product demonstration, it was suggested that Thomas could be called photoshop. Thomas was very satisfied with the name and later kept it. Later, it was acquired by Adobe, and the name remained. 1In the summer of 988, John searched for investors in Silicon Valley and found Adobe. 1 1 In June, Adobe signed an authorized sales agreement with their brother. Their first commercial success was to hand over Photoshop to a scanner company for matching and selling. The name is Barneyscan XP, and the version is 0.87. Meanwhile, John continued to look for other buyers, including SuperMac and Aldus, but without success. Finally, they found Russell Brown, the artistic director of Adobe. Russell Brown is already studying whether to consider another company Letraset's ColorStudio image editing program. After seeing Photoshop, he felt that the Knoll brothers' program was more promising. 1August, 988, they verbally decided to cooperate, and the real legal contract was not completed until April of the following year. One of the key words in the contract is that Adobe has obtained Photoshop's "distribution license", which means authorizing the distribution rather than buying out all copyrights. This laid the foundation for the Keno brothers to become rich later. Thanks to the efforts of Thomas and other Adobe engineers, Photoshop version 1.0.7 was officially released in February 1990. John knoll also participated in the development of some plug-ins. The first version only had an 800KB floppy disk (Mac). In the early 1990s, great changes have taken place in the American printing industry, and prepress computerization began to spread. The CYMK function added by Photoshop in version 2.0 is that the printing factory began to hand over the color separation task to users, and a new industry desktop publishing-DTP came into being. 2.0 Other important new features include support for Adobe's vector editing software Illustrator file, two-color tone and pen tool. The minimum memory requirement is raised from 2MB to 4MB, which has a great influence on improving the stability of the software. Since this version, Adobe has started to use the code name, and the code name of 2.0 is Fast Eddy, which was officially released in June of 199 1. 1.0 The next version Adobe decided to develop and support the Windows version, code-named Brimstone, while the Mac version was Merlin. Strangely, the official version number is 2.5, which is different from the general software release number, because the numbers after the decimal point are usually reserved for modification and upgrade. This version adds support for palettes and 16-bit files. The main feature of version 2.5 is generally recognized support for Windows. At this time, Photoshop's main competitor in Mac version is fractal design ColorStudio, and Aldus's PhotoStyler is on Windows. Photoshop has far surpassed ColorStudio from the beginning, and it will take some time for the Windows version to catch up with its rivals. An important new feature of version 3.0 is the layer. The Mac version was released in September 1994, and the Windows version was released in September 10 165438. Although another software, Live Picture, supported the concept of layers at that time, there were also rumors in the industry that Photoshop engineers copied the concept of Live Picture. In fact, Thomas began to study the concept of layer very early. The main improvement of version 4.0 is the user interface. At this time, Adobe decided to unify the user interface of Photoshop with other Adobe products. In addition, the program usage process has also changed. Some old users are resistant to this, and even some users go to online websites to protest. But after a period of use, they accepted new changes. Adobe realized the importance of Photoshop at this moment, and they decided to buy out all rights of Photoshop. The details of how much money the Noel brothers earned for this are unknown, but it must be quite a lot. Version 5.0 introduced the concept of history, which was different from the general revocation and attracted cheers from the industry at that time. Color management is also a new feature of 5.0. Although it caused some controversy at that time, it later proved to be a great progress in Photoshop history. Version 5.0 was officially released in May 1998. A year later, Adobe released version X.5 again, this time version 5.5, which mainly increased support for Web functions and included Image Ready 2.0. Version 6.0, released in September 2000, mainly improved the fluency of other Adobe tools exchange, but the real major improvement waited until version 7.0, which was an event in March 2002. Prior to this, most of the pictures processed by Photoshop came from scanning. In fact, most of the functions of Photoshop have nothing to do with digital cameras that became popular in the late 1990s. Version 7.0 adds image modification tools, such as healing brush, and some basic digital camera functions, such as EXIF data and file browser. After enjoying great commercial success, Photoshop began to feel threatened in the 265,438+0th century, especially the software for processing the original files of digital cameras, including the software provided by various manufacturers and other competitors such as Phase One(Capture One). Thomas Knoll, who has retired, personally led the team to develop the PS RAW(7.0) plug-in. In the subsequent development process, the official version number of photoshop 8.0 is CS, the version number of 9.0 is CS2, the version number of 10.0 is CS3, and the version number of 1 1.0 is CS4. CS is the abbreviation of the last two words in a set of Adobe Creative Suite software, which stands for "creative collection" and is a unified design environment. Use Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2 and Acrobat 7.0 Professional software with Version Cue CS2, Adobe Bridge and Adobe Stock Photos. The latest version is Adobe Photoshop CS5. History of Important Version of Adobe photoshop: Release Date of rich version Operating System Development Code New Function 0.6 Macintosh198810/October10 Macintosh1990 2.0 Macintosh Fast Vortex199654. 38+0 June Path 2.5 Macintosh Falcon 1992 65438+ October Windows Sulfur 1992 65438+ October IRIX/Solaris1993165438+ October 3.0 Macintosh Tiger Mountain 65438+September 00. Layers Windows/IRIX/Solaris1994 65438+October 4th are saved as web pages, and the vector image is 6.0 Macintosh, Venus updated the user interface in September 2000 in Windows Hair, the "Dissolve" filter, layer mode/mixed layer 7.0 Mac Classic/OS X, Windows flowing sky March 2002, all text vectorization, brush repair, new painting engine 7.0.65438 CS (8.0) Mac Classic/OS X, Windows supports camera RAW 1.x (optional plug-in) cs (8.0) MAC classic/OS x in August 2002, highlighting and modifying "slicing tool", shadow/highlight command, color matching command, "lens blur" filter, real-time histogram, detecting and reflecting the scanned images of various banknotes, and using the DRM copy protection technology of Safecast. Supporting JavaScript scripting language and other languages CS2 Mac Classic/OS X, Windows Space Monkey supported camera RAW 3.x, smart object, image distortion, point recovery brush, red-eye tool, lens correction filter, smart sharpening, smart guide in April 2005. Vanishing point improves the memory management of 64-bit PowerPC G5 Macintosh computer when it is running Mac OS X 10.4, and supports high dynamic range imaging, more smearing options, which is successful as a "spot" and improves layer selection (multiple layers can be selected). CS3 All Mac OS X, Windows Red Pill can be used on Intel's Macintosh platform in April 2007, with enhanced support for Windows Vista, brand-new user interface, function addition to Adobe camera raw, quick tool selection, curve, vanishing point, channel mixer, brightness and contrast, improvement of printing dialog window, black-and-white conversion adjustment, automatic merging and mixing, Smart (lossless) filters, image support for mobile devices, improvements in cloning and repair, more complete 32-bit /HDR support (layers, drawings, more filters and adjustments), and quick start. CS4 All Mac OS X, Windows Stonehenge Adobe CS4 suite has more than 100 innovations, and pays special attention to simplifying workflow and improving design efficiency. Photoshop CS4 supports intelligent content-based scaling, 64-bit operating system and larger memory, and GPGPU general computing acceleration based on OpenGL. CS5 MAC OS X: 10.5.7 or above Windows: XP SP3 or above White Rabbit 20 1 0 April 12 23: 00 Beijing time Photoshop Add:1Relative to CS4. Edit → Paste Special → Paste in Place 2. Edit → Fill. .. (add powerful "content recognition" option) 3. Edit → Manipulate Deformation 4. The brush tool has been enhanced.