GIF) that restrict content to provide streamlined, predictable functionality.
This is in contrast to many other file formats (e.g.JPG or. These include layers with masks, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, clipping paths, and duotone settings. PSD, which stands for "Photoshop Document." A PSD file stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop.
At the time Photoshop 1.0 was released, digital retouching on dedicated high end systems, such as the SciTex, cost around $300 an hour for basic photo retouching.įile format Photoshop files have default file extension as. The handling of color slowly improved with each release from Adobe and Photoshop quickly became the industry standard in digital color editing. The Barneyscan version included advanced color editing features that were stripped from the first Adobe shipped version. Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990 for Macintosh exclusively. While John worked on plug-ins in California, Thomas remained in Ann Arbor writing code.
Both showings were successful, and Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988. During this time, John traveled to Silicon Valley and gave a demonstration of the program to engineers at Apple and Russell Brown, art director at Adobe. Later that year, Thomas renamed his program Photoshop and worked out a short-term deal with scanner manufacturer Barneyscan toĪdobe Photoshop distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner a "total of about 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped" this way. Thomas renamed the program ImagePro, but the name was already taken. Thomas took a six-month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program.
This program, called Display, caught the attention of his brother John Knoll, an Industrial Light & Magic employee, who recommended that Thomas turn it into a full-fledged image editing program. Adobe distributes Photoshop in Windows and Macintosh versions.Įarly history In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display.
In 2008, Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Express, a free web-based image editing tool to edit photos directly on blogs and social networking sites in 2011 a version was released for the Android operating system and the iOS operating system. Alongside Photoshop and Photoshop Extended, Adobe also publishes Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Lightroom, collectively called "The Adobe Photoshop Family". Adobe Photoshop Extended is included in all of Adobe's Creative Suite offerings except Design Standard, which includes the Adobe Photoshop edition. Adobe Photoshop is released in two editions: Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Photoshop Extended, with the Extended having extra 3D image creation, motion graphics editing, and advanced image analysis features.
The CS rebranding also resulted in Adobe offering numerous software packages containing multiple Adobe programs for a reduced price. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS6 is the 13th major release of Adobe Photoshop. Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended running on Windows 7 Developer(s)Īdobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems.