Photoshop

December 1, 1982 - Adobe Systems is Founded

- Founded by two former Xerox employees, Charles Geschke and John Warnock, Adobe was an early pioneer in the software field. Adobe was located in Northern California in what is now known as Silicon Valley.

1st Jan, 1987 - Tom Knoll designs "Display"

- Tom Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, designed a graphics application that could be used on his computer, a Macintosh Plus. He wanted to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program, he called "Display", caught the attention of his brother John Knoll, an Industrial Light & Magic employee, who recommended that Tom turn it into a full-fledged image editing program.

1st Jan, 1988 - "Photoshop" is born (Version 0.07)

- Tom took a six-month break from his studies to collaborate with his brother on the program. Tom tried to rename the program "ImagePro", but the name was already taken. Later that year, Tom renamed his program "Photoshop" and worked out a short-term deal with scanner manufacturer Barneyscan to distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner. About 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped this way. Platform: Macintosh

1st Oct, 1988 - Photoshop Version 0.63

- Platform: Macintosh

1st Mar, 1989 - Photoshop Version 0.87

- First version distributed commercially (by the scanner company Barneyscan), though distributed as "Barneyscan XP." Platform: Macintosh Codename: Seurat

1st Sep, 1989 - Adobe buys Photoshop

- Adobe makes a deal and buys Photoshop. The Knoll brothers had called on Supermac and Aldus, but were turned away at both, a move that Aldus would come to seriously regret. Shortly after, the Knoll brothers struck gold when they won over Adobe management with their product, and formed a licensing partnership with Adobe that was to launch their software and Adobe into the stratosphere. Platform: Macintosh

1st Feb, 1990 - Photoshop Version 1.0

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