The History of Photoshop

For the last few decades photography became one of the most popular forms of arts. Today more and more people devote their time to improve their skills in photography. Networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Hi5, Vkontakte etc. only develop this new trend by requiring pictures from people. Having great pictures became very important among young generation especially. People post different kinds of pictures either it is special event photos or photos from daily life. New technology also contributes people to the art media, by making it easier and adding more quality: professional cameras, well-developed lenses and speedlights. With the fame of photography new software came that also improve this form of art. It calls Photoshop. Today every professional photographer or a graphic designer uses this software to improve the quality or structure of their pictures. Adobe Photoshop is often used to do everything from reformatting, repurposing images for print and internet also for illustration. There are many different versions of that software that differ by complexity and price. Different types of the program can be used as by professional graphic designers or by a teenage amateur. It was 15 years passed from February when Adobe presented 1.0 version of Photoshop to the world. But the true origin of the software goes even further. The application that is possibly the only software that spawned its own verb form was created by two brothers Thomas and John Knoll. In 1987 John Knoll was working at Industrial Light and Magic- Lucasfilm’s special division founded specially for Stars Wars, while his brother Thomas was studying for his Ph.D. on image processing at the University of Michigan. Having just bought a brand-new Mac Plus to help out with his studying, he found out it could not display grayscale images on the monochrome monitor. Without waiting a moment he started writing his own code to do the job. John, was also working on image processing at ILM and during a