Demonstrate understanding of a significant develpoment in the media (3.7B)
Photoshop and airbrushing are current forms of manipulation in the media. Media such as magazines and television advertisements use Photoshop to digitally enhance their models or celebrities to give them ‘better’ features, such as slimmer bodies and flawless skin, this makes people, particularly teenage girls, believe they are not good enough. In this report I will be discussing the development of Photoshop in the media I will also be explaining the evolution of Photoshop over 20 years and be giving my own opinion on this, explain how this occurred, I will explain how the use of Photoshop in the media has affected society and in particular teenage girls.
Photoshop was created by a father and son named Thomas and Glen Knoll. The team released ‘Image Pro’ in 1988. I will now explain the evolution of Photoshop over 20 years, giving my own opinion along the way.
1990 - Photoshop 1.0: John Knoll, Thomas’ brother, wrote ‘special effects’ for the program which were frowned upon by Adobe staff as being too ‘gimmicky’. Thomas and John found a way to sneak them into Photoshop as plugins. The first version of the Photoshop splash screen features just 4 Photoshop programmers.
This is where it all began, the first ever release of Photoshop in 1990, the first chance for editors and designers to be able to change the appearance of their models, of course with the first one they would not have been able to do near as much as they can now-days.
1991 - Photoshop 2.0: Photoshop 2.0 included the path feature, which allowed users to trim around an object easily and to save that path for the future use.
This would have enabled users to be able cut around a person and put them into a different background, or possibly, I’m not sure, be able to cut off small parts of the body. This would have been one of the first times it could have impacted on teenage girls lives.
1994 - Photoshop 3.0: Layers were and are a lifesaver for any marginally complex design. Prior to their introduction,
Photoshop was created by a father and son named Thomas and Glen Knoll. The team released ‘Image Pro’ in 1988. I will now explain the evolution of Photoshop over 20 years, giving my own opinion along the way.
1990 - Photoshop 1.0: John Knoll, Thomas’ brother, wrote ‘special effects’ for the program which were frowned upon by Adobe staff as being too ‘gimmicky’. Thomas and John found a way to sneak them into Photoshop as plugins. The first version of the Photoshop splash screen features just 4 Photoshop programmers.
This is where it all began, the first ever release of Photoshop in 1990, the first chance for editors and designers to be able to change the appearance of their models, of course with the first one they would not have been able to do near as much as they can now-days.
1991 - Photoshop 2.0: Photoshop 2.0 included the path feature, which allowed users to trim around an object easily and to save that path for the future use.
This would have enabled users to be able cut around a person and put them into a different background, or possibly, I’m not sure, be able to cut off small parts of the body. This would have been one of the first times it could have impacted on teenage girls lives.
1994 - Photoshop 3.0: Layers were and are a lifesaver for any marginally complex design. Prior to their introduction,