Without any doubt, Photoshop is the most popular and powerful photo editing software in the world. In such a way that many Photoshop users today cannot imagine the world without using this program. The history of Photoshop is very readable. It is interesting to know that Photoshop has been trying to reach this position for twenty five years!
Although Photoshop is a very powerful and developed software today, it was not like this from birth! If you go back 25 years, Photoshop didn’t even exist, and when it did, it was very different from the powerful program we know and love today.
Today, amateurs and graphic design professionals use Photoshop to edit a simple photo to design various websites. This software has really changed the world of photography and design, but we must not forget that behind this success, there are 25 years of continuous effort and development. In the rest of this article, we will read the history of Photoshop, discuss how Photoshop reached this shining point, and examine what improvements each version has made over the previous version.
You probably guess that a complete, comprehensive and complex software such as Photoshop is the result of the efforts of a group of experts who have worked tirelessly for years, but if you guessed that, you are wrong! Although these days many people in the Adobe company are trying to develop this software and produce newer versions, but the original Photoshop was created by only two people (two brothers with a little help from their father).
1989: Adobe Photoshop 0.87
In March 1989, the second version of Photoshop was created. This was the same version that Barneyscan company bought two hundred copies of and sold under the name Barneyscan XP. This was the first time that an image editing software was made available to the public. Photoshop 0.87 ran only on Macintosh computers, and there was no Windows version until late 1992.
1993: Adobe Photoshop 2.5
It was officially released in November 1992, about 17 months after Photoshop 2.0 was released. Photoshop 2.5 was a notable release because it was the first software released for both Mac and Windows. This software had to be completely rewritten for the Windows operating system, which delayed its release for a while. Because the first version of Windows had a memory bug, Adobe was forced to release Photoshop 2.5.1 a few months later, and then Mark Hamburg, one of the engineers who worked on the software, contacted Windows users who They had prepared version 2.5, he suggested version 2.5.1 to them. Version 2.5 added new features to Photoshop. This was the first version of Photoshop with 16-bit per channel support. In this version, the filters were equipped with several submenus. Photoshop 2.5 was one of the first examples of cross-platform software (that is, it was released for Windows and Mac).
1995: Adobe Photoshop 3.0
Adobe Photoshop 3.0 was released in September 1994 and in November 1994 for Mac and Windows respectively. It was version 3.0 that brought one of the most important features of Photoshop to the software; Layers. Thomas Knoll was responsible for introducing layers, and with this, he really revolutionized image editing. Before Photoshop 3.0, users had to save different versions of their designs as completely separate files and open them in Photoshop when needed. The feature of layers was a way for designers to get rid of this repetitive and annoying work! Layers are different parts of images or projects that are put together, combined to form the final design. The feature of layers allows the designer to manipulate different parts of the design or image separately without affecting other parts. For example, an advertising image of a watch may be made of two layers; Clock photo layer and background layer. Both layers can be edited separately. Layers are a great feature and are still used in newer versions of Photoshop. Photoshop 3.0 was the first version of Photoshop in which both Windows and Macintosh versions of the software had no problems.
2000: Adobe Photoshop 6.0
Photoshop 6.0 was released in September 2000, about twenty months after Photoshop 5.5 was released. Photoshop 6.0 was a major release that included many new features and facilities such as Vector Shape and the Liquify filter. Vector Shape was designed to allow designers to easily draw vectors and convert them to Bitmap images. A custom palette was also added that allowed users to use vector shapes. The Add Text tool was also updated, so that Photoshop users could add text directly to an image. Photoshop 6.0 also introduced Blending Options for layers. In this version, the Crop tool and the Marque tool were separated and were shown as two separate options in the Photoshop toolbar. Adobe Photoshop 6.0 has an updated user interface that aims to be easier to use than ever.
2005: Adobe Photoshop CS2
It was released in April 2005, eighteen months after the original release of Photoshop CS. Many new features, filters and tools were introduced in Photoshop CS2. Due to its popularity, Adobe brought the Red Eye Remover tool from Adobe Photoshop Elements into CS2. In this version, it was also possible to select several layers together. The Destination Point tool was also introduced in CS2, which made it possible to display perspective images. Spot Healing Brush, Image Warp and Lens Correction filter along with Smart Sharpen and Smart Objects have also been added. Converting a layer to Smart Objects helps you resize objects and images multiple times while working without losing quality. The user interface was redesigned for CS2, but it caused dissatisfaction among users, because everyone was used to the user interface of the previous version. In CS2, Adobe decided to merge the Gradient and Paint Bucket tools and put both into one icon in the toolbar. This was one of the cases that brought protests from Photoshop users. Because everyone had to search the Photoshop toolbar for a while to find the Gradient tool.
2008: Adobe Photoshop CS4
It was released in October 2008, about eighteen months after Photoshop CS3 was released in 2007. The most important thing in CS4 is the improvements that happened in the field of zoom. In previous versions of Photoshop, the zooming time was a bit long and there was a delay of a few seconds, but in CS4 it was almost instant. There were many changes to the CS4 user interface, and overall, it was much easier to work with. Document tabs helped make it easier for users to work on multiple documents (the way the tabs were arranged was very similar to web browser tabs). Adobe added a number of new features to CS4. including masks and a group of adjustment layers. Also, the workspace was updated and the file management system appeared with Adobe Bridge CS4. Adobe CS4 was the first version of Photoshop to support Windows (Vista) 64-bit version separately.
2013: Adobe Photoshop CC
Photoshop CC was released in June 2013, about thirteen months after Photoshop CS6 was released. Adobe Photoshop CC is considered a new era for this program as it moved from Creative Suite and started a new journey under the name Creative Cloud CC. In previous versions of Photoshop (in the Creative Suite series), users paid a fixed fee for the software, but Photoshop CC introduced a subscription-based pricing model that allows users to access the software without having to May they pay a large initial fee. Using Photoshop CC, users can automatically upload their works and graphic designs to Behance.com. Adobe Photoshop CC also introduced a number of new features, including Camera Shake Reduction, which made it very quick and easy for users to restore sharpness to blurry images. In this version, the Smart Sharpen function was created and Smart Upsampling was added, with the help of which Photoshop artists print low-resolution images with acceptable quality. Photoshop CC supports Camera RAW 8. Adobe Photoshop CC was released about 25 years after the creation of Photoshop 0.63.
2015: Adobe Photoshop CC
Photoshop CC 2015 was released on June 15, 2015. Adobe added many innovative features such as Adobe Stock, which is a library of custom images. In the old versions of Photoshop, through the Layer Style panel, we could only apply one shadow on each layer, but in CC 2015, this approach has changed and you can add up to 10 types of shadows or other styles to a layer. A form of file storage for the web was also added to CC 2014. The user interface of this version of Photoshop was designed much more integrated than the previous versions. With this version of Photoshop, the user could design faster on touch devices such as Microsoft Surface Pro. The programming of Photoshop cc 2015 was named after Thomas and John Knoll (one of the original creators of Photoshop).
2018: Adobe Photoshop CC
Photoshop CC 2018 was released on October 18, 2017. In this version, fundamental and important changes are observed in the brush system, which allows the user to save properties such as color and transparency for each brush. The Curvature Pen tool, which allows you to quickly create curved paths, has been added to this version. It should be mentioned that this tool works similar to Pen in Illustrator and has great performance. PNG compression, increasing the maximum magnification, more advanced facial recognition algorithm and improving the performance of selection tools, colors, layer masks and filters are other advantages of this version of Photoshop. The name White Lion is chosen for Photoshop CC 2018 coding
2019: Adobe Photoshop CC
Photoshop CC 2019 provided unique and useful features to its users. Let’s review 3 of the best tools and features of this version:
1. Multiple Undo and Redo As you know,
Ctrl-Z or Command-Z takes you to a previous move in Photoshop (Undo), while Ctrl-Shift-Z or Command-Shift-Z takes you to your next move (Redo). ). In this version of Photoshop, the history of subsequent movements is not deleted.
2. Preview the status or Blend Mode of the layers
You must have always doubted which Blend Mode to apply on your desired layer. The good news is that from now on you can see the preview of each mode on the desired layer before applying it.
3. Mathematical operations
From now on, like Illustrator and InDesign, Photoshop can perform simple math operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. In the end, it should be mentioned that the name of the programming system that has been set for the latest version of Photoshop, namely cc 2019, is B Winston.
2020:Adobe Photoshop
The newest and most widely used version of Photoshop is Photoshop 2020. In this version of Photoshop, we saw effective and significant changes, some of which we mention: Ability to quickly close documents that are not needed Improved presets and the possibility to change them with one click The object selection tool is powered by Adobe’s artificial intelligence engine, “Sensei”. The existence of this tool has led to easy, fast and very accurate selection of the subject with just one click. More advanced Wrap Convert layer to smart object Custom Content-Aware Fill Extensive changes in the Properties panel Added focal point adjustment button to Lens Blur filter Ability to import image from iPhone or iPad
