![]() ![]() The software has truly changed the world of photography and design but we mustn't forget, it took 25 years of constant improvements to get to this stage.īelow, we'll be exploring how Photoshop came to be what it is today. We'll look at how the application excelled and improved with each new release in a detailed timeline of the software's release history. We'll also be looking at who created the software, why they created it and why they were so awesome. John Knoll (left) and Thomas Knoll (right) the founding fathers of Photoshop Source: It would be easy to assume that an application as feature-rich and powerful as Adobe Photoshop was created by a team of boffins working tirelessly for years on end. While this might be somewhat accurate for more recent versions of the application, the original software was created by two brothers (with a little help from their father). In 1987, Thomas Knoll was a PHD student at the University of Michigan where he was studying Engineering. Thomas had always been interested in photography much like his father and he had a dark room in his basement. Thomas's father, Glen Knoll, was a professor at a local college. ![]() Much like his son, he was also interested in photography and computers. Glen was one of the first people to get their hands on an Apple II Plus computer as he was allowed to bring it home from work. One day, Thomas wrote a small subroutine for a program on his father's Apple II Plus that allowed him to translate monochromatic images to greyscale on his monitor. After working on the program a little more, Thomas was able to create a number of processes that applied various effects to images on the screen. It was a rather primitive program by today's standards but considering it was 1987, this was pretty breakthrough technology. ![]()
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