Publisher's Synopsis
Photoshop was created by two brothers, John Knoll and Thomas, in 1987.
In 1988, they sold the license for distribution to Adobe Systems Incorporated.
On his Macintosh Plus, Thomas Knoll, a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, started writing software to view grayscale images with a monochrome display.
This program (then known as Display) drew the attention of Thomas's brother John, an employee of Industrial Light & Magic, who suggested that Thomas transform it into an image editing program.
In 1988, Thomas took a six-month school break to work on the program with his brother.
The software was renamed ImagePro by Thomas, but the name had already been taken.
[7]Later in that year, Thomas renamed his program Photoshop and struck a short-term deal with Barneyscan which was a scanner manufacturer firm to distribute the program together with slide scanner. Using this approach, approximately 200 Photoshop copies were delivered.[8][9].
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It's a complex design program with much features, including a plethora of resources that can be intimidating at times.
Nevertheless, Photoshop is not only for professionals.
