Bailey - Photoshop: 20 Photo Editing Techniques Every Photoshop Beginner Should Know

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Now celebrating its 25 th year, Photoshop has come a long way from its beginnings in 1987 when Thomas Knoll, PhD student from the University of Michigan, started working on a computer program designed for his Macintosh computer, which included showing grayscale photographs on a monochrome monitor for his thesis on the processing of digital images. He named the program Display and it got positive reviews from Thomas brother, John Knoll. John Knoll was then connected with film industry leaders on computer graphics production, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), and American Academy Awards winners for motion picture and visual arts.

On his brothers recommendation, Thomas took a 6-month sabbatical from his studies to develop what was to become the greatest innovation in the realm of digital color editing. The 6-month sibling collaboration and creative brainstorming yielded a full-fledged image-editing program, which was originally named ImagePro. Attempts to register the invention; however, encountered an obstacle; the name ImagePro had already been taken by another company, so Thomas renamed his baby Photoshop . Later that same year, he contracted Barneyscan, a small scanner manufacturing company, whose job was to be the distributor for 200 software copies, which already included color editing features with deliveries of their slide scanners. These features were later stripped from the first Adobe-delivered version.

While Thomas was busy writing code, back in school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, John traveled south of California to Silicon Valley, the leading hub of giant high-tech corporations and silicon chip innovators, for the purpose of introducing the program. He conducted product demonstrations to Russell Brown, who held a function of Adobes art director, and to Apple company engineers, which were both a success. Brown did not waste even half a breath; Adobe turned around and bought the distribution license in September 1988. In February 1990, the first version of Photoshop 1.0 was designed for Macintosh. With each new Adobe version, improved color handling features swiftly evolved, with innovations incorporated into the program. Photoshop was quickly catapulted to fame and became known as the gold standard in the digital color editing industry.

Now, Photoshop enjoys an almost exclusive popularity in color editing, changing in part of speech, and has become a neologism.

• Adobe Photoshop - the program (noun)
• That image needs to be photoshopped before release. (verb)
• Please do not pass any photoshopped images for your assignment. (adjective)

Even with these, Photoshop demonstrates its versatility and more so in color image editing.