![]() ![]() Photoshop 8.x/CS requires Mac OS X 10.2.4, 192 MB of RAM, a G3 processor, 320 MB of available hard drive space, a 1024 x 768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video, and a CD-ROM drive. New features in Photoshop 8 are the lens blur filter, Camera RAW 2.x, the Shadow/Highlight command, Smart guides, a real-time histogram, a highly modified slice tool, the match color command, Macrovision copy protection, scripting support for Javascript and other languages, and the ability to detect and block images of banknotes. Photoshop 8/CS (2003.11) discontinued support for Mac OS 9. Photoshop 7.x requires Mac OS 9.1 or Mac OS X 10.1.3, 128 MB of RAM, a G3 processor, 320 MB of available hard drive space, a color display with 800 x 600 resolution and 16-bit color video, and a CD-ROM drive. Photoshop 7.0.1(2002.08) introduced camera RAW 1.x as an optional plugin. Photoshop 7.0 made text fully vector, added the healing brush, and updated the painting engine. Photoshop 7.0 (2002.03) was the first version with Mac OS X support. Photoshop 6.x requires Mac OS 8.5, 64 MB of RAM (with virtual memory on), a G3 processor, 125 MB of available hard drive space, a color display with 800 x 600 resolution and 8-bit color video, and a CD-ROM drive. Photoshop 6.0 (2000.09) updated the interface and added vector shapes, the liquify filter, and the layer styles dialogue box. It also made the addition of the the Save for Web feature and the extract filter. Photoshop 5.5 (1999.02) was the first version of Photoshop to be bundled with ImageReady. Photoshop 5.x requires Mac System 7.5.5, 32 MB of RAM, a G3 processor, and 60 MB of available hard drive space. Photoshop 5.0 (1998.05) added editable type, the history palette, color management, and the magnetic lasso tool. ![]() Photoshop 4.x requires Mac System 7.1 (7.1.2 for Power Macintosh),16 MB of RAM, a 68030 processor, 25 MB of available hard drive space, a color monitor with an 8-bit video card, and a CD-ROM drive. New features introduced in 4.0 were Adjustment layers and macros. Photoshop 4.0 (1996.11) Solaris and IRIX support discontinued. ![]() Photoshop 3.x requires Mac System 7.0, 16 MB of RAM, a 68020 processor, 25 MB of available hard drive space, and a floppy drive. Also introduced in Photoshop 3.0 were tabbed palettes. Layers allow the user to isolate different parts of the image onto different layers and have probably been the most important addition to Photoshop since its release. Layer were introduced in Photoshop 3.0 (1994.09 Mac/1994.11 Windows, Solaris, and IRIX). Photoshop 2.5 added palettes and 16-bit support. Photoshop 2.5(1992.11) Photoshop 2.5 was the first version to support Microsoft Windows in November 1993 IRIX and Solaris support was also added. Photoshop 2.x requires Mac System 6.0.7, 4 MB of RAM, a 68020 processor, 32-bit QuickDraw, and a floppy drive. Photoshop 2.0 added support for paths, which allow the user to create and manipulate line based drawings. Photoshop 1.x requires Mac System 6.0.3, 2 MB of RAM, a 68000 processor, and a floppy drive. Photoshop was marketed as a tool for the average user, which was reflected in the price ($1,000 compared to competitor Letraset’s ColorStudio, which cost $1,995). The first release of Photoshop was successful despite some bugs, which were fixed in subsequent updates. Photoshop 1 (1990.01) requires a 8 MHz or faster Mac with a color screen and at least 2 MB of RAM. The brothers continued to work on the product, and in 1990 Photoshop 1.0 was released. The deal was not forever, and when the contract ran out, the brothers returned to Adobe and sold them the wholesale rights in Sept. However a suitable deal was not reached with Adobe, and the brothers struck a temporary deal with scanner company, BarneyScan, to distribute Photoshop under the name BarneyScan XP. ImagePro, which by then had been renamed Photoshop, was rejected by every company they came to, aside from Adobe. Thomas took a six-month break from his studies to develop the program.īy 1988, Display had been renamed ImagePro and had enough features that the brothers decided to try to sell it commercially. Thomas’s brother John, an employee of George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic, soon showed interest in the project and recommended that it be developed into a full image editing program it was at this time that the program was given a name: Display. Because of this, Thomas began coding a program to do the job. In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, discovered that his new Mac Plus couldn’t display grayscale images on its 1-bit black and white display. Photoshop has grown to support layers, filters, brushes, text, 3D objects, video, and much others. Photoshop began life as a program called Display that was made to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. ![]()
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