On this day in 1990, Adobe released Photoshop 1.0 for Macintosh and since then the software has become the synonym of photo-editing software and today the company celebrates 30 years of the image manipulating software.
Take a look back at the Photoshop version 1.0 running on a 1-bit 1986 Macintosh Plus computer with 8MHz CPU and 4MB RAM. This mentioned video is sped up 2X times because the total length of video uploaded on YouTube had a limit of 10-minutes before 2009.
History of Adobe Photoshop Innovation:
1990 – Version 1.0
1991 – Paths, CMYK Color
1992 – 16-bit per channel
1994 – Layers, Blend modes
1996 – Adjustment Layers, Actions (macros)
1998 – History Palette, Color management, Magnetic Lasso
1999 – Save for Web
2000 – Vector shapes, Liquify, Layer Styles
2002 – Healing Brush, Camera Raw
2003 – Lens Blur filter
2005 – Smart Objects, Smart Sharpen
2007 – Quick Select, Auto Align/Blend, Smart Filters
2008 – Content-aware Scaling
2010 – Content-aware Fill
2012 – Content-aware Move, Blur Gallery
2014 – Adobe Font service, CC Libraries
2015 – Artboards, Adobe Stock service
2016 – Face-aware Liquify
2018 – Select Subject
2019 – Object Selection Tool, Cloud Documents, Photoshop on iPad
