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Mac paint to Photoshop - how did it get there?
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I was wondering how digital manipulation progressed from the very basic to the feature rich. Many Mac products contributed to get us where we are now.
This is my chronological list (from Memory) of the progression.
Please change or correct it, I would love a more detailed/accurate list.
Mac Paint - 1984
Fullpaint - 1985
Superpaint - 1986
Letraset Image Studio - 1986 / Digital Darkroom - ?
Pixel Paint - ?
Live Picture / X-Res - ?
Photoshop - 1990
(Last edited by moonmonkey; Jan 2, 2005 at 09:17 PM.
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Don't forget Digital Darkroom. That was the precursor on which Photoshop was based. If I remember, it was purely grayscale. Adobe bought it and changed the name. Not many people know that Adobe bought Photoshop the way the Microsoft bought Powerpoint.
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Originally posted by chabig:
Don't forget Digital Darkroom. That was the precursor on which Photoshop was based. If I remember, it was purely grayscale. Adobe bought it and changed the name. Not many people know that Adobe bought Photoshop the way the Microsoft bought Powerpoint.
Chris
I thought Photoshop had it's origins in two guys from Xerox Parc who created a paint program for the Alto computer?
The development of Photoshop started in 1987 by the brothers Thomas Knoll and John Knoll, although it was not until 1990 that the program was first released by Adobe.
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I thought Tom and John Knoll wrote Digital Darkroom and sold it to Adobe. Maybe Digital Darkroom was from the same company that did Fullpaint.
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you forgot Studio 8 and the (did it ever ship?) Studio 32.
i think by EA?
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Does anyone know what apps Adobe had before they shipped Photoshop?
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Originally posted by a holck:
Does anyone know what apps Adobe had before they shipped Photoshop?
According to Adobe's published history, its first application was Adobe Ilustrator (1987) after developing Postscript and Adobe Type Library. Photoshop came in 1990.
FYI, here's Adobe's own official timeline from 1982 to 2001 in PDF format: link
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Originally posted by moonmonkey:
I was wondering how digital manipulation progressed from the very basic to the feature rich. Many Mac products contributed to get us where we are now.
This is my chronological list (from Memory) of the progression.
Please change or correct it, I would love a more detailed/accurate list.
Mac Paint - 1984
Fullpaint - 1985
Superpaint - 1986
Letraset Image Studio - 1986 / Digital Darkroom - ?
Pixel Paint - ?
Live Picture / X-Res - ?
Photoshop - 1990
Here's a pdf from creativepro on the photoshop story.
Some things:
Live Picture was not related to X-Res, although they both had the possibility of editing high res images in a lower res, which was important in the days of low power computers and expensive memory. In any case both of them came much later than Photoshop, around 1996, IIRC.
Fractal's ColorStudio was a direct competitor to Photoshop in those days (1990, I actually did a course on how to use Photoshop 1.1.7) but it cost a lot more even though many reviewers found it better than Photoshop at the time. ColorStudio got sold a number of times and, as far as I know, eventually ended up at Corel to become what is known as Corel Photo Paint.
Those were heady days in any case, the late 80's and early 90's. The Mac was light years ahead of the PC and any decent software was developed for the Mac first, and then the PC. It's sad that Apple in those days were both too arrogant and short sighted to see what was happening in the market.
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Originally posted by theolein:
Fractal's ColorStudio was a direct competitor to Photoshop in those days (1990, I actually did a course on how to use Photoshop 1.1.7) but it cost a lot more even though many reviewers found it better than Photoshop at the time. ColorStudio got sold a number of times and, as far as I know, eventually ended up at Corel to become what is known as Corel Photo Paint.
Ah, its a bit clearer now, Colourstudio was the Child of Letraset ImageStudio (produced for them by Fractal)
I grouped X-res and Livepicture together because they both arrived roughly the same time and time the same high-res thing.
What about Pixel Paint- where does that fit in?
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Originally posted by moonmonkey:
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What about Pixel Paint- where does that fit in?
http://www.thesandbox.net/arm/oldtyme/ot_apps1.html about halfway down the page.
:Sigh: There were so many innovative good Mac apps back then, especially in the graphics field. It's really sad that there are practically only about three bitmap editors left, Photoshop, Fireworks and Painter, and two decent (or three) vector illustration packages left, Illustrator, Freehand, Fireworks.
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