Retro Mac: Photoshop 1.0.7

From what I understand, Photoshop started out as a program writted by either John or Thomas Knoll's college thesis and it then took on a life of its own.

The rest is history...

Wow, For the longest time I thought I had started using PS at version 2.
That startup screen looks very familiar, so it must have been version 1.07.
Cool!

I started with Mac Paint and loved SuperPaint and Canvas as well.
Ahh the good old days.

A-hem...

"Abode released Photoshop"?

Seems the URL was stripped. It's right here: http://www.deviantart.com/view/1372461/

Pah, this is nothing! I got an old Performa 460 (gift from a friend a few years ago) containing Photoshop Beta version 0.63, dated 10/2/88

Screenshot of said Photoshop can be viewed on my DeviantArt-page, right here.

I remember when PhotoShop was competing against the established LetraSet ColorStudio. ColorStudio was huge and expensive, and Photoshop did 80% of what you wanted at 5% of the price. Sometimes I wonder if Adobe, as of late, hasn't set up the market for a competitor to come out with the next "photoshop" this year.

I always wished that they'd make a Photoshop Lite or something based on Photoshop 3. It's my favorite version.

I remember, just before this version 1, which marked the coming of Adobe, the previous one was a freeware called Photolab, by the same Thomas Knoll...

I won't dare say almost all was already there of course, but, well, at the time... :-)

Photoshop 1.0.7 on an iMac G5 with 512 MB RAM under System 7.5.3 ;-) and the native iMac screen resolution :p

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