A Look at Adobe Photoshop Through the Years

Whether you’re a digital artist or the furthest thing from, chances are great that you’ve at one time found yourself using Adobe Photoshop. Its roots began in 1987 when Thomas Knoll created a monochrome picture viewer called “Display”. He soon realized the potential of a full-fledged image manipulation program, and Photoshop was born. Version 1.0 was first released in 1990, and exclusively for the Mac (and who knows, maybe this is one of the reasons Apple’s seem to be the choice of many graphics professionals).

With over 20 years under its belt, you could say that the application has changed quite drastically over the years. To help give a visual tour of the application from the past to present, blog Hongkiat has posted an in-depth look at various aspects of the application through the ages, with everything from the application icons, to the start-up screen, to the toolbox and of course the UI itself.

This is one application that continues to get better as the years pass, and that’s interesting. I’m no PS guru, but each time a new version comes out, I wonder what the heck could be made better, but Adobe continues to release features we didn’t even know we needed. I also can’t believe it’s already been six years since CS1 came out… I remember it like it was yesterday!

Adobe Photoshop has always been one of the greatest (if not the best) software when it comes to manipulating and editing image. It all started off in 1987 with a Mac application call Display, created by Thomas Knoll. With almost two decades worth of changes and improvements, you almost can’t imagine how the first version of Photoshop would look like by looking at the Photoshop you have on your desktop.