Photoshop 0.63 was the first version of the now-popular image editing software. It was published by John Knoll for Macintosh System 7 on October 2, 1988.[1]
History
Before choosing the name "Photoshop", John called the project "ImagePro", and perhaps other names lost to history.[2] Eventually, the "Photoshop" branding was chosen, and an upgraded version would be offered to BarneyScan for distribution with their slide scanner.
Features
As image processing is RAM-intensive, Photoshop was able to make use of virtual memory, which was a new feature of System 7.[3] Photoshop would also take advantage of now-standard QuickDraw 32-bit color support.
From the start, Photoshop included the following features:
- Color picker (capable of 16-bit RGB or HSB values, although full support would not be available until 2.5)
- Calculate, a precursor to the Calculations command
- Fullscreen view mode
- Feathered selections
- Color modes
- Halftone
- Monochrome
- Indexed color
- RGB
- CMYK separation
- HSB separation
- Multichannel
Tools
| Lasso | Marquee |
| Hand | Move |
| Crop tool | Eraser |
| Paint Bucket | Eyedropper |
| Brush tool | Pencil |
| Airbrush tool | Smudge tool |
| Blur tool | Sharpen tool |
References
- ↑ GUIdebook Graphical User Interface Gallery, Photoshop 0.63, accessed 11-17-2010
- ↑ Storyphoto.com, "From Darkroom to Desktop—How Photoshop Came to Light", accessed 11-17-2010
- ↑ Wikipedia, "System 7", accessed 11-17-2010