{"id":508,"date":"2010-12-29T17:49:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T22:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/?p=508"},"modified":"2011-01-01T16:08:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T21:08:01","slug":"photoshop-turns-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2010\/12\/photoshop-turns-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop Turns 20 !"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photoshop Origins<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the most impressive things about Photoshop is the fact that one gifted family, consisting of an engineering prof, a PHD engineering student, and a talented special effects whiz working at Industrial Light and Magic came up with the core idea of Photoshop.<\/p>\n

Thomas Knoll<\/strong>, the PHD student, is still heavily involved with Photoshop years later.<\/p>\n

Glen Knoll <\/strong>was a college professor with two sons and two hobbies; computers and photography.<\/p>\n

He had a darkroom in his basement, and an Apple II Plus that he was allowed to bring home from work.<\/p>\n

Thomas Knoll adopted his father\u2019s photography habit throughout high school, while his brother,\u00a0John Knoll<\/strong>, purchased one of the first Macs available to the public.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to 1987: Thomas Knoll was a PHD student studying Engineering at the University of Michigan. His brother was working at Industrial Light and Magic.<\/p>\n

Thomas Knoll wrote a subroutine for a program to translate monochrome images on his monitor to grayscale.<\/p>\n

The successful subroutine led Knoll to create more and very soon he had a number of processes for achieving photographic effects on digital images.<\/p>\n

After his brother John saw what Thomas was doing, he recommended that Thomas turn what he was doing into a full-featured image editor.<\/p>\n

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The combination of Thomas\u2019 programming abilities with John\u2019s pragmatic design background led to a collaboration between the two brothers to develop more processes and improve on the initial application.<\/p>\n

Even though the process led to interruption in Thomas\u2019 thesis work, the brothers released \u201cImage Pro\u201d in 1988.<\/p>\n

John suggested that they begin to sell Image Pro as an application.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Within six months, the brothers had a partnership with a company that manufactured scanners, Barneyscan.<\/p>\n

They purchased 200 copies of the program to ship with their scanners.<\/p>\n

They called on Supermac and Aldus, but were turned away at both, a move that Aldus would come to seriously regret.<\/p>\n

Shortly after, the Knoll brothers struck gold when they won over Adobe management with their product, and formed a licensing partnership with Adobe that was to launch their software and Adobe into the stratosphere.<\/p>\n

Happy Birthday Photoshop!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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