Many people think that one of the most popular and widely used applications, Photoshop, was created and developed by Adobe. However, this is not true: Photoshop was conceived and is the result of all the hard work of two brothers: Thomas and John Knoll.
Early Beginnings Of Photoshop
Early Beginnings Of Photoshop
John took an early interest in photography and soon started developing his film in his father’s darkroom. He soon began developing color prints – an intricate process compared to black and white film development back then. By learning to manipulate the color and exposure of the photographs he developed, John would acquire the skills that would later be applied in Photoshop. John was also passionate about programming and he used his father’s early Apple II+ and Macintosh for research and honing his skills. John later joined Industrial Light and Magic where he was able to apply his hobby to his career.
John’s brother, Thomas, while taking up his PhD, Thomas bought a Mac Plus to work on his thesis. Unfortunately, unlike some of the costlier home computers of the time the Mac Plus was not capable of displaying images in color or grayscale. With the goal of using his Mac for his research, Thomas wrote a program called Display that allowed him to display grayscale images through dithering on the 1-bit black and white display. Display did not have a GUI, though; instead, it used a C Shell-esque command line interface. The program did nothing but display color and grayscale images on the Mac Plus through dithering.
John then tried Thomas’ program at Industrial Light and Magic and was very impressed by it. John then encouraged Thomas to turn the program into a true image editor that could permit people to manipulate digital images just like they would in the dark room and soon, the brothers started collaborating on Display’s successor: Photoshop.
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John’s brother, Thomas, while taking up his PhD, Thomas bought a Mac Plus to work on his thesis. Unfortunately, unlike some of the costlier home computers of the time the Mac Plus was not capable of displaying images in color or grayscale. With the goal of using his Mac for his research, Thomas wrote a program called Display that allowed him to display grayscale images through dithering on the 1-bit black and white display. Display did not have a GUI, though; instead, it used a C Shell-esque command line interface. The program did nothing but display color and grayscale images on the Mac Plus through dithering.
John then tried Thomas’ program at Industrial Light and Magic and was very impressed by it. John then encouraged Thomas to turn the program into a true image editor that could permit people to manipulate digital images just like they would in the dark room and soon, the brothers started collaborating on Display’s successor: Photoshop.
Info source: www.cherishartz.com
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