Used them all. Got 1.0 off a floppy someone left in the computer lab at RIT in 1989. Wasn’t there a program called BarneyScan that had something to do with PS early days too?

pretty cool!

@david, did it really fit on ONE floppy? i thought it was more like several. : )

That’s really interesting, thanks for posting. Like especially to see how the toolbars grew.

I believe there was an application called “paint and Draw that pre-dated PS on the Mac, with similar tools, i.e. paint bucket, pencil, eraser… Does anyone remember this app?

WOW!

Mmmm, wonderfull nostalgic trip!
I started with version 3.0 :-)

Same thing as CS4, different spash-screen though, haha

it start with MAC after all.. see the name it getting more and more.. great post.. thanks..

Adobe Photoshop has really evolved that too for better. One of the best software that I’ve been using and being updated. Thanks.

Cool! Am so digging this.

that pictures are great
ive got photoshop on my iphone =)

Thanks for the post and for fellow Twitter Designer, @mlane , for sharing this post with the Twitterverse. I love using Photoshop in my graphic design work and am jazzed about the endless art you can create with it. I love that no matter how much of an “expert” you are with Photoshop, there is always much more to learn.

I think I started around ‘98, with the 5.0 series. This is awesome. Thanks for putting it together!

ohh my god i really dont no photoshop has 15 versions
thanks for the information

Notice the PC to mac switch between CS2 and CS3!

wow that’s evolution.

Ah, nostalgia… I used 5.5 for so many years. ‘Course, I was 13 when I started with Photoshop, so back in its very early days, ClarisWorks was more my speed.

they always kept certain things on the same place since the start…they just added some other things…
this is pretty much the only program that was good before and each version got better and not worse…if you see for example paint shop pro…it used to be a good program, until it got bought by corel…
i love the last version of photoshop
You can’t go wrong with it :)

Nice post. Thanks a lot !

Wow!

Really great trip down memory lane. Congratulations on a very thorough article! A lot of work must have been done to come up with this.

Thanks!

NICE ++

@MB: yeah, i used an Apple Lisa before the Mac came out and it had LisaPaint and LisaDraw, which I think went on to become MacPaint and MacDraw.

Oh, so many years ago…..

@MB: yeah, i used an Apple Lisa before the Mac came out and it had LisaPaint and LisaDraw, which I think went on to become MacPaint and MacDraw.

Oh, so many years ago…..

Just to think that photoshop started in 1988, I stated using photoshop 5.0 and before that was coral draw, time has definitely flown by, it makes me feel old!! dohhhh

haha that’s crazy! I used Photoshop 7.0 but never owned it, the first version I owned was CS1, upgrading to CS2, then CS3. Haven’t got CS4 yet!

I love the way they called Photoshop 2.5 ‘Limited Edition’. How do you get limited edition software?!

Brilliant! It must have taken ages to put this together.

I started on version 4 after a friend “loaned” me a copy. Never thought for a second that I would end up having a career based around it.

thanks to: God, my parents, my lovely loving wife Angelina jolie, Adobe photoshop 7.0, Adobe illustrator 5.0 for giving me the greatest experience in life.
(in Indonesia the software worth about a half dollar and for another half a dollar you can get all the plug-ins)
-Enjoy and visit Indonesia-

I go back further than version 1.0 – and Adobe’s ownership. It was called ImagePro (formerly “Display”). Then BarneyScan bought it when it was renamed Photoshop and shipped around 200 copies of the app bundled with their slide scanner. THEN Adobe bought it.

Great idea..loved this and bought back memories of my high school days teaching myself Photoshop

Realmente increible la evolución de Photoshop. Es sorprendente como todo evoluciona y mejor si es mi programa favorito… ya no puedo imaginar a la nueva versión, que sin duda nos dejará sorprendidos.

Really amazing developments Photoshop. It’s amazing how everything evolves and better if my favorite … I can not imagine the new version, which will no doubt leave us surprised.

This is an awesome post and the only problem is it makes me feel so old. I can remember back to 2.5 and I don’t even think they had layers then. I often wonder how much I have taken advantage of after 7.1 but I think Lightroom is the best thing that has come along for pro photographers in a long time. It is also cool to see that Adobe is still the leader since so many programs come and go.

Great article !

Cliff

Cliff Spicer Photography are Wedding Photographers in Toronto and Durham as well as a group of PR Photographers in the Greater Toronto Area

great post mate!
because you don’t show only the splash screen, you show tools, icons and the workspace

really cool !

awesome evolution! =D

This is Really Rare collection .. I like how it Evolve.

Thanks for this post! I had a great time looking at it…Memories!

Bring back the eye!

http://www.bilgimix.com/adobe-photoshopun-evrimi/

great post hongkiat! i;ve never seen this before. Btw, my favorite welcome screen is photoshop CS2. It’s very cool. How about the others?

Ok, OK,

But do You remember the relationship between Konll Bros & BarneyScan ?

link : http://www.storyphoto.com/multimedia/multimedia_photoshop.html

Enric

It gives me great joy when I see this … and I remember the first time you use this tool … without thinking that years later would be one of my main work software …

Thanks for this post

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Me da mucha alegría cuando veo esto… y recuerdo la primera vez que use esta herramienta… sin pensar que años después seria uno de mis principales software de trabajo…

Gracias por este post

Great change for 20 year

Great post!

Being a Photoshop user since 1.0, I couldn’t resist checking this history out. Now I teach Photoshop Elements at the Indianapolis Art Center. I live in Photoshop and use it as a basis and digital medium for much of my fine art. It’s too bad so many of the workspace screenshots are with Windows instead of Mac (lol).

It’s so nostalgic..I started working with the first version of CS

are you referring to MacDraw?

Gracias me llenó de recuerdos, ver nuevamente las versiones anteriores, no hay duda que Photoshop es parte de un diseñador

http://idearted.blogspot.com/2009/05/evolucion-de-photoshop-1988-2009.html

i use photoshop cs2 for a quite time now and never switch to others version. maybe i should try the latest version..(“,)

I think that someone is stolen your pictures: http://macieksz.pl/2009/05/jak-przez-lata-rozwijal-sie-photoshop/

Great job! Must’ve taken ages to find all the pictures. I remember Photoshop before layers (version 3). Now that was scary.

Nice.

I think I have a photoshop v 0.9b somewhere in the attic:D I’ll try to find it and get few pics of that running:)

I’m 16, started at the age of 7/8 with version 5.0! SO NOSTALGIC! *O*

–== Cougarster. C om ==– It’s where mature women and men who like them can get fvcked.

more of a devolution- never used it never will not worth it . Always used Image Fx much better-Amiga even Deluxe Paint on the Amiga is better. If I use anything on a x86- I use Photo impact -much better more powerful and faster at doing anything -plus I can use adobe plugins if need be.

Great topic, I loved the history lesson. Its so sad I didn’t get to experience it until CS2.

Makes me want to see the very first version and play a bit with it. Great topic anyway.

Muy bueno recuerdos
gracias
thank you

Están padrísimas las imágenes,, de verdad..es muy notorio el desarrollo que se ha hecho.

pues practicamente soy casi nuevito xd, comence desde el 7, y pensar que se evoluciona extraordianariamente!!

Nice Post!

I like the history of the Photoshop.

I’m working from 6th version.

Thanks

i remember the my learing time when i saw the splash screen for the photshop 4 in mac.
grreat post.same like growing child………

7.01 the best!

Was it really that long ago? I remember version 1!!

Now I really feel old.

great! I started using PS 7(very new then) on win and PS 5.5 on Mac ~ it was hapend in same time. I expect same nostalgy/hystory for Illustrator and why not for defunct Freehand (start Aldus FH ~ Macromedia FH ~ Adobe FH )
Thank’s very verrry much for article.

thanks 4 da info

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wow, i always used photoshop in version 6 until know CS3, i love so much for make my work easier and better! but i don’t the history n thanks to share it!!!

I’m not a graphic designer, but I used Photoshop on several occasions so I enjoyed this post a lot.

wow, I started with PS4

I’m from China.I enjoy learning Photoshop very much .And I always try to keep pace with Adobe as soon as a new release of PhotoShop come out .

Ah! my heart stopped for a minute. I had a brief flashback of OS 9. yikes

I have been using photoshop way back to 2000, it’s nice to know of a website dedicated to the application. And certainly a joy to see a comprehensive history and growth of the application.

Very cool!!

I started using Photoshop from version 2.5.
Oh.. That was a great experiance in my life…
I’ve observed the evolution of total Adobe softwares in my life…

:)

I really like photoshop. I am a new user and the computer came with it. I like Picasa better because it is more novice friendly…

Didn’t PS was called Photostyler around 1994 just before Adobe buy it from Aldus?

Aldus PhotoStyler > Adobe Photoshop

Wow :o this is the best image editing i ever used since version 7 hehe

Very very good post!
I’ve started on version 2.0 since 1994… oh my God… how time has passed!

very cool…I teach photoshop in cont ed classes…will have to share this with my students…some of them weren’t born when the program came out!!! (yikes)

Cool, Photoshot is the best it rocks it is kind of hard at first but then you get used to it, its really easy to use thanks!

Would you plz send me a copy of it?

and….. what about the omnipresent Seetharaman Narayanan ?
always catch my attention at the splash screen :) who doesn’t?

great and cool PS evulotion. it is so interesting post:)

as i was just about to get acquainted with cs3, poof came cs4 and i just got a copy. i am now still fumbling with its new features. adobe creative suit is a software that are both extremely useful and well-researched in terms of its usability. hehe…

Great! I go to link us..

Very interesting post… I started with photoshop 5 that came with a reference book of photoshop in my college library.

neredeeeen nereyee…

Great…you made a note to History

Lol. What an evolution PS has been through! A quick look at the state of PS’s filters/effects would’ve been memorable as well!

Good post.

I’m a chinease girl, we always love PS. thanks for this good post!!

se me cayó el carneeeeeeeeeet

awesome post :) i made this article in Indonesian language…

Really nice compliation!

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Very cool!!

What a nice trip down memory lane. I started using PS from version 5. I still remember reading a Photoshop 5.5 for Dummies book around that time. It’s amusing to see how the child has grown over the years. By the way, where did Seetharaman Narayanan go in CS4?

wow…histori of potoshop, great

Did you know that photoshop was first created by a member of Industrial Light and Magic, for use on Star Wars?

True story.

Thanks so much – Been working in PS since 1990. I was having a discussion with some other long time users a while ago – we couldn’t come up with a consensus of which came first Composite Controls or Paste Control (currently it is called Blend If under Layer Styles. I remember using it by one of those names in v2.

Now … if we had the pulldown menus I could lay this to rest :-)

PS. Who remembers the application that Photoshop put out of business?

Very nice…

Guys one thing that I noticed is quite surpising, if anyone can answer: Why Thomas Knoll is not in the last version CS4…?

For Comment No 88 @Alice

I love Photoshop & I love Chinese girls…

great post! I love photoshop
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This brings back so many memories of pirating different versions of PhotoShop!

Been loving Photoshop since 2.0 … this little flashback makes me feel OLD!

i think its crap that most of the screenshots are from a PC. It would have been nice to show all the mac screenshots since that is where it started and grew from.

Does anyone remember a image editing software package called Image Studio or Color Studio. I can’t remember which. I used it for a while and then moved to photoshop 1.5 or 2.0.

Adobe Photoshop 1988 = MS Paint 2009!

this has been done before
http://photoshopnews.com/feature-stories/photoshop-splash-screens/

Awesome post, hell lot of research

wow.. awesome post.

Great. I seen photo shop after 1998. :)

You forgot the Big Electric Cat splash, Venus in Furs, Strange Cargo, Dark Matter, Liquid Sky and Tiger Mountain

http://www.schmitzpress.com/easter.html

Neat article.

And eww… is that really CS4 icon? Why would they put black text on a dark blue base? CS3 icon looks much better and more readable.

Who remembers doing CHOPS? I remember mastering a drop shadow effect just in time for it to become a built in feature with the next version release! Haha. Been using PS since version 2.0.

BTW… for whoever mentioned Aldus PhotoStyler… that was Aldus’ attempt to compete with Photoshop. I think it was the beginning of the end for Aldus. I do miss Freehand sometimes :-(

May as well rename this article to “Windows to Mac Evolution”…

I started with version 3! on PC (installation fitted on 5 floppies), before that, I used Micrografx Picture Publisher on windows 3.1 on a 386 dx 40MHz. Ah! souvenirs!

What happened to Thomas Knoll on CS4???

nice

haha nice one,been uising it since V.4 and seeing it evolve like this was fun,but the good thing about photoshop is that it didnt lost it’s good interface after all

The only thing this is missing is the evolution of the hidden EasterEgg “About Photoshop” images.

Command + About Photoshop.

I wonder why they took out the color in CS4… maybe it was to give the artists a better feel that wasn’t biased by the background?.

Ha-ha… Nice post. I started my work in PS from 6.0 – It was a good, powerfully soft :) Today it’s only image in your blog and memoirs

What an excellent comparison!

thanks for this interesting post. I’am using first Photoshop CS2

I didnt know Photoshop was as old as me…

Wow… It’s a Nice Collection…. Just a Bit of Explanation for Each Image have made the article a Extra Informative….. :)

nossa que demais …
não sabia que tinha todos esse photshop….
muit interessante

nice post :)

Wooooooooooooooooooooow!!!!!!
Que evolucíón!

IMHO all the Photoshop Splash/load screen’s were Stinkers up to Adobe CS 1 – same goes with the Icons…. CS3/CS4 Branding is great too, nice evolution….

Great post!!! Good memories!!!

adobe photoshop 7.0 first time I met photoshop and start getting addicted

Nice post, thanks for sharing ! :))

PS 7.0 & CS 3 represent!!! :]

Memories, I have been using it since 2.0

Wow this is really cool, thanks for the post. No idea where you found alpha pics :P

That´s I call a long-life relationship. e=)

here are more picts from the first version of PS: http://creativebits.org/the_first_version_of_photoshop

i started with 1.0. i know i know, 3 versions too late. :-)

I’m told Adobe is now in the process of rewriting the whole shebang in Cocoa. Man oh man what a task!

And think how much better (if better is really possible) it will be then! CS5 Cocoa on a Mac Pro Supreme running Snow Leopard?

Nirvana!

I can remember using 4.0 as the first one.
Such a long history here, very romantic.

WOW.. this is too good..
we love u photoshop…i wish this will go limitless!

Gr8! WOW…

Color Studio rocked.

Had a warp tool and a vector layer, years and years before Photoshop.

Was so ahead of it’s time. Buggy as hell though.

Hands up who remembers Live Picture.

nice serie and a cool tool since 1995

I´ve used them all – and liked very much to remember them… ;-)

Started with version 5 in High School and realized then that this program was going to be required for this Industry. After all this time it’s still irreplaceable.

Great research, collection and article that took us down memory lane.

Powerful yes; great no way. I’ve never seen a more destructive and counter intuitive program than PS, when it comes to editing pixels and colour. When I prepare work for exhibition, I use a program long lost in the mists of time called Live picture, [I have a dedicated machine that it runs on] it stopped being sold at version 2.6, to this day it is less destructive and more intuitive while handling colour correctly better than photoshop, and it ALWAYS edited in 16 bits. Thankfully we now have programs designed for photographers to do photographic work not a one glove fits all tool. Any photographer not using Aperture or Lightroom in their workflow is wasting there time in photoshop imho.

thanks hongkiat, i was lookin for the icons of all version of photoshop and viola i found ya page
It helps me much thanks! great archive

Really nice. I started using photoshop at version CS2 and had no idea about adobe products before then. Wow! what a difference. Now I’m using it EVERYDAY. See my site or flickr for more info.

I Love Photoshop n_______________N!

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I still use PS7 all the time, so easy and simple to navigate. I also have CS4, but can’t leave my old friend behind!

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very romantic history… i started using photoshop in first time is Adobe Photoshop 6.0 ..

A Brief History of the best Graphics Tool ever invented!

I would have had that as my title.

Nostalgia is grabbing me now lol

yes there was. it ran on a proprietary box the size of an end table sold by Barco. I distinctly remember an operator taking measurements from the screen with a wooden ruler. There was a confused crowd of conventional film strippers who were told to learn it and lose their razor blades.

first PS in my desktop is Adobe Photoshop 6.0 :)

The earliest version of Photoshop reminds me of the current standard Paint application that comes with Windows. It really is impressive that in less than 20 years so many new improvements were added yet the appearance of the application is still very recognizable. Hard to believe that Photoshop has been around so long, but not surprising. It is definitely the best out there for editing photos, making it a best friend for amateur brochure printing designers!