Evolution of Photoshop: 1988 – 2009
Adobe Photoshop has always been one of the greatest software tools for manipulating and editing images. It all started in 1987 with a Mac application called Display, created by Thomas Knoll. With nearly two decades of changes and improvements, it’s hard to imagine what the first version of Photoshop looked like compared to the version we have today.
In this post, we’ll take you back in time to see the early days of Photoshop and explore its evolution up to the latest Adobe Photoshop CS4 available today.
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Adobe Photoshop .63 (1988) |
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Adobe Photoshop .87 (1989) |
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Adobe Photoshop 1.0 (1990) |
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Adobe Photoshop 2.0 (1993) |
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Adobe Photoshop 2.5 (1993) |
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Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (1995) |
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Adobe Photoshop 4.0 (1996) |
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Adobe Photoshop 5.0 (1998) |
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Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (1998) |
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Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (2000) |
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Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (2002) |
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Creative Suite 1 (2003) |
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Creative Suite 2 (2005) |
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Creative Suite 3 (2007) |
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Creative Suite 4 (2009) |
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Adobe Photoshop .07 (1988)
Adobe Photoshop .63 (1988)
Adobe Photoshop .87 (1989)
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 (1990)
Adobe Photoshop 2.0 (1993)
Adobe Photoshop 2.5 (1993)
Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (1995)
Adobe Photoshop 4.0 (1996)
Adobe Photoshop 5.0 (1998)
Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (1998)
Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (2000)
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (2002)
Creative Suite 1 (2003)
Creative Suite 2 (2005)
Creative Suite 3 (2007)
Creative Suite 4 (2009)
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Adobe Photoshop .63 (1988)
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Adobe Photoshop .87 (1989)
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Adobe Photoshop 1.0 (1990)
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Adobe Photoshop 2.0 (1993)
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Adobe Photoshop 2.5 (1993)
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Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (1995)
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Adobe Photoshop 4.0 (1998)
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Adobe Photoshop 5.0 (1998)
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Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (1998)
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Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (2000)
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Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (2002)
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Creative Suite 1 (2003)
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Creative Suite 2 (2005)
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Creative Suite 3 (2007)
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Creative Suite 4 (2009)
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Adobe Photoshop 0.63 (1988)
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 (1990)
Adobe Photoshop 2.5 (1993)
Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (1995)
Adobe Photoshop 4.0 (1996)
Adobe Photoshop 5.0 (1998)
Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (1998)
Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (2000)
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (2002)
Creative Suite 1 (2003)
Creative Suite 2 (2005)
Creative Suite 3 (2007)
Creative Suite 4 (2009))
Content gathered via about Photoshop (Wikipedia), Photoshop release history (Wikipedia), Photoshop News, Guidebook Gallery, and a lot of researching and Googling.