Here is some Photoshop History:
Can you believe Photoshop is 20 years old!!! I can’t!
Photoshop is just a little younger than my own kids — they (both my children and Photoshop) have grown up so quickly! Time flies!
So have you ever wondered how Photoshop got started? how it grew, and where it is now? If so then check out this information about Photoshop!
In the beginning………
Did you know that Photoshop was originally created by two brothers, Thomas and John Knoll back in 1987?
Thomas Knoll wrote software that could display grayscale images with a range of gray tones for monitors that could show only black or white pixels. 
This project started as a thesis on the processing of digital images, and evolved first into a small set of graphical subroutines, and then into a program named Display.
Thomas, and his brother, John Knoll, went on to create a better featured program named ImagePro in 1988, and finally Photoshop 1.0 in 1989.
Thomas Knoll (above left) still works at Adobe. John Knoll (above right) is a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic, where he worked on effects in several Star Wars movies, three Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and Avatar.
Then there was Adobe…..
Adobe took interest in this final 
version, and the first ever version of Photoshop was released in 1990 for the Mac (Apple) Computers.
Photoshop 1.0 was designed to work on monochrome monitors that could display only black or white pixels.
The image to the right reflects the reality of digital imaging at the time.
Photoshop 1 including tools such as levels and curves for adjusting tonality and the clone tool for copying one part of an image to another.
In 1991, Photoshop 2.0 came out with paths and the pen tool, and ways for isolating images that helped in publishing.
In a marketing move that would be not be considered today, the art on the 
software box for Photoshop 2.0 did not change from version 1.
In 1993, Adobe released the first Photoshop for Windows Computers with version 2.5. So, from this release onward Adobe made Photoshop for both the Apple (Mac) and PC computers.
Photoshop 3.0 in 1994 marked the arrival of layers, which let the user separate elements of an image that could be stacked.
In November 1996 Photoshop 4.0 was released. It had Adjustment Layers, Actions, and Multiple Undo.
Then, in May 1998 Photoshop 5.0 was released. This version 5 had new tools, improved selection, 
editable type (previously, type was rasterized as soon as it was added), and History Palette with History Brush (Enhanced undo), Magnetic Lasso, and layer effects, color management and spot color support.
However at this point Photoshop had some competition in the photo editing arena like PhotoImpact, Fireworks, and Corel PhotoPaint. Some reviewers thought at the time that these later programs where better than Photoshop. But Photoshop always catered to the high-end photo editing/publishing needs, and in the end this was part reason it has become the leader in Photo Editing Software.
Photoshop version 5.5 added web imaging features by bundling Photoshop with ImageReady to compete with Macromedia’s Fireworks web imaging software (Fireworks is now part of Adobe’s software!)
Version 5/5.5 was first version of Photoshop I bought, I might have got an earlier version with one of my digital cameras though – ah, it seems only a few days ago, not years! In fact, if I climb up into my attic, and dig around a bit I bet I could find this Photoshop 5 software in a box, next to my daughters 
old dolls! Wow, I am a museum piece! 
September 2000, saw Photoshop 6, with Vector Shapes, Updated User Interface, the “Liquify” filter, and Layer styles/Blending Options dialog.
In Photoshop 6.0, Adobe finally combined the bundled ImageReady program into Photoshop to offer more advances in web capabilities in just one program.
In March 2001, Photoshop 7.0 arrived. One important feature with Photoshop 7.0 
was the ability to edit high-quality “raw” images taken directly from a camera’s image sensor.
Photoshop 7.0 also brought the healing brush, a feature that greatly eased the removal of age spots, wrinkles, and unsightly blemishes.
Photoshop 7.0 was the last version with its own number. After it came the Creative Suite 
series, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, and the current CS5 version.
In October 2003, Photoshop CS (8.0), appeared with features like Camera RAW 2.x, Highly modified “Slice Tool”, Match Color command, Lens Blur filter, and more!
Photoshop CS2 (9.0) in 
April 2005, brought these features – the healing brush was updated to be the more automated spot healing brush, and photographers got a number of new abilities: corrections for lens distortion, and a quicker red-eye removal.
Also this version had more elaborate sharpening module, and image warp for tasks such as slimming models and many more features!
In April 2007, Photoshop CS3 (10) was 
introduced. It had a revised user interface, Quick Select tool, Alterations to Curves, Vanishing Point, Channel Mixer, Brightness and Contrast, and the Print dialog, and much more!
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Photoshop CS4 (11) appeared October 2008, it had Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation, Adjustments panel, Masks panel, Auto-blending of images, New file management and workspaces with Adobe Bridge CS4 and more!
Last but not least the newest version of Photoshop……
The latest version of Photoshop is CS5 (12) and was on sale May 25, 2010, some of it’s new features are Puppet Warp Tool, Content Aware Fill, Mixer Brush, Bristle Tips, Automatic Lens Correction and more!
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Photoshop has made a great impact on our culture, it has probably retouched most of the images we look at every day!
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