When he saw what Thomas had created on his father's Apple II, he told Thomas that he should turn his program into a fully fledged image editor. While Thomas was studying at University, John Knoll (his brother) was working on special effects at George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic. It was a rather primitive program by today's standards but considering it was 1987, this was pretty breakthrough technology. After working on the program a little more, Thomas was able to create a number of processes that applied various effects to images on the screen. One day, Thomas wrote a small subroutine for a program on his father's Apple II Plus that allowed him to translate monochromatic images to greyscale on his monitor. Glen was one of the first people to get their hands on an Apple II Plus computer as he was allowed to bring it home from work. Much like his son, he was also interested in photography and computers.

Thomas's father, Glen Knoll, was a professor at a local college. Thomas had always been interested in photography much like his father and he had a dark room in his basement. In 1987, Thomas Knoll was a PHD student at the University of Michigan where he was studying Engineering. While this might be somewhat accurate for more recent versions of the application, the original software was created by two brothers (with a little help from their father). Source: It would be easy to assume that an application as feature-rich and powerful as Adobe Photoshop was created by a team of boffins working tirelessly for years on end. John Knoll (left) and Thomas Knoll (right) the founding fathers of Photoshop We'll also be looking at who created the software, why they created it and why they were so awesome. We'll look at how the application excelled and improved with each new release in a detailed timeline of the software's release history. The software has truly changed the world of photography and design but we mustn't forget, it took 25 years of constant improvements to get to this stage.īelow, we'll be exploring how Photoshop came to be what it is today. Photoshop is now used by amateurs and professionals alike for everything from simple image retouching to website design.

If you rewind 25 years, Photoshop didn't exist at all and even when the application was initially created, it was a far-cry from the hugely powerful application that we know and love today. Today, Photoshop is an extremely powerful piece of software but it hasn't always been this way. Photoshop is arguably the most widely used, most popular and most powerful photo-editing software in the world and although many of today's Photoshop users probably can't imagine a world without the application, it's important to remember that Photoshop has only been around for a measly 25 years.

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