25 Years Adobe Photoshop

The best Image Editing Software in the World

It's no secret that the photos we get see in the press and advertising were edited by an image editing software. The digital imaging has changed, so to say, as we see the world. Models can be made slimmer, Ikea moves his furniture by image processing in the right light. We contemplate Adobe Photoshop, which is the most successful image editing program in the world.

It is the year 1990. For the first time a disk was published that allowed to move pixels. The inventor of this program is John Knoll. At that time he had no idea that based of this pixel displacement making even the most successful and most professional image editing program in the world would result. While it was not the first program that allowed the displacement of pixels, but by the intuitive operation of Photoshop 1.0 and the promotion by Adobe veteran Russel Brown, who recognized the potential of the software, Photoshop quickly became marketable. Today, after 14 other versions, Photoshop has become an integral part of the creative economy.

John Knoll recently posted a video tutorial for version 1.0. He worked on the picture of his wife on the beach in Tahiti. Billion creative projects and countless Photoshop tutorials later, Photoshop currently arrived at Version CC 2015. The developers always come up with better intuitive controls. In the latest version, for example, HiDPI-/retina displays are supported in a better way. There is a Glyphs panel, and improved export opportunities. The Blur Gallery has been increased and the Creative Cloud Libraries were also improved.

This is also reflected in the further development of the mobile and tablet market. In 2015 at the open house Adobe has introduced two other Apps for creative people. The smartphone and tablet apps for iOS include "Photoshop Fix" for image retouching and "Capture CC" for recording and archiving of colors, shapes and patterns. Here Photoshop Fix offers adjustment brushes and special filters that make, for example, facial retouching possible. The special feature of Capture CC is, that it can turn captured images into vector graphics. Thus, the images can then be further used in drawing programs.

It turns out that the most successful image editing software in the world kept up with the times and will probably never descend from its throne. We are excited about what awaits us in the upcoming years.