Adobe Photoshop CS6 Tutorial

Adobe Photoshop Origin

Photoshop 1.0 on a Mac Plus. (Screenshot courtesy of the Vintage Mac Museum.)

In 1988, Display was tentatively renamed ImagePro, and Thomas began adding editing features to the program. John's first suggestion was gamma correction so he could make images appear less dim on the screen, but Thomas soon added many of the darkroom techniques that he used as a boy in his father's darkroom.

It was John who first suggested making ImagePro a commercial application instead of just freely distributed shareware, though neither brother knew how difficult it would be to find a distributor and get the program to a level appropriate for customers. Thomas decided to put his PhD work aside for six months and try to turn ImagePro into a commercial application.

Image editing was not new to the Macintosh - or personal computers in general. Indeed, the Amiga had been widely adopted by professional photographers for its editing prowess and graphics abilities. Unfortunately, few commercial software companies saw the point in Photoshop. According to Story Photography, Thomas took the app to SuperMac, a company later known for its line of Mac clones and video cards, but the company already had a much less capable program called PixelPaint, which was more appropriate for MacPaint users than serious photographers.

Ultimately, it was a scanner company, BarneyScan, that released the software, though probably not the way that Thomas wanted. ImagePro (rename Photoshop because of a trademark conflict) was only distributed with scanners from BarneyScan, and only around 200 copies of the program were sold.

Luckily, Thomas did not sell Photoshop to BarneyScan, he only licensed it. The commercial distribution of the program gave him more credibility, which apparently paid off when he went to Adobe in September of 1988. Adobe's creative department, headed by Russell Brown, fell in love with the program, and they were not alone. The program was released in 1990, and by 2000 it had sold over 3,000,000 copies (and presumably is used on millions more desktops through widespread software piracy).

Establishments and Development of Products

First Office Opens, 1983 First Adobe office on Marine Way in Mountain View, CA.

Move to Palo Alto, CA, 1984 Adobe doubles in size, requiring a move to Palo Alto. The office is located on Embarcadero Road.

Photoshop Licensed To Illusrator, 1988 Photoshop was initially positioned to be an add-on or subset of Illustrator�with minimal revenue expectations.

Camp Adobe for Photoshop, 1990 Camp Adobe, design invitational for pre- release Adobe Photoshop, is held.

Photoshop 1 Shipped, 1990

Adobe Buys Photoshop, Mar 1995 Adobe ends licensing agreement and buys Photoshop for $35.5 Million

Photoshop 3 Shipped, Jun 1995 This version of the world�s leading photo design and production tool allowed users to design artwork with a wealth of powerful painting and selection tools, or retouch and correct true color or black-and-white scanned images with image-editing tools and filters. It included support for multiple layers, lightning effects, new color- correction tools and major user interface enhancements.

Photoshop 4 Shipped, Nov 1996 The world-standard photo design and production tool provided even more creative control and increased productivity�whether users were creating images for print, multimedia, or the web.

Photoshop 5 Shipped, May 1998

Photoshop 5 LE Shipped, Oct 1998 Version 5 adopted International Color Consortium (ICC)- based color workflows. The implementation eventually became the Adobe Color Engine, which is now used across the entire Creative Suite and in Adobe Acrobat.

Photoshop 5.5 Shipped, Jul 1999

Photoshop 6/ImageReady 3 Shipped, Oct 2000

Photoshop Elements 1 Shipped, Mar 2001

Photoshop 7 With ImageReady Shipped, Apr 2002

Photoshop Elements 2 Shipped, Jul 2002

Photoshop Album 1 Shipped, Feb 2003

Photoshop Camera RAW Plug In Shipped, Feb 2003 The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in delivers lightning-fast, easy access within Photoshop to �raw� image formats in professional and mid- range digital cameras from Canon, Fujifilm, Minolta, Nikon and Olympus. Available as a software add-on that works with Photoshop 7.0.1 software, the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in allows photographers to directly manipulate the original data captured by a digital camera sensor, producing images with superior tonal range and the maximum amount of detail.

Photoshop Album Starter 2 Shipped, Sep 2003 With Photoshop Album Starter Edition, you can see 250 of your favourite photos, audio clips, video clips, and creations in one place, instantly organized by date or any subject you choose. Easily fix basic flaws and share your photos in slide shows, albums, cards, calendars, and more. And when you�ve reached the 250 photo limit and you�re ready to organize all of the photos in your collection, it�s easy to buy the full version of Adobe Photoshop Album.

Photoshop 8 (CS), Oct 2003 This powerful upgrade from Photoshop 7. Provides Indispensable new features for graphic and web designers, photographers, and video professionals.

Creative Suite Premium Shipped, Oct 2003 Adobe unveiled the Adobe Creative Suite, a new software product combining new full-version upgrades of Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe GoLive CS. The Suite incorporates Acrobat 6.0 Professional, and introduces the innovative Version Cue File version manager. The all-new Adobe Creative Suite is a complete design environment that gives today�s creative professionals everything they need to create and publish content to print and the Web faster, more easily, and more efficiently than ever.

Photoshop Elements 3 Windows Shipped, Oct 2004 Perfect, transform, organize, and share your photos like a pro. Photoshop Elements, the #1 selling consumer photo-editing software, provides powerful photo editing functionality plus intuitive organizing and sharing capabilities.

Photoshop Elements 5 Shipped, Sep 2006

Photoshop 10 (CS3) Shipped, Apr 2007 Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) was announced on March 27, 2007; it introduced universal binaries for all major programs for the Apple Macintosh, as well as including all of the core applications from Macromedia Studio and Production Studio.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) was announced on September 23, 2008 and officially released on October 15, 2008. All applications in CS4 featured the same user interface, with a new tabbed interface for working with concurrently running Adobe CS4 programs where multiple documents can be opened inside multiple tabs contained in a single window.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5) was released on April 30, 2010. From CS5.5 onwards, Windows versions of Adobe Premiere CS5.5 and Adobe After Effects CS5.5 were 64-bit only and required at least Windows Vista 64-bit or a later 64-bit Windows version. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition was no longer supported. Adobe Version Cue, an application that enabled users to track and manipulate file metadata and automate the process of collaboratively reviewing documents among groups of people, and the Adobe Creative Suite Web Standard edition, previously available in CS4, were dropped from the CS5 line-up. Below is a matrix of the applications that were bundled in each of the software suites for CS5

During an Adobe conference call on June 21, 2011, CEO Shantanu Narayen said that the April 2011 launch of CS5.5 was "the first release in our transition to an annual release cycle", adding, "We intend to ship the next milestone release of Creative Suite in 2012." On March 21, 2012, Adobe released a freely available beta version of Adobe Photoshop CS6. The final version of Adobe CS6 was launched on a release event April 23, 2012, and first shipped May 7. Adobe also launched a subscription-based offering named Adobe Creative Cloud where users are able to gain access to individual applications or the full Adobe Creative Suite 6 suite on a per-month basis, plus additional cloud storage spaces and services.