20 Years of Adobe Photoshop
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- jazmine0
did anyone ever use live picture? i think it was a competitor to photoshop back in the way early days.
- vaxorcist0
early 90's... started on PS 1.7 .. then 2.5 then 3.0 with all the layer stuff... running MAC IIFX and IIci with fancy video cards and syquest 44 meg cartridges to store all the stuff on.... and old radius monitors and microtek scanners if I remember right....
- colin_s0
i started with 3. whoa.
- CyBrain0
Me too. I started in school with version 2.0. No layers yet, just paste controls.
- I still think version 3 was the best upgrade any program ever had.CyBrain
- v3 arrived just in time for my first PS course.. layers were a big thing.ribit
- oh man, i remember pre-layer ps. back when 'undo' was the only thing that saved you. (other than saving out a million versions, which would take forever to save)jazmine
- BIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD0
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Can't believe they waste time on that 3D shit when there are so many basic things it does wrong.- +1Mishga
- Yeah, your image editing application does everything so much better. Oh wait, you're just a whining cunt.monospaced
- Remember that comment next time you criticise a movie. It makes no fucking senseBIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD
- What movie have I criticized?monospaced
- benfal990
I started in school with version 5.0 in 1998.
- rson0
1991 – Photoshop 2.0 ! I am old :(
- pillhead0
Anyone remember the crashes PH used to have in the OS8, 9 days, I lost a weeks worth of work with a corrupt file, I went bloody crazy at the time, And I forgot that Photoshop was exclusive on Mac when it first come out, no PC?
- To this very day, after a few operations or brush strokes, I save. Sometimes I instinctively Save As. It's a curse.monospaced
- hahahapillhead
- Paranoid PH Users everywhere.pillhead
- PH?monospaced
- I save like a MOFO too...Ambushstudio
- monospaced0
I started with 2.0 also...I must have been 10 or 11.
On another note, those Windows screengrabs make me physically uncomfortable. They should have used the Mac versions. Oh well.
- Those blue bars are driving me insane. How do people work in Windows?monospaced
- Yes, I was thinking the same thing!rson
- i_monk0
I started with 4.something, I think. Late-ish 90s.
- stewdio0
I agree. The article would have been better and more consistent if all the screen grabs were from Macintosh OS's rather than Windows. I assume those who would be most nostalgic about Photoshop (ie. the audience for the article) are predominantly Mac users. Or this could just be the bubble I live in?
- boobs0
I remember developing film in those wee cans, and making prints with enlargers. Color was a pain in the ass!
- moth0
What it fails to mention is that all versions since maybe 7 have been utterly, utterly pointless iterations in a money making monopoly.
- I would not want to go back to Photoshop 7!boobs
- I have it at home and does everything I still need.moth
- If you can do without shape layers and smart objects, you need to update yourself on new features.CyBrain
- not true at all, mothmonospaced
- I kind of agree. 7 at home and I never long for more.monNom
- boobs0
When I first started using PhotoShop, when I hit save, the computer would grind away for a full half-hour, during which I could do nothing with the machine. Hitting save was a huge commitment!
- CyBrain0
In version 2 with System 7, it was a considerable drain on RAM to make a complex selection in a large file.
- DoTheMacarena0
Holy crap, this totally takes me back. The deluxe paint II boxes especially. Reminds me of old Police and Kings Quest games.
I actually still remember an install serial for PS 5.5. I was working in IT at the time, and had installed it at least 200x. Christ.
- invisiblechamber0
i started with 1.0. - wish i could post some ancient kuriosa experiments here, but dunno where to put the floppies.