February 19, 1990: Photoshop for Mac only. Photography will never be the same.

[pRICE cUBE]

https://www.cultofmac.com/685433/today-i...exclusive/

February 19, 1990: Adobe ships the first commercial version of its soon-to-be-iconic Photoshop photo editing software.

Released exclusively for the Macintosh, the groundbreaking software debuts for Mac System 6.0.3. Priced at $895, Photoshop quickly becomes the standard editing tool for graphics professionals. Whether they work for advertising agencies, news organizations — or, frankly, anywhere else — Photoshop users take advantage of the program’s digital darkroom tools to seamlessly manipulate images.

Photography will never be the same.

Compared to today’s Photoshop, version 1.0 seems, unsurprisingly, quite primitive. Still, it represented an enormous leap forward compared to other graphics applications available at the time. Version 1.0 boasted features like the Lasso and Magic Wand icons, making it easy to select and copy image elements. Adobe donated the original source code for Adobe Photoshop 1.0 to the Computer History Museum in February 2013.

[mikebw]

Any 1.0 users here? I think I started tooling around with 4.0.

[DeusxMac]

“Photoshop was developed in 1987 by two brothers Thomas and John Knoll, who sold the distribution license to Adobe Systems Incorporated in 1988.”

“...Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988.

“On March 31, 1995, Adobe purchased the rights for Photoshop from Thomas and John Knoll for $34.5 million so Adobe would no longer need to pay a royalty for each copy sold.”

[pRICE cUBE]

mikebw wrote:
Any 1.0 users here? I think I started tooling around with 4.0.

I started at 3.0

[archipirata]

The first version I used was 2.5 in 1993. I think it was still on system 6.

[JoeM]

I think I started at 5. - 1998.

[AllGold]

Version 2.5 here. I don't recall which Mac OS, though.

[Lew Zealand]

I first used Photoshop 3.0 on System 7.1 on a work machine but later on used v2.5 on System 6.0.7 and 7.5.5 on personal ones.

[rich in distress]

2.5 on Sys7

Wow!

[Sarcany]

mikebw wrote:
Any 1.0 users here? I think I started tooling around with 4.0.

I started using it when it had no version number. It was distributed with a busted icn resource with a staticky black box showing up instead of an app icon. I was very pleased when v.87 showed up with the nice photo-booth icon.

Can't recall where I got it. Maybe a NYMUG meeting. (Not sure that they existed yet.) Maybe from one of the guys at the Byte Shop.