May 15, 2011

Behind The Screen of Photoshop Developer

Adobe Photoshop, as the name of the application of the most phenomenal graphics processor. It may very well known by us. But who is to know about the names behind its creation? In a way, almost all creative people in the world using Adobe Photoshop.

But unfortunately many do not know the founder, Thomas Knoll and John Knoll. Naturally, considering that since its debut launch in early 1990, this is their name appears in several design books, award books, or the annual magazine of graphic design. Applications are created (Adobe Photoshop, red) has a lot to change attitude and the creative process designer.

Start of use for manipulating photos to film manipulation applications. Sacrifice study by Photoshop It began in 1987 when Thomas Knoll, a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan, United States (U.S.), buy 'Apple Mac Plus' latest to support his thesis work.

He was surprised when he bought the computer was not capable of displaying grayscale quality color images on monochrome monitors. Then the style of a hacker, Thomas ventured to create his own code to fix these deficiencies. Assisted by his brother, John Knoll, Thomas was ready for action. Experience in 1989 won an Oscar (best visual effects category in the movie 'The Abyss'), as well as participation in the movie 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek', to convince Thomas to be able to change their computer. He believes that the software is being created is very similar to that used at ILM (Industrial Light & Magic), where John worked.

Since then Thomas began seriously developing his first software image, which was born with the name "Display". For more serious work on the program, Thomas took off 6 months of study and invited John to work together to sell this application more professional. In the process, they encounter various challenges winding. The one that hurts is when they considered the works did not sell. However, the Knoll brothers never broke.

They even managed to develop an innovative method later known as 'plug-ins'. Exactly a feature to align the 'tones', 'hue & saturation', and several other images of balance control. The Birth Debut Adobe Photoshop When developing the "Display" getting better and better, the results also appear with the name "ImagePro".

New in 1988, the company scanner Barneyscan interested to buy it as the default scanner software. Well, that's when the name of Photoshop was born. But unfortunately, this young Photoshop only made 200 copies only, so not yet widely known to the public. Do not want to settle for the heart, they then tried to seek his fortune in the famous industrial park, 'Silicon Valley'. Step by step, fortune began to take sides. They succeeded in demonstrating the benefits of the Photoshop program to Apple Computer Inc. and Adobe. As a result, the Adobe smitten and immediately purchase a license program. Then the parties agreed to release Adobe Adobe Photoshop 1.0 in February 1990.

The program is a capacity equal to a piece of floppy disks (1.4 Mb) that can only be operated for air-platform Macintosh computer. Penetrated into Windows After that Adobe Photoshop began recording history to become one of the masterpieces in the world of information technology.

Next, Adobe Photoshop 2.0 was released in June 1991 which again can only be operated under the Macintosh platform. Along with its development, Windows judged began to dominate the computer market. Then in 1992, was launched Adobe Photoshop Version 2.5, the first time can be operated in Windows.

In November 1993, re-released version 2.5.1 but this time Windows is not included. New in Version 3.0 was launched back in 1994 for Macintosh & Windows.
So it is with version 4.0 (1996), version 4.0.1 (1997), version 5.0 (1998), version 5.0.1 (1999), version 5.5 (1999), version 6.0 (2000), version 6.0.1 (2001) , version 7 (2002), version 7.0.1 (2002). 8.0/CS version (2003), followed by CS 2 (2005), CS 3 (2007), CS 4 (2008), and most recently the CS5 (2010).

Currently, Thomas and John Knoll worked at Adobe. If noted, their names are always displayed when you open the software application Adobe Photoshop. While continuing to develop Photoshop, John was preoccupied with his profession as a Visual Effects Supervisor at ILM.
Some well-known science fiction films ever handled John, among others, 2009 Avatar 2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince 2009
Confessions of a Shopaholic 2008
Speed ​​Racer 2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2005
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 2003
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2002
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the clones 2000
Mission to Mars 1999
Deep Blue Sea 1999
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 1996
Star Trek: First Contact 1996
Mission: Impossible 1994
Star Trek Generations 1994
Baby's Day Out 1991
Hudson Hawk 1991
Hook 1990
The Hunt for Red October 1989
The Abyss 1988 Willow 1987
Innerspace 1987
Empire of the Sun 1987
Star Trek: The Next Generation 1986
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986 Captain EO


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