Today Photoshop has become an essential tool and essential both for the world of graphic design, film and photography as well as for the art, illustration and fashion.
And it is that Thomas Knoll, designed a program in Macintosh More during 1987, with which he sought to display grayscale images on monochrome screens. The following year and thanks to the help of his brother Knoll, he perfected what is now known as Photoshop, that is, a complete program with which different types of images can be edited.
Photoshop's past
The first two hundred copies of this program were distributed through the purchase of scanners in 1988 and it was in September 1989 that Adobe acquired Photoshop and then released it to the public in February 1990. Since then, Photoshop has not stopped renewing itself with each version through filters, plugins, tools, etc ...
The present of Photoshop
Apart from adding new tools, options and improvements in each version that Photoshop released during all these years, also during 2013, Adobe made a bold change, causing a bit of controversy among its users by replacing the Photoshop payment model and changing the purchase of the license of each version, by the subscription model to Adobe Creative Cloud, either yearly or monthly. Currently, you must pay a monthly "rent" for each program separately or pay the entire pack.
Another Photoshop scoops During the last years it was that the tactile world of tablets and Smartphones had been adapted and through the applications available for these devices called Photoshop Express and Photoshop Touch and is that while Photoshop Express is a free application for retouching to the photographs, being quite simple to use and completely complete for Android and iOS, the second is a paid App that allows work with layers, use the clone buffer, the magic wand, among others.
From Photoshop Express it can be noted that it is an App where speed and immediacy are valued With which it is possible to retouch and share on the different social networks any photograph you have captured with your Smartphone, thanks to the filters and tools that can be expanded, when paying for those that are available with previous payment.
The 25 video
On February 19 and while the 2015 Oscars Ceremony was being broadcast, they broadcast for the first time the video with which they wanted to commemorate the 25 years of Photoshop. As content, this video showed a succession of works made by various graphic design artists, with some nods to the world of cinema, which were made through PSD files, layer-by-layer animations, which resulted in a video totally made from Photoshop, which also featured the song “Dream On” by Aerosmith as the soundtrack.
Photoshop on Instagram
Recently, Photoshop opened an account on the social network Instagram, where it shows the works of 25 visual artists that do not exceed the 25-year barrier of the application, using the hashtag # Ps25Under25. This is a great idea, since by joining this social network seeks to express the ability to create that has this software, while allowing users to meet artists, amateurs and professionals in the world of graphic design, who are currently creating projects that are world trend.
The future of Photoshop
It is possible to predict a not distant future, in which Photoshop will continue to be present, even with the same or more importance than it has managed to have until today, because consists of a giant that can hardly be surpassed within the world of graphic design.