The History of Photoshop

Gammu writes "For the past fifteen plus years, Photoshop has turned into the killer app for graphics designers on the Mac. It was originally written as a support app for a grad student's thesis and struggled to find wide commercial release. Eventually, Adobe licensed the app and has sold millions of copies." Achewood's Chris Onstad also offers a different take of how it all went down.

But Does It Run On Linux?

[morari]

...Oh :(

Re:But Does It Run On Linux?

[conares]

Dont worry, we got the Gimp!;)

Re:But Does It Run On Linux?

[morari]

Linux User #1: Bring out the Gimp.

Linux User #2: But the Gimp's sleeping.

Linux User #1: Well, I guess you're gonna have to go wake him up now, won't you?

Re:Lack of colour display

[setirw]

...or a minimize button! :-)

Re:A question for large print graphics designers..

[gardyloo]

Your message is written with such a serious tone, and I'll bite.
  Do a slashdot search for any of the following terms, and you'll quickly be drawn into threads about why :
      * GIMP;
      * CMYK;
      * Plugin xXx will do what you're looking for;
      * But it won't do it in 32-bit colour with customized colourmap support unless you compile it yourself and since I use gentoo I'm still waiting for KDE to finish compiling;
      * Yur momma is teh BOM in bed;
      * Hitler used Photoshop;
      * Suck a cock and die.

      I always read those threads, mainly because I am interested in German history and human psychology. I couldn't give a rat's ass about Photoshop or graphic design.

Apple category?

[LocalH]

You know, it runs on Windows too.

Adobe 'warezes' it's own product?

[Anonymous Coward]

Personally, I think Adobe themselves upload the lastest hacked copies of Photoshop to the usual places.

Somebody should mod you as 'funny'. I have noticed with some degree of amusement that software pirates and the warez crowd as a whole are usually also delusional enough to think they are actually helping the companies whose products they are ripping off but you have just taken that delusion to a new level.

Negative?

[m1sha]

>>"Unfortunately, few commercial software companies did not see the point in Photoshop." And this didn't not not mean success for them at this stage?