20 Years of Photoshop

benwiggy writes "Photoshop turned 20 on 10th February 2010. Here's an excellent history, including how the Knoll family created one of the biggest apps of all time. The article also has screenshots of the workspace through the versions."

Re:May be a good time to discuss alternatives

[icebrain]

I just want to see an updated run of Jasc Paintshop 6. Basic photoediting capabilities without getting rid of the "traditional" paint functions. Gimp and Photoshop are too complicated.

Readable version of page on Google cache

[Anonymous Coward]

Readable text version of article [74.125.47.132] for older browsers or just for quick loading.

Re:May be a good time to discuss alternatives

[maxume]

XnView is being ported. Beta versions:

http://www.xnview.com/en/downloadunix.html [xnview.com]

Re:May be a good time to discuss alternatives

[Just Some Guy]

I've had a lot of luck with Krita [krita.org].

Re:May be a good time to discuss alternatives

[vurian]

Yes, we are: interim results at http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Krita/Benchmarking [koffice.org] and weekly updates at http://www.krita.org/ [krita.org] Boudewijn Rempt -- Krita Maintainer.

Re:But the File Format Sucks. :)

[I(rispee_I(reme]

Please do not suggest Gimp or PSP.

Perhaps inkscape [inkscape.org] is the GPL'd vector image editor you seek.

On topic: Everyone, please cease mentioning that Photoshop went to pot with the CS namechange, lest Adobe pulls a Comcast-esque rebranding.

Re:Photoshop and open source

[arose]

GIMP is going nowhere? They are switching the graphics engine to support bigger color spaces and finally shutting up the massive amounts of people complaining about the multi-window interface [arstechnica.com] (unfortunately since most of them had no intention to use GIMP in the first place they'll just jump on some other minor "problem").

ignores prior work

[pydev]

The article leaves out quite a bit of the history of digital paint programs. This article [google.com] contains a good summary (although it also leaves out yet other work).