Soviet Image Editing Tool From 1987 146
nacturation writes "Three years before Photoshop 1.0 was released, computer engineers in the USSR were already retouching photographs using some surprisingly advanced technology. A video shows how the Soviets went about restoring damaged images with the help of rotary scanners, magnetic tape, and trackballs. No word on whether this technology was used to fake moon landings or put missiles in Cuba." Photo manipulation in the USSR (and elsewhere) had a pretty good jump on computers, though.
Er... yeah... and ? (Score:4, Informative)
Earlier in the late 70s and early 80s, people around the globe used Crossfield and Hell drum scanners to retouch photos. Yeahs before computers were able to do it.
I had pieces of a Hell drum scanner in my office in 1988 when I was building an image correction software to control it. By then, ImagePro had already been doing this for a couple of years, on computers.
Re:BT, DT (Score:2, Informative)
Deluxe Paint preceded Photoshop 1.0 by 5 years...
from comments there (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Er... yeah... and ? (Score:1, Informative)
Don't forget about the Dainippon Screen drum scanners and systems like the Sigmagraph 2000
1981 The company's first electronic page makeup system, the Sigmagraph 2000, is introduced. This system is the forerunner of Dainippon Screen's subsequent page makeup systems.
http://www.screenusa.com/history.cfm?section=5
In fact it is French PERICOLOR-1000 Software (Score:5, Informative)
One of the Russian comments points out that the software is in fact French PERICOLOR-1000 translated to Russian.
What about Quantel? (Score:5, Informative)
Quantel Paintbox beats them both, it was first launched in 1981!
Quantel sued two companies, one of them being Adobe but didn't win the Adobe case, largely due to the existance of Superpaint, who's author testified in the case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantel_Paintbox [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpaint [wikipedia.org]
Re:from comments there (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Stalin was having people edited out for years.. (Score:2, Informative)
Authoritarian tyrants are much the same whether their guise is communism, national socialism, or democracy. The best way to make people forget about enemies of the state is to not talk about them.
Re:In fact it is French PERICOLOR-1000 Software (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Stalin was having people edited out for years.. (Score:3, Informative)
"Citation needed" usually gets on my nerves, but in this case, I must say to you: WOOOSH!!
Tip: If you're able to provide documentation of a person or event being "written out of history", then they weren't written out of history.