Who is the creator of Adobe Photoshop? What was the first version of Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop History

Early history Adobe Photoshop was developed in 1987 by John Knoll and Thomas. After some time they sold the allocation license to Adobe Systems Incorporated in 1988.

Creator of Adobe Photoshop

Thomas Knoll, who was the Ph.D. student at the Michigan University starts writing application software on his Macintosh Plus to show grayscale pictures on a monochrome display. 

This application software trapped the concentration of his brother John, who was an Industrial Light & Magic employee; he recommended that Thomas Knoll turn it into a complete image editing application software. Thomas Knoll took a 6-month break from his studies to work together with his brother on the software. Thomas renamed the application software ImagePro, but the name was already taken. After that year, Thomas Knoll renamed his application software to Adobe Photoshop and worked out an immediate deal with scanner maker Barneyscan to distribute copies of the application software with a slide scanner program; the entirety of about two hundreds copies of this software was shipped this way.

In this time, John went to Silicon Valley and gave a complete demonstration of the application software to engineers at Apple and Russell Brown, art director at Adobe. Both demonstrations were successful effectively, and Adobe Corporation decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988. Although John worked on plug-ins software in California, Thomas remained in Ann Arbor writing code.

Adobe Photoshop Version History

Adobe Photoshop 1.0 was released on February 19, 1990, for Macintosh exclusively. The Barneyscan version also included advanced color editing characteristics that were exposed from the first Adobe shipped version. The handling of color slowly improved with each release from Adobe and Adobe Photoshop quickly became the industry standard in digital color editing. At the time Adobe Photoshop 1.0 was released, digital retouching on dedicated high-end systems cost around $300 an hour for basic photo retouching. The list price of Adobe Photoshop 1.0 for Macintosh in 1990 was $895.

Adobe Photoshop was initially only available on Macintosh. In 1993, Adobe chief architect Seetharaman Narayanan ported Adobe Photoshop to Microsoft Windows. The Windows port led to Adobe Photoshop reaching a wider mass-market audience as Microsoft's global reach expanded within the next few years.