Photoshop Software & its History

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.

 Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the12th major release of Adobe Photoshop.


The newest version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 software redefines digital imaging with breakthrough tools for photography editing, superior image selections, realistic painting, and more. And now, use it with creativity-boosting mobile apps.

This one is the Oldest Photoshop Program.

Version History of Photoshop

• Photoshop 1:- The first release of Photoshop was successful despite some bugs, which were fixed in subsequent updates.                      
• Photoshop 2:- Photoshop 2 (1991.06). Photoshop 2.0 added support for paths, which allow the user to create and manipulate line based drawings.
• Photoshop 2.5:- Photoshop 2.5(1992.11) Photoshop 2.5 was the first version to support Microsoft Windows; in November 1993 IRIX and Solaris support was also added.
• Photoshop 3:- (1994.09) Layers allow the user to isolate different parts of the image onto different layers.  
• Photoshop 4:- Photoshop 4.0 (1996.11) Solaris and IRIX support discontinued. New features introduced in 4.0 were Adjustment layers and macros.
• Photoshop 5:- Photoshop 5.0 (1998.05) added editable type, the history palette, colour management, and the magnetic lasso tool.
• Photoshop 5.5:- Photoshop 5.5 (1999.02) was the first version of Photoshop to be bundled with ImageReady. It also made the addition of the the Save for Web feature and the extract filter.
• Photoshop 6:-Photoshop 6.0 (2000.09) updated the interface and added vector shapes, the liquify filter, and the layer styles dialogue box.
• Photoshop 7:- Photoshop 7.0 (2002.03) was the first version with Mac OS X support. Photoshop 7.0 made text fully vector, added the healing brush, and updated the painting engine.
• Photoshop 8/CS:- (View) Photoshop 8/CS (2003.11) discontinued support for Mac OS 9. New features in Photoshop 8 are the lens blur filter, Camera RAW 2.x, the Shadow/Highlight command, Smart guides, a real-time histogram, a highly modified slice tool, the match colour command, Macrovision copy protection, scripting support for Javascript and other languages, and the ability to detect and block images of banknotes.
• Photoshop 9/CS2:- Photoshop 9.0 and 9.02/CS2 (2005.02) introduced Smart objects, Image warp, the spot healing brush, the red eye tool, the lens correction filter, smart sharpen, smart guides, Camera 3.x, vanishing point, HDRI (high dynamic range imaging) support, extra smudging options like scattering and improved layer selection which added the ability to select multiple layers. Memory management for 64-bit powerPC G5s was the only major improvement in performance over previous versions
• Photoshop 10/CS3:- Photoshop 10/CS3 (2007.04.16) added native support for Intel Macs and improved launch times over previous versions. Photoshop CS3 no longer includes ImageReady, a program that had been bundled with Photoshop since version 5. Improvements in Photoshop CS3 include the Quick Select tool, smart filters, improvements to cloning and healing, Auto Align and Auto Heal, more complete HDRI support, a revised user interface, black and white conversion adjustment, mobile device graphic optimization, Alterations to Curves, Vanishing Point, Channel Mixer, Brightness and Contrast, and the Print dialog.
• Photoshop CS4:- Photoshop CS4 is the 11th version of Adobe's venerable and industry-standard imaging application. It's hard to imagine that Adobe can continue to make large changes to Photoshop.
• Photoshop CS5:- (Latest one)Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the12th major release of Adobe Photoshop.