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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: digitaldog on February 19, 2026, 12:44:06 pm
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https://www.cultofmac.com/apple-history/photoshop-launch-mac-exclusive
February 19, 1990: Adobe Systems ships the first commercial version of its soon-to-be-iconic Photoshop photo editing software. The Photoshop launch, exclusively on the Macintosh, gives users powerful new tools for tweaking digital images.
In April or May of 1990, I suffered the cost and got my first copy (version 1.0.7) to run on a Mac IIci with 8MB of RAM on a lovely Apple 13-inch color display.
Had to read the manual (RTFM), but it was actually quite good.
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In April or May of 1990, I suffered the cost and got my first copy (version 1.0.7) to run on a Mac IIci with 8MB of RAM on a lovely Apple 13-inch color display.
Had to read the manual (RTFM), but it was actually quite good.
Sigh. Those were the days. I finally popped for a Photoshop license some years later after seeing what our professional graphics staff was able to do with it, and found Adobe's documentation daunting. By the time I started using Photoshop, it had gone well beyond being just a photo editor. Fortunately, I discovered Julieanne Kost's videos (https://jkost.com/blog/); I still rely on them to explain new or complex functionality.
Even more fortunately, Lightroom has matured to the point where I can accomplish almost all my post-processing with it. I still occasionally make a round-trip to Photoshop when I feel I have no recourse but to muck with the pixels, but nine times out of ten (and that probably understates the proportion) I can do what I want within Lightroom's raw workflow.
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Lightroom is a godsend.