Both showings were successful, and Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988. and Russell Brown, art director at Adobe. Later that year, Thomas renamed his program Photoshop and worked out a short-term deal with scanner manufacturer Barneyscan to distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner a 'total of about 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped' this way.ĭuring this time, John traveled to Silicon Valley and gave a demonstration of the program to engineers at Apple Computer Inc. Thomas took a six month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program, which had been renamed ImagePro. This program, called Display, caught the attention of his brother John Knoll, an Industrial Light & Magic employee, who recommended Thomas turn it into a full-fledged image editing program. In 1978, Thomas Knoll, then a PhD student at the University of Michigan, began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. 3.2.7 Contact Sheet II / Picture Gallery / Smart Quotes.3.2.4 Dictionary and Hyphenation Module.3.2 Specific Features for Arabic and Hebrew languages.3 Internationalization and localization.
