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Photoshop
- All
- animation
- special effects
- software
- compositing
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Originally developed by brothers John and Thomas Knoll, version 1.0 shipped in January of 1990, with engineer Mark Hamburg joining the (very small) team for version 2.0. The last version of Photoshop John worked on was 3.0, but Tom is still the lead "architect" of the project.
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“The first ILM project I used Photoshop on was a Pacific Bell smart yellow pages commercial in fall 1988, where I used it for preproduction art. The first production where it was actually used to make stuff for the film itself was The Abyss. I used it there to take dozens of stills of the sets and stitch them together to make reflection environments. I also used it to paint animated roto mattes for the shot of the pod falling …
First project at ILM -
One weekend, Tom took a bunch of the code from his shell tools and built them into a little application called "Display" (August 1987) .. John asked for more features like saving images in other file formats, and gamma control, etc. The new program evolved by March of 1988 and was now called ImagePro. Tom put his thesis work on hold to do full time development, while John (working at ILM) began trying to secure a publisher. Over the next …
Display then ImagePro -
1st Demo - again -
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) -
Knockout
First project at ILM
“The first ILM project I used Photoshop on was a Pacific Bell smart yellow pages commercial in fall 1988, where I used it for preproduction art. The first production where it was actually used to make stuff for the film itself was The Abyss. I used it there to take dozens of stills of the sets and stitch them together to make reflection environments. I also used it to paint animated roto mattes for the shot of the pod falling down and splashing on the floor.” -John Knoll
Display then ImagePro
One weekend, Tom took a bunch of the code from his shell tools and built them into a little application called "Display" (August 1987) .. John asked for more features like saving images in other file formats, and gamma control, etc. The new program evolved by March of 1988 and was now called ImagePro. Tom put his thesis work on hold to do full time development, while John (working at ILM) began trying to secure a publisher. Over the next two years, the program became Photoshop, and the brothers negotiated a publishing agreement with Adobe in the spring of 1989.
Originally developed by brothers John and Thomas Knoll, version 1.0 shipped in January of 1990, with engineer Mark Hamburg joining the (very small) team for version 2.0. The last version of Photoshop John worked on was 3.0, but Tom is still the lead "architect" of the project.