Digital Dream Machine » Computers http://www.digitaldreammachine.com/blog Discoveries, Art, Photos, Thoughts, and Writings From Chad Kerychuk. Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:27:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A Piece of Photoshop History http://www.digitaldreammachine.com/blog/2008/03/21/a-piece-of-photoshop-history/ http://www.digitaldreammachine.com/blog/2008/03/21/a-piece-of-photoshop-history/#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:53:03 +0000 chad http://www.digitaldreammachine.com/blog/2008/03/21/a-piece-of-photoshop-history/ Here’s one of the earliest color icons for the graphics application Photoshop:

PhotoShop 0.67 Icon

This image was pulled from The Abyss: Special Edition, which was one of the first major uses of the application developed by Thomas Knoll, and his brother John Knoll, a visual wizard at George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic. Photoshop 1.0 was released for the Apple Macintosh exclusively.

More on the history of Photoshop at Wikipedia.

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Mac OS X:

You can download the original GarageBand file and .m4a file at The Cleverist.

via swissmiss.

Windows 98/XP:

Despite being a ‘Mac’ guy, I actually like the tune composed using the Microsoft Windows sounds. There’s a little more depth to the tune. As a note of interest: Brian Eno composed the ubiquitous Windows 95 startup sound.

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