The origins of Photoshop are on the Macintosh platform, where in 1987 a student, Thomas Knoll, started working on a simple program which would display grayscale images on a monochrome monitor. His brother, John, recommended that Thomas should develop the software into a fully fledged image editing application. After some name changing, Photoshop was born and at first it was bundled with a scanner as the supplementing software. John took the program with him, when he went to work for Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects company of George Lucas of the Star Wars fame. John presented the program to Apple Computer Inc. and an art director at Adobe. Russell Brown, the Adobe executive was very impressed with the product and Adobe decided to purchase the license and distribute Photoshop 1.0 exclusively. The first Windows compatible version was Photoshop 2.0, the Macintosh original was ported to the other platform.
In 2002, the digital age forced the Adobe research and development department to address the growing need of professional photographers, who have switched to all digital, to manage the extensive image database they accumulate and provide them with a single software solution to view, edit and manage the bulk. The project was given a codename, Shadowland. Up until the beta stage of development, the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was handled as Macintosh platform software. The first public beta version was released, in order to gain input from prospective future users. The breakthrough came with versions Beta 3, which was released for Windows platform as well, including many additional participants. The inclusion of the interoperability with Adobe's flagship, Photoshop, in version Beta 4 revealed just how powerful the new invention could become.
The first Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, in version 1.0 was released sometime by the end of January 2007. This first version received four updates, whereby the fourth was delivered with a bug and needed to be reworked and released as 1.4.1 again. The follow up version, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0, entered the beta phase in summer 2008. The software offers an organizer, here named Library, which allows image import, review, organization very similar to the already available features in Adobe Photoshop Elements. Develop stage is the application's facility to edit images in either RAW or JPEG format with non-destructive image manipulations, color and exposure corrections are included. Slideshow offers exporting, publishing, what not, a bunch of tools are available. Print is an obvious stage, several preferences can be saved. Web allows creations of galleries and uploading facilities. The software is targeted for the professional photographers.
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