A Short History Of Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop versions and their release dates:
• Photoshop 1.0 – released February 1990
• Photoshop 2.0 – June 1991
• Photoshop 3.0 – September 1994
• Photoshop 4.0 – November 1996
• Photoshop 5.0 – May 1998
• Photoshop 6.0 – September 2000
• Photoshop 7.0 – March 2002
• Photoshop CS – October 2003
• Photoshop CS2 – April 4, 2005
• Photoshop CS3 – April 16, 2007
• Photoshop CS4 – October 15, 2008
• Photoshop CS5 – April 30, 2010
• Photoshop CS6 – May 7, 2012
• Photoshop CC – June 17, 2013
• Photoshop CC 2014 – June 2014
• Photoshop CC 2015 – June 2015
• Photoshop CC 2017 – November 2016
• Photoshop CC 2018 – October 2017
• Photoshop CC 2019 – October 2018
• Photoshop CC 2020 – November 2019
• Photoshop 2021 (v.22.0.0) – October 2020
• Photoshop 2022 (v.23.0.0) – October 2021
• Photoshop 2022 (v.23.2) – February 2022
• Photoshop 2022 (v.24) – October 2022
• Photoshop 2023 (version 24.5) – May 2023
• Photoshop 2024 (version 25.0) – Sept 2023

Photoshop 2.0 introduces: Paths, CMYK Color and EPS Rasterization

Photoshop 3.0 Tabbed Palettes, Layers

Photoshop 6.0 Vector Shapes, “Liquify” filter, Layer styles/Blending Options dialog

Photoshop CS2 Smart Objects, Smart Sharpen, High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) support (32 bit per channel floating point)

Photoshop CS4 Content-aware scaling, Adjustments panel, Auto-alignment of layers

Photoshop CS5 Content Aware Fill, New Blend modes: Subtract and spanide, Puppet Warp Tool, Repousse 3D extrusion tool (Extended version)

Photoshop CS6 Content-aware Patch and Move tools, Enhanced crop tool with straighten option, Oil Paint filter now ships with the program

Photoshop CC Camera Shake Reduction, Improved 3D painting, Share on Behance, Perspective Warp

Photoshop CC 2017 Support for SVG OpenType fonts

Photoshop CC 2018 Re-organization of the brush panel, new Curvature Tool similar to Adobe Illustrator

Photoshop CC 2019 New Frame Tool to create placeholder frames for images

Photoshop CC 2020 Improvements to the AI content aware fill, Adobe Camera Raw improvements

Photoshop 2021 New features in Photoshop 2021 include:
– Sky Replacement
– Photoshop Neural Filters
– Live Shapes – Cloud Document Version History – etc.

Photoshop 2022 New features in Photoshop 2022 include:
– Object Finder
– More Neural Filters (Harmonization, Lanscape Mixer)
– Paste vectors from AI, etc.

Photoshop 2023 Photoshop 2023 new features include:
– Generative Fill
– Adjustment Presets
– Contextual Task Bar
– Improved Gradients, etc.