Google day 1

Goals:

1: Learn how Photoshop started and how it has evolved as years pass. 

2: Learn what are the main Techniques of Photoshop.

3: Learn how to edit pictures.

Goal 1 (How did it start):  In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan began writing a program. This program, called Display, caught the attention of his brother John Knoll.  He recommended that Thomas turn it into a full-fledged image editing program.Thomas took a six-month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program. Then he renamed it  ImagePro. A year later he called it Photoshop. During this time, John traveled to Silicon Valley and gave a demonstration of the program to engineers at Apple and Russell Brown, art director at Adobe. Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988. While John worked on plug-ins in California, Thomas remained in Ann Arbor writing code. Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990 for Macintosh exclusively. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop 

Thomas did the visual effects supervisor on projects such as "Mission Impossible" (1996), "Star Trek: First Contact" (1996), and "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" (1999). http://www.storyphoto.com/multimedia/multimedia_photoshop.html

Brief Photoshop Timeline 

1987 Thomas Knoll begins writing graphics subroutines on a Mac Plus.

1987 Thomas teams up with his brother John and combines these subroutines into an app. called "Display."

1988 Refined version of Display becomes "ImagePro."

1989 BarneyScan licenses the application to bundle with their slide scanner. About 200 copies are shipped.

1989 Adobe strikes a deal to license what becomes known as Photoshop. They begin 10 months of product development.

1990 Photoshop 1.0 ships in February.

1990 Version 2.0, code name "Fast Eddy," ships in the fall.

1993 Version 2.5.1 is released. One of the first apps to run native on a PowerPC chip. Also first release of Windows version (April, 93).

1994 Version 3.0 ships with the "Layers" capability.

1996 Version 4.0 ships. Controversial key commands are changed.

1998 Version 5.0, which includes the "History"palette, ships.

1999 Version 5.5 ships: the first true "web ready" version of the app.


Goal 2 (Photoshop techniques): 
http://www.eyesontutorials.com/articles/19/1/Fairy-Night/Page1.html (Fairly Night Eye)
This task we'll learn how to correct the photos' colors, change the eyes color, work with the layers, applying ready brushes and designs, create your own design and to picture the stars. 




http://www.photoshop-garden.com/view_tut.php?id=49 (Colorful picture Style)
http://www.photoshoptalent.com/photoshop-tutorials/pst/500/Blue-glow-dreamy-portrait.html (Blue Glow Dreamy Portrait)
 http://vitaminpsd.com/index.php?act=cms&com=view&id=233 (A Rather Different Photo Collage)
http://www.photoshop8x.com/view_tut.php?id=33 ( Ocean Girl Phot Effect)

Today I learned many things today. I learned how Photoshop started, who created it and how it has evolved as years pass. I also learned that some of the the techniques used in Photoshop and I cant wait until I can start using them with some of my pictures.