However a suitable deal was not reached with Adobe, and the brothers struck a temporary deal with scanner company, BarneyScan, to distribute Photoshop under the name BarneyScan XP. ImagePro, which by then had been renamed Photoshop, was rejected by every company they came to, aside from Adobe. Thomas took a six-month break from his studies to develop the program.īy 1988, Display had been renamed ImagePro and had enough features that the brothers decided to try to sell it commercially. Thomas’s brother John, an employee of George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic, soon showed interest in the project and recommended that it be developed into a full image editing program it was at this time that the program was given a name: Display. Because of this, Thomas began coding a program to do the job. In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, discovered that his new Mac Plus couldn’t display grayscale images on its 1-bit black and white display. Photoshop has grown to support layers, filters, brushes, text, 3D objects, video, and much others.
Photoshop began life as a program called Display that was made to display grayscale images on a monochrome display.
