Talk:Adobe Photoshop

"Adobe Express" redirection to "Adobe Photoshop" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect of Adobe Express to Adobe Photoshop has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 October 21 § Adobe Express until a consensus is reached. Ennex2 (talk) 16:29, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Wrong release date

"Version 0.87 (March 1980)" is wrong, it's actually 1989, as per https://gist.github.com/msikma/04bfae8670300a12c55937c3b61d670a

I'd edit it myself, but the article is protected. Kyuujin (talk) 10:31, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Jewell barjoud 2.50.235.226 (talk) 04:35, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 November 2023

122.169.178.41 (talk) 15:23, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Liu1126 (talk) 15:48, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Version release log

In the latter part, the article is more like a version log release. This is for interested editors' notice. Thanks, User4edits (talk) 03:37, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Adobe Photoshop 2.5 release date is wrong

The page, sadly much like much of the rest of the Internet, reports that Photoshop 2.5 was released in November of 1992. This is wrong. I was there. But some concrete evidence before personal reminiscence:

• The Photoshop 2.5 about box (https://fthmb.tqn.com/XY5bpaskghLdQWIVj1fSza-L_vE=/768x0/filters:no_upscale()/PS20th06-25_real-58b9b5fb3df78c353c2d0509.png) shows a copyright date range extending through 1993. If it shipped in 1992, the date would end in 1992.

• A review of MacWorld magazines (https://vintageapple.org/macworld/) shows no mention of Photoshop 2.5 until the May 1993 issue in a Mac Zone ad. Now, MacWorld in those days sent issues out with dates months ahead of their release, but not six months. The review of Photoshop 2.5 appears in the June 1993 issue and the star ratings section of the May issue still references Photoshop 2.0.1 as the most recent version.

So, November 1992 would seem firmly ruled out by this evidence.

Now, when did it ship? Since it was referenced in the May issue and the issues ran ahead of the calendar, we can limit the range of plausible dates to April 1993 as the latest possible date.

That said, my personal recollection calls for a February 1993 release.

Adobe's software releases — particularly of imaging products including Photoshop's initial release on February 19, 1990 — tended to arrive in mid-February because February was the end of the quarter and mid-February would be the latest a product could ship and book revenue.

Furthermore, there was a training event in a very cold Washington, D.C. that year at which the Macintosh engineering team was present along with the product management for both Mac and Windows. The presence of Windows product management shows that Adobe was ready to announce the product and since announcing the Windows product would effectively announce the Mac product as well and there was already a Mac product in market, we can conclude that the Mac version had shipped by that point. The presence of the Mac engineering team but not the Windows engineering team would indicate that the Mac version had been released but the Windows version, which trailed the Mac version, had not. The cold weather in D.C. would put this in a range from January 1993 to early March 1993. January seems too early given when mention first appears in MacWorld. March seems too late given Adobe's quarter boundaries. So, probably February 1993.

Definitely not November 1992. Adobe Respository of Ancient Knowledge (talk) 03:24, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

“Photoshop” as a verb

How does “photoshop” in “photoshop contest” act as a verb? It seems like it can solely act as an adjective and still make sense. 2605:A601:AAEA:8100:9CCF:9898:9384:BBBD (talk) 15:09, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Unboxing the gift 🎁

itne share

2402:AD80:132:13CE:1:0:C8B8:3761 (talk) 08:54, 29 January 2024 (UTC)