Today:
Will begin to dabble in photoshop today with a silo project which will be guided. I expect you to take notes independently on components you feel you do not want to forget as we go and do so in a google doc named silo. Photoshop is extremely layered. . .a lot to learn.
Step 1: download this image to your desktop by right clicking and choosing "save picture as"
Step 2: open Photoshop (also right click on the image)
Step 3: save as silo cup
Step 4: Pen tool in left tool bar (hover over tools for names)
Step 5: Begin to create points around the entire cup and saucer only. To make a curve, click and drag in the direction you are going
Step 6: Hold down the pen tool option for additional editing tools to fix your path LATER after you have drawn the whole path
TAKE YOUR TIME AND FOCUS. You want a clean silo
Student, Zack Cusack, took the project one step further by manipulating
masks and color selections. This image will lead us into our next lesson in photoshop -
color and what is the difference between RGB, CMYK and more. Feel free to
comment on what you think and what tools/steps he used/took to create this image.
Homework:
We will begin with an article on the birth of photoshop for homework - due on 12th - Aday and 13th - Bday. You will be expected to comment on this article. All must comment and post by stated dates.
Please give me some thoughts you may of had about photoshop, before reading this article, but how your thoughts or what you knew has changed since reading this article.
From Darkroom to Desktop—How Photoshop Came to Light
(Article written in Feb 2000)
by Derrick StoryTen years ago this month, Adobe shipped Photoshop 1.0. "Has it really been that long?"
It has.
The story of one of the original "killer apps" begins in Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) with a college professor named Glenn Knoll. Glenn was a photo enthusiast who maintained a darkroom in the family basement. He was also a technology aficionado intrigued by the emergence of the personal computer. His two sons, Thomas and John, inherited their father's inquisitive nature. And the vision for future greatness began with their exposure to Glenn's basement darkroom and with the Apple II Plus that he brought home for research projects.
"Photography was a hobby of mine in high school," explained Thomas in an interview for the Michigan Engineer. "In dad's darkroom, I learned how to make black-and-white and color prints, how to balance color and contrast."
While Thomas learned about image manipulation in the basement darkroom, John was attracted to the odd-shaped box known as a personal computer that his dad had brought home. "The first real computer I ever actually sat down and used was in 1978. I was a 16-year-old high school student when my dad got an Apple II Plus with 64k of RAM," John recalls during an interview for his AppleMasters biography.
"Another memory that is really fixed in my mind" John adds, "was in 1984 when I picked up a copy of Time magazine that had a little article about the Macintosh, and I thought, wow, look at this thing!" A couple of months later Mr. Knoll had purchased one of the first Macs available on the open market.
Even though Thomas loved hands-on darkroom work, he too had a keen interest in computers and programming. In 1987 he purchased an Apple Macintosh Plus to help him with his Ph.D. work on the "processing of digital images." Much to his disappointment, the Mac couldn't display gray-scale levels in his images. To solve that problem, Thomas wrote a subroutine to simulate the gray-scale effect.
Thomas's work led to more subroutines and chunks of image programming. These bits of computer magic caught John's attention during a visit he paid to Ann Arbor while on vacation from his job at Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) in Marin, California. "The work Thomas was doing had to do with how a computer could recognize a predefined object in a digitized picture," John recalls in an interview with Terrence Masson for the book, "CG 101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference".
"Image processing is the fundamental basis of any of that kind of work, and Tom had written a bunch of image processing tools," John adds. "As Tom showed me his work, it struck me how similar it was to the image processing tools on the Pixar [image computer John had just seen a graphics demo on at ILM]."
"There were a bunch of command line driven shell tools much like the Unix C shell command line interface of the Pixar." Shortly there after, John and Thomas pulled these pieces of code together and Thomas built an amazing little application called "Display."
"I was delighted," John said, "but I started asking for more. What if Display could save images in other formats so I could print them in another program? I used Display to open a couple of sample images that I got from the ILM computer graphics department, but they looked too dark on my screen—suddenly I needed gamma correction tools too." John's requests distracted Thomas from his thesis work, but he too was intrigued by the possibilities of image editing on a personal computer.
This cycle of refinement continued over a period of months and led to an improved version of the application that became "ImagePro" in 1988. At this point John began suggesting to Thomas that they turn ImagePro into a commercial application. "My fellowship money had run out and my wife was expecting our first child," Thomas explained during the Michigan Engineer interview. "I was feeling pressure to finish what I was doing and find a job."
In early 1988, Thomas decided to give himself six more months to finish a beta version of ImagePro and let John shop it around Silicon Valley. Interestingly enough, many of the Silicon Valley companies that John approached were cool to the idea of their image manipulation program. SuperMac turned it down because they didn't understand how ImagePro could complement their already popular product, PixelPaint.
But one company, BarneyScan, did show some interest. They offered to bundle (on a short term basis) what was now called "Photoshop" with their slide scanner. A total of about 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped with their scanners, according to Jeff Schewe in his article, "Photoshop: a Decade of Image-Editing Excellence."
55 comments:
Coco Faiella 3B
Before reading this article, I knew very little to nothing about Photoshop; however, upon reading this article I was able to understand the process of creating it. I initially thought that photoshop was simply a program used to edit photos in regards to making them look better, for example, placing an individual's head on another body, or trimming down a person's legs to make them appear skinnier. I was not familiar with the other options photoshop posesses, like the ability to change the colors of an imagine completely. I also had no idea about the strugglesthese individuals faced when trying to develop the product (rejection by large companies), and how fairly recent this product was developed (10 years not being too long for an invention). Lasty, I never knew that Mac computers were among the first computers used for programs like these, and how far they have come over the years.
Gerry Mollo 4A
Prior to reading this article, I knew a decent amount about photoshop because I was exposed to it at an architecture internship I did this summer. It was very suprising to find out that some of the first, more popular computers, were macs. It was also interesting to read that 2 brothers worked together to develop an amazing idea and application. It's suprising that the other companies didn't see the future of their invention and help support them.
Ana Kudless 4A
I found this article interesting and very informative. Before reading this article, my knowledge of Photoshop was very poor. After reading this article I now understand its original purpose and its present misuse. The application was originally created to perform the task of displaying gray-scale levels, but grew into the creation of numerous subroutines and “chunks of image programming.” I also was not aware of how long it has been around, and that it started on Mac computers. I think it is rather misused today as a tool to make pictures appear unrealistically flawless rather than raw and authentic.
Bill Terrarosa A4
Before reading the article, i didn't know anything about photoshop. I thought it was a relatively new program. It's strange to find out it was started with a mac and Supermac wasn't interested in buying it.
Erin Simon 4A
Before reading this article, I didn't know anything about Photoshop. It was very interesting how two brothers worked together to create such a known and well used program to this day. Their ideas just kept piling on top of eachother trying to better the program. Questions like "What if Display could save images in other formats so I could print them in another program?" started to form Photoshop. I also did not know that Macintosh computers as well as Apple computers were used to create Photoshop. This article gave me a better understanding of what Photoshop was originally made for instead of what it is used for today.
Mary Kate McGuire 4A
After reading this article, I know a lot more about Photoshop than I ever did. It is really interesting and amazing to me how two brothers could create a program like Photoshop, just by asking simple questions and experimenting. Photoshop was used for different things before today and this article really made me understand that. Mac and Apple products also played a big role in the process of creating Photoshop, which I never knew. This article gave me a much better understanding of the making of Photoshop.
Kyle Reinhardt 4A
I find it interesting how there was no original purpose for photoshop, it was two tech-savvy brothers and one of them liked to take photos. Then they started thinking and noticing different things with the mac computers and after writing many subroutines, photoshop snowballed into the very large product it is today.
Mike Malley 4A
This article really taught me alot about Photoshop. Prior to reading this, the only things I knew about photoshop were what you told us in class on tuesday. I found it very interesting how all of the tools were developed and made to work. He sort of just sat there thinking "In what ways can I edit a photograph and how would I make that possible on here?" However, the most surprising thing about this article is the general lack of interest in the Program. Photoshop allows you to edit photographs quicker, easier with less risk of harming the actual photograph than if done by hand. The fact that only one company showed interest in this astounds me.
Kaila Van Fossan 2B
Before even taking this class I had no idea how to work Photoshop and didn't know any history about Photoshop. This article really taught me all about Photoshop and the people who thought of the idea. I can't wait to learn more and be able to use Photoshop without troubles!
Shannon Pace 2A says
I thought this article was very interesting. Its cool to see how the idea of photoshop came to be. I do not know anything about how to use photoshop or when to use it really, so i am very excited to learn how to make images clearer and edit them to make them look really cool. :)
laritza Lopez A2 says>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Before reading this article i didn't know anything about Photoshop or what we were going to learn in class, but after this reading i noticed that a picture takes a lot of work to be perfect. This article thought me about the born of Photoshop by Thomas and his family who were really involved in this project and expand it through the years. I thought that was cool!!!!!
Austin Lloyd 3B
I didn't know much about photoshop until I read the article and I was interested after reading it and doing the activity yesterday. I'm excited to start using it more and more and start becoming more familiar with it so I could use it at home after the school year.
rebecca helstern 4a
Before I read this article, I really didn't know anything about photoshop except that photography majors use it to edit their pictures. I have heard you can do some pretty cool things on it, and I was impressed by what we did on the first day of class with the cups. I had no idea how old photoshop was and it is very interesting that two such young people were its founders. It is also interesting that SuperMac turned down the program. I'm sure they regret that now. Im excited to work more with the program!
Kyle Mulholland 3B
I didn't know much about photoshop before I read this article. I did know that photoshop is very popular and you can do many cool things on it. I have never used photoshop prior to this year, and I am very excited to learn more about it. This article taught me about the history of photoshop and how it all started in a darkroom. I can't wait to use the program and learn more about it this year.
Eric Sibrian 2A
I really had never actually used photo shop. After using it in class I found that it is quite fun, although tedious work. I knew nothing about the history of photo shop as well. I love the way it was created because it shows the greatness of human engineering. The way that their passion for photos led to the invention of Photoshop is really cool. Now I want to learn some more so I can really apriciate the program
Matthew Tuomenoksa 2A
Before I read this article, I had some experience with using Adobe Photoshop CS5, but I haven't really researched the history of Photoshop. I thought it was interesting how the article talked about how there were many photographers that had used black rooms to develop there photos. Then switched to Photoshop and they were dis-pointed in the quality of the filters. Then created new subprogram to enhance the filters. This article made me realize how Photoshop has revolutionized the art of photography in just two decades of operations.
Ana Mastropiero 3B
After reading this article, I feel more informed on the building blocks of photoshop. At the time that these men were playing around with the soon to be Photoshop program, there was nothing out there that could do what we take for granted now. To see how these men wished to do something physical on a computer and made it happen is very interesting. I feel that most people overlook what at one time was impossible to do to digital photographs. Because of these men, photo editing has become what we do so easily today.
Dan Plageman 2A
After reading this article, i now understand how photoshop started. I'm very excited to learn to use photoshop not only in school but at home also for my own personal projects. I find it ver interesting how there are endless things that you can use on photoshop to make pictures original and your own.
Chris Napoli 2A
My reflection to this article is quite clear cut; after reading this article I found it to be 'of quality.' It was knowledgeable to how Photoshop came to be and how much trouble they must have gone through to get to where they are now. Photoshop has indeed improved on the tedious work of 'black-rooming' and it will hopefully keep on improving. All in all this article was a good reminiscent of the past. I will hopefully and improve on my Photoshop expertise by the end of Senior year.
Omar Santamaria A2
I have always loved the things that one can produce with enough time and inspiration on photoshop. A cousin of mine works with photoshop to help create silk screens and stencils for his art. Now after reading this article I have a gained a greater appreciation for the program and the process it took to create it.
Brianna Sandorse 4A
I've been using Photoshop for years, but before reading this article, I didn't know any history about it. Originally, I thought that people used it just to edit photos to fix them or make them look different. I know understand why it was originally created and think that it is misused today to make pictures look unrealistic. After reading this article, I know more about Photoshop than I did before.
Alana Roolaart 2a
i've had photoshop on my computer for a while and i never really knew how to use it. but after the exercise we did in class and this article i understand photoshop a little bit more and it's backround. i now know how it all began and i know how to use a couple tools! hopefully by the end of this course i can learn a decent amount of this program and do my own little projects on my own time.
Nick Krajewski 2A
This article really opened my eyes to photoshop. Although having a brother who uses it professionally and it being on all my the computers in my house, ive never really used it. I never knew how prevalent macs were in the workplace and its interesting how old photoshop really is.
Deion Martin 4a
After reading this article i now understand more about the making of Photoshop. i think the whole processes of Photoshop is amazing. i think just by reading this makes me look forward to using the program even more. i cant wait to start learning even more about this program and using this program.
Evan Wilson A4
I did not know much about photostop before i read this article. But after reading it it showed me how photoshop orignated and what is was orginally used for. now I cant wait to start using it more in class
Francesca Veney 2A
I never used Photoshop before nor did I know the history behind it. After reading the article I learned a lot about Photoshop just by reading this article. I learned on where it originated from and how it is used. After practicing on it in class a little and reading the article I look forward to using Photoshop a lot more often. A part about the article that fascinated me was " The first real computer I ever actually sat down and used was in 1978. I was a 16-year-old high school student when my dad got an Apple II Plus with 64k of RAM." This part of the article caught my attention before I wasn't aware that computers were around in the 70's and "Apple" computers at that.
Chloe Johnson 2A
Prior to reading this article I knew nothing about the history of Photoshop. I think its history and origins are very interesting and the article really showed me how much transformation went into this program over time. I didn't know that the program was so young. I thought it would be at least a little bit older. I never knew that Photoshop had so many functions, but I was aware of some of them. I have used Photoshop express a couple of times, but I have never used the full program before prior to the class. I am really excited to learn more about Photoshop and how I can use its tools to edit and recreate my photos.
Alexis holiday 4A
As a former graphic communications major, I knew much about the basics of hotosjop and it's photo manipulation capabilities. I knew about changing color, brightness, using different effects and the ability to change a photograph from something plain to your heart's desire. However, I did not know the history of the creation of photoshop. These men struggled so much to get their program on the market (facing companies' denial, money, ect) even though it is currently the leader of photo manipulation programs and how it was first created on Mac computers. Maybe that is why macs are prevalent in the graphic design "world" than commercially.
Patricio Vera 2A
I've used photoshop a few times before here and there. But it really suprised me to knw where it came from. I'm glad to have it now becasue if we didn't we'd still be in those dark rooms with all those chemicals. Even though its tedious work photoshop is fun to use.
Joe Jacques A4
I have no experience with using photoshop, but i have heard much about it. It is pretty crazy how photoshop became itself as it transformed over time. The companies that rejected the idea probably feel like fools now because of how famous photoshop has become. It seems like there is an infinite amount of options that you can use on it. These boys were very persistent and determined to make this work, and it paid off big time. These stories just make me more excited to get to know and use Photoshop
Gunnar Wainwright A4
Photoshop as always been a very illusive thing for me. I've always wanted to learn how to use it but never got the opportunity to do so. Not only do i now know the origins of this program, I also know understand that its a complicated program. I previously thought that it was just a program for kids to alter photos. Know i understand that photoshop is a paramount part of modern photography
Stephen Skop 4A
I have never really used Photoshop before, and with that reading this article helped me understand more and more about it. I am thankful that they invent this program because without it we would still be doing photoshop the old fashioned way and that is very tedious and complicated.
I do not understand photoshop or computers very well. The way certain things can be manipulated and distorted fascintes me and I hope that I will become good at photoshop
Jack Ketner
Katelyn Guarino A4
Before reading this article I did not know much about Photoshop or even how to use the program. I had difficulty grasping the use of Photoshop to do simple things like silhouette a simple photo. I found it incredible how it only took two brothers to come up with the idea of creating this program. Photoshop has really opened everyone's eyes to edit photographs. Before Photoshop I would use sites such as Picnick or Photobucket to edit my photos. I feel like Photoshop does come in handy and is a faster and more efficient way of editing a photo, however the old fashioned way looks more professional but takes more time and effort. All in all Photoshop is an amazing program and just from this article I learned more about Photoshop and I am glad that I am not clueless anymore.
Having been a Commercial Photography major since freshman year, I have had quite a bit of hands on experience with photoshop. I understand its broad use of tools, but I have never truly used photoshop to its maximum potential. I always took it for granted, but after reading the article, I have a much deeper appreciation for the program itself, and the ambitious man who was mostly the reason that it is what it is today- a tremendously powerful tool for photo manipulation. I never really understood how to make such a program you have to write codes for all of the tools and literally everything that is composed in photoshop. It truly is breathtaking where we are today with this amazing photo editing software
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Zack Cusack 2A
Having been a Commercial Photography major since freshman year, I have had quite a bit of hands on experience with photoshop. I understand its broad use of tools, but I have never truly used photoshop to its maximum potential. I always took it for granted, but after reading the article, I have a much deeper appreciation for the program itself, and the ambitious man who was mostly the reason that it is what it is today- a tremendously powerful tool for photo manipulation. I never really understood how to make such a program you have to write codes for all of the tools and literally everything that is composed in photoshop. It truly is breathtaking where we are today with this amazing photo editing software
Ayana Spina 4A
Prior to reading this article, PhotoShop was a mere mystery to me. I had heard about it and seen work that it had helped create, but i never used it nor did I know much about it at all. This article revealed the incredible history of digital photo editing while enlightening me to the benefits of its growth.
Elise Schoening B3
Prior to signing up for this class and reading this article, my knowledge of Photoshop was rather limited. The article and the few classes we have had have showed me just how naive I was. Now that I have learned about the process behind creating the program, I fully understand how complex Photoshop is. I look foward to learning more about the program and how to manipulate it in order to create stunning photos.
Linda Garcia 3B
Before reading this article, I had no idea of how Photoshop was used or it came to be. I would see people use it but never really came to my attention. After reading the article, it has taught me how Photoshop came to be. A program that millions of people use today started of in a family basement in Michigan. It is interesting how it developed over time.
Jacob Spaans 4A. I liked this article because it taught me about the origin. I had also thought that it was much more recent than 1988. It's cool how it evolved but it makes me sad that it changed hands to a different company, much like every other good idea it seems.
Sam Marascio 3B
I think the way that photoshop was created was very interesting and unique. I also think it is very cool how Derrick used technology as a way to enhance an old style of photography with the changing of colors. Photoshop was a revolutionary program that changed the way of photo editing forever.
Tajhi Tomaino 3B
Before reading this article i didn't know anything about Photoshop or what we were going to learn in class, but after this reading i noticed that a picture takes a lot of work to be perfect. I think it is very cool how Derrick used technology as a way to enhance an old style of photography with the changing of colors.I learned more about Photoshop and I am glad that I am not clueless anymore.
Lauren Faherty B3
Photoshop has always been a program on my computer that I haven't spent much time on; however, after reading this article and exploring it a bit in class, I realized how helpful it can be. I also realized that the individuals who created the program faced many difficulties and were declines by many companies. Although it was declined multiple times, it is still such a useful component on a computer and is extremely cool.
Ross Riordan 3A
Sorry I'm so late, but I figured it would be prudent to put my block number on the first post.
I never really thought about how Photoshop began. I guess I just assumed that Adobe had made it since whenever it began; I had no idea it was over 20 years old.
Michael Harran 3B
Before this class i had very little to no knowledge about photoshop. I had used it a couple of times in school. Photoshop allows someone to edit and change a photo however they like. Sometimes developing a picture and editing it is a little too much work, but photoshop can also make a picture look like it was edited on a computer. Some pictures do not have the same look.
Michelle Reyes 3B
After reading this article i realized that I had just read a piece of history. The history of photoshop and how its actual purpose was to display grey scales and it evovled into being a lot more different techquices in looking at a image. This was very great and vauble information to know.
Brittany Somol A2
I knew a little bit about Photoshop prior to reading this article because of the class I took junior year. I mostly just used it to resize, rotate, and change the hue of photos. I never realized it was created by two brothers who were actually interested in photography rather than a team of computer programers. I knew that it was originally made for the mac but i never knew that it was so old! I remember hearing about Photoshop maybe five years ago, it was surprising to learn that it was made before I was born.
Andrei Rjedkin
A2
Prior to reading this article I knew nothing about how photoshop became what it was. I am very excited to use it more and become better aware of the techniques there are to edit photos
Aubrey Robinson 2A
Before reading this article. I had no idea about photoshop, or the things that it can do. I was not aware that an image could be manipulated and edited so creatively in the program. I was surprised that larger companies were not fully in support of such an innovative program. I look forwrad to learning more about it.
Oscar Garcia 4A
i found this article very interesting,I thought that photoshop was going to be an easy class but it is really dificult just because you have to spend time with it.It's amazing how thomas was motivated to learn more about photoshop and made his own project.Initially i didn't know what are we going to do in this class.Later when i started to work on it I saw how difficult it is,how can we manipulate the image and make it look better.Now that i learned more about photoshop,I impressed what we can do whit this program ...
Dequanne Gibson 2a
I thought this article was very interesting. Its cool to see how the idea of photo shop came to history. This is all interesting and I was able to understand the use of how some people cheated and etc..
Max Paris 3B
Prior to reading this article I knew little about the history of photoshop. It is very interesting now knowing this program was brought up by two brothers using Mac computers. One of the brothers, John, dedicated his life in creating photoshop. Reading this article taught me the backround of photoshop and the labor it took to create it.
Nolan Mendoza (AGAIN) 3B
I knew about photoshop before reading this article and similar programs such a gimp just from taking and editing my own photos. I didnt know how long its been around though. I only own macs in my house yet, I did not know that macs were originally made for this kind of creation either.
Frankie Juliano 3B
Before I read this I new alot about Photoshop. I have been involved in photography and photoshop for some time now and I feel that I know a lot about the program. I have spend a lot of time on it and I know how to use a lot of the features and options. I did now know anthing about the history of thee program. After reading this I never realized how hard it was to come build to first Photoshop. I am so glad that Glenn Knoll had came up with this program because It helps me a lot when I take pictures. I would say that the Photoshop had come along way since the first one was released and im glad that more are being programmed because more and more features are helpful.
Jake Cullinane 4A
I originally knew alot about Photoshop prior to reading this article because my father uses the program as a graphic designer. It was interesting to read how Macs were among the most popular first computers and how two brothers worked closely to create this amazing program. I was also suprised to read how so many big companies turned down the idea for Photoshop. I'm glad I now have a better understanding of the origins of this program we are learning in class, Photoshop.
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