Daily Apple Quiz

Adobe Photoshop over the years

Originally written on a Macintosh Plus by a doctoral candidate named Thomas Knoll, the computer program that came to be known as Adobe Photoshop officially celebrates its 20th birthday this month. And what a 20 years its been!

The first versions of Photoshop were only available on the Macintosh. This was one of the things that cemented Apple’s reputation as the leader in the field of desktop publishing.

Often hailed as the single most important aspect of the program’s development, which version of Photoshop was the first to include support for layers?

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System 7 in black and white (on a Mac Plus) and in color (Mac LC)

By the mid-1980s, Apple followed up the success of original Macintosh with a number of new models including the Mac 512K, the Mac XL and Mac Plus. With the release of the Mac SE, Apple introduced a computer that could be customized via an expansion slot, paving the way to even more enhancements to the Macintosh platform.