Thomas Knoll develops 'Display'
Thomas Knoll, a Ph.D. student, writes a program to display grayscale images on his Macintosh Plus, which later became the foundation of Photoshop.
Significance
This marked the very first step in the creation of what would become the most dominant image editing software.
Key facts
- Date
- 1987-03-01
- Type
- invention
- Location
- Ann Arbor, Michigan (University of Michigan)