Professionals Attempt To Use Adobe Photoshop 1.0 From 25 Years Ago

The original Adobe Photoshop was released 25 years ago on the 19th of February 1990. This means that the Photoshop software has been around for a very long time and safe to say it has seen a variety of improvements and changes over the years. However, how far has Adobe come with Photoshop?

To put this to the test, CreativeLive recently tasked eight Photoshop professionals to try and create a Photoshop tutorial using the original version of the software – Photoshop version 1.0. Safe to say that these professionals were thrown for a loop. While there were one or two who had used the software before, many were seeing it for the first time.

In fact even those who had used it were a little shocked to see how dated it was and even expressed some confusion as to how to navigate the software. Keyboard shortcuts were pretty much non-existent, along with features such as layers. The undo feature could only undo one mistake meaning that if you messed up a few times, you’d better hope you had an earlier version saved.

There was also no live preview so any changes they made on the sliders were not reflected in real time, and it was only after they applied the changes did they actually see it. It’s interesting to see how far software has come over the years and if you have a few minutes to spare, it’s worth checking out the hilarious video above.

Tyler Lee
Categories: Computers
Tags: adobe, photoshop