Adobe Photoshop

Source Code

The source code of Adobe Photoshop v. 1.07 has been released by the Computer History Museum in Mountain View and can be downloaded at: Adobe Photoshop Source Code

• User guide: Adobe photoshop Macintosh version
• Tutorial: Adobe Photoshop Macintosh version

Software

• Early versions of Photoshop (0.63 (beta), 1.0, 2.x, 3.0, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x) are available at WinWorld

Papers, Blog Posts and Websites

• Manovich, Lev. 2012. „Inside Photoshop“. Computational Culture: a journal of software studies, Nr. 1 (Januar). http://computationalculture.net/article/inside-photoshop.
• Short overview of the early history of Photoshop (and its immediate precursors) up to the release of version 1. PhotoshopNews
• Screenshot of old versions of Photoshop; version 1.0 (1990) up to CS2 (1990) GUIdebook > Applications > Photoshop

Videos

Art

• Constant Dullart: Dear Jennifer:
  • http://carrollfletcheronscreen.com/2016/03/01/jennifer-in-paradise-the-correspondence/
  • Constant Dullart talking about his “Dear Jennifer project at 32C3”
• Rosa Menkmans website “beyond resolution” presents her artistic research which she terms “Resolution Studies”. The section on the Genealogy contains a discussion of the practices and politics of test images in which she touches on Photoshop as well. ▋▅▉▝▊ || beyond resolution