On February 18th, Adobe Photoshop turned 25, and while that was two weeks ago already, I continue to find awesome articles, videos and imagery that pay homage to the legendary software almost every day. I'm sure by now everyone has seen this video, along with the Behance Collection of featured animated artwork, that focuses on the evolution of such a revolutionary software that we've known and loved for the past quarter of a century.
There are plenty of platforms out there that are showcasing their Photoshop Best's including the famed educational platform, Lynda.com with its tribute page and series. As I'm sure you guessed it, Lynda offers a wide range of Photoshop tutorials -everything from photo manipulation to graphic design to 3D -but the cool thing, at least I think, about Lynda's tribute page are the Insight & Inspiration and Retrospect sections that share inspirational stories from multiple artists and take a look back at the transition from the days of analog design to digital design. In fact, you can even find some pretty cool "Making Of" videos that reveal how certain artists created their illustrations using Photoshop.
The Next Web goes even further by creating sequences that show the evolution of the icons, tool bars, splash screens and box shots over the past 25 years, too.
Adobe itself even dedicated a page to the software's 25th anniversary by highlighting a lot of talented artists' works as well as featuring the most creative visual artists under the age of 25 on its Instagram feed. You would think by looking at a visual timeline of the product that Photoshop has been around much longer. Isn't it amazing that in a mere 25 years it has gone from displaying grayscale images to supporting 3D printing?
A milestone nonetheless, Photoshop continues to simultaneously push the boundaries of the creative and technology worlds, and with that said, we can only imagine how different and revolutionary it will be in the next 25 years. To the many many engineers, programmers, artists, filmmakers, designers, photographers and developers, while we are celebrating 25 wonderful years of Photoshop we are also celebrating YOU and the relentless power of creativity to continue to create such beautiful artwork and develop such concepts like Photoshop every day.
Dream on!