Adobe Photoshop: All Versions List 1990-2023
Looking for the list of all Photoshop versions? Adobe Photoshop's has been around for over 30 years. In 1987, Thomas Knoll developed a pixel imaging program called Display. It was a simple program to showcase grayscale images on a black-and-white monitor. However, after collaborating with his brother John Knoll, the two began adding features that made it possible to process digital image files. The program eventually caught the attention of industry influencers, and in 1988, Adobe made the decision to license the software, naming it Photoshop, and shipping the first version in 1990. This way, on February 19, 1990 Adobe Photoshop was born.
What is Adobe Photoshop Latest Version Name?
As of today (October 2022) the latest version of Adobe Photoshop is version 24 released on October 2022. This Photoshop latest version includes new features like copy-paste type layers from Adobe Illustrator, better foreground/background blending and edge masking features and other enhancements for cloud document management and performance.
What Version of Adobe Photoshop Do I Have?
Many people wonder how to know Photoshop version that is installed on their computer. If you are not sure what version of Photoshop you have, you can display it by going in the Photoshop top menu under Help > About Photoshop (of if you are using Photoshop on a Mac choose Photoshop > About Photoshop)
Adobe Photoshop makes history reaching over thirty years of being the most well-known graphic design app
UPDATED: April, 2022
I originally wrote this article for Adobe Photoshop 25th anniversary. Then updated it for the 30th anniversary at the end of 2020.
Since then I've constantly updated this article.
Photoshop means so much to me and to many-many users around the world. It has been THE graphics tool that for such a long time now has allowed both proffessionals and amateurs to unleash their creativity. There are so many things that you can say about Photoshop. I tried to sum up a few of the most important aspects by creating this Adobe Photoshop Infographic. I hope you enjoy it and share this with others.
The First Photoshop Version
The first Photoshop version is Photoshop 0.63 which was officially created on 2nd October 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll.
When was the first version of Photoshop released?
Photoshop 1.0 was officially released in February 1990. The software was released commercially with the brand name Adobe Photoshop.
The infographic below is an interactive infographic made with PSDDude's Infographic Charts and Graphics HTML Tags Library.
A lot has changed over the years, but Photoshop has tried and succeded to be on top of the most used graphid design tools. It's even made a move towards online applications and changed the pricing model to a subscription model. All this to keep up with the competition of online tools that are simpler to use and much cheaper. The MockoFun free online graphic design tool is a good example of Photoshop alternative.
Is there an online version of Photoshop?
You can also use Photoshop online as part of Adobe Creative Cloud but this version doesn't have all the features. You need to have an Adobe account to use the online Photoshop version. There is also an online photo editor like Photoshop called Photopea.
How many Photoshop versions are there?
There are three main versions of Photoshop currently available: Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud), Photoshop CS6, and Photoshop Elements.
History of Adobe Photoshop Timeline
30 Years of History for Adobe Photoshop Infographic by PSDDude
A short history of Adobe Photoshop
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Adobe Photoshop versions and their release dates:
- Photoshop 1.0 - released February 1990
- Photoshop 2.0 - June 1991
- Photoshop 3.0 - September 1994
- Photoshop 4.0 - November 1996
- Photoshop 5.0 - May 1998
- Photoshop 6.0 - September 2000
- Photoshop 7.0 - March 2002
- Photoshop CS - October 2003
- Photoshop CS2 - April 4, 2005
- Photoshop CS3 - April 16, 2007
- Photoshop CS4 - October 15, 2008
- Photoshop CS5 - April 30, 2010
- Photoshop CS6 - May 7, 2012
- Photoshop CC - June 17, 2013
- Photoshop CC 2014 - June 2014
- Photoshop CC 2015 - June 2015
- Photoshop CC 2017 - November 2016
- Photoshop CC 2018 - October 2017
- Photoshop CC 2019 - October 2018
- Photoshop CC 2020 - November 2019
- Photoshop 2021 (v.22.0.0) - October 2020
- Photoshop 2022 (v.23.0.0) - October 2021
- Photoshop 2022 (v.23.2) - February 2022
- Latest Photoshop 2022 (v.24) - October 2022
Photoshop 2.0 introduces: Paths, CMYK Color and EPS Rasterization
Photoshop 3.0 Tabbed Palettes, Layers
Photoshop 6.0 Vector Shapes, "Liquify" filter, Layer styles/Blending Options dialog
Photoshop CS2 Smart Objects, Smart Sharpen, High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) support (32 bit per channel floating point)
Photoshop CS4 Content-aware scaling, Adjustments panel, Auto-alignment of layers
Photoshop CS5 Content Aware Fill, New Blend modes: Subtract and spanide, Puppet Warp Tool, Repousse 3D extrusion tool (Extended version)
Photoshop CS6 Content-aware Patch and Move tools, Enhanced crop tool with straighten option, Oil Paint filter now ships with the program
Photoshop CC Camera Shake Reduction, Improved 3D painting, Share on Behance, Perspective Warp
Photoshop CC 2017 Support for SVG OpenType fonts
Photoshop CC 2018 Re-organization of the brush panel, new Curvature Tool similar to Adobe Illustrator
Photoshop CC 2019 New Frame Tool to create placeholder frames for images
Photoshop CC 2020 Improvements to the AI content aware fill, Adobe Camera Raw improvements
Photoshop 2021 New features in Photoshop 2021 include:
- Sky Replacement
- Photoshop Neural Filters
- Live Shapes
- Cloud Document Version History
- etc.
Photoshop 2022 New features in Photoshop 2022 include:
- Object Finder
- More Neural Filters (Harmonization, Lanscape Mixer)
- Paste vectors from AI
- etc.
Adobe Photoshop Facts
Available in 26 languages
Over 10 mil users
Adobe Photoshop is available in 25 languages including Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, or Ukrainian
Photoshop has over 10 million users all over the world which represents aprox. 90% of the digital artists community.
The Photoshop community is very active and Adobe has managed to gain quite a lot of fans on its social networks growing the number of Facebook fans from 400,000 in 2010 to over 7,000,000 in 2015.
400,000 FB likes in 2010
7,000,000 FB likes in 2015
7,965,000 FB likes in 2020
8,033,083 FB likes in 2022
Adobe Photoshop Facebook likes 2010 vs. 2020 vs. 2022
Adobe profits
Adobe is doing quite well financially, and good for them. Here are a few statistics to give you an idea about the size of the Adobe business keeping in mind that one of their most important product is Adobe Photoshop.| Gross Profit | |
|---|---|
| 2010 | $3,396,498,000 |
| 2011 | $3,778,385,000 |
| 2012 | $3,919,895,000 |
| 2013 | $3,468,683,000 |
| 2014 | $3,524,985,000 |
| 2015 | $4,051,000,000 |
| 2016 | $5,034,000,000 |
| 2017 | $6,291,000,000 |
| 2018 | $7,835,000,000 |
| 2019 | $9,499,000,000 |
| 2020 | $12,870,000,000 |
| 2021 | $15,790,000,000 |
Adobe number of employees
| Adobe employees | |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 9,117 |
| 2011 | 9,925 |
| 2012 | 11,144 |
| 2013 | 11,847 |
| 2014 | 12,499 |
| 2015 | 13,892 |
| 2016 | 15,706 |
| 2017 | 17,973 |
| 2018 | 21,357 |
| 2019 | 22,634 |
| 2020 | 22,516 |
| 2021 | 25,988 |
Adobe Photoshop pricing history
Adobe Photoshop has tried to keep it's price relatively constant throughout the years and only with Adobe Photoshop CC version the price model was changed to a subscription payment model. Here are a few price levels for some of the Adobe Photoshop versions.| Adobe Photoshop license price | |
|---|---|
| Photoshop 1.0 | $895 |
| Photoshop CS3 | $649 |
| Photoshop CS4 | $699 |
| Photoshop CS5 | $699 ($999 for the CS5 extended) |
| Photoshop CS6 | $699 ($999 for the CS5 extended) |
| Photoshop CC | $297 / year |
| Photoshop CC 2020 | $285.48 / year |
| Photoshop 2021 | $636 / year |
Photoshop is no. 3 in the top of the Most Pirated Software
Reality shows that Adobe Photoshop is so popular that everybody wants to have it and quite a lot of people don't want to pay for it. This is why Adobe Photoshop is one of the most pirated software out there, making it to no. 3 in the top of the most pirated software according to fast.org (Federation Against Software Theft)- 1. Microsoft Office 24%
- 2. Microsoft Windows 24%
- 3. Adobe Photoshop 16%
- 4. Adobe Illustrator 10%
- 5. Solidworks 6%
- 6. SQL 6%
- 7. Quark 4%
- 8. Autodesk Autocad 4%
- 9. Virtual DJ 2%
- 10. Corel Draw 2%
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Adobe Photoshop 30 years in pictures
What would be more appropriate to describe the road map for Photoshop throughout its 25 years of life than doing through images. Here is the story and history of Adobe Photoshop with images representing its identity over the years.
The first version of Adobe Photoshop in action
Here is a video showing Adobe Photoshop version 1.0 in action
Have you ever wondered what was the first photo ever photoshoped? Well, John Knoll, one of Adobe Photoshop's creators took a picture of his wife Jennifer on a beach in Bora-Bora. He later used that picture for demos of Photoshop and even included it in the installation package naming it "Jennifer in paradise". Here is the very first picture ever photoshoped.
The Adobe Photoshop box cover, shortcut icon, splash screen, toolbox
When you buy the Adobe Photoshop package the very first thing that you see is the software box cover (well, not anymore with the CC version I guess). Here's how the box cover design of Adobe Photoshop evolved over time
Nothing says more about a software than it's shortcut icon. You probably never saw all of them in one place, but here it is: all versions of the Adobe Photoshop shortcut icons
I don't know how it is for you, but for me, when I start my Photoshop and I see the splash screen loading I start to feel my creative juices preparing. Here are all the versions for the Adobe Photoshop splash screens
A lot has changed since version 1.0 of Adobe Photoshop, but the concept of the toolbox was there even from the very begining. It is true that tools were added with the new features offered by the newer version of Photoshop. Here is the history of Adobe Photoshop toolbox
Adobe Photoshop today
Photoshop is the world’s most advanced digital imaging software. It is used by photographers, designers, web professionals, and video professionals, and is available to Creative Cloud subscribers.
Customers can also subscribe to Photoshop CC as an individual subscription product, or through the Creative Cloud Photography Plan which is an offer targeted at photographers and photo hobbyists and includes Photoshop Lightroom as a companion tool to Photoshop. Another Photoshop related product, Photoshop Elements, is offered separately and is targeted at consumers who desire the brand and power of Photoshop through an easy-to-use interface.
For tablet and phone users, Adobe offers several mobile apps including Photoshop Sketch, Photoshop Mix, Lightroom Mobile and more—all of which enable sophisticated photo editing and content creation using a touch-based interface on tablet and mobile devices.
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