| Version | Platform | Codename | Release date | Notes and significant changes |
|---|
| 0.07 | Macintosh | Bond | January 1988 |
- Not publicly released - This demo was the first known copy of Photoshop with any public exposure.[1]
|
| 0.63 |
| October 1988 |
|
0.87
0.87
| Seurat | March 1989 |
- First version distributed commercially (by the scanner company Barneyscan), though distributed as "Barneyscan XP".[1]
|
1.0
1.0
|
| February 1990 |
- In February 2013 the source code of this version was donated to the Computer History Museum.[2][3]
|
2.0
2.0
| Fast Eddy | June 1991 |
- Paths
- CMYK Color
- EPS Rasterization
|
| 2.5 | Merlin | November 1992 |
- 16 bit per channel support
- "Deluxe" edition available on CD-ROM
- First version for Microsoft Windows, one of the earliest examples of cross platform software.
|
| Windows | Brimstone |
| IRIX, Solaris |
| November 1993 |
3.0
3.0
| Macintosh | Tiger Mountain | September 1994 |
|
| Windows, IRIX, Solaris[4] |
| November 1994 |
4.0
4.0
| Macintosh, Windows | Big Electric Cat | November 1996 |
- Adjustment Layers
- Actions (macros)
|
5.0
5.0
| Strange Cargo | May 1998 |
- Editable type (previously, type was rasterized as soon as it was added)
- Multiple Undo (History Palette)
- Color Management
- Magnetic Lasso
|
| 5.5 | February 1999 |
- Bundled with ImageReady
- Save for Web
- Extract
|
6.0
6.0
| Venus in Furs | September 2000 |
- Vector Shapes
- Updated User Interface
- "Liquify" filter
- Layer styles/Blending Options dialog
|
7.0
7.0
| Mac OS 'Classic'/Mac OS X, Windows | Liquid Sky | March 2002 |
- Made text fully vector
- Healing Brush
- New painting engine
|
| 7.0.1 |
| August 2002 |
- Camera RAW 1.x (optional plugin)
|
CS (8.0)
CS (8.0)
| Mac OS X, Windows | Dark Matter | October 2003 |
- Camera RAW 2.x
- Highly modified "Slice Tool"
- Shadow/Highlight command
- Match Color command
- Lens Blur filter
- Smart Guides
- Real-Time Histogram
- Detection and refusal to print scanned images of various banknotes[5]
- Macrovision copy protection based on Safecast DRM technology
- Scripting support for JavaScript and other languages
- Hierarchical layer groups
- 16 bit per channel layers, painting, and adjustments
- Support for files over 2 Gigabytes
- Documents up to 300,000 pixels in either dimension
- Type on a path
|
CS2 (9.0)
CS2 (9.0)
| Mac OS X, Windows 2000 / XP | Space Monkey | April 4, 2005 |
- Camera RAW 3.x
- Smart Objects
- Image Warp
- Spot healing brush
- Red-Eye tool
- Lens Correction filter
- Smart Sharpen
- Vanishing Point
- Better memory management on 64-bit PowerPC G5 Macintosh machines running Mac OS X 10.4
- High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) support (32 bit per channel floating point)
- More smudging options, such as "Scattering"
- Modified layer selection, such as ability to select more than one layer.
|
CS3 (10.0)
CS3, CS3 Extended (10.0)
| Universal Mac OS X, Windows XP SP2 or later | Red Pill | April 16, 2007 |
- Native support for the Intel-based Macintosh platform and improved support for Windows Vista
- Revised user interface
- Feature additions to Adobe Camera RAW
- Quick Select tool
- Alterations to Curves, Vanishing Point, Channel Mixer, Brightness and Contrast, and the Print dialog
- Black-and-white conversion adjustment
- Auto Align and Auto Blend
- Smart (non-destructive) Filters
- Mobile device graphic optimization
- Improvements to cloning and healing
- More complete 32 bit / HDR support (layers, painting, more filters and adjustments)
- Faster launching
- ImageReady removed
|
CS4 (11.0)
CS4, CS4 Extended (11.0)
| Universal Mac OS X, Windows XP SP 2 or later | Stonehenge | October 15, 2008[6] |
- Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation
- OpenGL display acceleration in Photoshop
- Native support for 64-bit on Windows Vista x64
- Adjustments panel
- Masks panel
- Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow
- Content-aware scaling
- Extended depth of field
- Auto-blending of images
- Auto-alignment of layers
- New file display options (tabbed document display and n-up views)
- New file management and workspaces with Adobe Bridge CS4
|
CS5 (12.0)
CS5, CS5 Extended (12.0)
| Mac OS X, Windows XP SP3 or newer | White Rabbit | April 30, 2010[7] |
- Content Aware Fill
- Puppet Warp Tool
- 64 bit for Mac OS X
- Bristle Tips
- Mixer Brush
- Automatic Lens Correction
- Easier HDR toning for beginners
- Improved selection and masking controls
- Camera RAW grain control
- New Blend modes: Subtract and Divide
- GPU HUD controls for brush resize, color picker, color sampling
- Improved Ray Tracing quality and speed (Extended)
- Repousse 3D extrusion tool (Extended)
- Image based lights (Extended)
|
| CS5.1,[8] CS5.1[8] Extended (12.1, 12.0.4) | May 3, 2011[9] |
- Interacts with remote applications over TCP/IP, such as tablets and other computers.
- Subscription model pricing
|
CS6 (13.0)
CS6 (13.0)
| Superstition | May 7, 2012 |
- UI redesign (all new icons and optional dark UI)
- Auto and background saves
- Content-aware Patch and Move tools (extensions of content-aware fill introduced in previous version)
- Blur Gallery includes Tilt Shift, Iris and Field that can be used to create depth of field effects
- Color Range: skin tone and face detection
- Adobe Camera RAW 7
- Enhanced crop tool with straighten option
- New properties panel that can be used to vary properties of adjustment layers
- Enhanced video support
- Oil Paint filter now ships with the program
- Adaptive Wide Angle filter
- Paragraph and Character Styles
- Built in support for Middle Eastern languages
- Updated Printing UI
- 3DLUT adjustment
- Overhauled vector tools including stroking of vector paths, dotted or dashed
- Snap to Pixel for vector tools and transforms
- 3D UI completely redone, now easier to use
|
CC (14.0)
CC (14.0)
| Mac OS X, Windows 7 or newer | Lucky 7 | June 17, 2013 |
- Camera Shake Reduction
- Former Extended features now always included
- Intelligent Upsampling
- Camera Raw as a filter
- Editable rounded rectangles
- Improved 3D painting
- Share on Behance
- Conditional Actions
- System antialiasing style for type
- Min and Max filter round kernel
- Sync preferences with Cloud
|
CC (14.1)
CC (14.1)
|
| September 2013 |
- Adobe Generator
- Generate image assets from layers
- Edge Reflow integration through Adobe Generator
- Camera shake reduction improvements
|
CC (14.2)
CC (14.2)
| Single Malt Wiskey Cat | January 2014 |
- Perspective Warp
- Linked smart objects
- 3D Printing support
- Publish 3D models on Sketchfab
- Adobe Camera Raw 8.3
|
CC 2014(15.0 or 20140508.r.58)
CC 2014(15.0 or 20140508.r.58)
| Single Malt Wiskey Cat | June 2014 (current) |
- Blur Gallery motion effects
- Focus Mask
- Expanded Mercury Graphics Engine support
- Smart Object improvements
- Adobe Camera Raw 8 enhancements
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