John Knoll

co-creator of Photoshop

Original Photoshop icon - John Knoll in 2008: I made that icon. Sorry if you don’t like it. It is 20 years old now, so you might want to bear in mind the era it came from. It was intended as a 1 hour photo booth, similar to a Fotomat booth, which were a very common sight in the late 80′s when we were first developing Photoshop. It’s meant to be a person manning the booth and a cash register inside the booth. At that time, application icons were 32×32 pixels, 1 bit per pixel. The “128″ is the resource ID number. That…

With: John Knoll

With his brother Thomas, who started the project on his mac+.

Thomas wrote the core application, John wrote the plugins and he made the icons.

Original Photoshop icons - used in pre–1.0 / pre–1990 versions of Photoshop John Knoll

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Original Photoshop icons

used in pre–1.0 / pre–1990 versions of Photoshop
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Original Photoshop icon

John Knoll in 2008: I made that icon. Sorry if you don’t like it. It is 20 years old now, so you might want to bear in mind the era it came from. It was intended as a 1 hour photo booth, similar to a...