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Adobe ended up licensing the software from the Knoll brothers, and Photoshop 1.0–minus a few advanced color-management features–was the result.

After 15 minutes, Warnock was convinced Adobe should acquire Photoshop.

In the fall of 1988, John Knoll demonstrated Photoshop for a group of Adobe officials, including CEO John Warnock. He would go on to add more features by creating Photoshop plug-ins, making the Knolls’ program one of the first apps with a plug-in architecture. John Knoll contributed several image-editing features to the product, inspired by the workstation tools he was using at ILM. Though the brothers shopped the program–which Knoll had nicknamed Photoshop–around to numerous Silicon Valley software companies, it was first released to the public asīarneyscan XP version 0.87, image-editing software included with scanner hardware. Thomas was reluctant to turn the project into commercial software, but John convinced him that it had huge potential. John and Thomas began expanding the program, adding other image-editing features. He wrote an image-display app–imagine a very primitive version of Preview–and sent it to John, who was already working at ILM at the time. Because the fellow who came up with the story for this year’s Star Wars movie also happens to be theīack in 1987, John Knoll’s brother Thomas was a Ph.D. So where does the Mac intersect with this story? At a few places, but most notably with one of the most important apps ever written for the Mac, or any computer: Photoshop.