| Version |
Platform |
Codename |
Release date |
Significant changes |
| 0.07 |
Macintosh |
|
January 1988[11]
(not publicly released)
|
- This demo is the first known copy of Photoshop with any public exposure.[12]
|
| 0.63 |
Macintosh |
|
October 1988 |
|
| 0.87 |
Macintosh |
|
March 1989 |
- First version distributed commercially (by the scanner company Barneyscan), though distributed as "Barneyscan XP".[13]
|
| 1.0 |
Macintosh |
|
February 1990 |
|
| 2.0 |
Macintosh |
Fast Eddy |
June 1991 |
- Paths
- CMYK Color
- EPS Rasterization
|
| 2.5 |
Macintosh |
Merlin |
November 1992 |
- 16 bit per channel support
- "Deluxe" edition available on CD
|
|
| Windows |
Brimstone |
| IRIX, Solaris |
|
November 1993 |
| 3.0 |
Macintosh |
Tiger Mountain |
September 1994 |
|
| Windows, IRIX, Solaris [14] |
|
November 1994 |
| 4.0 |
Macintosh, Windows |
Big Electric Cat |
November 1996 |
- Adjustment Layers
- Actions (macros)
|
| 5.0 |
Macintosh, Windows |
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 |
Macintosh, Windows |
Strange Cargo |
February 1999 |
|
| 6.0 |
Macintosh, Windows |
Venus in Furs |
September 2000 |
- Vector Shapes
- Updated User Interface
- "Liquify" filter
- Layer styles/Blending Options dialog
|
| 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 |
Mac OS 'Classic'/Mac OS X, Windows |
|
August 2002 |
- Camera RAW 1.x (optional plugin)
|
| 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[15]
- 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) |
Mac OS X, Windows 2000 / XP |
Space Monkey |
April 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, 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, CS4 Extended (11.0) |
Universal Mac OS X, Windows |
Stonehenge |
October 15, 2008[16] |
- Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation
- OpenGL display acceleration in Photoshop
- Native support for 64-bit on Windows Vista x64
- Adjustments panel
- Auto-blending of images
- Masks panel
- Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow
- Content-aware scaling
- Better raw image processing
- Extended depth of field
- Dramatically enhanced color correction
- 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, CS5 Extended (12.0) |
Mac OS X, Windows |
White Rabbit |
April 30, 2010[17] |
- 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
- Improved Camera RAW processing
- Camera RAW grain control
- GPU HUD controls for brush resize, color picker, color sampling
- Improved Ray Tracing (Extended)
- Repousse 3D extrusion tool (Extended)
- Image based lights (Extended)
|
| CS5.5, CS5.5 Extended (12.1, 12.0.4) |
Mac OS X, Windows |
White Rabbit |
May 3, 2011[18] |
- Interacts with remote applications over TCP/IP, such as tablets and other computers.
- Subscription model pricing [19]
|
| CS6 (13.0) |
Mac OS X, Windows |
Superstition |
beta in progress (July 2011) |
|