Car and Driver; Roaring 90s

[LGAFF]

Originally Posted by Meanmyz

Yes, but I wish features like these would stop always showing a picture of the standard Corvette (as the ZR-1).

True, most people might not know it, but we all know it, it doesn't look as muscular and it just isn't the right picture.

Why don't they show the yellow '94 Z GM publicity pic or the red '95 Z?

The photo on the web is not the one in the magazine

[Paul Workman]

With apologies to the OP, look at the wheels on that favorite "sunset" photo...

Talk about "photo shopped"! Nice as the picture is at first glance, it is soooo "photo shopped" as to appear as a surreal abortion to any shutter bug with a critical eye for composition: clear skies at the golden sunset, but yet there are (white) light highlight reflections from above and left. The artwork looks clumsily and unnatural - probably shot in a studio with a white cove backdrop and then cut and pasted onto that beach.

I don't mind diffused, multi-angle fill flash to chase shadows and bring out highlights in the subject's natural setting. But, that picture looks like a hack-job, far as photo-art goes - IMO.

But, I digress...

[Aurora40]

Did they have Photoshop in the 1980's?

[GOLDCYLON]

Originally Posted by Aurora40

Did they have Photoshop in the 1980's?

Terradactal version 1.0 Actually no but it was probablly done with a MAC in the late 80s.


And here is the confirmation and the link to the source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop

Early history
In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program, called Display, caught the attention of his brother John Knoll, an Industrial Light & Magic employee, who recommended Thomas turn it into a full-fledged image editing program. Thomas took a six month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program, which had been renamed ImagePro.[1] Later that year, Thomas renamed his program Photoshop and worked out a short-term deal with scanner manufacturer Barneyscan to distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner; a "total of about 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped" this way.[2]

During this time, John traveled to Silicon Valley and gave a demonstration of the program to engineers at Apple and Russell Brown, art director at Adobe. Both showings were successful, and Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988.[1] While John worked on plug-ins in California, Thomas remained in Ann Arbor writing program code. Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990 for Macintosh exclusively.[3]