So You Think You Know your Adobe Photoshop History!

So how well do you know your Photoshop history? Those of us who have been using Adobe Photoshop for years have seen this remarkable software evolve into something extraordinary but do you remember when there were no such thing as layers in Photoshop?

As part of the 20th anniversary celebration of Adobe Photoshop, NAPP put together a fun little Photoshop history quiz so you can test your knowledge on how well you know Photoshop from version 1.0 to today.

So, give it a shot and have fun. Don’t worry, this won’t go down on your permanent record so no cheating!

The first version of Adobe Photoshop ran exclusively on a Mac.



John Knoll, one of the creators of Photoshop, was working at Industrial Light and Magic during the early development days of Photoshop. What feature film was he working on at that time?





Which of these was used as an early name for Photoshop before it shipped?






The first image John Knoll used in his Photoshop presentations was a picture of his niece, Lisa.



Which filter was introduced in Photoshop 2.0?





Which color display mode let you set each plate’s hue and gamma curve, giving precise control over color distribution?





How many alpha channels were you limited to in Photoshop 2.0?





In what version of Photoshop were layers added?





What feature first appeared in Photoshop 3.0?





What Photoshop 3.0 feature allowed users to create and name new Adobe Photoshop plug-ins?





There were 48 new filters added to Photoshop 4.0 that were previously part of a stand alone product which was called:





According to the Photoshop 4.0 technical specs the recommended amount of hard-disk space for operation is 20 MB.



Which feature was not included in Free Transform when it was introduced in Photoshop 4.0?





Which command or option was introduced in Photoshop 5.0 but is no longer available?





The _______ _______ allows you to quickly discard a long series of steps and start editing an image again.





The first version of Adobe ImageReady was a stand-alone product.



Layers Styles were introduced in Photoshop 6.0.



What was the beta name for Photoshop 6?





The  ______ _______ centralizes management of your custom brushes, gradients, shapes, contours, patterns, and layer styles.





In what version of Photoshop was the spell checker introduced?





What was the predecessor to Adobe Bridge called?





Smart Objects were introduced in Photoshop 7.0.



The ability to place text on a path was added to which version?





In Photoshop CS they added a new file format that would support very large files, such as billboards and vehicle wraps. What was this file extension?





Layer Comps were introduced in Photoshop CS. What feature is not a check item when saving a Layer Comp?





While Camera Raw was initially introduced as a paid plug-in, which version of Photoshop was it incorporated into as part of the program?





This feature was introduced in CS2 and lets you stretch, pull, twist, and wrap any image by selecting presets or manipulation custom control points?





What year was Photoshop CS2 released?





The Refine Edges feature was introduced in what version of Photoshop?





Which version of Photoshop was separated into Standard and Extended versions?





The new Clone Source panel allows you to store up to _____ different clone sources





While 3D was introduced in CS3, there were a number of enhancements with 3D in CS4. Which of these was one of those enhancements?





While the most current version of Photoshop is known as CS4. What is the actual version number?





Camera Raw's all-powerful Adjustment Brush was added in which version of Photoshop?