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The Start of Adobe
Adobe was founded in 1982 by two friends and former employees of the Xerox PARC company, John Warnock and Chuck Geschke. They used this new company as a way to market and sell a program language they designed, PostScript. The company was started in John Warnock's garage, where the two worked tirelessly to develop and sell the PostScript software. -
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The History Of Adobe
Adobe was founded in 1982 by two friends and former employees of the Xerox PARC company, John Warnock and Chuck Geschke. They used this new company as a way to market and sell a program language they designed, PostScript -
Creation of Postscript and Type 1
Adobe's first products after PostScript were digital fonts which they released in a proprietary format called Type 1, worked on by Bill Paxton after he left Stanford. Due to this, Apple developed a competing standard, TrueType, which provided full scalability and better control of the pixel pattern created by the font's outlines, and licensed it to Microsoft. -
Adobes First Program
In the mid-1980s, Adobe entered the consumer software market with Illustrator, a vector-based drawing program for the Apple Macintosh. Illustrator, which grew out of the firm's in-house font-development software, helped popularize PostScript-enabled laser printers. Illustrator still exists in present day, and frequently receives more and more updates creating more captivating technology. -
Creation of Photoshop
Adobe's most used platform, Photoshop, is created in 1987. This program brings a whole new meaning to photo editing, and provides a huge relif for designers all over the world. -
Adobe’s expansion and developing of programs
In December 1991, Adobe released Adobe Premiere, which Adobe rebranded as Adobe Premiere Pro in 2003. In 1992, Adobe acquired OCR Systems, Inc. In 1994, Adobe acquired the Aldus Corporation and added PageMaker and After Effects to its product line later in the year. -
Creation of Adobe After Effects
After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Inc.; it is used in the post-production process of film making, video games and television production. -
Creation of Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool from Adobe Inc. It was created by Macromedia in 1997 and developed by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005. -
Expanding in the 2000's
On December 3, 2005, Adobe acquired its main rival, Macromedia, in a purchase valued at about $3.5 billion, adding ColdFusion, Contribute, Captivate, Breeze (rebranded as Adobe Connect), Director, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, FlashPaper, Flex, FreeHand, HomeSite, JRun, Presenter, and Authorware to Adobe's product line. -
Creation of Adobe InDesign
Adobe inDesign is a program that allows for the creation, and printing of broschures, posters, books, fliers, etc. It is similar to illustrator, however it is more print driven than illustrator. -
Adobe Creative Suite 1
Adobe Creative Suite (CS) is a discontinued software suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications developed by Adobe Systems. It allowed acess to all of Adobes design apps up to that point -
Creation of Adobe Stock
Adobe stock is an image liscensing software which allows designers the use of high quality stock images. -
Adobe Creative Suite 2
The precessor to the Adobe Creative Suite 1, the Suite 2 allowed for more thorough access to all adobe applications. -
Creation of Adobe Lightroom
Adobe lightoom is a photo editing app, specifically focusing on changing the tones, highlights, and various part of an image to make an image pop. -
Adobe Express Created
Photoshop Express is photoshop, however developed to be used specfically on mobile devices -
Adobe Creative Cloud Launches
Adobe Creative Cloud builds on its predecissors, the creative suite 1, and 2. This is the current use of application for all of the adobe apps -
Creation of Adobe Fresco
Adobe Fresco is a vector and raster graphics editor developed by Adobe primarily for digital painting. Originally designed for the Apple iPad with Pencil -
Creation of Adobe Animate
Adobe Animate is a multimedia authoring and computer animation program developed by Adobe Inc. Animate is used to design vector graphics and animation for television series, online animation, websites, web applications, rich web applications, game development, commercials, and other interactive projects -
Creation of Adobe Capture
Adobe Capture gives you the power to create production-ready color themes, patterns, vector-based shapes, 3D materials, type, and custom brushes—all from a single photo -
Creation of Adobe Firefly
Adobe Firefly is Adobe's most recently produced application. Adobe Firefly, a product of Adobe Creative Cloud, is a generative machine learning model that is used in the field of design. It is in the public beta test phase. Adobe Firefly is developed using Adobe's Sensei platform. -
Adobe Now
Adobe created many applications throughout the 2000’s. Between the years 2000-2024 they have created, reworked, revamped, and launched around 100 various applications. Adobe used the creation of these applications to create leverage against competing design softwares, and when they struggled to compete they simply bought the companies that were going against them.