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Thirty years ago on February 19th, 1990 the age of digital imaging began. Oh sure, there were earlier implementations that manipulated images digitally, but it was on February 19th, 1990 that Photoshop 1.0 shipped and that gave birth to the democratization of digital imaging. The early machines like the Scitex or Quantel Paintbox cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and were hard to learn to use. But Photoshop cost a paltry $895 and could run on home computers like the Macintosh IIfx for under $10,000. Photoshop put digital imaging in the hands of artistic individuals instead of big companies.
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