Thomas Knoll (computer scientist)

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Thomas Knoll (born 14. April 1960 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) is a US -American software developers , who along with his brother John Knoll end of the 1980s, the image editor Photoshop has invented and developed.

Life

Thomas Knoll grew up in Ann Arbor , Michigan and is the son of Glenn Knoll, a US professor at the University of Michigan from whom he - like his brother - inherited an interest in photography and computers. While attending high school, he developed black and white and color films in his father's darkroom and showed an interest in programming computer programs. Thomas pursued these interests after high school and studied computer vision . In autumn 1987 he wrote his doctoral thesis on the subject of processing of digital images . During this time he developed a program to display grayscale images. He called the source code for this program Display . This was the first step towards the Photoshop program . Thomas and his brother John Knoll created a program together, the licenses of which were officially purchased by Adobe Inc. in April 1989. Adobe then released Photoshop S1.0 two years later .

Thomas Knoll was the lead developer of Photoshop up to version CS4. He created the "Adobe Color Engine" (ACE), which is used by almost all Adobe products for color management. He developed the “Adobe Camera Raw” plug-in , which enables RAW files to be processed in Photoshop and Lightroom .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From Darkroom to Desktop — How Photoshop Came to Light . February 18, 2000. Archived from the original on June 26, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 7, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.storyphoto.com
  2. ↑ a b c Photoshop Profile: Thomas and John Knoll & Photoshop 1.0 . February 18, 2000. Archived from the original on June 26, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 7, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.storyphoto.com
  3. ↑ Brief introduction as speaker at the Adobe Max Conference 2014
  4. ↑ 20 Years of Adobe Photoshop . In: webdesignerdepot.com . February 1, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Knoll, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American software developer
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Ann Arbor , Michigan