March 01, 2008

Now showing: The original Photoshop icons

With Photoshop recently having celebrated a birthday, it’s fun to stumble across the original Photoshop icons.  Make that "PhotoShop," as the big S was present when the application was briefly bundled by BarneyScan, before it became an Adobe product*.  The original product icon, designed by Photoshop co-creator John Knoll, was replaced by the eye that served from 1990-2003.  John added his perspective in the blog post’s comments. [Via]

If this is up your alley, you might also enjoy:

• Photoshop splash screens and toolbars through time
• Derrick Story’s brief history of Photoshop (as of 2000, anyway)
• Jeff Schewe’s very deep history of the first 10 years (PDF)
• A ppodcast interview with Brett Wickens of MetaDesign, who worked on the CS/CS2 icons and packaging

*Until recently, however, the spellchecker in MS Office insisted on inserting the capital S–completely annoying.  I filed a bug with Microsoft, but I don’t know whether the change made it into Office ’07.