| Version |
Platform |
Codename |
Release date |
Notes and significant changes |
| 0.07 |
Macintosh |
Bond |
January 1988 |
- Not publicly released - This demo was the first known copy of Photoshop with any public exposure.[1]
|
| 0.63 |
|
October 1988 |
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|
0.87
0.87 |
Seurat |
March 1989 |
- First version distributed commercially (by the scanner company Barneyscan), though distributed as "Barneyscan XP".[1]
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|
1.0
1.0 |
|
February 1990 |
- Last release for System 6.0.3
- In February 2013 the source code of this version was donated to the Computer History Museum.[2][3]
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|
2.0
2.0 |
Fast Eddy |
June 1991 |
- Paths
- CMYK Color
- EPS Rasterization
- Last release for System 6.0.4
|
| 2.5 |
Merlin |
November 1992 |
- 16 bit per channel support
- "Deluxe" edition available on CD-ROM
- First version for Microsoft Windows.
- Last release for System 6.0.7
|
| Windows |
Brimstone |
| IRIX, Solaris |
|
November 1993 |
|
3.0
3.0 |
Macintosh |
Tiger Mountain |
September 1994 |
- Support for Win32s
- Tabbed Palettes
- Layers
- Last release for Windows 3.0, Windows NT 3.5, System 7 and 80386 processors
|
| Windows, IRIX, Solaris[4] |
|
November 1994 |
|
4.0
4.0 |
Macintosh, Windows |
Big Electric Cat |
November 1996 |
- Adjustment Layers
- Actions (macros)
- Navigator palette
- Grids and Guides
- Free Transform tool
- Multicolor gradients and Gradient Editor
- Gallery Effects filters
- Digimarc image watermarking
- PNG file format
- PDF file format
- Last version to support Radius and SuperMac NuBus hardware acceleration
- Last version to support 68K Macs
- Last release for Windows 3.1x, Windows NT 3.51, System 7.1 and 80486 processors
|
|
5.0
5.0 |
Strange Cargo |
May 1998 |
- Editable type (previously, type was rasterized as soon as it was added)
- Multiple Undo (History Palette)
- Color Management
- Magnetic Lasso and Pen
- Freeform Pen
- Spot Color channels
- increased 16 bit/channel support
- Channel Mixer adjustment
- Layer Effects
- Automation plugins
- Color Samplers
- Measure tool
- Last release for System 7.5
|
| 5.5 |
February 1999 |
- Bundled with ImageReady
- Save for Web
- Extract
- Last release for Windows 95, NT 4.0 RTM, SP1-SP3, Mac OS 7.6 and Mac OS 8
|
|
6.0
6.0 |
Venus in Furs |
September 2000 |
- Vector Shapes
- Updated User Interface
- "Liquify" filter
- Layer styles/Blending Options dialog
- Last release for Windows NT 4.0 SP4-SP5, 2000 RTM, SP1, Mac OS 8.5 and Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS 9 and Intel Pentium, MMX and Pentium II
|
|
7.0
7.0 |
Mac OS 'Classic'/Mac OS X, Windows |
Liquid Sky |
March 2002 |
- Made text fully vector
- Healing Brush
- New painting engine
- Spell check
- Find/Replace
|
| 7.0.1 |
|
August 2002 |
- Camera RAW 1.x (optional plugin)
- Last release for Windows 98, 98SE, ME, NT 4.0 SP6a, 2000 SP2, Mac OS 9.1, Mac OS 9.2, Mac OS X Cheetah and Puma
|
|
CS (8.0)
CS (8.0) |
Mac OS X, Windows |
Dark Matter |
October 2003 |
File:Adobe Photoshop CS retail box.png
Adobe Photoshop CS
- Camera RAW 2.x
- Highly modified "Slice Tool"
- Shadow/Highlight command
- Match Color command
- Lens Blur filter
- Smart Guides
- Real-Time Histogram
- Detection and refusal to print scanned images of various banknotes[5]
- Macrovision copy protection based on Safe cast DRM technology
- Scripting support for JavaScript and other languages
- Hierarchical layer groups
- 16 bit per channel layers, painting, and adjustments
- Support for files over 2 Gigabytes
- Documents up to 300,000 pixels in either dimension
- Type on a path
- Last release for Windows 2000 SP3 and XP RTM
|
|
CS2 (9.0)
CS2 (9.0) |
Mac OS X, Windows 2000 / XP |
Space Monkey |
April 4, 2005 |
File:Adobe Photoshop CS2 retail box.jpg
Adobe Photoshop CS2
- Camera RAW 3.x
- Smart Objects
- Image Warp
- Spot healing brush
- Red-Eye tool
- Lens Correction filter
- Smart Sharpen
- Vanishing Point
- Better memory management on 64-bit PowerPC G5 Macintosh machines running Mac OS X 10.4
- High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) support (32 bit per channel floating point)
- More smudging options, such as "Scattering"
- Modified layer selection, such as ability to select more than one layer.
- Last release for Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1, Mac OS X Jaguar, Panther and Intel Pentium III
|
|
CS3 (10.0)
CS3, CS3 Extended (10.0) |
Universal Mac OS X, Windows XP SP2 or later |
Red Pill |
April 16, 2007 |
File:Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended retail box.jpg
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
- Native support for the Intel-based Macintosh platform and improved support for Windows Vista
- Revised user interface
- Feature additions to Adobe Camera RAW
- Quick Select tool
- Alterations to Curves, Vanishing Point, Channel Mixer, Brightness and Contrast, and the Print dialog
- Black-and-white conversion adjustment
- Auto Align and Auto Blend
- Smart (non-destructive) Filters
- Mobile device graphic optimization
- Improvements to cloning and healing
- More complete 32 bit / HDR support (layers, painting, more filters and adjustments)
- Faster launching
- ImageReady removed
- Last release for Windows Vista RTM and Leopard on PowerPC Macs
|
|
CS4 (11.0)
CS4, CS4 Extended (11.0) |
Universal Mac OS X, Windows XP SP2 or later |
Stonehenge |
October 15, 2008[6] |
- Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation
- OpenGL display acceleration in Photoshop
- Native support for 64-bit on Windows Vista x64
- Adjustments panel
- Masks panel
- Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow
- Content-aware scaling
- Extended depth of field
- Auto-blending of images
- Auto-alignment of layers
- New file display options (tabbed document display and n-up views)
- New file management and workspaces with Adobe Bridge CS4
- Last release for Windows XP SP2, Mac OS X Tiger and AMD Athlon XP
|
|
CS5 (12.0)
CS5, CS5 Extended (12.0) |
Mac OS X, Windows XP SP3 or newer |
White Rabbit |
April 30, 2010[7] |
- Content Aware Fill
- Puppet Warp Tool
- 64 bit for Mac OS X
- Bristle Tips
- Mixer Brush
- Automatic Lens Correction
- Easier HDR toning for beginners
- Improved selection and masking controls
- Camera RAW grain control
- New Blend modes: Subtract and Divide
- GPU HUD controls for brush resize, color picker, color sampling
- Improved Ray Tracing quality and speed (Extended)
- Repousse 3D extrusion tool (Extended)
- Image based lights (Extended)
|
| CS5.1,[8] CS5.1[8] Extended (12.1.1, 12.0.5)[9] |
May 3, 2011[10] |
- Interacts with remote applications over TCP/IP, such as tablets and other computers.
- Subscription model pricing[8]
- Last release for Windows Vista SP1, SP2, and Mac OS X Leopard on Intel-based Macs
|
|
CS6, CS6 Extended (13.0)
CS6, CS6 Extended (13.0) |
Superstition |
May 7, 2012[11] |
- UI redesign (all new icons and optional dark UI)
- Auto and background saves
- Content-aware Patch and Move tools (extensions of content-aware fill introduced in previous version)
- Blur Gallery includes Tilt Shift, Iris and Field that can be used to create depth of field effects
- Color Range: skin tone and face detection
- Adobe Camera RAW 7
- Enhanced crop tool with straighten option
- New properties panel that can be used to vary properties of adjustment layers
- Enhanced video support
- Oil Paint filter now ships with the program
- Adaptive Wide Angle filter
- Paragraph and Character Styles
- Built in support for Middle Eastern languages
- Updated Printing UI
- 3DLUT adjustment
- Overhauled vector tools including stroking of vector paths, dotted or dashed
- Snap to Pixel for vector tools and transforms
- 3D UI completely redone, now easier to use
- Last release for Windows XP SP3 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard
|
|
CC (14.0)
CC (14.0) |
Mac OS X, Windows 7 or newer |
Lucky 7 |
June 17, 2013 |
- Camera Shake Reduction
- Former Extended features now always included
- Intelligent Upsampling
- Camera Raw as a filter
- Editable rounded rectangles
- Improved 3D painting
- Share on Behance
- Conditional Actions
- System antialiasing style for type
- Min and Max filter round kernel
- Sync preferences with Cloud
|
|
CC (14.1)
CC (14.1) |
September 2013 |
- Adobe Generator
- Generate image assets from layers
- Edge Reflow integration through Adobe Generator
- Camera shake reduction improvements
|
|
CC (14.2)
CC (14.2) |
Single Malt Whiskey Cat |
January 2014 |
- Perspective Warp
- Linked smart objects
- 3D Printing support
- Publish 3D models on Sketchfab
- Adobe Camera Raw 8.3
|
|
CC 2014 (15.0 or 20140508.r.58)
CC 2014 (15.0 or 20140508.r.58) |
June 2014 |
- Blur Gallery motion effects
- Focus Mask
- Expanded Mercury Graphics Engine support
- Smart Object improvements
- Adobe Camera Raw 8 enhancements
|
|
CC 2014.2.2 (15.2.2 or 20141204.r.310)
CC 2014.2.2 (15.2.2 or 20141204.r.310) |
December 2014 |
- Last release for Windows 8, Lion, Mountain Lion and Intel Pentium 4
|
|
CC 2015 (16.0 or 20150529.r.88)
CC 2015 (16.0 or 20150529.r.88) |
Dedicated to Thomas and John Knoll (Adobe Photoshop 25th Anniversary) |
June 15, 2015 |
- Artboards
- Adobe Stock marketplace
- Design Space (Preview) offers a designated mode for websites and mobile apps designers
- Camera Raw as a filter
- Some Layer styles can now be added up to 10 instances
- Redesign image export feature
- Adobe Camera Raw 9.1
- Linked files in CC Libraries
- Realtime healing previews
|
|
CC 2015.1 (16.1 or 20151114.r.301)
CC 2015.1 (16.1 or 20151114.r.301) |
November 30, 2015 |
- New Creative Cloud Libraries capabilities
- Design Space (Preview) enhancements
- Modern user experience on desktop and touch devices
- More creative options with SVG import
- Enhanced export experience
|
| CC 2015.1.2 (16.2 or 20160113.r.355) |
Dedicated to Thomas and John Knoll (Adobe Photoshop 25th Anniversary) |
January 20, 2016[12] |
This update includes 25 changes to resolve customer reported workflow issues including (but not limited to):
- Crash Reporter: Crash when creating Character Styles and when saving a document in certain scenarios
- Unable to record the command, Select All Layers
- Tools reset to default set after closing/opening doc or quitting/relaunching Photoshop with Start Screen
- New Swatch > Add to Library check box setting is not sticky when invoked from color picker
- Issue with Cmd/Ctrl key for selecting layers in the Layer panel
- German translation error for Workspaces
- Improved clickable area for dialog buttons
- Export Presets on 2x artboards result in incorrectly scaled assets
- Edit of Library raster graphic in Indesign or Illustrator fails to open the doc in Photoshop unless Photoshop is already running
- Several ScriptUI bugs
- Pasted content centers on artboard when zoomed in to portion of the artboard
- Scripting Support gives an error during launch – Subsequent crashing
- Sampling a color with the gradient tool and panels hidden doesn’t sample the color
- Crash when opening certain .IFF files and hang/crash when opening/closing certain .PNG files
- Unable to drag and drop the artwork from Illustrator to Photoshop (Windows only)
- Welcome screen causes redraw/flicker even if not show if Narration is enabled (Windows only)
- Recent Files stops working after opening 100+ files
- Clicking onto disabled “Start” workspace leads to switching to “Photography” workspace
- Typo in the HangingPunCtuation property used for scripting
- Multiple files are stacked on top of one another, rather than cascaded, when tabbed documents are disabled
|
|
CC 2015.5 (17.0 or 20160603.r.88)
CC 2015.5 (17.0 or 20160603.r.88) |
Haiku |
June 20, 2016[13] |
- Better collaboration with Libraries
- Match Font
- Updated Libraries panel
- Create patterns with Capture CC
- Improved artboards
- Showcase your work with Adobe Portfolio
- Selection and Masking Space
- Content-Aware Crop
- Export enhancements
- 3D printing to Microsoft 3MF (Windows 10 only)
|
|
CC 2015.5.1 (17.0.1 or 20160722.r.156)
CC 2015.5.1 (17.0.1 or 20160722.r.156) |
August 8, 2016[14] |
- Keyboard shortcuts repaired
- Fixed exporting nested layers
- “Rasterize EPS Format” remembers setting
- Embed color profile saved
- Cursor fixed while using transform paragraph text
- Color printing disabled when using App Manage Color (Mac only)
- Fixed file not found error
- Several changes to select and mask
- Last release for OS X Mavericks
|
|
CC 2017 (18.0 or 20161012.r.53)
CC 2017 (18.0 or 20161012.r.53) |
Big Rig |
November 2, 2016[15] |
- In-app search
- Tighter integration with Adobe XD
- Stock templates, 3D objects, and search
- Support for SVG color fonts
- Introducing Typekit Marketplace
- Better overall performance
|
|
CC 2017.0.1 (18.0.1 or 20161130.r.29)
CC 2017.0.1 (18.0.1 or 20161130.r.29) |
December 16, 2016[16] |
- Touch Bar support for Apple MacBook Pro
- Fixes
|
|
CC 2017.1.0 (18.1.0 or 20170309.r.207)
CC 2017.1.0 (18.1.0 or 20170309.r.207) |
April 5, 2017[16] |
- Program error when converting to bitmap using pattern dither with a selection
- Performance issues with TrueType and OpenType fonts
- Blank menu entry in the context menu for 3D type
- 3D show or hide polygons issue with Reveal All
- Layer groups with changed blend modes corrupt files
- Touch bar sliders are too big
- Can't write file when you have group ACL for the file on MacOS
- Numerous other issues fixed in the areas of 3D, Actions, Search, Learn Panel, Performance, Touch Bar, and Type
|
|
CC 2017.1.1 (18.1.1 or 20170425.r.252)
CC 2017.1.1 (18.1.1 or 20170425.r.252) |
April 25, 2017[16] |
- Scratch Disk size error
- Nik Dfine 2 freezes on macOS Sierra
- Error: Can't save changes to the Adobe Photoshop document before quitting
- The last-used grouped tool is forgotten after using the Move tool (V)
- AppleScript: Open options error while launching Photoshop
- Patches for some vulnerabilities and various other bug fixes
- Last release for OS X Yosemite
|
|
CC 2018 (19.0.0)
CC 2018 (19.0.0) |
White Lion |
October 18, 2017 [17] |
- New Stroke smoothing features
- New Curvature Pen tool
- Support for Spherical panoramas editing
- Streamlined brush management
- Access your Lightroom photos in Photoshop
- Supporting variable fonts
- Email or share your creations to several services directly from within Photoshop
- Tooltips have been enriched
- Support for Microsoft Surface Dial
- Upscale photos with AI
- Option for automatically symmetrical paint
- Color Range Mask for Camera Raw
|
|
CC 2018 (19.0.1)
CC 2018 (19.0.1) |
November 14, 2017 [18] |
This update includes a few (10+) changes for the top customer reported issues in 19.0 including (but not limited to):
- Healing and spot healing brush lag
- Alt-backspace taking two hits to work
- Character leading broken
- Resize image during place not working
|
|
CC 2018 (19.1)
CC 2018 (19.1) |
January 14, 2018[19] |
This update includes many (40+) changes for the top customer reported issues in 19.0.1 including (but not limited to):
- Selections Improvements
- Advanced Support for Windows High-Density Monitors
- Improved Microsoft Surface Dial support
- Better SVG Compatibility with Adobe XD
|
|
CC 2018 (19.1.1)
CC 2018 (19.1.1) |
February, 2018[20] |
This update includes the following changes:
- Crash while using the Artboard tool after Width or Height is changed to 100%.
- Issues while using the Pen tool with Photoshop CC version 19.1
- (macOS-only) Hidden panel not rendering properly when the user hovers to reveal them
- Crash while running distortion filters against large-sized 16-bit RGB images
- On certain hardware configurations, the canvas draws at the wrong size in floating document frames.
- Crash while changing the Other cursor to Precise when the Magnetic Lasso tool is selected
- TIFF files are written with unaligned tag data.
- Issue while using the Properties panel: The default tracking value is 1 and negative values don't work.
- (Windows-only) Lens Flare preview repeats at 175% and 225%.
- Vanishing Point pixel data distorted while hovering over with brush tools
- Issue while finding the path specified for the CanoScan 9000F Mark II scanner
- (Windows-only) Old font name flashing in the Font Name field of the Character panel when arrowing through the fonts
|
|
CC 2018 (19.1.2)
CC 2018 (19.1.2) |
March, 2018[20] |
This update includes the following changes:
- The Print dialog box settings revert to default on launch.
- PNG images open with distortion.
- Unlinked layer mask does not resize with image.
- Wrong selection with a hidden layer in clipping mask.
- Smallest swatch size fills large space on screen.
- Mac stylus interaction with panels gets stuck in down state.
- Legacy smoothing re-enables on launch when disabled.
|
|
CC 2018 (19.1.3)
CC 2018 (19.1.3) |
April, 2018[20] |
This update includes the following changes:
- Images are zoomed in unexpectedly when opened
- Right-Click/contextual menus don't work correctly in Full Screen Mode
- Crash when creating a pin on non-contiguous puppet warp mesh
- Export to SVG gets stuck in processing loop
- Copy SVG from text layer results in error
|
|
CC 2018 (19.1.4)
CC 2018 (19.1.4) |
May, 2018[20] |
This update includes the following changes:
- Error 'Could not complete your request because the file-format module cannot parse the file' when opening image files
- (Windows-only) Error 'Could not create a new document. There isn't enough room to display this document' when no windows or tabs are open.
- (Windows-only) Focus lost when sampling an image with Color Picker. Pressing the Enter key doesn't apply the sampled color and close the Color Picker dialog
- Relative checkbox state in the Canvas Size dialog no longer saved across sessions
- Eyedropper tool can't sample colors from outside the Photoshop app on Windows computer with NVIDIA drivers
|
|
CC 2018 (19.1.5)
CC 2018 (19.1.5) |
June, 2018[20] |
This update includes the following fixes:
- Invalid numeric entry - An integer between 96 and 8 is required. Closest value inserted. Could not complete your request because there is not enough memory (RAM).
- Crash when editing - Clone stamp, copying/pasting a layer mask, painting
|
|
CC 2018 (19.1.6)
CC 2018 (19.1.6) |
August, 2018[20] |
This update includes the following fixes:
- Security fix for a memory corruption issue when opening .tga and .pct files.
|
|
CC 2019 (20.0.0)
CC 2019 (20.0.0) |
B Winston |
October, 2018[21] |
This update includes the following fixes:
- Artboard Full Screen mode jumps back to center
- Quick Export does not work
- Auto-Complete in File Info does not work
- Print dialog box does not retain settings on next use and the preview appears pixelated
- Video render is stuck at 50%
- WIA support returns error
- Feathered mask displays incorrect value temporarily
- UI doubled in size on Windows 10
- Displacement effects error message: Could Not Complete Request Because of Disc Error
- Images open unexpectedly small with multiple monitor configuration
- Alt+click on adjustment layer does not prompt the New Layer dialog box on Windows
- Steals focus when you run batch processes with the Image Processor on Mac
- Editing and updating smart objects with mask mishandles the Smart Liquify effect
- Vibrance adjustment renders differently
- Select All Layers no longer records in action
- Actions ignore modal control for renaming layer
- Patch Tool functionality issue with recent updates
- Action shortcut overrides keyboard shortcut without an error message
- Crash on splash screen
- Black border don't print
- The dialog box displayed when you save a document doesn't relate to the relevant document
- Rotating a floating image with rulers visible doesn't resize the window correctly
- Color mode when you open a PDF is random
- The limit error message for PSD file size is vague
- Color Range dialog box gets stuck in setting
- View > Fit Artboard to Screen is disabled
- Replace color does not work
- Crash on Nik software in actions
- Retina screen resolution slows path creation
- Accelerator keys broken in Layers Panel context menu
- Color Picker for changing shape colors doesn't work with web colors enabled
- Build up doesn't work when smoothing is on
- Right-click paste function to change layer name to copied text doesn't work on macOS
- Folder.selectDialog prompt text does not set in the dialog box on Windows
- Transform box bounces when you try to transform
- Raw data creates large file sizes
- Paste into Metadata panel is dysfunctional
- Unable to use a shortcuts to Scroll Through The Layers with a European foreign language keyboard
- Levels dialog box auto options 'snap neutral midtones' state resets when you change algorithms
- JavaScript app.batch method ignores specified action set
- Photoshop becomes unresponsive after you add new layers using CC Library
- Artboard Blending options stopped working
- Document status flyout is hard to read
- Layer > New > Artboard won't obey preset background color and stays bright white
- Artboard Tool doesn't scale properly, even when constrained
- Video Render displays the following error: The operation could not be completed.
- macOS picker doesn't load swatch on High Sierra
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