Wherever the work of graphics design comes from, Adobe’s name comes up. The US multinational computer software company is popular in the world today for its outstanding role in digital photography and drawing. Its Photoshop application has been a signature feature and skill for 23 years.

But has Adobe coded the magic in a way that no other company can do? Even if non-tech people don’t understand these, those who know programming can guess. But without the source code of the software it is quite difficult to understand.

The good news is that Adobe has released the source code for their first Photoshop application. You are the source code for the Mac version of Photoshop 1.1 released in 1990 Computer Science Museum From Download Can do

It is being offered for non-commercial purposes. In addition to the source code, the MacAP library that was in the original software related to the operating system and the architecture of the software is not provided in this package. It was licensed from Apple.

The source, which is open for download, contains about 126,000 lines of code, most of which are written in the Pascal programming language.

Of the Computer History Museum Blog post It is known that the life of Photoshop application started in 1970. It was then called “Display”, the original programmer was Thomas Knoll. His brother John Knoll, who was quite an expert on visual effects, did a lot of development work on it. Sales of the software began in 1990, following the signing of a contract with Adobe for Photoshop in 1989. Now the 13th version of Photoshop is running.