Photoshop was made for Star Wars?
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Wrong Wrong Wrong
And thrice spoken makes it so… 
irate:
It is wrong, actually. Photoshop was originally called BarneyScan. It was scanning software written by Thomas Knoll.
An interview with an early Adobe employee reveals that Photoshop was originally created due to the Star Wars movies! The software was created at the request of John Knoll who was in charge of special effects. He wanted something “to add effects and painting tools to images”.
How cool is that? (via Boing Boing)
Posted Thursday December 4, 2003 in Interesting by Chris Curtis
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Wrong Wrong Wrong
By Hextor Maulus on December 27, 2003 at 01:01am link
And thrice spoken makes it so… irate:
By Derek Jones on December 27, 2003 at 08:11am link
It is wrong, actually. Photoshop was originally called BarneyScan. It was scanning software written by Thomas Knoll.
By Andrew Grantham on January 27, 2004 at 03:03pm link
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I noticed a “Thomas Knoll” in the Photoshop credits when every time it’s launched. I realized his surname is similiar to John Knoll… but never did I guess at their relationship to each other… and to Star Wars.
By Khairul "Khairul Hisham" Hisham on December 4, 2003 at 05:48pm link