{"id":1917,"date":"2017-02-20T10:35:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T15:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:36","slug":"power-to-the-pixel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/20\/power-to-the-pixel\/","title":{"rendered":"Power to the pixel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1927\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1927\" class=\"wp-image-1927 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Photoshop-screen-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of early Photoshop start-up window.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Michigan Engineering)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thirty years ago, the digital technology we rely on today wasn\u2019t just unavailable; it was inconceivable. And yet at Michigan Engineering, a young PhD student named <strong>Thomas Knoll<\/strong> was quietly creating a piece of software that endures today as one of the world\u2019s most popular applications. It would turn countless industries on their heads: marketing, advertising, publishing and of course, photography. It would completely change how we see the world. It would also create a brand-new verb: to Photoshop.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bicentennial.engin.umich.edu\/story-long.html?id=79\">The Photoshop story<\/a> begins in 1988 when\u00a0Knoll began trying to improve\u00a0factory robots as part of his PhD work in\u00a0computer vision. \u201cThere\u2019s a bin of randomly arranged parts and a robot,\u201d Knoll\u00a0explains. \u201cThe robot has to be able to recognize and grab a part out of the bin, even if it\u2019s partially obscured by other parts. That means that the robot has to be able to find the edge of an object.\u201d So he\u00a0wrote computer algorithms that would find the edges of objects within an image. These algorithms eventually became the core of Photoshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, the digital technology we rely on today wasn\u2019t just unavailable; it was inconceivable. And yet at Michigan Engineering, a young PhD student named Thomas Knoll was quietly creating a piece of software that endures today as one of the world\u2019s most popular applications. It would turn countless industries on their heads: marketing, advertising, publishing and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/20\/power-to-the-pixel\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[227,127],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-bicentennial","tag-software"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Photoshop-screen-e1487777635770.jpg",700,525,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Photoshop-screen-150x113.jpg",150,113,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Photoshop-screen-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Photoshop-screen-768x576.jpg",665,499,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Photoshop-screen-700x525.jpg",600,450,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Photoshop-screen-e1487777635770.jpg",700,525,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Photoshop-screen-e1487777635770.jpg",700,525,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Photoshop-screen-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Photoshop-screen-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Photoshop-screen-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Photoshop-screen-665x499.jpg",665,499,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Photoshop-screen-e1487777635770.jpg",333,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Thirty years ago, the digital technology we rely on today wasn\u2019t just unavailable; it was inconceivable. 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