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Old 02-11-2012, 4:40pm   #79
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I've been using Photoshop since it was beta. And Illustrator since version 1.6. back when John Warnock actually came to trade shows.

The first digital retouching I did was in 1985 with a B&W image scanned in on Thunderscan (a module you hooked to the printhead on an Apple Imagewriter scanner) and then retouched in a program Letraset - the presstype guys - called ImageStudio. Somewhere, on a floppy, I still have the image.
A good friend of mine that's still in the lab industry (doing aerial photo printing) started digital retouching on a SciTex workstation back in the 80's. Never realized how digital imagery would gain such momentum and virtually do away with film and labs as we know it today.
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