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Photoshop 1.0 is so terrible, photo-editing experts can’t use it

Should’ve called an archaeologist.

Miles Klee

Updated on May 29 2021 7:36 am CDT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtA46JT2q_0

Adobe Photoshop has been helping people manipulate images for 25 years, and it’s a hell of a lot easier to use now than it was in 1990. Today’s photo-editing pros struggle mightily with Photoshop 1.0 software in this video from CreativeLive—even those who had once used it before.

No dock? No layers? No live preview? And just one “Undo”? This isn’t computing; this is madness.

Comforting to know that if civilization all but collapses, we can still insert OK drop shadows.

Photo via CreateLive/YouTube

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Miles Klee

Miles Klee is a novelist and web culture reporter. The former editor of the Daily Dot’s Unclick section, Klee’s essays, satire, and fiction have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Vanity Fair, 3:AM, Salon, the Awl, the New York Observer, the Millions, and the Village Voice. He’s the author of two odd books of fiction, ‘Ivyland’ and ‘True False.’