Thomas Knoll

Thomas Knoll is an American software developer who, with his brother John Knoll end of the 1980s, the image editing program Photoshop was invented and developed.

Life

Thomas Knoll grew up in Ann Arbor in Michigan and is the son of Glenn Knoll, an American professor at the University of Michigan, from which he - has an interest in photography and computer inherited - like his brother. While attending high school, he developed black and white and color films in his father's darkroom and showed interest in the programming of computer programs. Thomas pursued these interests continue after high school and studied computer vision. In the fall of 1987, he wrote his doctoral thesis on the subject of processing of digital images. During this time he wrote a program to display grayscale images. The source code for this program he called display. This was the first step towards the program Photoshop. Thomas and his brother John Knoll developed together a program whose licenses were officially purchased by Adobe Systems in April 1989. Adobe Photoshop then two years later brought S1.0 on the market. Thomas Knoll was up to version CS4 lead developer of Photoshop and is currently working on the plug-in Adobe Camera Raw, which allows processing of RAW files in Photoshop