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I was at a graphic design tradeshow back in the mid 90's and there was a guy there demonstrating this Photoshop alternative called Live Picture or Live Photos o
by rograndom 6y ago
I was at a graphic design tradeshow back in the mid 90's and there was a guy there demonstrating this Photoshop alternative called Live Picture or Live Photos or something like that. And he had a somewhat large, at the time, print image on the screen, probably 16mb or so, and was zooming in and out and resizing the window and it was redrawing almost instantly.
This was AMAZING.
Photoshop at the time would take many many seconds to zoom in/out.
One person in the group asked, "Yeah, but how much memory is in that machine?"
The guy hemmed and hawed a bit and finally said "It's got a bit, but not a lot, just 24mb."
"Yeah, well that explains it." Nobody had 24mb of RAM at that time. Our "big" machine had 16mb.
- brandonmenc 6y agoThis might be a long shot, but did the demo include zooming in on a picture of a skull to show a message written on one of the teeth? If so, I've been trying to find a video of it for years.
- rograndom 6y agoNo, it was a photo of a building. The "demo" was the guy right there playing with the software, no video.
- shrubble 6y agoLive Picture was the first to use what I think are called image proxies, where you can have an arbitrarily large image and only work with the screen-image sized image. Once you have applied all the changes and click save, it will then grind through the full size image if needed. A feature that Photoshop has since added, but it appeared in Live Picture first.
- rograndom 6y agoYup, that must have been it. I think Adobe implemented that as a feature into Photoshop within a year of us seeing that other software.