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Ha! In the early '90's the way to go was Live Picture [1]! Your undo would have been instantaneous! Unfortunately, Live Picture only ran on Mac. Photoshop was

Ha! In the early '90's the way to go was Live Picture [1]! Your undo would have been instantaneous! Unfortunately, Live Picture only ran on Mac. Photoshop was a bit janky on SGI back then, IIRC, but still the better of the two platforms overall. [1] http://lensgarden.com/uncategorized/live-picture-software-that-was-way-ahead-of-its-time/ http://lensgarden.com/uncategorized/live-picture-software-th...

ompogUe 2y ago
Yes, I remember Live Picture! It was slick. I actually spent more time in that and Fractal Design Painter, than Photoshop back then.
huxley 2y ago
Hahaha that’s Old School. Live Picture was one of several photo compositor tools that focused on Photoshop’s pain points. Fauve Matisse was a little earlier than Live Picture and I believe it introduced layers to Mac photo editing. They ended up getting acquired by Macromedia (or perhaps even Macromind) after a rewrite to compete with Live Picture it was renamed Xres and then abandoned.
Daub 2y ago
I believe that Livepicture was fast because they loaded the full image as a set of tiles. I also believe that Photoshop was 'inspired' to introduce layers in version 3 in response to Livepicture's layers. It was layers which caused Photoshop to explode in popularity. Adobe then went on to sue Macromedia for using tabs in their interface. Bummer.
sillywalk 2y ago
> Photoshop was a bit janky on SGI It was ported over to Irix (and Sun/Solaris/HP-UX and Rhapsody) using a toolkit called Lattitude[1], sort of a reverse-engineered Mac toolbox, that translated Mac API calls to the appropriate Unix/Motif/$Whatever calls, using the native look and feel. The earlier version was used to port MS Word/Excel to Unix. Metrowerks purchased it for porting (classic) Mac apps to Rhapsody. [1] http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.13/13.06/Jun97FactoryFloor/index.html http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.13/13.06/Ju... [There's an IEEE article if you have access, which I don't: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/186761 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/186761

ompogUe 2y ago

Yes, I remember Live Picture! It was slick. I actually spent more time in that and Fractal Design Painter, than Photoshop back then.

huxley 2y ago

Hahaha that’s Old School. Live Picture was one of several photo compositor tools that focused on Photoshop’s pain points. Fauve Matisse was a little earlier than Live Picture and I believe it introduced layers to Mac photo editing. They ended up getting acquired by Macromedia (or perhaps even Macromind) after a rewrite to compete with Live Picture it was renamed Xres and then abandoned.

Daub 2y ago

I believe that Livepicture was fast because they loaded the full image as a set of tiles. I also believe that Photoshop was 'inspired' to introduce layers in version 3 in response to Livepicture's layers. It was layers which caused Photoshop to explode in popularity. Adobe then went on to sue Macromedia for using tabs in their interface. Bummer.

sillywalk 2y ago

> Photoshop was a bit janky on SGI It was ported over to Irix (and Sun/Solaris/HP-UX and Rhapsody) using a toolkit called Lattitude[1], sort of a reverse-engineered Mac toolbox, that translated Mac API calls to the appropriate Unix/Motif/$Whatever calls, using the native look and feel. The earlier version was used to port MS Word/Excel to Unix. Metrowerks purchased it for porting (classic) Mac apps to Rhapsody. [1] http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.13/13.06/Jun97FactoryFloor/index.html http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.13/13.06/Ju... [There's an IEEE article if you have access, which I don't: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/186761 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/186761