Inspiration – Photoshop Logo Facts, Meaning, History & PNG

Photoshop Logo

evolution history and meaning

  • Starting in 1988, Photoshop has been the most used graphical software in the world, both by amateurs and professionals.
  • Meaning and history Photoshop has been the world’s leader in graphic design programming for over 30 years and its visual identity history is as rich as the possibilities of the famous editor.
  • Photoshop redesigned their logo once they got an update for the program, so there were around 15 versions of the PS emblem created.
  • The emblem featured a monochrome pixel image of an eye, enclosed into a square frame.
  • 1991 – 1994 The emblem from 1991 got a bold red frame and redrew the eye with more details and gradient gray shades.
  • 1996 – 2000 For the fourth and fifth Photoshop versions, another logo was introduced in 1996.
  • It was still the same monochrome eye, but drawn in a more confident and modern way, and with the frame emboldened and executed in the black, red, and white palette.
  • 2000 – 2002 The emblem for the Photoshop Version 6, released in 2000, almost repeated the previous one but had its lines refined, thus a more confident a professional look of the whole image.
  • 2002 – 2003 The new bright and colorful design was introduced by the software in 2002.
  • For Version 8 of the software the feather, placed on a white square, was executed in gradient green, blue and orange shades, and looked very tender and chic.
  • 2005 – 2007 With the redesign of 2005, the feather changed its color palette to a more intense blue, with a touch of green.
  • It was a calm blue square with a white “Ps” lettering on it.
  • 2008 – 2010 For Version 11, released in 2008, the white lettering was replaced with a black one, and it made the contours of its Sans-serif letters look wides and more solid.
  • 2010 – 2012 The redesign of the Photoshop logo in 2010 brought a bright and vivid emblem, which had a “book” shape and featured a combination of calm and bright blue colors.
  • 2012 – 2013 In 2012 the logo was redesigned again, and the dark blue fatal square got a thick sky-blue framing, balanced by a bold Sans-serif lettering in the same color.
  • The new delicate frame of the dark blue square featured a bright turquoise shade, which was also used for the Sans-serif “Ps” lettering, written with lighter lines.
  • 2015 – 2019 The lettering and the frame became a bit bolder in 2015, and a new shade of light blue was used for them.
  • As for the color of the square itself, it was switched to black, adding a sense of luxury and style to the composition.
  • 2019 – 2020 The redesign of 2019 softened the angles of the square and introduced a new color palette of the Photoshop logo.
  • Now it was a black background with a white Sans-serif monogram on it, enclosed in a thin bright turquoise frame.

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