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Photoshop turns 20 this week, the product that has become the byword for picture editing, and is seemingly ubiquitous in the modern world.

Adobe, the company behind the software, are going to conduct a celebratory broadcast bringing together the team that first created Photoshop to discuss and demonstrate their work.

In a recent interview, Shantanu Narayen, President and Chief Executive Officer at Adobe, said: “For 20 years Photoshop has played many different roles – it has given creative people the power to deliver amazing images that impact every part of our visual culture and challenged the eye with its ability to transform photographs.

“It’s no exaggeration to say that, thanks to millions of creative customers, Photoshop has changed the way the world looks at itself.”

In 1987 Thomas Knoll developed a grayscale pixel imaging program that blossomed into a way to process digital image files. Called Photoshop, it was licensed by Adobe, with the first product hitting shelves in 1990. Knoll recalled that originally Adobe expected to sell 500 copies of Photoshop a month.

“We knew we had a groundbreaking technology on our hands, but we never anticipated how much it would impact the images we see all around us,” he said. “The ability to seamlessly place someone within an image was just the beginning of Photoshop’s magic.”

Here’s a look at how the main tool palette has evolved over the years:

So what has made Photoshop the industry standard?

For one, it integrates perfectly with other Adobe software for media editing, animation, and…

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Guardian Local project launches with Leeds blog: a new experiment in local journalism and community coverage has launched today.

Several few weeks ago the Guardian introduced the beatbloggers for the Local project and wrote at the time that the Local project is a small-scale community approach to local news-gathering, and will focus on the three politically engaged cities of Edinburgh, Cardiff and Leeds.

This week they are launching the Leeds blog; the first in the series of local blogs which you’ll see appearing over the coming weeks. Run and curated by beatblogger John Baron, the Leeds blog will cover many aspects of the city in a fresh way; aiming to explore new models for journalism and social engagement through a mix of reporting, collaborative engagement with local communities, organisations and groups and aggregation.

I really hope this takes-off and becomes the success it deserves to be, and will be reading as often as possible.

Lunchbreath created this interesting cartoon about the motor show. Having been to the English version at Birmingham NEC I can say that the cartoon is very accurate.

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