If you started designing before 2005, you remember this version. It wasn’t just a tool; it was a rite of passage. I recently found an old CD-ROM of Photoshop 7.0 in a drawer, and the wave of nostalgia hit me like a poorly optimized gradient map.
Let’s take a trip back to 2002.
Suddenly, texture blended automatically. It was magic. For the first time, amateurs could make professional retouches without a degree in fine arts. Let’s be honest: PS7 crashed. A lot. Photoshop7.0
The Lord of the Rings was in theaters, your MP3 player held exactly 12 songs, and the internet ran on dial-up. In the middle of this analog-digital hybrid world sat a piece of software that changed graphic design forever: . If you started designing before 2005, you remember