[Blue Highway]

there’s no way that screen image of the graphics program that spelled out hello was able to do that in 1984. Way too smooth and no pixels. It was photoshopped even though Adobe’s Photoshop didn’t arrive until 1990.

[roadcat]

there’s no way that screen image of the graphics program that spelled out hello was able to do that in 1984. Way too smooth and no pixels.

You're wrong. It was able to do that in 1984. For proof, do the following.

Take the image in this thread and magnify it. I'm easily doing that on my Mac right now. Go ahead, magnify the picture. Your Windows PC is capable of magnifying a picture, is it not? You will see the pixelation.

[Swordmaker]

there’s no way that screen image of the graphics program that spelled out hello was able to do that in 1984. Way too smooth and no pixels. It was photoshopped even though Adobe’s Photoshop didn’t arrive until 1990.

Yes, it did. What do you think the hoopla was all about? MacPaint was one of the big selling points. That's one of the reasons all the artists adopted the Mac.

The original Apple Macintosh Ad.

[dayglored]

> there’s no way that screen image of the graphics program that spelled out hello was able to do that in 1984. Way too smooth and no pixels. It was photoshopped even though Adobe’s Photoshop didn’t arrive until 1990.

FRiend, I suggest you be more careful, since you're dead wrong. I was there, back in 1984, and I saw it in person with my own eyes.

[Talisker]

there’s no way that screen image of the graphics program that spelled out hello was able to do that in 1984. Way too smooth and no pixels. It was photoshopped even though Adobe’s Photoshop didn’t arrive until 1990.

That's because it was done pixel-by-pixel in 1983 on a Lisa, and then ported to the Mac as a graphic image for the photo shoot to be ready for the product intro in 1984.

[AFreeBird]

I can assure you the Mac did have those graphics capabilities in 1984.