Thomas and John began presenting Photoshop to several Silicon Valley companies, and in March of 1988, Photoshop version 0.87 was licensed to Barneyscan, and about 200 copies of the program were distributed this way.
At this time, pixel-based image editing software was just coming to the market. Some of the features in the earliest version of Photoshop were:
- Displaying and saving several file formats
- Soft edge selections
- Levels for tone adjustments
- Color Balance, Hue, and Saturation color adjustments
- Painting capabilities
