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Aldus PhotoStyler

graphics software

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ4714019 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aldus PhotoStyler was a graphics software program developed by the Taiwanese company Ulead. Released in June 1991 as the first 24 bit image editor for Windows, it was bought the same year by the Aldus Prepress group. Its main competition was Adobe Photoshop. Version 2.0 (late 1993) introduced a new user interface and improved color calibration. PhotoStyler SE - lacking some features of the version 2.0 - was bundled with scanners like HP ScanJet. The product disappeared from the Adobe product line after Adobe acquired Aldus in 1994.

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Further reading

Ihrig, Sybil; Ihrig, Emil (1991). Mastering Aldus PhotoStyler. Bantam Books. ISBN 9780553354539.

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“Aldus PhotoStyler” enters the record as graphics software. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aldus, PhotoStyler and graphics can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1993, 1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Aldus, PhotoStyler and graphics.
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“Aldus PhotoStyler” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Aldus, PhotoStyler and graphics provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4714019. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991, 1993 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aldus PhotoStyler” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.