Before Lightroom, there was Photomerge. This tool allowed you to stitch multiple overlapping photos into a seamless panoramic image. It was rudimentary by today’s AI standards, but in 2003, it felt like magic.
Thus, on October 8, 2003, Adobe launched the Creative Suite (CS) brand, comprising Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, InDesign CS, and GoLive CS. Photoshop CS was version 8.0, but the “CS” moniker signaled a break from the past—a shift from a single-image editor to a central node in a cross-application publishing ecosystem. Adobe Photoshop CS 8