Release History
| Version | Platforms | Release date | Code name | Notable Features |
| 1.0 | Mac OS | January 1987 | Picasso | |
| 1.1 | Mac OS | March 19, 1987 | Inca | |
| 88 | Mac OS | March 1988 | ||
| 2.0 | Windows | January 1989 | Pinnacle | |
| 3 | Mac OS, NeXT, other Unixes | October 1990 | Desert Moose | graph creation |
| 3.5 | IRIX | 1991 | ||
| 4 | Windows | May 1992 | Kangaroose | |
| 3.5 | Solaris | 1993 | ||
| 5 | Mac OS | June 1993 | Saturn | layers, live editing in preview mode |
| 5.5 | Mac OS, Solaris | June 1994 | Janus | spell checker, find/replace text |
| 5.5.1 | IRIX | 1995 | ||
| 5.1 | Windows | 1998 | Pavel | |
| 6 | Mac OS | February 1996 | Popeye | gradients, eye dropper, paint bucket |
| 7 | Mac/Windows | May 1997 | Simba | tabbed dockable palettes, transform palette, align palette, Photoshop pixel filters, rasterize, punk, bloat, free distort, layout grid, vertical text tool |
| 8 | Mac/Windows | September 1998 | Elvis | pencil tool, bounding box handles, smart guides, actions palette, bitmap eyedropper, gradient mesh, live brushes, links palette |
| 9 | Mac/Windows | June 2000 | Matisse | Flash & SVG output, pixel preview, release to layers, drop shadows, transparency, feathering, opacity & layer mask, native PDF support |
| 10 | Mac/Windows | November 2001 | Paloma | live pathfinder shapes, symbols, slicing, css layer support, ODBC data link, variables palette, save for web, live distortion, warping, envelopes (warp/mesh/top object), liquify tools, grid/line/arc/polar grid tools, flare tool, magic wand |
| CS (11) | Mac/Windows | October 2003 | Pangaea/Sprinkles | 3D effect, OpenType support, character & paragraph styles, template file format, scribble effect, columns & rows, optical kerning, optical margins, every-line composer, custom tab leaders, WYSIWYG font menu, Japanese type support, path type option, save for Microsoft Office |
| CS2 (12, 12.0.1) | Mac/Windows | April 27, 2005 | Zodiac | live trace, live paint, colorized grayscale, Photoshop layer support, expanded stroke options, control palette, Adobe Bridge support, Wacom tablet support, SVG-t export, PDF/X export |
| CS3 (13) | Mac/Windows | April 2007 | Jason | live color, Flash integration, eraser tool, document profiles, crop area, isolation mode |
| CS4 (14) | Mac/Windows | October 2008 | Sonnet | multiple artboards, transparency in gradients, blob brush, live gradient editing, separations previews, in-palette appearance editing |
| CS5 (15, 15.0.1, 15.0.2) | Mac/Windows | May 2010 | Ajanta | perspective drawing tools, variable-width strokes, control over opacity in points on gradient meshes, shape builder tool (similar to pathfinder tools) and a bristle brush, which enables users to imitate real life brush strokes while maintaining vector format. |
| CS6 (16) | Mac/Windows | May 2012 | Ellora | Adobe Mercury Performance System, 64-bit memory support, new user interface, gradient on a stroke, pattern creator tool, ImageTrace (replaces Live Trace) |
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