Photoshop's 18th, Camera Raw's 5th and Lightroom's 1st Birthday

Question

It's recently come to light that Photoshop 1.0 was shipped on (or about) Feb 19, 1990. Ironically, the same day in Feb that Camera Raw 1.0 shipped and Lightroom 1.0 shipped.
You can read more at:
http://photoshopnews.com/2008/02/19/most-important-date-in-digital-imaging-history/

Answer 1

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antithesis
opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a parallel construction
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. (Samuel Johnson)
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar)
apostrophe
addressing an absent person, a god or a personified abstraction
Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him. (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar)
euphemism
substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant
[] one particular lady, whose lord is more than suspected of laying his umbrella on her as an instrument of correction, [...] (Dickens, Bleak House)
hyperbole
obvious exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect
[] he couldnt, however sanguine his disposition, hope to offer a remark that would be a greater outrage on human nature in general [] (Mrs Chicks response to her husbands suggestion that the starving baby should be fed with the teapot since there was no nurse. Dickens, Dombey and Son)
irony
expression of something which is contrary to the intended meaning; the words say one thing but mean another
Well! said Mrs Chick, with a sweet smile, after this, I forgive Fanny everything! It was a declaration in a Christian spirit, and Mrs Chick felt that it did her good. Not that she had anything particular to forgive in her sister-in-law, not indeed anything at all, except her having married her brother in itself a species of audacity and her having, in the course of events, given birth to a girl instead of a boy []. (Dickens, Dombey and Son)
In addition [...] you are liable to get tide-trapped away in the swamps, [...] Of course if you really want a truly safe investment in Fame, and really care about Posterity, and Posterity's Science, you will jump over into the black batter-like, stinking slime cheered by the thought of the terrific sensation you will produce in 20,000 years hence, and the care you will be taken of then by your fellow-creatures, in a museum (Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa)
metaphor
a figure of similarity, a word or phrase is replaced by an expression denoting an analogous circumstance in a different semantic field. The comparison adds a new dimension of meaning to the original expression. Unlike in simile, the comparison is not made explicit ( like or as are not used, see the longer discussion in Analysing a Metaphor)
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
(Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well)
That fence about my soul (MacNeice, London Rain)
metonymy
a figure of contiguity, one word is substituted for another on the basis of some material, causal, or conceptual relation
My Head and Heart thus flowing thro my Quill (Pope, Imitations of Horace)
(i.e. the thoughts produced in my head and the feelings of my heart are expressed in the things I write with my quill)
oxymoron
(Greek for sharp-dull) a self-contradictory combination of words or smaller verbal units; usually noun-noun, adjective-adjective, adjective-noun, adverb-adverb, or adverb-verb a paradoxical utterance that conjoins two terms that in ordinary usage are contraries
bittersweet, pleasing pains, loving hate, etc.
I will complain, yet praise;
I will bewail, approve;
And all my sour-sweet days
I will lament and love. (George Herbert, Bitter-Sweet)
paradox
a daring statement which unites seemingly contradictory words but which on closer examination proves to have unexpected meaning and truth
Snail-paced in a hurry (Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market)
Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear. (Milton, Paradise Lost)
paronomasia / pun
wordplay, using words that are written similarly or identically, but have different meanings
[] he
Who lied in the chapel
Now lies in the Abbey. (Byron, Epitaph for William Pitt)
Holland [...] lies so low they're only saved by being dammed.
(Thomas Hood, Up the Rhine)
Some folk are wise, and some are otherwise.
(Smollett, Roderick Random)
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
(Saki, Reginald's Choir Treat)
pejorative
the use of words with disparaging connotations
[] the nurse, a simpering piece of faded gentility (Dickens, Dombey and Son)
periphrasis
a descriptive word or phrase is used instead of a proper name
finny race (for fish)
The Swan of Avon (for Shakespeare)
On one occasion [...] a mighty Silurian [...] chose to get his front paws over the stern of my canoe, and endeavoured to improve our aquaintance. I had to retire to the bows, to keep the balance right, and fetch him a clip on the snout with a paddle, when he withdrew [...] I should think that crocodile was eight feet long. (Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa)
[...] the Fans round Talagouga wouldn't go at any price above Njole, because they were certain they would be killed and eaten by the up-river Fans. Internally consigning the entire tribe to regions where they will get a rise in temperature, even in this climate, I went with Mme Forget to M. Gacon [...]. (Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa)
personification / prosopoeia
animals, ideas, abstractions or inanimate objects are endowed with human characteristics
And moody Madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe
(Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College)
On the brow of Dombey, Time and his brother Care had set some mark.
(Dickens, Dombey and Son)
simile
two things are openly compared with each other, introduced by like or as
My heart is like a singing bird. (Christina Rossetti, A Birthday)
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather.
(Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim)
synaesthesia
the description of one kind of sensation in terms of another (description of sound in terms of colour: blue note; description of colour in terms of sound: loud shirt; etc.)
The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath
Not seen, mans hand is not able to taste, his tongue
To conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
(Shakespeare, Midsummer Nights Dream)
If music be the food of love, play on [] (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night)
synecdoche
A figure of contiguity (form of metonymy), the use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part: pars pro toto or totum pro parte
I went into a public-ouse to get a pint obeer
The publican e up an sez, We serve no red-coats here. (Kipling, Tommy)
(instead of a soldier, who wears a red coat)
understatement (meiosis)
an idea is deliberately expressed as less important than it actually is; a special case of understatement is litotes, which denies the opposite of the thing that is being affirmed (sometimes used synonymously with meiosis)
Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her appearance for the worse. (Swift, Tale of a Tub)
This is not unexciting. (litotes)