Like an addict I was hooked to the Mac and Photoshop! To enable me to use Mac after work, I even Took out a company loan and bought my own Quadra 840AV; at a sizzling S$8,000-00 a pop, my wife think I am freaking mad ;)
The Quadra 840AV was the first 68040 Mac to break the 33 MHz barrier. Based on the 40 MHz 68040 processor, and housed in a Quadra 800-style case, the 840AV included AV features similar to its younger sibling, the 660AV. However, it's AT&T 3210 DSP ran at a faster 66 MHz. It also included one Geoport, and sold for US$3,550, which was inexpensive for what was, at the time, the fastest Mac ever.
I started with Photoshop 2.5 then quickly upgraded to version 3.0 when it came out in 1994.
It was around this time that I discovered I was able to restore color of badly faded prints and transparencies!
My first attempt was a faded trans of my young self taken at the Melbourne Essendon Airport 1965, I was on my way to higher education in Victoria, Australia.
As you can see the Kodak Ektachrome transparency of 1965 has deteriorated to just cyan and magenta hues!
After scanning the faded slide with a Kodak RFS 2035 electronic film scanner I proceed to restor the colour.
I remember it took me quite a few hours in Photoshop 3.0, take a look!
