Presto Mr Photo 1.5 [OFFICIAL]

It wasn't professional. It was personal.

But for a generation of early digital adopters, was the first time they ever looked at a screen and thought, "I can fix that. I can make that weird. I can print that on 12 sheets of paper and hang it on my wall." Presto Mr Photo 1.5

You could take a single 640x480 photo of your cat, Mr. Whiskers, and tell Mr. Photo to print it as a . Then, you would tape them together on your refrigerator to create a massive, pixelated, glorious 24-inch-wide mural. It wasn't professional

Once upon a time, before Photoshop was a verb and before Instagram filters were a swipe away, there was Presto Mr. Photo 1.5. I can make that weird

The answer, for a glorious 18 months, lived on a single CD-ROM with a friendly, bow-tied mascot. wasn't just software. It was the digital darkroom for the rest of us. The "Easy" Button Before the Easy Button Adobe Photoshop 4.0 cost $650 and required a degree in hieroglyphics. Presto Mr. Photo 1.5 cost $39.95 (often bundled with scanners from UMAX and Mustek) and greeted you with a cartoon butler.