Aldus PhotoStyler was a graphics software program developed by the Taiwanese company

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. Released in June 1991 as the first 24 bit image editor for Windows, it was bought the same year by the Aldus Prepress group. Its main competition was

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. Version 2.0 (late 1993) introduced a new user interface and improved color calibration. PhotoStyler SE - lacking some features of the version 2.0 - was bundled with scanners like

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. The product disappeared from the Adobe product line after

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acquired Aldus in 1994.

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