Thomas’s brother John, an employee of George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic, soon showed interest in the project and recommended that it be developed into a full image editing program it was at this time that the program was given a name: Display. Because of this, Thomas began coding a program to do the job. In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, discovered that his new Mac Plus couldn’t display grayscale images on its 1-bit black and white display. Photoshop has grown to support layers, filters, brushes, text, 3D objects, video, and much others. Photoshop began life as a program called Display that was made to display grayscale images on a monochrome display.