Digital Darkroom

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Digital Darkroom was an innovative, award-winning [1] Apple Macintosh graphics program for editing gray-scale photos. It was published by Silicon Beach Software in 1987. It was programmed by Ed Bomke and Don Cone.

Digital Darkroom was the first Macintosh program to incorporate a plug-in architecture. Silicon Beach and Ed Bomke are credited with having coined the term "plug-in".[2][3]

Another innovation of Digital Darkroom was the Magic Wand tool, which also appeared later in Photoshop.

When Silicon Beach Software was acquired by Aldus Corporation, Digital Darkroom continued to be published by the Aldus Consumer Division, but was never updated to include color. It faded quickly from the marketplace after the release of Photoshop.