Aldus PhotoStyler was developed by the Taiwanese company Ulead

Ulead Systems

Ulead Systems is a Taiwanese computer software company headquartered in Neihu district in Taipei, Taiwan. It is a subsidiary of Corel.- History :Ulead was founded on August 5, 1989 by Lotus Chen, Lewis Liaw and Way-Zen Chen...

. The Aldus

Aldus

Aldus Corporation, named after the 15th-century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, was the inventor of the groundbreaking PageMaker software, a program that is generally credited with creating the desktop publishing field. The company was founded by Jeremy Jaech, Mark Sundstrom, Mike Templeman,...

 Prepress group identified the product as a potential acquisition for Aldus since they did not have an imaging product that could compete with Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop...

. The acquisition was completed in 1992 and Aldus PhotoStyler was launched. The product disappeared from the Adobe product line after Adobe

Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...

 acquired Aldus.

It further evolved to Ulead PhotoImpact

Ulead PhotoImpact

Ulead PhotoImpact is a raster graphics editing program published by Ulead Systems.Alongside its image editing capabilities, the program also features HTML tools, such as a rollover assistant, an imagemap assistant, an HTML assistant, a background designer and a button library.The current version...

which later got acquired by Corel Systems.