Blogging. Everybody's doing it, right? So, let's do this thing!
I'm Jeff Tranberry and I'm a pixel junkie going way back to MacPaint. I have the Mac SE I bought in 9th grade with money I earned delivering papers to prove it.
I work on the Photoshop development team as Quality Engineer - Product Lead. So, what the heck does that mean and what do I do?
In short, I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I get to help design, play with, and try to break the next version of Photoshop before the rest of the world does.
I've been working on Photoshop since version 7.0 and have worked on such features as "Layers," "User Interface" and "Smart Objects." Prior to stumbling into the best job ever, I was a Flash and graphic designer at Olson Advertising in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
I still live in Minneapolis and work out of Adobe's Arden Hills office. Some of you are familiar with John Nack, who's a fellow midwesterner. Although John now lives in San Jose, he and I both enjoy representin' the midwest, or the "MW," as we like to call it.
My goal with this blog is to provide informative posts on things I find interesting and useful - covering Photoshop, Photoshop scripting, photography, graphic design, and anything in between. Hopefully, I'll get to meet a lot of you, and learn from you, our customers, in the process.
Welcome, Jeff--"MidWESSS!"
"Luckiest" is an understatement. I break Photoshop for free!
I'm assuming there's a computer degree in there somewhere? If not, sign me up.
Doug, I'll have to sign you up. I have to be honest, the only degree I have is a BFA in Photography. :)
I'm waiting by the phone :)
Hi Jeff - I'll be keeping on the lookout for some good tips!
I am trying to track an engineer at Adobe who is working on the scripting functionality. I love Photoshop and have only one tiny request. I would like to automate the creation of lots of different kinds of graphics that contain text. However, I don't have the flexibility in selecting and changing text within a layer the way that I do within Illustrator. I would love to have the ability to have the second word in a text field changed to whatever I want and formatted however I want. To keep clean spacing, I need the two words to be within one text field. I can get the text of a field I can even get individual words within a text field, but I can't set them.
Please help me!
[John, that's a common request for us to add. I don't deny it'd be useful to do - I'll pass it along. Here's the best place to send feature requests: http://www.adobe.com/support/feature.html - JT]