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January 26, 2007
Interviews with Photoshop founders
- The blog since1968.com features an interesting interview with Mark Hamburg (photo), founder and engineering manager of the new Photoshop Lightroom product (not to mention a driving force behind Photoshop itself for more than a decade). In it Mark discusses the gestation of the product, some of the concepts behind its user interface, reasons they abandoned things like a free-form light table, and more. I'm looking forward to part 2 of the interview, due to be posted soon on the site. [For more on the history of Lightroom development, check out Jeff Schewe's behind-the-scenes overview. For more interviews with Mark, check out some of the Lightroom podcasts.]
- CNET has been featuring some of the creative forces at ILM this week, highlighting the work of John Knoll (who co-wrote Photoshop with his older brother Thomas). Now they've posted a 4-minute video in which John discusses those early days. [For more info, photos, and clips from ILM's Pirates work, see the mini-site they created. For more on the Knoll brothers & the creation of Photoshop, check out this piece on PhotoshopNews.]
Side note: I love that Hal Hickel, now an effects whiz at ILM, saved the rejection letter he received when, at age 12 in 1978, he proposed a sequel to Star Wars. It reminds me of the note I got from LEGO 20 years ago, when I proposed camouflage bricks--a notion they rejected as being too war-like. Yeah, and now they make a Lego Death Star... ;-)
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What!?!? I can only order 5 Lego Death Stars at $299 a pop?