Comments on: Adobe: The second quarter-century begins

By: snelling

snelling — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:23:42 +0000

photoshop-When will there be an affordable Photoshop Elements that will work with Mac 10.5 (Leopard) ?

By: Caspian

Caspian — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:48:16 +0000

Forgive me if I am posting in the rong thread, I’ve been looking for something I read a little while back about the future of Photoshop (versions/online offline etc) is this it:http://www.splashup.com/tour/
It looks like a 2nd cousin of the Adobe family!

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:55:28 +0000

Thank you John for what you are doing and I hope will continue to do. You are correct in your hopes for the future. I hope that enough people share with you the same dreams. I know that you are one of those that give me the faith in the next generations to keep the peace. Merry Christmas to you. I hope to meet you in Orlando if you will be there. I have been very busy the last several months.
[Thanks for the kind words, Alex. --J.]

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:15:50 +0000

Yeah, well I'm still a bit miffed about the disappearance of LiveMotion myself. I'm sure that one reason Adobe produces such great stuff has to do with people there who after all these years still get worked up about the possibility of turning digital bits into things worth contemplating. [Indeed. Of course, my boss likes to joke, "You know, we thought that whole LM experience would have crushed your spirit completely, but at the last minute we heard that you still had some life left in you. That's why we brought you to Photoshop--to finish the job!" >;-P --J.]

By: jimhere

jimhere — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:38:25 +0000

Starting off in 1993 or so, I first remember Adobe as the maker of all the fonts. (why can’t Bridge catalog fonts, I wonder?). Version 3 was my first pro use of Photoshop, plus Illustrator… um, I don’t remember it’s 1993 version number.
Now Adobe has most of it’s UI’s matching up, which is great. The AI palettes were OK, but I’m glad the Photoshop way won.
Now Adobe just has to get it’s so-called Print/Web and Production UI looks to match (what’s with After Efftects etc. and their mustard-yellow-highlighted panels?)
But it’s all very usable and has helped me put imagination into pixels or paper.
John N: “…radically improving the user experience”
It really isn’t that hard to use. Let the “Express” kids deal with over-simplification.
[Don't worry about *over* simplification. --J.]

By: Ben Clinkinbeard

Ben Clinkinbeard — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:33:42 +0000

Hi John, apologies if you've already seen this but Grant Skinner had a really nice post last week that relates pretty closely to your call to action. Hopefully it comes to fruition. [That's great, Ben--thanks for the heads-up. It's funny: I recently put a developer in touch with Grant's company in order for them to collaborate on extending Bridge. I also mentioned Grant's experiments in one of my wild-ass manifestoes a couple of years ago. In a nutshell, I think he's right on in this article. Ideally we'd be able to treat the apps as collections of lots of really useful little functions, each available via a common layer. --J.]