Comments on: Now showing: The original Photoshop icons

By: Phil Brown

Phil Brown — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:39:10 +0000

Office 2K3 with the latest updates insists on small s, John, as does 2K7 now (with both the US and Australian dictionaries, no less).
See, the giant has swayed under your influence ;p
[Heh heh--how could such power not go right to my head?? ;-) Thanks for the info, Phil (and thanks for the hook-up, Office team). --J.]

By: Josh Gordon

Josh Gordon — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:48:01 +0000

I miss the old splash screens.
Nowadays, the splash screen is so plain and boring. I loved the one from Photoshop 7, where the lens filter jutted out from the main rectangle of the dialog. I was also a fan of the “first round” of feathers for CS.
Here’s hoping CS4 will go back to that…

By: J. Peterson

J. Peterson — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:20:12 +0000

Your spellchecker footnote reminds me of an Easter egg we put into Adobe PageMill (1996 or so). Back then, Microsoft FrontPage was a main competitor.
If you used the word “FrontPage” in a PageMill document, it flagged it as a misspelling, and offered “PageMill” as the correction.
[Nice. There's a certain feature hopefully coming to Photoshop that just begs for Easter eggs... --J.]

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:13:34 +0000

I love those old school graphics, whats the deal with that wizard guy?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to put the wizard next to the cat thats being electrocuted? that would really make him look like an all powerful wizard, any old wizard can make a flower but it takes mad skills to light up a cat.
[ ;-) --J.]

By: BJN

BJN — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:31:17 +0000

Wow. I never realized that the Photoshop name related to a film finishing kiosk. It’s odd to associate the name with one-hour 4×6 prints which never see dodging or burning let alone airbrush retouching. Humble beginnings indeed. And we were all getting scans done in those days, so Photoshop didn’t relate at all to processing images direct from cameras.