Comments on: Celebrating Illustrator through an iPad pub

By: Barney Walters

Barney Walters — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 22:27:12 +0000

Certainly a blast from the past.

By: John Balestrieri

John Balestrieri — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 04:45:16 +0000

This really takes me back to using Illustrator 88 on a Mac Plus. I still remember how unintuitive it was to learn how to edit Bézier curves for the first time. Bézier editing hasn’t come a long way since then. :|

By: Andrew Meit

Andrew Meit — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:06:00 +0000

Its a truism about history: the victors write the history of the conquered. Freehand has an important place and role in history of digital art tools. Me and so many others gave so much to Freehand; some of its coders now work or did work at Adobe. Freehand on more than one occusaion raised the bar for Illustrator to strive reach for. ;-)

[True enough! --J.]

By: Rod Wynne-Powell

Rod Wynne-Powell — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 01:19:09 +0000

If you’re speaking to Ton, he may just remember me; he was one of the very first people I spoke to regarding beta Photoshop software, so he has a lot to answer for!

It was around the time of Barneyscan b0.95 which was demonstrated to me (though not by Ton), and then completely expunged from my Mac IIfx. I actually did a montage before layers!

At that time I was also a tester of the long-forgotten Colorstudio from Letraset where I was doing work for Sue Thexton in analogue days.

Happy days! Anyway, give him best wishes.

Rod

By: RK

RK — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:07:32 +0000

I love that old video. I like when he adds “color” to the flower at the end on that black and white (green) screen, haha. I don’t think there is even a layers panel on that first version.