Two Adobe power players talk about Photoshop's birth, evolution, and future.
Adobe’s Senior Creative Director Russell Brown and VP of Product Management for Professional Digital Imaging Kevin Connor are two of the brightest stars in the Photoshop galaxy—they’ve rung up 38 years of Adobe experience between them. Brown even won an Emmy in 2008 for his Dr. Brown’s Photoshop Laboratory show on tv.adobe.com. We probed their giant, Photoshop-filled brains with these chin-scratching questions…
Mac|Life: What are your first memories of seeing Photoshop?
Russell Brown: My first viewing of it was when John Knoll gave me a demo in 1989. I recall that he created a soft-edge selection mask and painted into it with a soft-edge brush. Wow! This was downright amazing. Nothing like it was possible on the Macintosh or PC at the time. Technology like this was only available on high-end prepress systems. I knew that what I was seeing was a serious new tool that was going to change my life.
Kevin Connor: Prior to joining Adobe, I was working at a small startup company. We had one copy of Photoshop installed on one of the Macs in the office, and I remember stepping through the menus and tools just to see what they could do. It was probably version 2.5. I also remember a freelance designer we worked with at the time marveling at all that could be accomplished by manipulating color channels.
Mac|Life: Russell, is there a specific Photoshop feature that you can't live without?
RB: That would most definitely have to be layers. Nothing can replace layers. I’m sure that about 90 percent of our users might say the same thing.
Mac|Life: Kevin, how do you see Photoshop evolving over the course of the next decade?
KC: A number of trends will influence that. From a technology standpoint, the big trend is computational photography. Increasingly, software algorithms are being used to derive photographs that could not be directly captured using traditional optics and sensors. Today, this technology can give us seamless panorama photos or wide-angle shots with no distortion, but in the future, it may even give us the ability to manipulate a photograph in three dimensions, adjusting vantage point and focus after the capture. Ultimately, it can also lead to software that is smarter about understanding the contents of a photo and can manipulate it as more than just a collection of pixels.
Another trend that will affect Photoshop’s future is the distribution of workflows across the web and mobile devices. It may not make sense to move all of Photoshop into a web-based application, but certain things may be done better on the web or on the road, and products will start to blur the line between the desktop, the web, and other devices. As we manage these big changes, we also need to continue to evolve the Photoshop interface so that these new capabilities can fit in naturally, while older capabilities can be refreshed and improved. Of course, it’s hard to say yet precisely what you’ll see in five years or 10 years, but these are things we’re already working on today that we expect to influence the product for some time to come.
Mac|Life: Russell, any particular online Photoshop resources you'd recommend to our readers?
RB: Definitely. In fact, here's a list of my favorite websites for Photoshop information:
>> blogs.adobe.com/jnack/
>> www.photoshopuser.com/psuser.htm
>> www.mogo-media.com/welcome-pst.php
>> www.photoshopnews.com
>> www.lynda.com
>> www.russellbrown.com
Mac|Life: Do you think there will ever be a viable competitor to Photoshop?
KC: There’s always competition, but if we do our jobs right, people just don’t notice! I’m being a little facetious, but my point is that Photoshop is a very big target, and companies both big and small have continuously taken aim at it. They just haven’t generally been successful.
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It's fun to look back and see how far we've come, isn't it Photoshop? I can remember the first time I used it back in the old days and it seems funny now! A really great corporate blogging book mentioned how Photoshop has become standard for businesses, colleges, and universities. Too bad it's so expensive!
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Just amazing what you can do with photoshop. Using it on a daily basis for webdesign and sometimes you almost shock yourself when you start out with a picture and then look at the final result after a little photoshop stuff.
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The history of Photoshop is preceded by a long line of software tools including Letraset's ColorStudio, the original ImageStudio (grayscale editor), Digital Darkroom (from Silicon Beach Software), SuperMac's PixelPaint, Electronic Art's Studio/32 (not to mention Studio/8 and the insanely cool little Studio/1), along with a host of other long-forgotten players. I was a consultant for Letraset, and even came up with the original concept of the Shapes vector layer which made it into ColorStudio. Letraset discontinued it not long after Photoshop was released, which is why I left it out of the article. This wasn't meant to be an all-inclusive historical record of Mac-based imaging software, that would be a considerably longer piece - like those two noxious Spam entries preceeding this comment...
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One significant competitor to Photoshop not mentioned in this piece was Letraset's (actually Fractal Design's) ColorStudio. The program had CMYK editing, scanner support and a single layer vector mask feature long before similar features appeared in Photoshop. The pre-press community loved ColorStudio. But cost, poor marketing and a somewhat arcane interface hindered it from achieving wide-spread use among consumers. The software was discontinued in the late 90's.
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