{"id":17633,"date":"2012-06-27T15:51:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2012-06-27T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:51:05","slug":"what-if-photoshop-became-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/what-if-photoshop-became-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"What if Photoshop became a game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was Scott Kelby who used to jokingly refer to Photoshop as &#8220;a video game for grown-ups.&#8221; Truth can be stranger than fiction, though, and now you can &#8220;play&#8221; Photoshop to improve your skills, learn new features, and actually win prizes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/success.adobe.com\/microsites\/levelup\/index.html\">LevelUp for Photoshop<\/a>\u00a0encourages people to explore the app, using features they may not know in order to complete various missions. \u00a0The first mission starts with removing redeye, and they get progressively more elaborate from there. \u00a0By accumulating points you get entered into drawings to win\u00a0Creative Cloud membership and Amazon.com gift certificates.\u00a0You also earn points by sharing your progress on Facebook and Twitter, passing quizzes, and more. \u00a0The game runs until July 15th.<\/p>\n<p>My colleague Bruce reports that his 13-year-old son Noel is addicted to the game &amp; now passes challenges with a <em>Team America<\/em>-style cry of &#8220;Photoshop, [Heck] Yeah!&#8221; So, we&#8217;ve got that going for us. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was Scott Kelby who used to jokingly refer to Photoshop as &#8220;a video game for grown-ups.&#8221; Truth can be stranger than fiction, though, and now you can &#8220;play&#8221; Photoshop to improve your skills, learn new features, and actually win prizes. LevelUp for Photoshop\u00a0encourages people to explore the app, using features they may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17633"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}