{"id":2023,"date":"2015-02-19T07:11:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2015-02-19T07:11:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:11:54","slug":"nyt-photoshop-at-25-a-thriving-chameleon-adapts-to-an-instagram-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/19\/nyt-photoshop-at-25-a-thriving-chameleon-adapts-to-an-instagram-world\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT: &#8220;Photoshop at 25: A Thriving Chameleon Adapts to an Instagram World&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/19\/technology\/personaltech\/photoshop-at-25-a-thriving-chameleon-adapts-to-an-instagram-world.html?_r=0\">Farhad Manjoo writes<\/a> about how PS &#8220;has not just survived but thrived through every major technological transition in its lifetime: the rise of the web, the decline of print publishing, the rise and fall of home printing and the supernova of digital photography.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The current talk of atomizing &amp; democratizing Photoshop technology reminds me of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/ART161_opinion.pdf\">Photoshop &amp; Punk Rock<\/a>,\u201d a Computer Arts guest piece I wrote 6 years ago. As they put it, &#8220;Adobe\u2019s John Nack\u00a0would like to blast Photoshop into\u00a0a million pieces. He tells us why.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s measure the development team in the thousands, not in the dozens. Instead of relying on just the comparatively small crew at Adobe, let\u2019s tap into the \u2018Photoshop Nation\u2019. And, rather than delivering improvements only every 18 to 24 months, let\u2019s allow everyone to deliver them continuously, on the fly and on demand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If the arc of my career bends towards one thing, it\u2019s towards <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/about\">removing barriers<\/a> between people &amp; creative expression, on as large a scale as possible. It\u2019s what I continue to do today.<\/p>\n<p>Power to the people,<br \/>J.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farhad Manjoo writes about how PS &#8220;has not just survived but thrived through every major technological transition in its lifetime: the rise of the web, the decline of print publishing, the rise and fall of home printing and the supernova of digital photography.&#8221; The current talk of atomizing &amp; democratizing Photoshop technology reminds me of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023"}],"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=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}