{"id":24132,"date":"2026-07-14T23:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=24132"},"modified":"2026-07-14T23:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:53:41","slug":"how-i-wished-we-couldve-made-photoshop-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/14\/how-i-wished-we-couldve-made-photoshop-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping It Real: How I wished we could&#8217;ve made Photoshop feel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/BlowingYourMindClearOutYourAss\">jnack.com\/BlowingYourMindClearOutYourAss<\/a>\u2014that\u2019s the URL I picked, back circa 2005 (when men were men &amp; we had to self-host all our videos!), to express my admiration for Nelson Chu\u2019s Moxi watercolor app. Harnessing graphics processors to create realtime natural-media simulations has been a passion of his for the better part of 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hosted Nelson as a summer intern on Photoshop, but we could never quite manage to marry this tech to the, ah, somewhat vintage underpinnings of PS. Later he launched a refined version as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.expresii.com\/\">Expresii<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"*INCREDIBLE* paint app Expresii Official Release Intro\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tu3O5qvVVHo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>It remains, to my eye, just incredibly cool\u2014never mind that its target audience will seemingly forever be limited to those with serious painting ambitions and abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought of all this upon seeing the procedural Damage Control. Here too I dreamed of offering godlike command of realistic materials &amp; motion:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DAMAGE CONTROL also now from Superhive!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OeqzKm9zOR\">https:\/\/t.co\/OeqzKm9zOR<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/geometrynodes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#geometrynodes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/b3d?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#b3d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/procedural?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#procedural<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iHEsnCcfd1\">pic.twitter.com\/iHEsnCcfd1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miettinen Jesse &#8211; Embrace FX (@JesseMiettinen) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JesseMiettinen\/status\/2077053334913986970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>All this stuff has remained so niche, but I think a day is coming\u2014very soon, I hope\u2014when realtime world models (think Google Genie, which is the realtime 3D cousin of our new Gemini Omni) make this kind of grounded manipulation absolutely ubiquitous. We shall see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jnack.com\/BlowingYourMindClearOutYourAss\u2014that\u2019s the URL I picked, back circa 2005 (when men were men &amp; we had to self-host all our videos!), to express my admiration for Nelson Chu\u2019s Moxi watercolor app. Harnessing graphics processors to create realtime natural-media simulations has been a passion of his for the better part of 30 years. We hosted Nelson as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24132"}],"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=24132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24134,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24132\/revisions\/24134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}