{"id":11088,"date":"2006-04-04T18:46:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T18:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/04\/marching-ants-hamms-beer-photoshop.html"},"modified":"2020-09-08T10:16:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T17:16:23","slug":"marching_ants_hamms_beer_photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/marching_ants_hamms_beer_photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Marching Ants, Hamm's Beer, & Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

MacPaint<\/a> changed my life, period. I’d fooled with the primitive tools on Apple ][‘s and a PCjr., but MacPaint was a whole new animal. At a friend’s birthday party in 1984, I laid eyes on their new Mac & dumped my usual “plays well with others” schtick like a hot rock. This machine was the stuff<\/i>, and the other kids weren’t gonna get close until I’d rocked out with MacPaint’s cool features (drawing a prison just so I could paintbucket the walls with the brick pattern). I’ve been hooked ever since.<\/p>\n

But who knew that the “marching ants<\/a>” animation that denotes a selection in Photoshop and other applications comes from the Land of Sky-Blue Waters<\/a>? According to Folklore.org, MacPaint author & Mac UI pioneer Bill Atkinson<\/a> was inspired by a Hamm’s Beer sign<\/a>. Groovy. [Via the PhotoshopNews history of the Photoshop toolbar<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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On a related note, in covering Apple’s 30th anniversary, c|net shows an early ancestor to MacPaint<\/a>. (Seems like rounded rectangles–always popular, overused in every era–have always been with us<\/a>). And if you just can’t get enough of people waxing Apple’s car, check out frog design’s shout-out<\/span> [update: link now MIA], as well as Engadget’s review of good, bad, and ugly<\/a> Apple products from the last 30 years. (Hey, I kind of liked the Network Server! It had a certain ED-209<\/a> charm to it…) [Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MacPaint changed my life, period. I’d fooled with the primitive tools on Apple ][‘s and a PCjr., but MacPaint was a whole new animal. At a friend’s birthday party in 1984, I laid eyes on their new Mac & dumped my usual “plays well with others” schtick like a hot rock. This machine was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11088"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13445,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088\/revisions\/13445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}