{"id":11382,"date":"2007-01-26T08:15:47","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T08:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/01\/interviews-with-photoshop-founders.html"},"modified":"2007-01-26T08:15:47","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T08:15:47","slug":"interviews_with_photoshop_founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/26\/interviews_with_photoshop_founders\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviews with Photoshop founders"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The blog since1968.com features an <a href=\"http:\/\/since1968.com\/article\/187\/mark-hamburg-interview-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-part-1\">interesting interview<\/a> with Mark Hamburg (<a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2006\/06\/16\/lightroom-engineer-mark-hamburg-to-be-at-photoshop-soup2nuts\/\">photo<\/a>), founder and engineering manager of the new Photoshop Lightroom product (not to mention a driving force behind Photoshop itself for more than a decade).&#160; In it Mark discusses the gestation of the product, some of the concepts behind its user interface, reasons they abandoned things like a free-form light table, and more.&#160; I&#8217;m looking forward to part 2 of the interview, due to be posted soon on the site.&#160; [For more on the history of Lightroom development, check out Jeff Schewe&#8217;s behind-the-scenes <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2006\/01\/09\/the-shadowlandlightroom-development-story\/\">overview<\/a>.&#160; For more interviews with Mark, check out some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/lightroom\/podcasts\/\">Lightroom podcasts<\/a>.]<\/li>\n<li>CNET has been <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2007\/01\/25\/visual-effects-masters-put-the-magic-in-ilm\/\">featuring<\/a> some of the creative forces at ILM this week, highlighting the work of John Knoll (who co-wrote Photoshop with his older brother Thomas).&#160;&#160; Now they&#8217;ve posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/1606-2_3-6153404.html?tag=nl.e703\">4-minute video<\/a> in which John discusses those early days.&#160; [For more info, photos, and clips from ILM&#8217;s <em>Pirates<\/em> work, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilm.com\/theshow\/\">see the mini-site they created<\/a>.  For more on the Knoll brothers &amp; the creation of Photoshop, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/feature-stories\/photoshop-profile-thomas-john-knoll-10\/\">this piece<\/a> on PhotoshopNews.] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Side note: I love that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/episode-i\/bts\/profile\/f20000512\/index.html\">Hal Hickel<\/a>, now an effects whiz at ILM, saved the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2300-1026_3-6153096-4.html?tag=ne.gall.pg\">rejection letter<\/a> he received when, at age 12 in 1978, he proposed a sequel to Star Wars.&#160; It reminds me of the note I got from LEGO 20 years ago, when I proposed camouflage bricks&#8211;a notion they rejected as being too war-like.&#160; Yeah, and now they make a <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.lego.com\/Product\/?p=10143\">Lego Death Star<\/a>&#8230; \ud83d\ude09\n<\/p>\n<p>Also, speaking of that &#8220;small moon,&#8221; how brilliant is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7IbV7ad2xgY&amp;eurl=\">this video<\/a>, re-enacting the Star Wars Death Star battle using ony disembodied hands? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/01\/23\/star_wars_space_batt.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blog since1968.com features an interesting interview with Mark Hamburg (photo), founder and engineering manager of the new Photoshop Lightroom product (not to mention a driving force behind Photoshop itself for more than a decade).&#160; In it Mark discusses the gestation of the product, some of the concepts behind its user interface, reasons they abandoned [&hellip;]<\/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\/11382"}],"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=11382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}