{"id":12740,"date":"2008-04-29T20:16:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T20:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/04\/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-pixels.html"},"modified":"2008-04-29T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T20:16:44","slug":"so_long_and_thanks_for_all_the_pixels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/so_long_and_thanks_for_all_the_pixels\/","title":{"rendered":"So long, and thanks for all the pixels"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now you may have heard that Mark Hamburg, one of the big brains behind the evolution of Photoshop, is departing the friendly confines<\/a> & is heading off to work at–gasp–Microsoft.  We’re all sorry to see him go, but everyone at Adobe wishes him well<\/a> in his new adventures.  I’ll miss our sparring matches (a process that sharpened everyone’s thinking). <\/p>\n

Mark is not going to go work on other digital imaging tools.  After 17+ years of driving Photoshop & subsequently Lightroom, he’s looking for a complete change of pace & wants to work on operating system technologies related to user experience.  Given that Mark has always been a huge Mac guy (developing Lightroom first on the Mac, etc.), it’s kind of a Nixon-goes-to-China moment. He says,<\/p>\n

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Now, given that I find the current Windows experience really annoying and yet I keep having to deal with it, this opportunity was a little too interesting to turn down. I can\u2019t imagine doing serious imaging anywhere other than Adobe, but, I needed to do something other than imaging for a while.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The cool thing is that having recently launched the Lightroom 2.0 beta, Mark leaves the product in excellent shape & excellent hands.  We’re really just getting warmed up. <\/p>\n

PS–I probably shouldn’t swing at a pitch in the dirt, but I was disappointed by ZDNet’s inaccurate, typo-strewn coverage<\/a> of the news.  When did major news outlets decide that labeling something a "blog" means that fact-checking no longer applies?  How sloppy do you have to be to fail to copy and paste Martin (not "Mark") Evening’s name correctly, or to notice that there’s no capital R in Lightroom or capital S in Photoshop (errors the article doesn’t even make consistently)?  At least it’s a good reminder not to believe everything you read. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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