After all, Paris has its catacombs, and Photoshop has its code.
Here’s the paradox: What makes Photoshop both anachronistic and indispensable? I figured to find out, I needed to dig into its past. You start to think about it the same way you think about NYC’s objectively amazing public transit system: why can’t it be better? Why can't it be slimmer? Why can't we just use Aviary and iPhoto and get our RAM back? Why isn't it dead yet?
Photoshop 2013 full install#
It feels like if you tried really hard, you could probably still install Photoshop off a stack of floppy disks. It feels its age, functional but a little run-down, maybe. It’s the city that, to do your job, you have to live in.īut like New York, it can be a hard city to love.
Photoshop 2013 full professional#
It's more than just the best professional image editing app: it's kind of the only professional image editing app. Photoshop today seems basically feature complete, and totally unassailable. But if, like my dad, you’ve been using the app from the beginning, when it was a tiny village that did one thing and did it well, you might be suspicious of all this change. That’s great: it means new functionality and (in theory) better performance. Photoshop has grown and changed over the last two decades, becoming something new and unexpected. Sometimes they sprawl like kudzu (Houston, Los Angeles) sometimes they wither and shrink (Detroit). Cities grow and change organically as people find new uses for them. They serve people, and people serve them, today’s denizens merely building upon what came before them. It's like a world-class city - New York or London or Paris - centuries-old and layered thick with the past. A city of too-small, too-expensive apartments, built in some antediluvian past, tunneled under with subways - elaborate rat-delivery mechanisms - and yet there are never enough trains, and the fare hikes are egregious, and it's so gross and hot down there in the summer, and nobody seems to know what to do about the homeless people huddled there in the winter.Īnd in a way, that’s Photoshop.
But I think I know how he feels, because I have my own love-hate relationship. That surprised me, and not just because I've never heard my dad admit to hating anything. Here’s the paradox: What makes Photoshop both anachronistic and indispensable?
0 kommentar(er)
