Photoshop: What Were They Thinking?
September 20, 2007
Guess sent me a link to the new Photoshop 2.0 logo this morning. The only response I can come up with is..."What were they thinking?!"
Please take a gander and read the review at Brand New in their article Photoshop 2.0: The Wrong Kind of 2.0. My initial reaction seemed to fit everyone's comments too. This has got to be a joke! What's with the dumb comment/thought bubble? Why the bandwagon with using this symbol in logos?
Scroll down to read Von Glitschka's and Chad K's comments (I'd link, but for some reason they didn't anchor any of their comments on the site). They're freaking hilarious! Apparently they used their own PS filter called "Cheap Ass Logo" to create the bubble effect. Sweet! I can't wait to utilize that in the new version!
The worst of it is, I think Adobe (or John Nack) is actually proud of it! But I'm still trying to figure out why the thought bubble has anything to do with photo editing software. I guess when they bought Macromedia, they bought their cheap GUI icons style too.
- Photoshop: What [...]
- September 20, 2007
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GUESS said...
??i'm still at a loss of words on this one. saw it yesterday and hoped i would wake up today and it would be gone... but no such luck.Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:05:00 EST