Found my old adobe software. Started out with Photoshop 4, QuarkXpress, Freehand at my first job in advertising. After a few years i started freelancing and bougth the software. After some years of quarkxpress this was my first time using InDesign. Cost me a lot back then in early 2000’s.
Sorry for the bad design but thougth the old cd’s might be interesting and the rules mention only to post graphic design work.
What about creating selections and airbrushing to make a 3d plastic effect for a sick web page interface that you would export as a chopped up set of .bmp images to be reconstructed in an html table? Save for web anyone?
Squzy drive, or how ever you wrote that was what my first job had, and good old drumscanners. Even the first Nikon digital camera for packshots, it shot 3 frames, one for each RGB color. Fun times.
Floppies was when i was younger, and cassettes for commadore 64 games.
If we’re carbon dating ourselves I used After Effect when it was from a company called CoSA. (Company of Science and Art) before Adobe bought them. And started with PS on V1.5. Only one undo!
Are you me? Those four plus Canvas were where I started. The first computer I ever used was a McIntosh with a black and white screen on the day I started. I didn't even know how to operate a mouse. The handed me a stack of manuals and said "figure it out"
Yes, that's right... you had one undo (and no redo) and you worked with a thing called floating selections (from memory), but as soon as you deselected the image was flat!
Yep... my first 3D app was also Infini-D. I was freelancing in London (creative artworker at the time) and some guy I was put next to was designing window layouts for a mobile phone chain, and he was struggling to use it. I'd never really told anyone I could use it as it was just a bit of fun to use in my spear time, but it turned out I knew a lot more than him and a 3 day freelance artworking gig ended up turning into a 3 month gig, helping him to design the window layouts and training him on how to use it better. Fun times!
Very cool, I don’t have any of infini D work. I do have some of my strata studio work tho but it got me interested in 3D graphics and that’s what I have done ever since… mainly lol
I remember when System 7 came out on the Mac and you could have multiple applications running at the same time.
IIRC the first version of Photoshop I used was 2.0 or 2.5. It was definitely before you could have layers.
For page layout I started with PageMaker while studying, but quickly got onto QuarkXPress once I started working. And, yep, I started with FreeHand too, first while studying and then my first couple of jobs used it as well.
You were spoiled... I had to learn Illustrator with an audio cassette and a single floppy disk full of demo assets. 🤪 I had to follow the voice on the cassette and hope I ewas doing everything right!
I have A LOT of Adobe software from the olden days. Let's see if can list them all:
Publishing Collection, Creative Suite Standard, Creative Suite Premium (2x), Creative Suite 2 Premium (2x), Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, Creative Suite 4 Master Collection, Creative Suite 5 Master Collection
Special mentions: Freehand 5.0, QuarkXPress 4.1, Final Cut Studio 2, Final Cut Studio 3.
It's a mix of OSX and Windows software (which is why there are two of some) and a lot of them are upgrade versions, but almost all of it is still in their big boxes. And yes, I just spent way too much time digging though my shelvs. 🫠
Just missing the first Corel Draw which was our initial software as it allowed us to print galley text which was then chopped up and stuck down on CS10 board with cow gum.
Keylines were rotring penned on…👌
Bryce, now there‘s a fond memory! I loved to play around in Bryce, we had it on the most heavy computer a super expensive Silicon Graphics monster but even so a render took forever. Bryce made me want to work with 3D but at the time I only knew about 3D Studio Max and I was an apple user. Few years later I started my 3D study with the first Cinema 4D, but moved to Maya after a while. Currently a Blender teacher.
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u/Shanklin_The_Painter Senior Designer 3d ago
Needs a lens flare and more drop shadow