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[OT] Adobe Developers have a sense of humour

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[OT] Adobe Developers have a sense of humour Alan Horkan 05 Jul 13:33
  [OT] Adobe Developers have a sense of humour Sven Neumann 05 Jul 21:50
   [OT] Adobe Developers have a sense of humour Nathan Summers 05 Jul 22:06
   [OT] Adobe Developers have a sense of humour Alan Horkan 05 Jul 22:22
    Adobe Developers have a sense of humour jernej@ena.si 05 Jul 22:56
    [OT] Adobe Developers have a sense of humour Adam D. Moss 06 Jul 00:27
[OT] Adobe Developers have a sense of humour Sven Neumann 06 Jul 04:17
Alan Horkan
2005-07-05 13:33:34 UTC (almost 19 years ago)

[OT] Adobe Developers have a sense of humour

I never knew Adobe Developers had a sense of humour. They have been hiding easter egg splash screens in Adobe Photoshop for ages: http://www.aresluna.org/guidebook/apps/photoshop/aboutboxeasteregg

Although this might be a little bit off topic I think the site provides a useful collection of screenshots which should come in handy if anyone needs a reference or wants to make any comparisions in future http://www.aresluna.org/guidebook/apps/photoshop

(Pointed out to me by Krita developer Boudewijn Rempt.)

Hope some of you find it interesting or even useful.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com
Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/
Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org

Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

Sven Neumann
2005-07-05 21:50:14 UTC (almost 19 years ago)

[OT] Adobe Developers have a sense of humour

Hi,

Alan Horkan writes:

I never knew Adobe Developers had a sense of humour. They have been hiding easter egg splash screens in Adobe Photoshop for ages: http://www.aresluna.org/guidebook/apps/photoshop/aboutboxeasteregg

Guess what the GIMP developers have been doing (well, perhaps not for ages)...

Sven

Nathan Summers
2005-07-05 22:06:59 UTC (almost 19 years ago)

[OT] Adobe Developers have a sense of humour

On 7/5/05, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

Alan Horkan writes:

I never knew Adobe Developers had a sense of humour. They have been hiding easter egg splash screens in Adobe Photoshop for ages: http://www.aresluna.org/guidebook/apps/photoshop/aboutboxeasteregg

Guess what the GIMP developers have been doing (well, perhaps not for ages)...

Yeah, the Adobe codenames are way cooler (although "A Colorspace Oddessy" was pretty cool.)

Rockwalrus

Alan Horkan
2005-07-05 22:22:16 UTC (almost 19 years ago)

[OT] Adobe Developers have a sense of humour

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Sven Neumann wrote:

Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:50:14 +0200 From: Sven Neumann
To: Alan Horkan
Cc: The GNU Image Manipulation Program
Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] [OT] Adobe Developers have a sense of humour

Hi,

Alan Horkan writes:

I never knew Adobe Developers had a sense of humour. They have been hiding easter egg splash screens in Adobe Photoshop for ages: http://www.aresluna.org/guidebook/apps/photoshop/aboutboxeasteregg

Guess what the GIMP developers have been doing (well, perhaps not for ages)...

I knew the Toys: GeeZoom, and Gee Slime; were Easter eggs but I've never looked for or accidentally discovered any easter eggs in the GIMP.

A quick web search later [1] and I see holding Ctrl+Alt and then choosing Help, About will reveal a special About dialog in the GIMP as well as in photoshop.

Must mention this to the Inkscape developers, they are having difficulty choosing a new splash screen from the wonderful entries they have received:
http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/5828886/#inkscape-splash

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

Inkscape http://inkscape.org Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org

[1] http://user.fundy.net/morris/photoshop13.shtml

jernej@ena.si
2005-07-05 22:56:35 UTC (almost 19 years ago)

Adobe Developers have a sense of humour

On Tuesday, July 5, 2005, 22:22:16, Alan Horkan wrote:

A quick web search later [1] and I see holding Ctrl+Alt and then choosing Help, About will reveal a special About dialog in the GIMP as well as in photoshop.

PaintShopPro used to have a hidden About with a dog that had familiar-looking cat hanging from it's mouth :)

Adam D. Moss
2005-07-06 00:27:36 UTC (almost 19 years ago)

[OT] Adobe Developers have a sense of humour

Alan Horkan wrote:

Guess what the GIMP developers have been doing (well, perhaps not for ages)...

I knew the Toys: GeeZoom, and Gee Slime; were Easter eggs but I've never looked for or accidentally discovered any easter eggs in the GIMP.

A quick web search later [1] and I see holding Ctrl+Alt and then choosing Help, About will reveal a special About dialog in the GIMP as well as in photoshop.

Most GIMP versions are completely peppered with easter eggs. It's sort of sad that they go so unnoticed despite it being open-source (so much for peer review :)) so I'll 'out' them that much.

--adam

Sven Neumann
2005-07-06 04:17:37 UTC (almost 19 years ago)

[OT] Adobe Developers have a sense of humour

Hi,

Alan Horkan writes:

I knew the Toys: GeeZoom, and Gee Slime; were Easter eggs but I've never looked for or accidentally discovered any easter eggs in the GIMP.

I should perhaps reveal some of the older ones then ...

You used to get a window with the Slimy Gee effect for the current image by saving it with the .eeeek extensions (any sufficiently large number of e's will do). This was with GIMP 1.2 IIRC.

There also used to be more fun in the About dialog. Typing the right word there you could get the "Is it still there" Wilber appear on each new image you opened. Very scary.

We should definitely add some new things for GIMP 2.4. If someone has a nice idea, try to sneak it into CVS unnoticed...

Sven