Quotes by Mark Dahm

“We also added a hints palette that offers content-sensitive help for tools and palettes.”

“Recipes are like a wizard that provides quick buttons for certain complex Photoshop actions. It tells you the step-by-step commands in Photoshop and gives you a one-click button to perform the action.”

“Within the save for Web command in Elements are pieces of Image Ready. You can save GIF and JPEG with preset settings for Web image compression; you can even animate a GIF.”

“We hope that this will open up a whole new level of functionality for our users.”

“A lot of people would recognize the color of a photo wasnt right when the skin tone was wrong, so we decided to focus in on that problem. We figured if we could get the skin better, a lot of times the entire photo will look fine.”

“We really want to make some of the mundane aspects of photo editing no big deal, so that users can move on to do the things they want to do.”

“It [Elements] is not a Universal Binary. We would love to have done that, but it would have really delayed the delivery of the application to market. The timing of things wasnt such that we could do it.”

“If you dont have anything installed prior to Elements, we will install a version of Bridge. There is a slight difference between the version of Bridge you get with Elements and the one you get with Creative Suite 2. We have basically removed some of the non-consumer things like scripting control, access to Adobe Stock Photos and Version Cue. Otherwise its pretty much the same functionality.”

“There is a lot of functionality [in Elements], but part of making really good products for customers is paying attention to what their needs are. As people have more history with digital cameras, they are beginning to fall prey to file bloat. Adobe Bridge really helps the workflow — good technology is not the exclusive domain of professional users, its also great for people who are working at home.”