Photoshop is getting a new logo? Personally I don’t like it. The logo reminds me of something…. wait I know…
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Maybe Adobe is trying to tell us something. Maybe E.T came to earth and gave us Photoshop.
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You’re right it does remind me of E.T. The logo doesn’t really bother me cause i have just started learning to use Photoshop.
thats just awkward lol….
LOL! They should use your version. ~_^
Something tells me the lack of food is starting to mess with your brain…
“Photoshop has unexpectedly quit. Ouch.”
XD It’d be worth it if the computer actually said it in ET’s voice.
….I would not be surprised.
It reminds me of the Open University logo…
Do you have OU is over there?
Heyyyyyy you’re right, does remind me of the open university logo…
And on that point I don’t think they do have the OU over there, having talked to some Americans I know from the net, I think they have something similar but I don’t know the name
It took me a bit to realize where Hawk started drawing, it all looks so consistent…
Would explain alot…
Its a sign…
PHOTOSHOP >CAME
You used photoshop for that didn’t you Hawk.
Somehow that just seems… I dunno… just something not right about it.
Weird. I dunno if I like it or not. I liked their other logo a lot better though.
It reminds me of RealPlayer, but I think it’s flipped. Hmm.
That’s what I thought at first too.
On another note, scroll down to the bottom of
this article.
Et fone….hawk
I think its supposed to be the letter “P”, and i was accidentally looking at it sideways, it looks like a person with a big nose, or a bird, or i’m just crazy.
wow, that is very clever of you. I like your imagination, I think, that if you turn it to its side, it looks like a teapot with a thick, fat handle attached to it, with a pionty little spout. :D
I think it is better than the feather they had. More of a logo I mean. but as a logo I really don’t like it. It looks too much like other things, a thought bubble, an ichat speech box, ET, real player, its too generic/copyish. I think they could have done something much better with say, a film reel (photo-shop), but I think they are right in making a new logo considering the brand name of Photoshop is expanding into other applications.
While I agree that this is more “logo-like”, I liked their feather logo much better - it was pretty unique! Now, as you pointed out, it’s pretty generic… At least it’s better than the “Table of Elements” symbols that they’ve been using for CS3 (and Adobe Reader, and Flash, and so on)… I still wouldn’t see that and think “photoshop” however…
And while your “film reel” idea makes sense, it would probably be counter-productive, considering that Adobe also sells “Adobe Premeier” - which is a video-editing program. Perhaps they should use something like iPhoto’s icon, but with more of an emphasis on “editing”…?
E.T. iChat home!
Ung.. I hates it. Did they want to show us their 1337 Illustrator skillz or something?
But I do luf ET. So your version is acceptable.
Photoshop: Extraterrestrial edition
LOL Submit your logo “Enhancements” it might get a Spechal Edition ;p
Does this mean that Photoshop will starting calling home collect?
i don’t like it too much. they should’ve dome something that has art materials in it in some way.
If you took out what Hawk drew then it looks like another ET era Character Callen Number 5 in the moive “Short Circuit” just a little. that or I’m crazy. I pick crazy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091949/
i laughed so much.
Bwahahaha….. Adobe has left the planet…
(maybe only aliens can afford CS3) :P
Every time I see it, it reminds me of the PBS logo:
http://www.nss.org/images/pbs_logo.gif
If the new logo starts asking me to “phone home” then I might consider calling the goverment.:p
I laughed so hard my brother almost pee’d himself
Photoshop never needed a logo before or a lame strap line either. This new one looks like somethhing Microsoft would have. It’s Photoshop! not some program you haven’t heard of. I quite like the CS3 boxes, but between this and the new icons I have to wonder what Adobe is playing at these days.
If I read it right, it’s the Photoshop brand to be used on all Photoshop derived products to say “This is part of the Photoshop Phamily!” Meanwhile, each application would keep it’s own icon, as well.
Still don’t like it. The Microsoft thing is exactly what I thought. I bet they could have gotten away with a reverse of the CS3 Ps icon for the Photoshop Brand.
Hmm… yeah, I can see the ET. But when I looked at the original I thought “No disassemble Johnny 5, Johnny 5 is ALIVE!”
Yep, i see the ET……but at first….it reminded me of a different ET….from the Atari game!…..now that is scary…
You know with a little twisitng that is a blue pacman.
simply put….. lmao
ET phone mac. Bwahaha. :D
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PHOOOOONNNNE HOOOOMMME.
No, iPHOOOOONE HOOOOME
dude…that’s scary. et scares me…*hides* but i don’t use photoshop, so i guess that’s okay. (me use cg illustrator. ^^)
kitty
It also kinda looks like a prophet from Halo franchise
I personally preferred the old Photoshop logo, as weatherguy noted the feather logo was pretty unique, thus prefect for what is the only computer program I have ever used for digital art (when I get around to it that is heh, still prefer pencil and paint over CGI), I dunno…this logo seems more ‘professional’ and less ‘creative’.
Thats called design. Alien life form and a promise of piece all in a simple icon……shit happens.
The shit i write happens. Don’t bother reading the top 2 rows.
If you take the time to read the comments on John’s blog post, almost a hundred percent of them are negative regarding the logo. (And rightly so, IMO!) My post…(this is after John made numerous efforts to explain that the blue square was only Photoshop’s app icon and the Fuglybubble was meant for the whole range of Photoshops, not acknowledging that he shouldn’t have to explain it or something’s wrong with it)
For some reason it reminds me of iChat… maybe you can IM from CS3 now or maybe it’s got a twitter plugin.
Hmm…It kinda looks like Fong from Reboot.
Yea, you’re right!
It does look like Phong!
Wowww! Gel effect orgy!
Your version got me to thinking… what if they redid the movie and set it in the present with all our new tech?
“E.T. Text home!” *pulls out iphone*
=D I might actually watch that version!
The new logo sucks. They need to hire someone a little more original me thinks.
They are heading away from uniqueness with this logo and making it look like every other OS X-inspired (read: ripped off) logo out there with the “OMG SHINY” look to it. I liked the feather, but I also liked the older camera filter/eye they had going, too. Camera lens = photo. Eye = visual. Quill = writing (WTF?). This = stupid. It’s not even a recognizable thing - it’s too abstract.
I use Adobe Paint Shop Pro (which is like Photoshop), and I also have SETI@home on my computer. SETI apparently looks for Fast Fourier Transforms and Guassian whatevers; PSP uses Fast Fourier Transforms and Guassian effects. So, if it picks up anything, we will know that there is intelligent life in the universe, and it has photoshop.
This looks pretty ridiculous, hahaha. Nice job, Hawk. By the way, Renss, Paint Shop Pro is Corel, not Adobe. ;)
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