Graphic Designer's Aesthetic Judgment Clouded By Desire To Use New Photoshop Plug-In
The Onion is the best newspaper ever:
‘The aesthetic judgment of Paul Gaskill, a graphic designer working on a brochure for Valley View Apartments, was “severely clouded” by a desire to use a new Adobe Photoshop plug-in, coworkers at Blue Moon Design said Monday.’
“It happens more than you’d think around here,” Mahaffey said. “With Marty [Boyd], it was the blur features. ‘Motion blur,’ ‘gaussian blur,’ ‘radial blur’–you name it, he’d blur it. With Rebecca [Almeida], it was the Alien Skin Eye Candy effects. The temptation is always going to be there.”
‘Alarmingly, Gaskill’s journey of graphic-effects discovery may only be beginning. The wave effect, Mahaffey said, is just one of hundreds of PhotoFrame 2.0 options. With the plug-in, users can easily make an image glow, cast a shadow, and create charcoal outlines. Mahaffey said he expects to see many of these effects surface in Gaskill’s work in the near future.’