Here’s a reflection from me, working in Photoshop for over 30 years.
This is actually my first post ever on my website, and here’s my story!
It started back in 1992, when I was working as a screen printer in Norrköping, Sweden, and we were printing flags up to 300-400 cm. I got tired of the job, quit and moved back to my parents neighbourhood (Siljansnäs, Dalarna, Sweden). Then, I was really into this new thing ”Personal computers”…
I asked my dad if he could lend me 35,000 SEK as I needed a computer to do things I had never done before. Said and done! He was able to lend me the money and I started exploring this new world. The cost of the screen alone at that time was approx. 18,000 SEK for a 17 inch. Thick bastard 😉
Browsing the Internet, I found a great guy, Andy’s Art Attack who inspired me a lot, and after a while I found Adobe Photoshop (This was probably around 1995-96)
and also later Dr. Thaddeus Ozone 1998 who was a great inspiration at the time!
Anyway, I will not go into every detail and bore you, but in the end of the 90’s I found something called KPT (Kai’s Power Tools) and made some attemps before i made this web site in 2002 with Corel Draw, Photoshop and KPT 3, Dream Weaver at the time.
Later on, I did this in 2012, now KPT is not working at all with Photoshop, and Firefly comes very on much later..
I still miss this KPT plugin with the enviroment maps and all… It was the perfect tool/plugin to Photoshop to get the realistic result!
Yes I did some logos with the ”Layer style effects” in Photoshop but it’s not near KPT in my opinion.