Happy Birthday, Photoshop!

Photoshop turned 20 years old today.

It's weird; before I went to the Creative Circus, I always sort of thought people who were proficient in Photoshop were witches. They could do really cool stuff that seemed impossible, but if you messed with them, a doctored picture would show up on Myspace of you in comprising positions with farm animals or your girlfriends' sister. Or both.

But then I learned a little bit about how to use it, and, while I'm certainly not an expert, I've gotten fairly good at transplanting beards onto the faces of my friends that don't have beards:

Hot.

Photoshop is amazingly versatile, but, like all tools, it comes down to how you use it. It can be used to make something awesome:

HOLY SHIT! YES!!

Something horrible:

HOLY SHIT! NO!!

Something awesomely horrible:

HOLY SHIT! LOOK OUT!!

Or even just something....something:

HOLY SH-wait, what?

So happy birthday, Photoshop. You've enriched our lives so much.