Ex-Adobe lead: Photoshop aspired to StyleGAN demo's fluid multi-grid mixer, never got past sliders
jnack · x · 2026-09-11
John Nack, longtime Adobe Photoshop lead, recalled that PS never got past offering simple sliders — the team aspired to something like the fluid, multi-grid mixer shown in NVIDIA's StyleGAN demo video (around the 46s mark), which he says still looks stunning. A nostalgic anecdote showing that ambitious generative-mixing UI ideas predate today's AI image tools.
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