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See how Photoshop & Adobe apps helped make Avatar "Literally the first piece of software we went out and purchased was Photoshop..." Check out this 2-minute overview of how PS, Lightroom, After Effects, and other Adobe tools were used in the production of Avatar: Adobe's Mike Kanfer won an Academy Award working with James Cameron on Titanic & has been a great conduit of information during the making of Avatar. Too bad I never did manage to twist his arm & get behind the scenes during shooting... Ah well: this morning the Photoshop team is off to see Avatar--a welcome little break from the whole march to Cocoa. I justified it to my wife, saying, "Well, they used Photoshop to make the movie." Raising a dubious, I-know-you're-all-cutting-class eyebrow, she asked, "Don't they use Photoshop to make every movie?" Hush, woman!! [Update: Evidently Photoshop co-creator John Knoll was the Avatar visual effects supervisor at ILM.] Semi-related bonus fun thing: Slate talks about Cameron nearly dying while making The Abyss, punching & then firing a rescue diver. Posted by John Nack at 8:34 AM on December 18, 2009 via John Nack on Adobe: See how Photoshop & Adobe apps helped make Avatar.

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