Easter eggs are hidden program features purposely included by the software programmers. They often reveal secret screens and messages. Here's a few easter eggs for Adobe Photoshop 5.
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Here's How:
- Open Photoshop.
- Hold down Ctrl and Alt on the keyboard (Command + Option on Macintosh).
- Go to the Help menu and choose About Photoshop.
- Wait for the credits to begin scolling.
- Press the Alt key (Option on Mac) to speed up the credits and then click the eye while the Alt (Option) key is still pressed.
- While you're still holding down the Alt key Option on Mac), press and hold down the Ctrl key (Command on Mac).
- Let up on the Alt (Option) key.
- Look for the secret messages right above the scrolling credits.
Tips:
- If you take a screen shot of the Special Cargo splash screen, open it in Photoshop, then hide all but the blue channel, you will reveal the face of Marc Pawlinger, a Senior Scientist on the engineering team.
- The eye in the sunset is that of Senior Scientist Mark Hamburg.
- Strange Cargo was the code name for Photoshop 5 while it was in development. Big Electric Cat was the code name for Photoshop 4.
