Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Design by Fire: The Great Photoshop CS Giveaway

Anyone who knows the answer to even one of these questions already has Photoshop CS and probably knows the engineers personally. I'm intrigued to hear the answers, but I think the contest is too much of an insider thing and misses the benefit to the design community that it could have had.

I have been trying not to complain about things unless I have a positive suggestion as an alternative. Here's my idea: if the questions were more oriented towards design trivia or art history they might be better for the aspiring designer who hasn't been able to afford Photoshop, let alone the latest version.

The challenge in creating the quiz would then have been to find knowledge that isn't readily available via Google. The insider knowledge approach steps around that problem of the ready availability of information, but doesn't accomplish the greater good that having a people whose lives could really be changed by owning a copy of Photoshop researching information that whether they win or not would increase the knowledge of design within the web design community. And I'm not being bitter because I don't stand a chance, PS7 is serving me fine.

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