Rafael Hanuman

Looking at this image, through the selection and effect masks, it's clear that I was correcting the lighting of the photo.

It was incredible how lighting professionals could mess up the lighting on almost every photo. I remember...

Photoshop was about 20 years old, and I had about 10 years of professional Photoshop experience by the time this photo was taken.

This was the peak of my passion for Photoshop. And I believe it was the peak of Photoshop itself.

After that, the software shifted focus to making it easier and easier for users.

However, there was no professional advancement. And I can say this because I saw Photoshop as an amateur software.

In 1994, Photoshop was already integrated with Alias Maya. In the beginning, it evolved as it should.

It could have evolved in that direction, but that wasn't the proposal of Adobe's executives.

At this point in history, computers were starting to become powerful enough for Adobe Illustrator.

And I was transitioning from image processing to fashion catalogs, to drawing the clothes themselves.

And without professionals who make a difference, no software can make a difference. Even AIs don’t work alone.