Community team at Adobe. Love creative coding, math, music, photography, games... dcli, DARCI, Redrix, Ascendantapp.info.
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Jun 13
One of the (insane) benefits of working @adobe is that you get an extended sabbatical every 5 years. I am currently on my 5th! sabbatical, and my project is building a native MacOS creative programming app / framework. It provides a JavaScript-based API and is built on top of CoreGraphics with bitmap, vector, and video output built in.
I am mostly doing it to have something to work on, and plan to open-source it once it gets core functionality in but I wanted to share some early progress. I have attached an early version of the app and example script.
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Jun 3
If you keep voting for the same people and same parties you will keep getting the same results.
Jun 3
I'm running as an independent revolutionary socialist because we desperately need a working-class FIGHTER in Congress.
My main opponent, Democrat Adam Smith, just introduced a bill to fund OVER A TRILLION NEW DOLLARS for imperialist war. Concretely, that's a trillion more dollars for the billionaires to profit from killing thousands of more people in the Middle East.
The bill also includes a Section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.”
If this goes through, it will fuse the U.S. and Israeli militaries such that Israel weapons funding would not even need any separate votes in Congress. Smith has introduced this bill in the context of the holocaust of the 21st century in Gaza and of the brutal wars on Lebanon and Iran.
Of course, Congressional votes are far from a guarantee against war for the simple reason that the Democratic and Republican parties are both warmongering representatives of U.S. capitalism. It was not long ago that 173 House Democrats, including 56 members of the so-called Congressional Progressive Caucus, voted for over $26B for the genocide in Gaza and to ban United Nations food assistance from Gaza.
Nonetheless, we should recognize that even at this stage, this bill presents a serious danger to working people in America, in the Middle East, and internationally.
The bill is horrific in ever sense. A trillion more dollars for war means more deaths of ordinary people and more profits for the global super-wealthy. On top of that, fusing the U.S. and Israeli military budgets would lead to far less transparency when already there is exceedingly little at present.
Even if this particular bill fails, there are at least THREE other similar bills in the pipeline. The capitalist class and both its parties are ruthlessly determined to do this.
Why?
Because they can see that American mass consciousness has dramatically shifted against Israel in particular, and against imperialist war in general. The Democrats and Republicans want to quickly get this done so so they can try to better hide their genocidal actions going forward.
I am using my campaign to fight against genocidal Democratic Congressman Adam Smith.
I am the only candidate in this race who is calling for an end to all military aid to the Israeli state, an end to all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war, and to stop data centers and AI-related mass layoffs.
I am the only candidate in this race fighting for free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich and a living-wage jobs guarantee. I am the only candidate in this race with a track record of defeating the billionaires and multimillionaires and winning historic victories for working people.
Join our campaign at kshamasawant.org. Volunteer and donate.
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Mike Chambers retweeted
Jun 1
"Photoshop is transition from 5 percent to 100 percent GPU accelerated processing."
Lots of major performance improvements in the works for both Photoshop and Premiere 🔥
Announcement: blog.adobe.com/en/publish/20…
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Mike Chambers retweeted
May 28
Advertising free public services is *so* smart. Too often Democrats refuse to do PR for how they're making peoples' lives better.
Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do?
Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?
Nyc.gov/summer is a map of free and affordable things to do this summer that we made just for you.
Because public programs mean nothing if you don't know how to access them.

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May 26
I just released an @aseprite script, that will skew the active selection into an isomorphic perspective (useful if you are doing isometric pixel art).
github.com/mikechambers/isom…
The result may require some cleanup (especially curves), but it should make things a bit easier.
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Mike Chambers retweeted
In May 1998, Macromedia released a vector graphics editor for creating interactive Macromedia Flash 3.0 web animations.
Flash 3.0 included new features such as vector & bitmap transparency, shape morphing, sprite animation
#WebDesignHistory
ALT Macromedia Flash 3.0 in 1998
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Mike Chambers retweeted
Webflow turn their loading bar into a light saber in celebration of May the 4th be with you!
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Adobe for creativity Claude 🤝
Now, Claude users can power their content with more than 50 Creative Cloud tools. Simply describe the outcome you want and let the assistant orchestrate workflows behind the scenes: adobe.ly/4cTkJjF
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Mike Chambers retweeted
Apr 23
California Dems like @GavinNewsom have repeatedly promised to make California the first state to implement a single-payer health care system - and then they've betrayed those promises & used their supermajority power to block single-payer legislation.
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Mike Chambers retweeted
Apr 22
Super excited to be a judge for the upcoming Impossible UI with Rive Challenge, alongside Flash legends @gskinner and @ericjordan!
You can get the full details at contra.com/community/topic/i….
Any old time Flashers want to give it a shot?
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Mike Chambers retweeted
Apr 16
Way more Dems than Golden want to continue this war. But they know it's politically toxic to vote for this war.
So Dem leadership gets Golden to be the one vote to make sure this fails. He's not running for re-election, so he has nothing to lose. That's how this works.
Apr 16
BREAKING: The House just failed to pass a resolution to end Trump's war with Iran by one vote.
The count was 213-214.
Just one Democrat, Jared Golden, voted to let Trump keep waging the war.
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Mike Chambers retweeted
Mar 27
What if the Appearance Panel in Illustrator was a node-based workflow?
I work with the Illustrator community to get input and feedback on all sorts of topics. This suggestion has come up a few times so I wanted to see if I could vibe-code a prototype to drive the discussion further.
What are your thoughts on this workflow?
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Mike Chambers retweeted
Mar 12
🎉 We just released Rotate Object in Photoshop (beta) 🎉
You can now rotate 2D images! 🤯
Then use Harmonize to add light and shadows, to blend it perfectly with the rest of the scene.
It's like Turntable in Illustrator, but instead of vectors, it's pixels in Photoshop!
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Mike Chambers retweeted
Macromedia and Adobe Flash Player Logo Evolution 1996–2020
#InternetHistory
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Mike Chambers retweeted
This is how copyright works for us in AI. I know, I copyrighted a film in October to prevent my ex-coworkers from using or profiting on it anymore, which they were. I have first hand knowledge of the process, it happens exactly the same, you must submit human authorship documentation and then it’s acceptable.
It is incorrect to think anything with AI in it is not copyrightable, even fully AI content. Fully AI doesn’t mean the entire project is AI, that can apply to a litany of use cases where AI generated the content but without the intermediary artist applying conceptual and artistic additions, cannot progress to final output.
This isn’t rocket science.
This is misleading. It is copyrightable if you used it in human creation workflows with third party apps and can show it just assisted like a tool and wasn’t the only tool.
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Mike Chambers retweeted
Feb 3
Do you feel it's increasingly difficult to have nuanced conversations about the evolution of content, creativity & craft...in the wake of AI? Do you seek this type of conversation? Introducing the Adobe Creative Collective: adobe.ly/creativecollective
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Feb 3
I just shared an update on Adobe Animate over on reddit (/r/adobeanimate), and given the conversations on X, wanted to also share here. Its a bit long, as there is a lot of info, so I also included a screenshot of the core info on Animate.
TLDR: We have made some changes to to our plans for Adobe Animate, and it will continue to be available for both new and existing users
Hey everyone, my name is Mike Chambers, and I work on the community team at Adobe (and am a long time Flash / Animate user). Yesterday, Adobe shared an email with Adobe Animate customers on the future of Animate. What we shared did not meet our standards and caused a lot of confusion and angst within the community. On behalf of Adobe, I want to apologize.
While an email to all Animate customers will go out shortly, I wanted to quickly share a few things: 1) our standard approach for applications in maintenance mode, 2) changes to our plans for Adobe Animate and its status, and 3) our commitments to ensuring that you always have access to your content, regardless of the state of development of an application.
Standard Approach for Applications in Maintenance Mode
If we deprioritize active development of an application, our approach is to move that application into maintenance mode with continued support. Under maintenance mode, the application will continue to be available, will continue to receive security and bug fixes, but will not get new features.
If we decide to go a step further and discontinue a product, we will work closely with the community to ensure they have adequate time to plan in order to minimize disruption and will take steps so that the community continues to have long-term access to their content.
Current State of Adobe Animate
Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode. While we are no longer adding new features to Animate, we will continue to support it and provide ongoing security and bug fixes. More importantly, Animate will continue to be available for both new and existing users. This is a change from what we communicated in the email yesterday for the status of Adobe Animate, its time-frame, and availability.
To be clear, we are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate and it will continue to be available to both existing and new customers.
Commitments for long-term content/file Access
For Adobe Animate, our commitment is to work with the community to ensure users continue to have long term access to their content, regardless of the state of development of the application.
On a personal note, as someone who started their career with Macromedia Flash 3 and Macromedia Generator, Adobe Animate has a special place in my heart. I know how frustrating and stressful this has been and we clearly could have handled and communicated this better. I might not have answers to everything, but I will try to answer any questions you might have.
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Remember when my art was the splash screen for Premiere Pro?! 😭✨
Well now it’s YOUR turn. @Adobe is looking to PAY an artist to be featured on the @Photoshop (Beta) splash screen through the Creative Apprenticeship program on @Behance!
Apply here: behance.net/resources/commis…
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