Author: Zen and the Art of Computer Programming
1 Introduction
In 1997, Jim Bandy was born in New York, USA. As early as 1992, he was appointed as Adobe's Chief Technology Officer (Technical Director), responsible for designing, developing and managing the R&D team of Adobe Creative Suite products. For more than 20 years, he has been engaged in research and development, helping companies create world-leading digital creative solutions. Jim Bandy has won the Stanford University Turing Award, a star figure in the international computer science community, and a well-known person in the industry. In 2019, Adobe officially announced Jim Bandy as the company's senior vice president and CMO.
Under the leadership of Jim Bandy, Adobe has entered a new era of development. The company has now become a world-leading digital brand enterprise, and its products are widely used in many industries, such as advertising, video production, marketing, Internet, finance, medical care and other fields.
In September 2019, Jim Bandy revealed in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that the company has now become an American Internet giant with 250 million users and annual revenue of more than $3 trillion. At the same time, Adobe's products such as cloud documents, PDF editors, graphics editors, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and other software are gradually being adopted by major companies.
2. Basic concepts and terms
Adobe's full name is Adobe Systems, a book co-authored by Jack Babotlin () and Emily Sargen (Emily Sandler), launched in 2005, mainly introduces Adobe products, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign , Animate CC, Audition, Dreamweaver, Acrobat DC, PageMaker, and Acrobat X.
- Photoshop: image processing software, used for drawing