Adobe Systems Inc

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Travis W.

Campbell, CA

I sit at my desk in my office on Almaden Blvd, a block away from the Adobe world headquarters building.  When I look out my office window, I see two things:  Airplanes coming straight at me, and the San Jose Semaphore.  For those who don't know, artist Ben Rubin has put  four ten-foot wide illuminated disks composed of 24,000 LEDs on the top floors of the Adobe building.  The four disks turn, sending a coded message 24 hours a day.  Folks who can't see the semaphore live can go to www.sanjosesemaphore.org for more info, and to find out about the coded message.  Five stars for bringing something totally cool to San Jose.

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Tammy A.

Redwood City, CA

I've been able to accomplish much thanks to Adobe's software. Their fonts, Postscript, Illustrator, the whole ball o' wax. Major kudos to a few specific items:

Photoshop, which I've been using since Version 1 in 1990. Version 1, geez! Thomas and John Knoll, thank you thank you thank you. Russell Brown, thank YOU for championing Adobe's purchase of the Knoll brothers' code, and for your continuing amazing capacity to memorably convey Photoshop's capabilities. Thank you for introducing Layers (my dream feature) in Version 3. Each release's jaw-dropping new features, such as editable text and adjustment layers, makes it a versatile and deep program. As its capabilities have increased, so have my creative visions. Thankfully hardware has caught up with Photoshop's capabilities: Nowadays I don't give creating a 12-layered 100gb .psd file a second thought.

InDesign, which I bought with Version 1 but didn't use regularly until CS (version 3). I'd occasionally used PageMaker but wasn't a big fan. Following a quick CS introductory tutorial, I self-taught and experimented for about a month before deciding I really, really liked it a whole lot more than Quark (which I'd used almost exclusively for over 12 years). Although I still have Quark for stubborn clients and other specific uses, I've since converted most of my personal documents from Quark to InDesign (the ones I haven't yet converted are corrupt), not to mention talking two clients to convert as well!

Acrobat, the forgotten stepchild, has helped me champion paperless client approval cycles. I've also created lots of PDFs for websites, and I now transmit all projects to printers in PDF form as well. Sometimes you can be a bit cantankerous, but you're a great tool.

ADIM (the annual Art Directors Invitational Master Class), whose flagship sponsor is Adobe, which I've attended twice -- 2004, in Santa Monica (007 theme) and 2007, in San Jose (pirate theme), an intense week-long, hands-on, challenging, collaborative, competitive, fun, inspirational experience that cannot be matched at any other conference or educational institution! Russell Brown, once again, thank you; I hope you maintain your capacity to lead ADIM for a few more years at least, and that future themes are as creative as those of the past! I pray to god I make enough money this year to pay for future ADIM registrations.

Adobe, thank you for hosting and facilitating events such as user group meetings. I still miss the vibe of your old HQ on Charleston Road in Mountain View, but hey, your San Jose buildings are very nice.

Now that I finally got a Mac that can run CS3, I'm looking forward to using the cool new features in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat I've enviously looked upon for the past year, as well as learn Bridge, Dreamweaver, and Flash!

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Azeezam x.

Mountain View, CA

Adobe is a fantabulous place to work.

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donna h.

San Francisco, CA

I love you. It is that simple. Adobe Photoshop CS2 rocks my world!! I'm slowly playing around with more of the functions.. It's fun and very useful for editing photos, being creative, making collages, and photoshopping some of my yelp buddies..

http://www.flickr.com/...

suckas.. you know you love it!! but i have to first thank adobe systems.. because they rock.. 10 billions stars for you! and second.. yelp buddies for giving me such fun inspiration.. 10 billion stars for you too!

I'm also learning more about regular Adobe Acrobat, editing quarterly reports and such.. tricky, but interesting... if only playing around/ learning with different software was a profession..

Hopefully, the more practice I get, the better my skills with these products will be.. Not to mention  i'll make better use of this amazing program.. ayo, im (NOT) tired of using technology..

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Mike F.

Long Beach, CA

Good ol Adobe. My first and formost love of art on a computer. Do you realize how many erasers you have saved me? Do you know how easy you have made my job? To expand my horizons even farther than t because of people that are creative, we have more and more visual products as well as all sensory products all around us. And tI expected? And most important, how many people I was able to teach creativity and get their creative minds in high gear because of your software? I owe many thanks for this one. Prior to attending Santa Monica College, my "college advisor" asked me what my major was. I said Graphic Arts. He said great and we moved on. Not realizing that my friend was right behind me, he said to my friend "that guy picked the wrong profession.....theres no money in arts........."
Man, if I could see this guy now.

Well I thank you Adobe for giving inspiration to be creative and to show the world what I can do as well as others. Now PLEASE DROP THE PRICES ON YOUR SOFTWARE!!!!!

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Raymond G.

San Jose, CA

The new Adobe Lightroom is a genius software for photographers. All Adobe stuff is excellent. The only non-Adobe software I still use is Quark. But I'm using InDesign more and more.

Macromedia is now Adobe as well... I just hope since they have monopoly on the graphic design software industry that they don't end up getting stale like how Microsoft became.

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wendy h.

San Francisco, CA

I looove Adobe software.  I've convinced my company to go Adobe years ago (yes I'm an Adobe whore and I own almost all of their stuff at work)!  Whoever designed those programs are geniuses!  

Deducting one star for the recent horrible experience I had using their open license system for our CS3 order.  I don't get it, why isn't the registration numbers on the media anymore?  Why do we have to go online to fetch the numbers (which in itself caused a lot of problems with logins and the inability to locate the info).  Whoever thought of that idea should be fired.

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jerry r.

Fremont, CA

I like this company and stock...........go adobe go .......

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Paul G.

Highlands Ranch, CO

I couldn't do what I do without you. Thank you for being my creative enabler for so many years.

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Eric L.

Alameda, CA

This is in regards to the Adobe Online Store:

I ordered a Mac CS2 upgrade online for download. 2.5 hours later it still as unavailable in my download section. My employee called & was told that (even though it says 5-10 minutes) it can take up to 4 hours. In disbelief, I called & after 20 minutes on hold was hung up on & no one called me back! I called back & after a significant hold was hung up on, again! This time someone called me back. I was told that there was no work around, no place I could download & that maybe I should cancel my order & try again, though I may still have to wait 4 hours again. I could not be more frustrated. I can't believe that a software company in this age would not be able to find a workaround for a client. I can't even begin to explain the frustration I am feeling two hours into dealing with the ##bleeps## on the phone!

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