A diagram indicating the location of "Adobe Transient Witticisms" on the alternate splash screen of Photoshop CS2

Adobe Transient Witticisms is the name coined for an easter egg appearing in several versions of Adobe Photoshop. The easter egg can be viewed by accessing the alternate splash screen (in Mac OS this involves holding down the "command" key while choosing "About Photoshop" in the application menu; in Windows, hold Ctrl) and then option-clicking in the white space immediately above the scrolling credits. After the credits scroll through completely, the witticisms appear as a series of phrases in that particular spot. Holding down the option key makes the witticisms come faster as well as making the credits scroll more quickly. ImageMetadata File history File links Photoshop_witticisms. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Photoshop_witticisms. ... Easter eggs are specially decorated eggs given out to celebrate the Easter holiday. ... Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editor (with some text and vector graphics capabilities) developed and published by Adobe Systems. ... Original 1984 Mac OS desktop Current 2005 Mac OS X desktop Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is Apple Computer’s name for the first operating systems for Macintosh computers. ...

The witticisms first appeared in Photoshop 3.0 and are said to be the idea of engineer Kevin Johnston, who recorded humorous sayings from the other engineers on the project and inserted them into the program code for posterity.

Traditionally, the witticisms include a list of "The Top Ten Signs the Engineering Team Has Been Working Too Hard," which changes from version to version, and end with the phrase, "The funny bits are done." In Classic versions of Mac OS, the entire contents of the witticisms can be found in Photoshop's resource fork. Mac OS is the operating system developed by Apple Computer. ... The resource fork is a construct of the Mac OS operating system and implemented in all of the filesystems used for system drives on the Macintosh, MFS, HFS and HFS Plus (However later versions of mac OS could read and write to disks in formats that didnt support resourse...

External links

• The story of Adobe Transient Witticisms, along with witticisms from several versions of Photoshop, at Jeff Schewe's page.
• Adobe Transient Witticisms on The Easter Egg Archive.