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Photoshopped The museum is not all hardware. The one piece of software that was receiving the most recognition at the time of this visit was Adobe’s Photoshop, with a history of the product and a tribute to the Knoll brothers who first created it and Russell Brown, then Art Director for Adobe, who recognized its potential and saved it from obscurity. The exhibit showed how Photoshop caused as much of a stir as Generative AI is doing now, if not more. It made it so that photos could be undetectably manipulated with a bit of skill and patience, altering reality for better or worse. (If you think about this, today’s hubbub about machines doing that on their own isn’t quite as great of a leap.) However, Photoshop as a tool for artists is celebrated with a full-size rendition of artist Bert Monroy’s epic work, Times Square. Completed in 2011 after four years of painstaking pixel-pushing labor, stacked into the image’s 750,000-plus layers, it’s populated by a host of graphics and computing notables in the massive crowds in the street, including the Knoll brothers, Mr. Brown, among many others. Obviously Apple’s glorious and diverse history is also well-represented, with samples of Steve Wozniak’s original hardware, to the less successful Apple III and Lisa, as well as its groundbreaking forays into pocketable music and communication. Russell Brown's cameo in Times Square