Like a drop in the ocean, it disappeared in 1994, when Adobe bought Aldus and only Adobe Photoshop remained.As we near the 20 year anniversary of Photoshop on Feb. Ulead Photostyler became a strong competitor to Adobe Photoshop and a year later, Ulead sold the product to Aldus and it became Aldus PhotoStyler, sitting alongside Aldus PageMaker – one of the grandparents of today’s desktop publishing applications like InDesign.
The success of this product didn’t end there. [*Skillbuilders were US-based Sybil and Emil Ihrig who wrote the Mastering Aldus Photostyler book). Special thanks from me to the whole team including the above named individuals and organisations: Rosemary Bach, Eric Chen, Liming Chen, Lotus Chen, Way-Zen Chen, Ying-Ju Chen, Pezen Chiang, Mike Feng, Chia-Chun Hsu, Eric Kenly, Ya-Ling Kuo, Bravo Lee, Danielle Liao, Tsung-Wei Lin, Liang-Jing Lin, Frank Pan, Hsun-Lei Tuan, Bobo Wang, and Sherry Wu. Aided and supported by the rest of U-Lead and the following companies: Chiu-Yu Printing, Color Box Photography, COMSTOCK Desktop Photography, Dien-Dien image bureau, Fuh-Sun image bureau, SkillBuilders Instructional Communications*, Today Art Printing, and Top Offset Printing Co. There was one other addition that I have too often forgotten in subsequent work, especially now most things are online - the acknowledgement note (apologies to later teams and I will try and correct it by writing something like this about later and earlier team activities). I have kept in contact with a couple of the people listed, but it is only through this list that I can remember many of the names. Not just the people at Ulead, but also the external companies that supported us externally There was one other addition that I have too often forgotten in subsequent work, especially now most things are online – the acknowledgement note (apologies to later teams and I will try and correct it by writing something like this about later and earlier team activities). One compromise that I remember was specifying a brand Pantone colour, but receiving the wrong colour, Do you religiously insist on your brand colour and go for further delay and a re-print, or do you take a discount and get the product out the door? We had to choose the latter and it was absolutely the right choice.ĭespite being a spiral-bound manual, it still had a spine that could be used as a place marker by readers. The budget was tighter and there were other usability reasons that meant we switched to a spiral bound manual. I learnt a lot while doing this about team project management, writing, and editing, but most of all I learnt about compromise. I think this is my most memorable major team success in the early part of my career. We did it, printed it and the product could be sold.
#Aldus photostyler 2 manual#
I went back to Taiwan to work with the Ulead team around the clock to produce a large manual in a matter of weeks. Our beautiful hardback manual with special pink end papers was gone. Turns out that there were concerns about the original that meant it could not be released. If I remember correctly, Ulead contacted me in Japan and asked me if I could return to Taiwan to rewrite the manual. We finished the manual and sent it off to print and went to Japan for some fun. She did the graphic design and I did the layout.
I worked with my fellow graduate from the University of Reading’s Typography & Graphic Communication department Kuo Ya-Ling. In December 1990, I flew to Taiwan to help produce a user manual for a new image editing product called Ulead Photostyler.
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