Comments on: Space Monkey and Other Photoshop Easter Eggs!

By: Noonski

Noonski — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:44:35 +0000

or when installing don’t fill in any details to get this screen.

By: Bryan Gibbs

Bryan Gibbs — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:49:30 +0000

In any version of PS later than 5.0, hold down Alt and select Palette Options from the Layers Dialog. Merlin Lives!

By: Sara Froehlich

Sara Froehlich — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:16:29 +0000

There’s more! :) Hold down cmd on the Mac and go to Photoshop > About Photoshop, or ctrl on the PC and go to Help > About Photoshop.

In Photoshop CS you see Dark Matter splash screen and in CS2, you get Space Monkey. (And in PS 7, you get Liquid Sky, but I am really starting to regress now…) But don’t stop now!

Let the credits scroll all the way to the bottom, and the last item will be Extra Special thanks to one of Adobe’s best customers: you.

But wait, there’s more! Open the special splash screen as above, and:

On CS, click above the word “Protected” in the “Protected by US patents” line. Let the credits scroll all the way to the bottom. When they start to roll a second time, random quotes appear about where you clicked.

On CS2, click just below the words “Version 9.0″. That’s where the quotes will be when the credits roll a second time.

And it also works in PS 7, just click above the name Mark Hamburg. Probably works in 6 too but I am too lazy to boot up a computer still running 6 around here!

Sara

By: Jeremy Schultz

Jeremy Schultz — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:57:52 +0000

I like the Dark Matter egg too. I just wish there were more of these things!

By: Atu

Atu — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:06:48 +0000

It’s just funny.This morning ,I found that the splash screen of my photoshop CS2 has change to a space monkey,and my photoshop CS a dark matter stuff too.It’s so cool!!!

By: Samuel John Klein

Samuel John Klein — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:10:16 +0000

Oh, and before I forget, some of my favorite easter eggs are gone:

In InDesign, the “SVG”, “bounce”, and “mandel” eggs from the splash screen are no more. Alas.

By: Samuel John Klein

Samuel John Klein — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:06:08 +0000

They do have some of the coolest easter eggs ever. Amongst my favorites is the ones you find in ImageReady; one is where you can stamp up to images of The Ducky all over the splash screen and then change the cursor to a crosshair and go duck huntin’

Hints are found in the article you mentioned. I’m not giving too much away-it’s more fun if you find ‘em yourself.

On a personal note, even since developer codenames became the new black I was worrying about the time when the fashion would jump the shark. Don’t get me wrong, “Space Monkey”, “Eelpout” are fun and all but it’s starting to feel a bit forced.