When you notice new loading screen artwork to the pieces of software you use daily its really exciting. Eventually they become part of the same scenery you see every day, but for the first few weeks it’s a real novelty. Apologies for the slightly poor image quality of the covers, but I only had a very small window of opportunity to snap each cover before the software opened! Here are some of the latest Adobe Creative Cloud covers for 2021 with a small review about each.

Adobe Photoshop

Photoshops’ cover has changed to this colourful image with text on the left hand side. I notice that the text on the left rarely changes with each new iteration, but the image always seems to change. This latest image contains an optimistic looking woman in a floral gown with a sunrise behind her head. Optimism is definitely a feeling one should embrace as you open up Photoshop each day. I notice as well that in the names section on the left, “Neeraj Arora” has a full stop and a comma after their name. I wonder whether this is intentional or a typo.

Adobe Illustrator

This illustration of puffins says something to me about love and companionship. The colours used for the floor and the puffins fur (or feathers) is the same, and also the beaks and sky have similar colours. Maybe this is suggesting that these puffins (or puffins in general) are at one with their environment and perfectly acclimatised to their surroundings. I notice here that there are no creators associated with Adobe Illustrator as there are with Photoshop.

Adobe After Effects

This latest Adobe After Effects cover seems to show a top down view of very clean plate. On the plate there are records, litmus paper with a garnish of diamonds and leaves. As After Effects is an animation package, it is very difficult to show animation and movement through a static image, but I notice that there has been some motion blur effects added to the artwork to denote movement. With the other two images it is easy to assume that they were created using the software packages they represent, but with this one; did someone really create a static picture using After Effects when its primary use is to create videos? It’s these types of thoughts that keep me awake until the early hours of the morning…