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TIL that John Knoll, Chief Creative Officer of Industrial Light & Magic and Oscar winning visual effects supervisor for multiple Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean films, is the co-creator of Adobe Photoshop with his brother Thomas. Wild

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