Memos by Adobe

Shantanu Narayen
Shantanu Narayen is an American business executive who has served as chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Adobe since December 2007. Under his leadership the company became one of the...
John Warnock
John Warnock (1940–2023) was an American computer-scientist, inventor, and co-founder of Adobe. He wrote PostScript, co-created the PDF document format, and is widely regarded as the father of...
Charles Geschke
Charles Geschke (1939–2021), known as Chuck, was an American computer-scientist and co-founder of Adobe, which he started with John Warnock in 1982. He helped create the PostScript page description...
Adobe
We are Adobe, and we build the tools people use to make and share ideas. Since 1982 we have worked toward a single belief — creativity for all — from the first-time student opening a blank canvas to...
Figma
Figma is an American software company, founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, whose browser-based design platform is a leading tool for interface and product design. Its collaborative, real-time...
Macromedia
Macromedia was an American graphics and web-development software company founded in 1992 and headquartered in San Francisco. It built several of the defining tools of the early web, including Flash,...
Creative Cloud
Creative Cloud is Adobe's subscription suite, launched in 2013, that bundles its creative applications — Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, InDesign, and more — with cloud storage,...
Firefly
Firefly is Adobe's family of generative AI models, launched in 2023, that create images, text effects, and more from plain-language prompts — and are designed from the start to be commercially safe....
Photoshop
Photoshop is the raster image editor Adobe first shipped in 1990 that became the standard tool — and the verb — for editing photographs and composing digital images. Few products have defined a...
PDF
PDF (Portable Document Format) is the file format Adobe introduced in 1993 to keep a document's layout, fonts, and graphics identical on any screen, device, or printer. It is how the world keeps a...
PostScript
PostScript is the page description language Adobe released in 1984 that tells a printer or imagesetter exactly how text, curves, and images should appear on a page. It was the company's first product...