Marc Pawliger began his career at Adobe more than a decade ago—as an engineer on the Photoshop team—where he worked on the UNIX version of Photoshop.

Soon after, Marc started working on introducing grids and guides to Photoshop 4. By the time Photoshop 6.0 came around, Marc had moved into a management position, where he would oversee engineering teams. It was in this role that he worked as lead engineer and team manager to transition Photoshop LE into the powerhouse consumer version of Photoshop, called Photoshop Elements.

Since his start in 1994, Marc has been directly involved in the planning, design and shipping of over 15 product releases for Adobe.

Marc continues to be one of the key architects of Photoshop's evolution, and that is why we honor him, for his enduring contributions to the business and development of Adobe Photoshop.

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