How did you get into developing Photoshop plugins and how did Alien Skin get started?
I dropped out of computer science graduate school to start the company. I didnt have any money or business experience. What an idiot! The first project failed and I desperately needed to make a product quickly. A plugin seemed like small product, so I decided to make that. I had no idea how complicated plugins actually are and I had never written a Macintosh program in my life. But I figured it out and eventually got the company off the ground. It is amazing what you can do when financial disaster is looming. Does Alien Skin do things differently than other companies? I try to keep the atmosphere pretty relaxed around here. Everyone works hard, but not because I yell at them. We just enjoy making great software. If you have fun at what you do then hard work isnt painful. Some time ago you gave away Eye Candy 3 for free to promote EyeCandy 4000. It turned out as a bad decision. Can you please tell us more about it? The idea was to get attention by giving away our old product. That part
