When I taught “Digital Imaging and Illustration” (an unfortunate name that’s almost impossible to change due to the way universities work) I’d try to defuse some of the students’ software anxiety by saying, “you could follow all my examples and complete every project for this class in the version of Photoshop that came out fifteen years ago—once you have layers and alpha masking, the rest is sugar.”

I still think of everything that came after Photoshop 7 as “the new stuff.”