Kai Krause
Kai Krause is a German software and graphical user interface designer best known for creating Kai's Power Tools, a series of influential plugin filters for Adobe Photoshop, and for founding MetaCreations Corp. He currently lives and works in the 1000-year-old Rheineck Castle near Bonn, Germany, where he develops software projects with a small team. His interface designs pioneered features such as soft shadows, rounded corners, and translucency that later became standard in modern operating systems.
“When something called Kai's Power Tools came out, it blew up the TAM for Photoshop because people could do weird algorithmic things with their faces or all kinds of filters.”
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