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JJMack
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Jan 23, 2022 7:33 PM UTC
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R.I.P. JJMack

My father recently passed away. He was known here as JJMack. This community was a big part of his life. After retiring from IBM, this is where he would spend a great deal of his time trying to help people as best he could. His strength was figuring out how things work, communication was not.  Despite this, he was able to amass 38,147 Posts, 9206 Likes, and most importantly 3437 solutions.

 

I'm sure his posts will live on and continue to help people. I work with Photoshop professionally myself and occasionally will research a problem I am having only to find a solution posted here by my father. In the future it will be bitter sweet when this happens again.

 

Goodbye, world.

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Rafael Aviles
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Feb 4, 2022 2:54 PM UTC

I am very sorry for your loss. JJMack was always willing to help those of us who had questions or problems. My condolences to you and your family.

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Kukurykus
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Feb 2, 2022 7:23 AM UTC

If possible keep his Photoshop scripting mouseprints site working and put obituary note on main page.

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PECourtejoie
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Feb 4, 2022 11:09 AM UTC

@Kukurykus is it legal to download his scipts and post them on github? BTW, is Paul Riggott still with us?

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Kukurykus
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Feb 4, 2022 11:52 AM UTC

I'm sure he wouldn't be against sharing it on GitHub seeing how much he tried make other users to play freely with his tools. Paul Riggott gave up when after 10 years Bridge team did not solve bugs he reported, while introducing another ones 😞 His heritage is at Paul-Riggott

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War Unicorn
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Feb 1, 2022 7:06 PM UTC

My sincere prayers and condolences. JJ was a treasure and will be sorely missed.

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Community Expert
Jan 30, 2022 4:08 PM UTC

May he rest in Peace

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PECourtejoie
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Jan 28, 2022 8:45 PM UTC

That is a very sad news for his family and friends... and the Photoshop community!

 

JJ was passionate, knowledgeable, dedicated, observant, and stood for his ideas. He always wanted to go to the bottom of a problem, spent countless hours helping others, he also generously shared his scripting proficiency, and was aware of his communication limits, he even invited me to edit some of his posts and documents for legibility...

 

Au revoir, JJMack!



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Jill_C
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Jan 28, 2022 8:08 PM UTC

I'm sorry for the loss to your family. Being a part of this Community and being able to help countless Adobe product users was obviously very fulfilling to him personally, and I'm sure you take comfort in knowing that he was able to be so productive and make such a difference.

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AkinGn
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Jan 28, 2022 6:05 PM UTC

Although never had a chance to meet, it's obvious that he was a very loved and valuable community member. I'm so sorry to hear about your loss, my deepest condolences.

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S_Gans
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Jan 28, 2022 6:03 PM UTC

Oh, no! I'm so sorry to read about the loss of your Dad! I've learned a lot, reading his solutions and responses. He had an incredibly agile mind, and a creative way of addressing issues.

Sending my deepest condolences to you and your family. 
The Adobe Support Community has suffered a great loss. 

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Earth Oliver
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Jan 28, 2022 4:50 PM UTC

Oh my gosh, i'm so sorry for your loss. JJ loved helping everyone on these forums and his depth of knowledge and presence here will definitely be missed. We didn't always see eye to eye, but i greatly respected his passion and dedication to trying the best he could to improving the lives of everyone he tried to help.

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Barb Binder
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Jan 28, 2022 3:24 PM UTC

I am so sorry to hear this. John was a legend on the Photoshop forum—always taking the time to explain an issue along with the screen shots to clarify his answer—he will be missed.

 

~Barb

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~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training