 Other Specular products included Collage, a high-resolution Adobe Photoshop compositing companion product, and BackBurner, a distributed rendering system that used multiple Apple Macintosh computers on a network or over the internet to render computationally intensive 3D animations.Many Specular employees joined Adobe Systems, and worked on products including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Premiere.Specular merged with MetaTools in 1997 to form MetaCreations.