http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/03/puppies_now_30_fluffier_with_cs3.html Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/03/puppies_now_30_fluffier_with_cs3.html#comment-2952 jimhere Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:26:23 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnackdev/2007/03/puppies-now-30-fluffier-with-cs3.html#comment-2952 Sorry, You didn’t say that. I meant that sometimes Adobe experts are “believed”, even if they’ve never used the app for paying work. This entry reminded me of that kinda thing.
In teaching Photoshop I sometimes find I have to unlearn newcomers from what they may have read. They see a nice dialog box and half an hour later they’re still upset it doesn’t work. Back to basics then.
(sorry about the misinterpretation)
[It's all good in the 'hood. --J.]

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/03/puppies_now_30_fluffier_with_cs3.html#comment-2951 jimhere Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:53:17 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnackdev/2007/03/puppies-now-30-fluffier-with-cs3.html#comment-2951 Hair may have bedeviled users and scientists in San Jose, but we do it every day over here.
Shouldn’t the developers focus on more high-end selection capabilities involving channels and masks (such as flexible tolerence levels on brushes in alpha channels)?
Refine Edges IS a really great UI for what we call “feathering”, but it shouldn’t be implied that this new edge maker can do it all without going in by hand here and there.
I remember when the amazing Extract tool came out — takes longer to really select hair than starting over with a channel and a brush. As a marketing guy you shouldn’t say This Is The Way, bcause with Photoshop there are many ways.
[Er, I don't remember saying that it was The Way. I think it's a useful capability that may not be self-evident. And yes, there are many ways to do various things. We need to do a better job of helping newcomers find their way through the possibilities, without limiting what's possible. --J.]

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