Comments on: Photoshop, as seen through Johnny Cash

By: Handys

Handys — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:16:31 +0000

I tried gimp some months ago, but wasn’t very happy with it. I am learning photoshop für 2 months now. I am still a beginner, but my first projects are looking good. It is easier I ever thought.

By: Yitzhak Ben Yeshi

Yitzhak Ben Yeshi — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:45:09 +0000

I think some of the comments may have somewhat true if you use a PC comparing it to Johnny Cash could be true. Moreover, I feel that there is nothing better than using Photo Shop 7 on a MAC. There is so much that you do can
, be creative be expert in Repairing old Photos be an expert in creating a painting that would make Venango look like a Kenta Gardner’s drawing.
Yet again I thought I had the best before I came from Israel to the United States. Then I discovered CS4 and now with my MAC I no longer drive Lincoln. But I commander of Enterprise Space Ship, with mission to discover Great Photo shop now and results produce better than Venango. Adobe You best.
Yitzhak AKA Isaac

By: Hochzeit

Hochzeit — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:52:39 +0000

I´ma Web designer, I’ve used Fireworks since version 3 and am glad that Adobe has kept it around. Interested to see what customizations could be made for PS to make serve up the tools of the Web designer.
thankss

By: Mit Vertrag

Mit Vertrag — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:20:43 +0000

Another example how Photoshop’s structure is working… for my part: i like it.

By: Betty

Betty — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:15:33 +0000

I used to be able to send a JPG or a Tiff to the printer by creating a EPS file in Quark and in Photoshop I could open it, and save it as JPG
Now I get the message “one or more files missing, need to install ‘Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X tuneup’.
Do you know how I would get that Tuneup?
Would appreciate any Help.
Thanks,
Betty
bcgraphics@sbcglobal

By: handy

handy — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:34:50 +0000

if you try and show patience than iàm sure you will loose the great respect on photoshop and will be able to use it with the most of it`s features. i experienced it in this way.

By: Ingo

Ingo — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:46:38 +0000

Lots of babble. The inferior point is the non-consistency of the whole thing. You can have a lot of features, as long as there is a certain logic to them, think about it!

By: Ajit

Ajit — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:06:04 +0000

Unified user interface across programs. Yes they do different things but it doesn’t have to be that different.
I like photoshop’s power. I am always frustrated on how it works.

By: Don Temple

Don Temple — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:28:15 +0000

Did Lightroom 1.3 address the issue with image capture time. When the time changed to standard time all of my capture times lost an hour.

By: imajes

imajes — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:11:35 +0000

“sounds like Maya’s Shelf Feature” – thinsoldier
Actually it’s exactly like what you have been able to do in Corel Draw for many years. CD also had docked palettes like PS now does, CD had customisable shorcuts like PS does now. Actually I always changed CDs shortcuts to match PSs as thankfully they were very good and got even better with customisable shortcuts. I’ve feature requested CD like attributes for 7 years+ in PS and verrrrry slowly some of them have been introduced.
Bridge I find particulary annoying in the lack of customisation. There is a lot of blank space under the Menus which could easily be filled with a few tasks common to your workflow. I’d move the thumbnail slider and buttns from far right bottom, which is an unnecessarily long way from all the other controls on a big monitor.
Directory Opus [the PS equivalent of file managers in power and features]is a very good example of a very powerful programme which you can customise to suit your particular workflow [and everyone has a different workflow]. Though you do need to spend 30mins at least setting Opus up the first time [but, only if you want to]. Opera is also very good in that respect, you put things where you find them most convienient and get rid of the buttons you never use.
If you allow customisation like Opus, CorelDraw, Opera you actually solve the problem you initially posted John. You give people the standard infterface as now with good and easily saved/transfered customisation and everyone can have the interface they want.
BTW moving the various PS settings one has at present from one PC to another is at present a complete PITA. SO a single repository that was saved everytime one closed PS would be great. Actions, Workspaces, presets…etc. Saving Actions to a back up is clumsy at present as you cannot simply save them all in one go. You have to do each set individually.

By: thinsoldier

thinsoldier — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:38:43 +0000

quote
with the few specific menu tools I need a lot more accessible with just a single click and even better so does everyone else. I use about 4 filters an awful lot and the others very, very rarely. So I’d like those 4 as buttons.
/quote
sounds like Maya’s Shelf Feature

By: thinsoldier

thinsoldier — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:02:43 +0000

UI requests
I’ve downloaded hundreds of brushes and it’s a pain to manage them all. Unless the author included a brush of his name and email address I can’t give credit when I use them. There needs to be some meta data added to the brush file format and rethink the way users add/remove/edit/save collections of brushes with the brush pallet and preset manager. The current way is just inefficient and underpowered.
If you haven’t already you need to look at Alias/Autodesk Sketchbook Pro. It allows you to never need to touch your keyboard and just work with your tablet quickly and easily. There needs to be a similar interface option in photoshop for digital painters.
Every app needs tool tips as big and descriptive as the ones you get in ZBrush if you hold ctrl+hover over a button. Also Zbrush has a few 2d brush stroke types and brush tools that photoshop should have had years ago. Zbrush also has a panning feature tied to the tilde(~) key that makes seamless texture generation quick and easy. Much easier than photoshops Filter > Misc > Offset (which should be moved to Image>Offset)
I’ve found the mel script window and Shelf in Maya to be infinitely better than photoshop’s limited actions system. You should try it.
You need to put someone from the After Effects team in charge of photoshops non-destructive features. Smart objects+smart filters just isn’t as…”nice”.
If you’ve been wondering how you can improve your brush settings features but without going in the direction of Painter just take a look at Maya’s 2d paint effects!
Sure only advanced users will be making their own but EVERYONE would be using them.

By: Tara

Tara — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:45:10 +0000

I would very much like to see a Linux version of the Adobe products, specifically Photoshop, Illustrator and Lightroom here. At the very least, it would be nice to see something that runs under Wine., either by verifying compatibility with Wine or helping to improve the parts of Wine that are lacking. I know it can be done now for at least Photoshop, but it involves copying an installed version of Photoshop from a Windows machine and still has some issues.
I keep a Windows computer around simply for Adobe products now. I would much rather have that money to spend on things like lenses or software upgrades.

By: George Mann

George Mann — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:38:08 +0000

John I hope you don't mind but this story inspired me to write a follow-up post of my own at O'Reilly Digital Media - Inside Lightroom. Thank you, George [Thanks, George; I'll check it out. --J.]

By: Jaime

Jaime — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:28:42 +0000

I purchased CS2, installed it, and immediately went back to CS. Why? I could no longer use Extensis Phototools Photobars! Photobars is exactly what some of the people here are talking about: the ability to create your own buttons on the tool bar (and actually your own tool bars!) that include your own most-used tools. I very rarely use the menus … I just use my personal toolbar that includes some very hidden tools. I can even make buttons of installed plug-ins. ANYTHING that is on a menu can be made into a button and placed on a docked or free-floating toolbar. I’ve tried to do the “create an action then convert that to a button”, but then it has to reside within the actions palette and you have to scroll through it .. .and all the buttons look the same. I tried customizing the menus, but adding colors to an item didn’t make it “one-click” easy like Photobars did.
If there is ANY way to recreate the functionality of Phototools Photobars, I would happily upgrade to the latest version of PS … but until then, I know my productivity would suffer if I had to give up Phototools Photobars.
So, please please listen to the users who want customization of toolbars.