Comments on: Future Photoshop UI changes

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:59:18 +0000

Wow. I don’t know if I’m just retarded or what, but I’ve spent several hours searching the internet and I’ve asked at least 20 people if there was a way to do something like application frame in the Adobe Suite and in MS Office. Being a youngin’, I’ve grown up with the web, and I’m just used to all of my content being inside one block. To me, it just makes sense, because that’s how the web works.

When buying laptops last year, I actually made the decision to get an Acer instead of a Macbook because I simply cannot get work done with all those windows floating around like crazy, and since I’m in the graphic design program at school, it’s not like I can just avoid the Adobe Suite.

I think perhaps advertising this ability in a more public way would be a good thing, because the number one complaint I hear at school about the Mac labs is that everyone always loses toolbars and whatnot because they get hidden behind stuff. If it took me this long to find, I doubt anyone will be able to easily find it while looking in the app.

By: Jonathan Poritsky

Jonathan Poritsky — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:25:36 +0000

Two and a half years later and Apple’s interface schizophrenia still rings true. This post was an eye opener for me back when it was published, and only now, waiting for a Final Cut Studio update, did I realize how out of control some of their control schemas have become. With Lion coming next year, the OS 9 holdovers will have to change, and in the end it looks like the “application frame” won out; the forthcoming Fullscreen emphasis all but puts the nail in the “keep the desktop visible” coffin. I wrote a bunch of thoughts on the matter quoting this article. Early in 2011 we’ll see where Apple wants to take their Pro Apps, we hope.

http://www.candlerblog.com/2010/11/12/a-wish-list-for-the-2011-final-cut-studio/

By: Gary Stanullwich

Gary Stanullwich — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:33:17 +0000

The new PhotoShop Elements is one-half disaster.The UI is TOTALLY the wrong color. Adobe made the UI dark grey with black text (?).
I’ve been using PhotoShop since version 3. Version 3 had a very nice interface. Light grey with black text.
Within the PhotoShop Elements 8 software, there’s no way to change that. The user has a VERY hard time seeing the Menus.
What idiot came up with this ????????????????
Gary Stanullwich

By: Joey

Joey — Sun, 02 May 2010 08:28:11 +0000

Why have you made that offset between the menu bar and the screen edge?
It’s so much annoying not being able to unfold menus when moving mouse the screen edge.
In Cs2 in full screen mode, the menu bar titles where right along the edge, I just moved the mouse to the edge and could roll down the menu.
Is that Change for change’s sake? Would be really silly that way, hope it can be set?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:59:59 +0000

This would be pretty cool. I use Safari and photoshop a lot (retouch pictures) and would love this feature.

By: heavyboots

heavyboots — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:29:25 +0000

Is there ANY WAY to turn this wretched pile of suck off on the Windows versions too? Or Flash CS4 on a Mac, for that matter?
It is all well and good to provide a feature when people request it. It is another thing entirely to ram it down the gullet of everyone because a few people like it.
There should be options to disable this stuff in ALL Adobe products on both platforms, frankly. I’ve now been using it in Windows for the last month and I HATE IT WITH A VENGEANCE. This is real-world experience talking.
- I can never see my desktop.
- It is a pain to organize multiple windows for me–more so than when they were loose and I could do what I want with them.
- It simply feels “confining” in a stay-in-this-box-because-we-told-you-to fashion.

By: Junior

Junior — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:15:42 +0000

I HATE IT
This is one of the main points of contention that I have with CS4. I don’t want my user interface changed with worthless modifications to the functions already present as a part of the operating system!

By: john reese

john reese — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:58:34 +0000

I’m going to re-visit this thread.
“It prevents documents from getting obscured by panels (palettes).”
One of my biggest problems lately is not being able to get to my panels because my docs are in the way! :(

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:57:54 +0000

ALL CAPS IS NEVER A GOOD IDEA FOR ANYTHING YOU HAVE TO CONSISTENTLY LOOK AT AND CHOOSE BETWEEN, in response to your earlier posts – there have been countless well regarded studies that I hae read, last year, 20 years ago, yesterday….they continually point to the same conclusion – anyone of experienced literacy stops reading letters, and sees words via recognition of it’s shape (requiring small letters to make the unique shapes of words). That is why people are initially distrubed, or why it gets their attention – because it is unfamiliar and harder to read…
You say adobe did their own study of this?
why reinvent the wheel, even worse, why attempt to and get the wrong answer, i hope they don’t stick with it because their study says they should without reading the 100′s of others that disagree for reasons above

By: sabiondo

sabiondo — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:53:41 +0000

Impossible to work with CS4, i have the original, and the performance is horrible, slow and pulling. And i dont know how to deactivate the tabs, and how to prevent that the files were opened in tabs, and i have deactivated this options in Edition > Preferences > Interface.
Sorry but this new tabs system is good for navigators and Operative Systems, not for design…, for me is very
uncomfortable and unpleasant.
Please, FIX the problem of the PERFORMANCE, and FIX the problem of the tabs system.

By: jimhere

jimhere — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:59:26 +0000

Do you know if the Flash App Frame can be un-done (like all the other apps)? It’s the one app I can’t see my other work against on the monitor… Dragging everything out of the App Frame does work, but closing the resulting tiny Frame remnant quits the app. Plus any New or Open document goes in there by default.
(I’ve got no answers on the Flash Forums)
[Sorry, no: to the best of my knowledge there’s no way to turn off the frame in Flash. --J.]

By: james

james — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:19:18 +0000

At first I didn’t really get the big deal of the application frame. Now I get it – and love it. Since I use two monitors I can now shift all of the pallettes to the smaller monitor and use the large one for full screen editing. WOW!
[Cool. :-) --J.]

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:34:28 +0000

Today I got my CS4 upgrade.
The install took hours, but in the end it was all there. 2DVDs necessary for this.
And then the usual dissapointment begins. I really start to dislike Adobe more on each version.
Since Version 10 ( Illustrator) there are no books anymore. Oke but there were helpfiles on the disk.
Now from CS4 there are no more help files . manuals on the disk or installed, this help button leads to a website. Now we know that since nearly 20 years Adobe is one of the main suppliers of media production and graphic software, the inventor of postscript. So you would expect the manuals to be visually oriented, cause we , the users , are mostly visual oriented people. because we are graphic professionals… SO WHY DO YOU MAKE THE MANUALS COMPLETELY TEXT ORIENTED????
I really hate this.
Now the user interface has an overhaul, maybe this time it is better ( lucky us ) but WHY is this software SO SLOW and so FULL with BUGS and features and plugins I do not want or need.
It is that I am convicted to using Adobe software, cause many of my clients provide me ( I run a graphic service bureau / printshop )with adobe files, otherwise I would never upgrade anymore.
The arrogance of Adobe ( and Microsoft and Apple for that matter) annoyes me every time I see the startup screen with all these patent notices.
Bah!

By: sryo

sryo — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:02:17 +0000

On Windows, all application windows, when maximized have their min/max/close buttons positioned in a way thay if you click on the edge of the screen, it clicks the button. It’s always worked that way, for Adobe applications, and for any other application (including the ones that don´t have a native UI, like winamp, Windows Media player, Safari, Google Chrome, etc).

By: sryo

sryo — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:34:50 +0000

There are 2 realy annoying thins in the new UI: 1) neither the menu buttons, nor the app icon / minimize / restore / close buttons are in the edges, making them harder to click. [I don't quite follow. Is this something new? And what other apps put these buttons at the edge of the screen? I just tabbed through all my open apps and don't see than any of them do so. --J.] 2) why are there duplicate buttons for the hand, zoom, and rotate? removing them from the tool pallette would be a huge win in vertical real state space. [I'm not sure that saving 48 pixels would be a "huge win." In any case, I believe the designers were trying to make them more discoverable & to provide quick access up top. I personally would much rather use the application bar real estate for other things (a strip of workspace names, a customizable area, etc.), but that didn't work out for this rev. --J.]