Comments on: JDI survey miscellany

By: Carl A.

Carl A. — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:52:50 +0000

I’d like to know how many Adobe customers are really leveraging the Flash panels in Photoshop to make extensions and customizations. Was it worth all the UI pain that we have to suffer through as the panel scaffolding matures into CS6, CS7… etc.?

Who was driving this “innovation”? I’m really curious, because I haven’t found any PS panel extensions that seem worth even an iota of currency compared to the speed and polish of earlier versions without Flash.

By: Keith Humm

Keith Humm — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:01:05 +0000

Now I remember why I want history saved: accidentally flattening of images!
Even better, an option to explicitly *disable* the flatten command – the only time I *ever* flatten things is with a copy all layers command. I can’t understand why anyone would flatten their primary image…

By: Phil Brown

Phil Brown — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:08:08 +0000

Unders Vista and Windows 7 it’s part of the default OS navigation GUI. There’s an icon to click called “Recent Places” in both the Save and Open dialog that allows you to choose from a considerable list of recent locations (local and network).
To add, for XP, it’s also available as part of the native Dialogue for Open and Save as “My Recent Documents”, although it’s not as clean as it is under Vista and Windows 7.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:19:16 +0000

Ah, thanks for the explanation. Being an non-programmer techie, I just think “oh, why don’t they just call the new dialog. Easy.”
Well, see if you can push it through for CS5. It would be a nice touch.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:47:07 +0000

Speaking of Windows Open/Save, is there any reason that Photoshop for Windows is stuck with the 8+ year old open/save dialog, instead of the much nicer new one that shipped in 2006 with Vista?
[There's a bunch of custom logic in the PS Open/Save path, and the task of rewriting these dialogs keeps getting pushed off due to other architectural work that gets pushed in front (e.g. Cocoa). I agree that it's lame; sorry about that. --J.]
It would be nice if I could actually see my user defined shortcuts, like I can on OSX.
Photoshop for OSX uses the current OS dialog. What’s the problem with Windows?
It’s pretty sad that Notepad has a nicer open/save experience than a $600 app.

By: Trevor Morris

Trevor Morris — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:58:51 +0000

As for Windows, I know I’ve used similar utilities in the past, but I don’t know any names offhand. (Suggestions welcome.)
For WinXP users, this app does the trick: Edit Buddy (http://www.decisoft.com/).

By: Phil Brown

Phil Brown — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:51:16 +0000

As for Windows, I know I’ve used similar utilities in the past, but I don’t know any names offhand. (Suggestions welcome.)
Unders Vista and Windows 7 it’s part of the default OS navigation GUI. There’s an icon to click called “Recent Places” in both the Save and Open dialog that allows you to choose from a considerable list of recent locations (local and network).

By: Jim Thibert

Jim Thibert — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:40:40 +0000

When will PSCS4 have a direct interface with LR2?
Interface as with old PS/Illustrator rather than just an export function from LR2 to PSCS4.
It would be cool to go back and forth, especially with the proliferation of preseys in LR2.
Thanks

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:33:00 +0000

I agree with you about Default Folder. I just didn’t get it and certainly not at the price, until I tried it. I couldn’t buy it fast enough after that.

By: warren

warren — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:24:43 +0000

In addition to separate SAVE and OPEN location-histories, SAVE AS should also have its own history. Thanks!

By: Lechia Davis

Lechia Davis — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:18:54 +0000

Off subject but I’m hoping you can help me. Bought my husband CS4 Upgrade for Christmas. He had CS3 Extended. Was told he would have to have CS4 Extended. Bought the CS4 Ext. and then started what has been a 6 month ordeal to get a refund on the Non-Extended program. If you can help me in anyway please email and I can give you complete details, dates, numbers, etc. lechiadavis@hotmail.com
Thank you.

By: imajes

imajes — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:22:19 +0000

John wrote - "In the meantime, if you're on OS X and aren't using Default Folder, I think you're kind of insane." Same goes if still using Finder at all! PathFinder eases the pain a bit more. http://cocoatech.com/ [But PathFinder doesn't replace/affect your Open/Save windows, does it? That's where Default Folder really shines for me. (I do find DF's menubar extension useful from time to time.) --J.] And if you are on Windows, Directory Opus saves you soooo much time and makes Finder look even worse. Very, very powerful and very customisable. With easy export + import of prefs - something for the JDI list. http://www.pretentiousname.com/opus9/index.html#introduction