Comments on: (Optional) Death to “Copy”

By: nonnonboy

nonnonboy — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:41:01 +0000

Greeeeeat!
I love this checkbox very very much!!!

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:11:08 +0000

Will this make its way over to Illy too?

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:02:30 +0000

Champagne! :)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:13:56 +0000

Sweetest thing …
I’m bashing the Adobe team over and over again whenever i’m in the middle of a project finding out the little quirks in the apps that drive me mad at 5 AM.
Now it’s Christmas time and time for New Year resolutions like (hopelessly) throwing away bad habits.
My idea (wish) for reducing rants: Adobe should make the interface/checkbox/options/command/whatever source code open source to the community and everyone can modify “their software” as they want.
How about that John.
At least i would use it to modify After Effects CS3 and it’s DAMN! behaviour cutting off characters from file names in the browswer AND timeline!!
Oh, it’s me ranting again … but rightly I think.

By: Steve Laskevitch

Steve Laskevitch — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:30:21 +0000

merlin….my dear merlin…..

By: Trenton Moore

Trenton Moore — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:42:30 +0000

Thanks for this John!
I do kinda agree with James, above me, too. Maybe the option for a custom suffix or prefix?

By: James

James — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:44:52 +0000

John, I like it, and want to add possible consideration.
Would you consider this tweak to the checkbox concept:
“Add [alphanumeric text field here] to copied layers and groups”
This lets the user determine whether “copy” or “copy of” or (if you supported it with special characters) incrementing numerals, or even the choice or whether a prefix or suffix, is added.
Just a thought. I realize that it’s possible to overthink it, too!
Thanks for listening, and for your feedback!

By: gustavo

gustavo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:21:44 +0000

I don’t like it. If you want to follow the feedback you should give 2 separate options:
1. suffix for copied layers/groups
none
copy
sequence number
2. suffix for copied group contents:
none
copy
sequence number
[The guy ahead of you is beating me up about offering too many options. You're beating me up about offering too few. Sounds about right. (For the record, I'd like PS to offer the options you suggest, but that's not in the cards right now.) --J.]

By: Bramus!

Bramus! — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:21:08 +0000

Great! It’s those tiny tweaks that make up with the big stuff. :-)
Another tiny thing that would be great (and which has been bothering me for ages) is that when pasting a hex color with the # sign (such as #123456) into the color picker, photoshop (and other apps of the suite) should chop off the # sign and paste in the actual numbers withouth the hash (123456).
Right now Photoshop pastes only six characters (#12345) and then chops off the # sign leaving us with 5 digits (12345), and thus an invalid color, in the picker itself.
Tiny tweak, great results, happy customers.

By: Lars

Lars — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:57:30 +0000

WOW… that alone is a reason to buy CS5.
Your so creative and such coding experts!
That really deserves a headline ad ZDNET!!!

By: Martin Doersch

Martin Doersch — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:55:01 +0000

That’s great. Thanks

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:45:04 +0000

Shouldn’t need to be an option, you should just increase the number at the end of the layer name automatically instead.
You know like After Effects does, this is way too granular to have as an option as the way AE does it is definitely better.
[So, I guess your one opinion should just veto those of everyone who asked for an option. Good to know. --J.]

By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:53:01 +0000

rocket science at adobe — your guys are so great.. you can make a checkbox!!

By: James

James — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:00:33 +0000

Thanks for the solution, John! This way us script-heads can keep our actions, and everyone else can kiss “$layer_name copy” goodbye.

By: Daniel Brown

Daniel Brown — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:21:30 +0000

And we lost Merlin in the icon sizes? Well, probably about time, but sad to see…