Comments on: All I Want From Adobe CS4…

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By: Michael Jenner

Michael Jenner — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:46:29 +0000

I use Photoshop daily and have since maybe 95. I teach PS at the college level. There are lots of things that could be done to improve it. Here’s my list of requests: 1) put most frequently used items from the menus into buttons for the options bar, Image>Crop with rect marquee, etc. 2) why can I get better sharpening from any number of applications than I can in Photoshop? currently I’m using Picture Project from Nikon and their utilitarian Low/Medium/High sharpening does a much cleaner job of sharpening a photo than Photoshop can do with any number of methods, including high pass sharpening (what an obtuse method, make a button please) 3) absolutely make color management something simple; if it’s possible to write books about it, it’s too hard 4) why not have menu item or buttons for changing all appropriate preferences for web, print, ink jet, whatever right when you open the image and then you’re all set. And yes, personally, I loved ImageReady, and it seemed like the first or second version was the easiest to use. That app seemed to get worse instead of better over time. Let’s keep Image Ready, with it’s marvelous ability to slice and save slices as jpeg or gif in the same image. But please make something about the interface look really different so I’m not having to explain to students all the time that they’re not in Photoshop. They accidentally get into ImageReady and get very confused by it.

By: Damien

Damien — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:42:28 +0000

I think Photoshop is one of the most poorly designed applications ever written. It takes classes and books to learn the awful user interface. The situation is even more tragic for photographers, who have not a clue how to approach this cryptic mess. It’s OK at facilitating web site design, if you are a geek, and its terrible for everything else. On a 1 to 10 I give Photoshop an F. What CS4 needs is a brand spankin’ new user interface. Or else. Seriously I make far too much money showing people where Crop and Stroke is.

By: shaggy

shaggy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:45:31 +0000

pixelmator sux at this point.
use inkscape.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:50:07 +0000

I must apologize that I didn’t read all the comments because I’m sure someone else touched on this – but if you go to

Preferences
Interface
then uncheck Show Menu Colors

the annoying purple crap goes away. If that’s what you are talking about. You can also globally do it from within Bridge.

As far as fireworks is concerned, I used to love it but ditched it in CS3 though I maintain a copy of Fireworks Studio 8 when I need to better optimize larger graphics.

By: Adam Thody

Adam Thody — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:14:28 +0000

I’m continually baffled at the web world’s insistence on using photo editing software to design web interfaces. That has to be the biggest hack in the history of web development.

If you’re making elaborate textures, editing photos, or creating very complex graphical elements, sure, hop into Photoshop…but then save them as bitmaps, and import them into a package designed to for web interfaces like Fireworks, which contrary to some comments, HAS come a long way, and at the very least is far better suited than the glacial Photoshop.

By: jon

jon — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:34:46 +0000

maybe gimp is your answer :)

By: Lauren Miehe

Lauren Miehe — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:55:43 +0000

I really just hope they don’t decide too revamp the entire interface again so I need to hunt around for the most common functions. I have felt over the last few versions you needed to relearn a bunch of stuff because of these interface changes and you know “time is money”.

By: Ali Reid

Ali Reid — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:15:14 +0000

I still have a lot of love for Adobe, and get excited with the prospect of new releases. That’s not to say that the introduction of Adobe Bridge didn’t make me cry like a bebeh.
I have been known to use PS, AI, Flash and dreamweaver simultaneously, and I’ll tell you the best thing ever: the import PSD to Flash function!

Thank god for mergers and aquisitions! You can check and uncheck layers. You can import every layer, in position, rasterised, vector, or live-text. you can go back and make changes to your psd and re-import those layers. Flash animation is so simple now.

I’m willing to forgive them for a bit at least, while they focus on interoperability.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:11:15 +0000

You really ought to try Fireworks for your web graphics. It is ideal for interactive design compared to Photoshop.

Consider the classic web graphics scenario of the image with a rollover state. In FW this is a simple matter of copying the artwork into a second frame, making your rollover changes and then slicing and exporting with the “Current Frame Only” option unchecked. You’ll end up with two images with the same dimensions from the one save process. In PS you would either have to create two slices at different locations on the canvas (taking care to make the two slices the same size) or go thru the slow-as-tree-sap “Save for Web” process two separate times while switching layer visibility between saves.

Probably the best feature of FW is the ease with which you can slice and export images. The integration of the export features with the actual design environment is stunningly simple and powerful. When I saw that, and how easy it was to draw and style a simple rectangle, I switched to Fireworks four years ago and haven’t looked back.

By: Porter

Porter — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:21:19 +0000

@#26… the Vignet tutorial worked great for this Photoshop user.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:23:43 +0000

Please make Dreamweaver for Mac more like Dreamweaver for PC.

By: Matt Dawson

Matt Dawson — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:16:06 +0000

I've gotta agree with Chris Moritz way back in comment 6. I die a little inside every time I open the character/paragraph palettes and realize how few options I have. And it's no just webbies that would benefit from this, either.