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Shape the Future of Photoshop
The Adobe Photoshop team is asking for your opinion on task-based workspaces in Photoshop.
Written by Terri Stone on September 2, 2009
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John Nack, principal product manager for Photoshop, has posted a call for feedback on his blog. He lays out Adobe's difficulties in pleasing the many and varied audiences that rely on Photoshop. He notes, "Photoshop is so packed with features that the ones you need are needles in a stack of needles. The sheer volume of choices can be paralyzing, and people don't feel they're doing things the best way.
Most customers use only a fraction of Photoshop, yet every part of Photoshop is used by a lot of people. Therefore it's difficult and painful to remove any features. How, then, can we make Photoshop fit your needs precisely without disadvantaging others?"
Adobe may answer this question by using its Configurator technology to create panels tailored to targeted workspaces within Photoshop. To help you envision this, Nack is distributing a downloadable PDF walk-through. Once you check it out, see Nack's full post for details on how to give your feedback on this approach.
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How good it is to read of John Nack's outreach to users in the fresh look at Photoshop's toolkit. Refreshing! Encouraging.
My mind went to my iPhone apps from, for example, Tiffen where you have more than 100 'looks' that can be ordered up for that photo you just snapped. The way it's done there is to give you many small examples of change available. There is the guide photo at top and in the grid of 12 or so samples of how that will look if the app is told to do it.
That is progressive, too. In other words you can first zoom in, for example, and then as in a layer put a color change on the art. There is no need to see a "command-shift-standonyourhead-X" to get there. That's in the $2.99 app Photo fx if you want to look.
My other thought was to use the logical divisions of Photoshop talents that would display with either/both short text list of result and/or example of what happens as Photo fx does it.
Power users could keep -- for as long as they want -- the existing command structure until they tire of the 'standingonyourhead' part.
As usual, CreativePro gives me the first word on a most welcome project 'out there' and congratulations again on your good work.