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I guess what I really want to do is influence the design of the next version of Photoshop to make it more "user-friendly" — or at least friendlier to old guys like me whose eyesight isn’t what it used to be — if it ever was.
Having recently upgraded from a comparatively primitive version (5.5) of Photoshop to the L&G version (CS2) I’m greatly enamored of some (at least what I think are) added features in the new version. [Of course it could be that I’ve just discovered the feature but it’s still new to me.].
Anyway, I just tried the filter gallery and it took me a few minutes before I found in the on-line help how to preview multiple filters at one time. It hinges on creating a new adjustment layer which the only on-screen way to do is to click a tiny icon on the bottom of the Layers Gallery. Now when I say tiny, I mean that it actually measures 1-1/5 millimeters square on a screen that’s 28 cm high! [For you non-metric guys, that’s about 1/16" square on an 11" high screen]. Yes, I think there’s also a keyboard shortcut for it but I shouldn’t be forced to move my hands between the keyboard and the mouse that often, another sign of poor user-interface design.
Since my screen resolution is currently 1920×1440, the whole icon represents an area about 5 pixels square.
Hey! Couldn’t they afford a few more pixels?!
I went to the EDIT | PREFERENCES menu and tried changing the UI text-size but the icon remained the same size. Have I missed something important or am I stuck with a 1/16" square icon?
Having recently upgraded from a comparatively primitive version (5.5) of Photoshop to the L&G version (CS2) I’m greatly enamored of some (at least what I think are) added features in the new version. [Of course it could be that I’ve just discovered the feature but it’s still new to me.].
Anyway, I just tried the filter gallery and it took me a few minutes before I found in the on-line help how to preview multiple filters at one time. It hinges on creating a new adjustment layer which the only on-screen way to do is to click a tiny icon on the bottom of the Layers Gallery. Now when I say tiny, I mean that it actually measures 1-1/5 millimeters square on a screen that’s 28 cm high! [For you non-metric guys, that’s about 1/16" square on an 11" high screen]. Yes, I think there’s also a keyboard shortcut for it but I shouldn’t be forced to move my hands between the keyboard and the mouse that often, another sign of poor user-interface design.
Since my screen resolution is currently 1920×1440, the whole icon represents an area about 5 pixels square.
Hey! Couldn’t they afford a few more pixels?!
I went to the EDIT | PREFERENCES menu and tried changing the UI text-size but the icon remained the same size. Have I missed something important or am I stuck with a 1/16" square icon?
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