Have we told you lately that we love you? I’m telling you now. Photoshop meets the needs! It’s built to accomodate the busy graphic artist… or photographer, etc. I hardly ever have to think about what should have been and isn’t. I never have to worry about whether Photoshop will carry me through the next job without crashing. I never have to concern myself because my workspace gets messy. I never have to worry about much of anything with Photoshop. My requests, if I have any, are minor.
I think you all deserve a lot of credit. I want you to know how much you all are loved! I am very grateful for the job you do and the standards of excellence you maintain!
Thank you for making my daily workflow in Photoshop a pleasant one!
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Yeah, the only thing is if you compliment them too much, they’ll think all their work is done and then all they’ll do is sit around tinking how great they are. . .Photoshop is great, but it ain’t done yet!!!!
Get to work guys. . .don’t read this stuff, it’ll just make your heads too big. . .
I agree: Photoshop has fantastic features. Moreover, it has a great interface. Illustrator and InDesign have excellent features, but their palettes are a mess. Could you folks give them some pointers on how to make a great dialog box?
How about a corner grab/size adjuster for all dialog boxes. I’ve recently tried out PS 7.01 and noticed the new expanded layout of some dialog boxes now nearly cover a quarter of the screen on my 19" monitor. They seem much larger than PS 4 and 5’s.
There are now huge areas of empty gray space some as big as 2" square covering my image where I have to practically move the box off to the edge of my screen just to see what I’m doing.
For example the curves dialog box, the pencil/curve icon and input/output readouts have been moved outward extending beyond the grid box. Why? This creates quite a bit of empty space when you also include the extra gray bounding border separating the button icons on the right. The assign and convert profile DB extend 1/2 the width of my screen.
Is there some kind of secret preference to change the size and layout of dialog boxes I’ve missed?
Other than this, I think the Adobe engineers are gods! =:o
When they decide to come down from the 10th floor, put their pride in their back pocket, and spend some quality time in the real world, then maybe "god" status will happen.
I think what triggers my continual appreciation for the Photoshop team is the frustration I feel over other applications, Illustrator in particular, where one of the simplist and most essential features has been ignored… being able to save workspaces in AICS. Those who have the luxury of two monitors have no idea the inconvenience of not being able to quickly clean up palettes, especially when you use as many as I do. When I have to work fast it is even more of a problem because I end up moving them constantly in search for the ones that might be hidden.
Don’t get me wrong, I think AICS is a truly wonderful application and the engineers are geniuses… but I do not understand why they have not implement this in by now. It should have been implemented one or two versions ago as was the case with PS.
When I get frustrated with AI I end up counting my blessings with PS and that means the team behind it.
Regarding Illustrator’s palettes: I "dock" mine to the bottom of others and minimize/maximize single palettes, or the whole group, as needed. I just keep the grouped palettes in the same positions on the screen so that I know exactly where to find what I need and Illustrator always relaunches with the palettes in their customary places.
Well, I’m using AI 9 in Classic, and the program launches with the palettes right where I always keep them on my second monitor. Has Illustrator 11 regressed?
I totally agree with all the extraordinarily positive comments expressed here about PS. I’m not a professional, nor am I anything near what someone like, Ann Shelbourne (Who I’m in total awe of… sheesh what a mind for it) might consider competent but I’m getting there.
PS is just soooo damned much fun to play around with, for novices like me, because it’s intuitive, rewarding and, I might add, it’s coolness factor flys off all charts. I bought it just because it’s challenging yet fun to use and plus it was cheaper than a boat.
AI could use a healthy dose of some of these things that make PS so awesome IMHO. I downloaded the 30 day AI demo, have played around with it for a week or so and am growing oh so weary of it after just a week. It makes me glad I’m not a professional but PS makes me wish I was one. Keep keeping on, Adobe.
Mike – Anything, but Anything must be better than teaching Economics 101…!! I love PSCS too, and I’m not a professional, I’m an amateur. I’d love to be able to make some money out of this graphics stuff but I’m sufficiently cluey about realitites to know that when people say ‘oh what a professional job, have you thought about going into business?’, they are the ones who don’t have the clue…
Whether as "boss" or as subordinate, every job I’ve had in my life eventually wound up sucking so bad and jerking me into a knot that I’ve just quit and moved on to something else. I don’t give a rip about career paths or being rich… I just want to be happy and I’ve come to think about jobs as temporary pleasures. = ^ )
<< repeat after me. you don’t want to be a professional in the commercial sector. >>
you don’t want to be a professional in the commercial sector. you don’t want to be a professional in the commercial sector. you don’t want to be a professional in the commercial sector. you don’t want to be a professional in the commercial sector. you don’t want to be a professional in the commercial sector.
My husband will attest to that. He does not even consider opportunities to work for others anymore, not even for lots of money. He is self-employed and probably will be for life… unless he gets hungry enough that he has to do something else. π
I kinda get the message but what else could I do with PS wings? I totally understand how sucky it might be to work around artsy fartsy types (That’s not a put down… I belong to that group too) but with ego’s bigger than all of reality squared (I’ll exclude myself here) and all of the politics and envy and jealousy and backstabbing that must go on in the commercial end of this business. To be fair though, you’ll run into most of this crap no matter who you work for, no matter what area of experise. And having your own business is no picnic either. There aren’t any exits.
Great idea Larry. Adobe should give a party for all users. A good location would be at the art museum about two blocks from the Adobe Towers. Even better, at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga. PARTY!!!
Adolph – Please arrange for free software for life for those who attend. I’ll charge admission at the door! Thanks for picking the location. Now when should we do it?
These days, where might I get a copy of PS1 to mess around with?
I wasn’t PS-aware until v2 and I couldn’t affort it or the Mac then…I got my first license with PS3 (and Centris 650), but didn’t start using PS until a year later when I got my Umax PL scanner (bundled with PS4), and was able to get my own photos in my 14-inch Apple monitor — I still recall the way that old 040 box grumbled opening a 4MB file…
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