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Every time I use the new Photoshop CS4 which is part of my CS4 design standard I get so annoyed with you lot at Adobe. What have you done, I don’t think you actually take any advice from real photographers who are using your product every day. Sure you may talk to the occasional photographer who is happy to spend 10 hours on one image, paid for by a huge client. But what about everyday professionals that use photoshop as an important tool in their everyday digital workflow.
What I like in the new CS4;
The quick selection tool,
The clone stamp preview.
What I hate about CS4;
1. New screen mode functions, when you select ‘full screen mode with menu bar’ the image now anchors to the bottom of the screen. How stupid was that? Not only is that where the auto dock will appear on a mac, but I need to see beyond the bottom edge of the image, unless you can see beyond the bottom edge, you do not know where the bottom edge is. Sure you can use the hand tool to re-position the image but as soon as you touch the navigator to re-size, down it jumps to the bottom of the screen. It used to float freely in CS3, why change it.
2. No contact sheet II in the automate menu. Now you want me to create contact sheets in pdf format. I am a professional photographer, I use a professional lab for printing, professional labs want image files like jpegs or tiffs not pdf’s. Who thought that was a good idea? not a photographer. Your solution is to load the ‘legacy version’ as a plug-in. The fact you have withdrawn it from CS4 demonstrates you don’t understand the business of professional photography.
3. Colour labels used in CS4 bridge aren’t recognised by lightroom2. CS4 bridge cant read CS2 Bridge colour labels. Why not? it’s just simple metadata and they are all Adobe products.
There are other niggles but these three affect my workflow detrimentally and I get annoyed with you lot at Adobe every day, not because I’m a grumpy old whatsit but because you software designers/engineers change things and you obviously don’t know how they are used in the real world. You also develop ridiculous things like the aptly named ‘image toss’ what is the point of that? As a piece of software it might be very clever but I can’t see how it will ever be useful.
What I like in the new CS4;
The quick selection tool,
The clone stamp preview.
What I hate about CS4;
1. New screen mode functions, when you select ‘full screen mode with menu bar’ the image now anchors to the bottom of the screen. How stupid was that? Not only is that where the auto dock will appear on a mac, but I need to see beyond the bottom edge of the image, unless you can see beyond the bottom edge, you do not know where the bottom edge is. Sure you can use the hand tool to re-position the image but as soon as you touch the navigator to re-size, down it jumps to the bottom of the screen. It used to float freely in CS3, why change it.
2. No contact sheet II in the automate menu. Now you want me to create contact sheets in pdf format. I am a professional photographer, I use a professional lab for printing, professional labs want image files like jpegs or tiffs not pdf’s. Who thought that was a good idea? not a photographer. Your solution is to load the ‘legacy version’ as a plug-in. The fact you have withdrawn it from CS4 demonstrates you don’t understand the business of professional photography.
3. Colour labels used in CS4 bridge aren’t recognised by lightroom2. CS4 bridge cant read CS2 Bridge colour labels. Why not? it’s just simple metadata and they are all Adobe products.
There are other niggles but these three affect my workflow detrimentally and I get annoyed with you lot at Adobe every day, not because I’m a grumpy old whatsit but because you software designers/engineers change things and you obviously don’t know how they are used in the real world. You also develop ridiculous things like the aptly named ‘image toss’ what is the point of that? As a piece of software it might be very clever but I can’t see how it will ever be useful.
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