Photoshop and Fireworks: Drag a layer from Photoshop to Fireworks, GOODBYE ALPHA CHANNEL! Thanks Fireworks and the Photoshop teams, I FUCKING LOVE SAVING LOADS OF PNGs TO MY DESKTOP JUST TO PRESERVE A FUCKING ALPHA CHANNEL.
Photoshop Sliders pt.2
Saw this tweet on Neven Mrgan’s follow up on the sliders
@nevenmrgan @gruber In one screen, Final Cut Pro shows three different sliders, none OS-standard: http://bit.ly/3vQto8 Just sayin’.
If Final Cut Pro jumped off a cliff would you? This example is terrible justification for Photoshops pathetic attempts at sliders:
Firstly none of the FCP sliders are broken, none look like they were hacked together by an incompetent developer who can’t even line up their fake thumb control with their faked gutter and they all fit consistently with the rest of the UI.
Secondly FCP is a video editing program, Photoshop is a graphical editing program… I could actually let some amateurish UI flaws like this slide in FCP because the creators don’t necessarily know anything about design while the Photoshop team should at least have enough knowledge to spot these glaring mistakes.
To be fair I don’t mind the sliders being custom in some cases (AE is clearly the best implemented and programmed Adobe UI and wouldn’t benefit from being more native) , its more the fact that you shipped those shitty aliased and misaligned aqua controls.
Update: Thomas Edwards pointed out via email that only 1 of the FCP controls is actually a slider, the others are a frame selection jog wheel and a variable fast forward/rewind control both of which wouldn’t work using a standard slider control. Which makes the Adobe justification even more laughable.
The many sliders of Photoshop CS4
Preferences > Memory Usage
Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast
Filters
Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)
Layer Blending
Layer Style
Threshold
Color BalanceThings to keep in mind:
- These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here’s the first one I found in Illustrator CS5:
- The most common out of all these seems to be second one, Brightness Adjustment.
- They’re all ugly. The only near-acceptable one is the Layer Style slider.
- None of these looks like the standard OS X slider:
Don’t mind the special function ones like Layer Blending, however blur takes the piss I mean you can see they even faked the runner under it probably because the UI drawing code used there doesn’t support alpha transparency, fucking amature hour if you ask me.
Big assed post about Fireworks
Jon Hicks on his love/hate relationship with Fireworks.
Now I didn’t use Fireworks until I started a job where we used it about 2 years ago, but now I’ve got used to it I really have no idea how people can do screen design in Photoshop all day, its clunky as fuck for web design even with its vector tools and smart objects.
Don’t get me wrong its awesome for Photo manipulation and art working, but for laying out websites with forms, buttons etc its a complete nightmare. Oh and thats even when working with tidy designers, work with someone who can’t name layers and its a fucking nightmare. Most Photoshop users never realise this though because Fireworks seems so clunky at first glance that you only ever learn how to use it if your boss basically forces you into it because he can’t use Photoshop.
Basically Fireworks could be a game changer, it just needs a sensible rewrite by a talented team, needs to stop pretending to be some developer tool for mocking up AIR integrated RIA buzzword drenched shit. I mean really Adobe couldn’t you have invested all the money you wasted on garbage like Photoshop.com, Adobe TV, Adobe Drive, and all that other nonsense and just invested some money in fixing Fireworks’ problems.
tl;dr: Fireworks is a buggy, clunky mess but its still better at doing my job than Photoshop
I just opened photoshop, and it up pops this bullshit asking where it is. Smart…
Some background: I updated to Snow Leopard. Of course, CS3 had an issue with that. Got this as I tried to launch Photoshop this morning:
Real helpful. Best part? All the Adobe documentation says the same thing: trash preferences, reinstall/repair CS3. Been there, done that. I’m 95% sure this is a DRM thing. For the last time, DRM FUCKING BLOWS.
Photoshop:
Why is this menulet with horrible aliased text asking me for an Adobe ID? What does it even do, and why is it installed? Of particular interest are the checkbox and button elements that would look more at home in CDE than a professional tool. Yeah what the hell does it even do? also nice job lining up that check box
Thanks Zack
Photoshop: The order of the layer effects don’t match the true compositing order, BradEllis has provided us with a handy diagram explaining the confusion. Why can’t we reorder the compositing order? Why can’t we stack effects? Why isn’t Gaussian Blur a layer effect considering its the most used filter ever and Smart Objects is a clunky hacky solution.
