Adobe to Unclutter Photoshop UI

spotplace writes "It's not common to see a company blast their own product for failing to adapt to times and people's necessities, unless they're trying to give you a reason to buy the latest and greatest of said product. That's exactly what Adobe has done. John Nack, senior product manager at Adobe, says the old Photoshop interface doesn't cut it anymore: "I sometimes joke that looking at some parts of the app is like counting the rings in a tree: you can gauge when certain features arrived by the dimensions & style of the dialog. No one wants to work with — or work on — some shambling, bloated monster of a program.""

Inspiration for new UI

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

Inspiration for new UI can be found here [blogspot.com]

(I kid, I kid)

No one?

[mastershake_phd]

No one wants to work with -- or work on -- some shambling, bloated monster of a program.

Then how do they find people to work on Windows?

yes, they need to make it more like the GIMP :-)

[dominux]

the Photoshop UI always confuses folk like me. They should drop CMYK support while they are at it.

Finally, it happens...

[inflex]

Must have been all the people in their forums bitching that their interface needed to be more "GIMP" like ;)

I've always wanted...

[jez9999]

What I've always wanted is for Photoshop to use several windows for editing! One for tools, another for layers, another for the image, etc. The way Photoshop is, I can't use my window manager to manage the different components of the interface, and that bugs me. I'm unaware of any graphics editing software that does this.

Re:No one?

[coldcell]

Holding chairs? Modern taskmasters hurl chairs. Far more efficient.

because real software giants

[wwmedia]

use a ribbons!

needs more wizards

[binarybum]

yes, photoshop is lacking in the wizards department. A few random wizards that pop up second-guessing what you're trying to do and that ask a bunch of silly questions ultimately resulting in the automatic execution of only two or three possible outcomes. Maybe they could even hire clippy to solicit help by drawing upon a database of five or six different help-topics incessantly.

Re:Never mind a new UI

[denzacar]

Another thing that 'kills' me is that Photoshop won't allow itself to run multiple copies at a time.

Photoshop takes up A LOT of memory. It does not just take it - it reserves it for its own personal use.
Where are you going to get that other 95% of physical memory for your next instance of Photoshop?

Running multiple Photoshops for multiple images... that is insane. Or running multiple PhotoPaints. Those are not Word or Notepad.
Those are heavy-duty graphic editing programs.

You do know that you can open and work on more then one file at a time?

5-6 copies of PhotoPaint at once?
Fuck... I have to print this - nobody will fucking believe me.

Re:That is not Photoshop - that is your computer

[jimicus]

To you, "dual core" is what you've got left over after you've eaten two apples.

You have leftovers from your apples?

[denzacar]

Kids these days...

In my time, we were lucky if we had any apples, let alone two.
Two apples? Only for a birthday. If you have been good the whole year. Maybe.

Throwing away perfectly good apple core? Vandalism!

Re:Those design thoughts in brief

[Goaway]

Careful there - this is an open source kind of place, we don't want no heretics in here.

And we shall cal it...

[monopole]

...PhotoGIMP!

Re:Inspiration for new UI

[Dr. Cody]

Oh god, OH GOD--don't do this to me!

I've spend over 15 years figuring out; they can't spring a new interface on me just like that!

Re:Wht would they drop CMYK ?

[segedunum]

---> You










---> Sarcasm.