There's perhaps an easy solution to this that as far as I know has not
been mentioned.
Adobe could take a lesson from Avid's "Protools" product, arguably
the recording industry standard for high-end, high-track count audio
recording and mixing (and these days you can even toss in video
clips).
There is a HUGE amount of information presented on the Protools
desktop, much of it real-time. To run it well takes a minimum of two
large-format monitors (I use three). Waveforms, channel strips,
processing plug-ins, input/output matrices, level meters, et al --
lots of stuff to look at, and much of it in motion.
So, of course, color is an important element in helping the user
manage all these visual elements and not create chaos. (They've done a
masterful job by the way; you're not even aware how good it is or just
how much information you can take in until you're forced to use some
other tool that's not as good.)
But here's the brilliant addition that came in a few years ago. The
color control panel (where the user can assign colors to various
things) now includes variable brightness and saturation controls. You
can make color items cartoonishly saturated, or take them all the way
down to monochrome -- and **every point between**.
This could likely be done with the FM icons and thus please everybody.
And, I'd even suggest an enhancement that I wish Avid would look into.
Give us the ability to create "color groups" within the UI (rather
than just one overall group). Then, to each group, let us assign
various screen elements or groups of elements as we please so that we
can control the visuals of each group independently of other visual
groups.
Within the panel for each group might be color assignment options, but
most importantly would be those variable saturation and brightness
controls. We could set what we want for the entire thing. Want dim
icons but bright pods? Fine. Want the opposite? That's fine too. Want
the whole thing bright or dim, saturated or sepia? You got it.
Clean, simple, and extremely user-eye friendly.
Frank Stearns
Frank Stearns Associates | makers of IXgen(tm) for FrameMaker(r)
*** IXGEN 7-10 for FrameMaker 10-15 HERE! ***
fra...@fsatools.com 1-435-275-8981 fsatools.com
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