Essentially, the price you pay for the capability of Photoshop (And rest
assured, it's *FAR* more capable than anything similar) is the
complexity. To reduce the complexity, you need to also reduce the
capability. And that's exactly what Adobe did with Photoshop Essentials,
which is more than adequate for 90% of photographer's work. In fact, the
only reason I don't use Essentials is the fact my B&W workflow requires
16bit to prevent histogram jaggies, my colour editing is 16bit only to
allow my workflow to vary less. Colour Management is useful, and I take
advantage of it, but I could live without it.
-Adam
Toralf Lund wrote:
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I'd disagree - Photoshop is very customizable, and can be optimized for
many systems and work flows. [ ... ]
Well, like I said, I don't know it that well. Being customizable is not
necessarily a Good Thing as such, though...
To use what may perhaps be a poor analogy, it's like getting into a
car and
being able to adjust all the controls to your body size and type,
Nothing wrong with that. The problem occurs if you have to configure the
ignition before the car actually starts, if you know what I'm saying. Or
a "setup wizard" pops up asking you in what direction you want the car
to go when you turn the steering wheel to the left. Or whatever...
A lot of software is designed like that.
and
driving style - of course, that sometimes requires reading the manual.
It's a very richly featured program, and for it to allow such freedom in
the way it's used seems to make it a very well designed program, able to
handle the vagaries of the thousands of system combinations that it
has to
work with.
Again, they way I see it, the most well designed UI is not necessarily
one that allows a lot of freedom. Having one plain, simple, direct way
of doing an operating is often a lot better. Same as with a camera. I
already told you I that I think the MZ-5n has a more or less ideal
"interface", didn't I?
See also http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html,
especially "Chapter 3: Choices". (And lots of other texts on the
subjects out on the Net. I'm a bit too tired to go looking for other
relevant ones right now...)
But we're moving off the topic...
**
Shel
