On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 05:09:12PM +0200, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> > This is kind of off topic, but an honest question. What exactly is it
> > about Photoshop that people consider "difficult"? I'm wondering how
> > much of that is social conditioning, or people being misled by some
> > phantom reputation, because there's nothing really difficult about it.
> >
> > Alan
>
> If I had to guess, I'd say that it's the large number of menu items.
> There aren't that many apps which have hundreds of items packed into
> a hierarchical context menu. It takes a while to find what you want
> if you don't know what there is and what it's called. People have the
> same complaint about the GIMP, which has an interface similar to
> Photoshop's. This sort of interface is designed to be efficient for
> experts to use---which is the way to go for a piece of software where
> the intended audience will use it enough to become experts.
I agree, it is really just familiarity. I find the GIMP to be second
nature, and struggle with Photoshop, but that is because I have been using
the GIMP for 9 years now. One of my favorite retorts from a Human Interface
flamewar about 12 years ago was "The only intuitive ui element is the
nipple, after that everything else is learned."
Jeff
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