What The Adobe-Macromedia Merger Means For Photoshop

Yes, Photoshop Elements is something like Photoshop “lite”, but it seems companies like Adobe and Macromedia continue to release versions of their products with varying tools (examples are Flash Basic & Professional; Acrobat Standard, Professional & Elements; and Creative Suite Standard & Premium).

ImageReady does continue to have its Animation palette, even in CS2, but with CS2 Photoshop has it as well, and I think the writing is on the wall that eventually Photoshop will absorb the web graphics tools in ImageReady (IR is something of a throwback to the days when web graphics were strange and new and animated GIFs were state-of-the-art; I’ll be glad to see it go).

It’s new for CS2. I plan to do a tutorial in the future that shows how you can use the Animation palette in Photoshop to create animated GIFs. There’s a trick to it because simply saving the file as a GIF does not cut it; you must use the Save For Web function.

Used image ready day in and out for a month just for the sake of knowing it. Actually used it to make 1 animated gif for 1 project…ever. It’s time for it to die.

I’d like to see them take the native flash export stuff from AfterEffects 7 and put it in Photoshop in place of Image ready.

I’d also like to see all the non-destructive effects like in after effects because the filter gallery thing is 1.crap 2.destructive. On lower end systems with low ram I’ve seen it freeze the system.

I truly think the After Effects 7 interface is amazing, but too much of a change for stubborn Photoshoppers. I’d love to see the sideways tabs/pallettes from InDesign be an interface ‘option’ for PS.

Legend has it that Fireworks jpeg export is much smaller and better looking than PS save for web jpegs and it’s png files retain some sort of layered editability and don’t have adobe’s png gamma problem.

Personally I think Photoshop has tried for too long to be everything for 2 very different sets of people, Graphic Designers and Photographers. Fireworks is more for Design than it is for Photography. I think the proposed 2 versions of Photoshop make the distinction. Just give Photoshop Elements ALL the photo editing power of the current PS and have the Pro version incorporate the creative aspects as well as photography.

And replace Illustrator’s layer pallette with the one from After Effects7. It just looks more inviting. And if you’re not going to give illustrator real multi-page document capabilities, lose the big page work area.

–insanity–
kill off all the legacy adobe apps and rebuild them all from the ground up with After Effects7 or InDesign as their foundation. :)

Copy the ’shelf’ concept from Autodesk’s Maya and put it in PS and Illustrator because going to the menu over and over and over for the same thing (not ctrl+f) probably wastes a lot of time if you ever bothered to measure it. And setting up an action or key shortcut is still a lot more complicated than just holding shift while clicking a menu item (à la Maya) to make a temp icon for it.

Did I mention porting all the basic features of Illustrator to PS, like dotted/dashed borders/pathfinder/

Make photoshops brushes have an option to wrap to the opposite edge of the document. 3d texture artists would explode with joy.

Let us link to external files in photoshop.
Let there be an optional super-fast OpenGL based workview and we just render the final image (like AE7)

1-Make vanishing point a part of the main workspace instead of a filter window.
2-Creating a vanishing point grid creates a new layer folder thats connected to that vanishing grid.
3-any layers within this special layer folder follow the perspective of the vanishing point grid.

stop, think abou it… dream.

a hand full of people who use photoshop every day for everything but never became adobe/apple/windows-fanboys could probably come up with less than 50 new features that would put adobe to shame if they could find the money and programmers to implement them
–/insanity–

oh and the CSS on this content form is friggin tizzziight!