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New Photoshop UI has become a major problem on the official feedback forum

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Re: New Photoshop UI has become a major problem on the official feedback forum

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Post by smrtinsert »

mrweasel wrote: post #25
vladdanilov wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's a side by side comparison of general UI http://i.imgur.com/bViZN6Z.png and dialog UI http://i.imgur.com/AlclEsk.png (by Marc Edwards), and a new welcoming screen http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/files/2015/12/Screen-Sh... . There are also some screenshots and videos in the official blog post http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/11/photoshop-cc-2015-a... .

I can understand people complaining. The dialog UI you linked to is a horrible grey text and grey, it's really hard to read. The rest seems to be a case of "flatten it, because it's modern", it really don't make thing more visible or clearer.

I find it perfectly fine to read and it seems way less cluttered.

Re: New Photoshop UI has become a major problem on the official feedback forum

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Post by smrtinsert »

awesomerobot wrote: post #17

I understand why people are upset — but let's not pretend that Adobe's interfaces have ever been able to pass any usability tests.

I disagree the new ui looks bad, and I disagree Adobe's ui is not important. Even with years of PS under my belt I can't make the transition to Gimp simply because everything is in the wrong place, and I've tried many times.

Part of Photoshops success has been the great layout of its tools.

Re: New Photoshop UI has become a major problem on the official feedback forum

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Post by kbenson »

mrweasel wrote: post #27
melling wrote: post #2

People don't like change?

Correct, which is why you should, if possible, make gradual changes. These changes to Photoshop seems to be like Windows 8 (or 10), to a lesser degree though. The changes are made because the application looked "dated" not because they where needed to move the application forwards. Windows of instance could look like it did in the Windows NT 4.0 days and nobody in business would care. Sure update the icons, tweak the…

I don't know, I can't think of a single thing I like better about a previous version of Windows than Windows 10 (maybe a start menu that's slightly more streamlined).

Re: New Photoshop UI has become a major problem on the official feedback forum

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Post by planetjones »

> After about eight hours in Photoshop and Illustrator I feel pretty confident in describing the 2015.1 GUI changes as a bizarre gaffe.

It's hard to imagine that Adobe don't follow a UAT and beta test roll out model of their software, so is this just a case of a few users shouting the loudest or is there genuinely an issue with the UI. The comments on the article span a period of 3 months ago to 1 week ago.

> And yet, this subject does not have any response from Adobe. This is getting surreal. HELLO ADOBE-- ANYONE HOME? How many posts before this gets on your radar screen?

That is slightly infuriating, as the subscriptions to Creative Cloud are far from cheap, so you would expect there to be a feedback channel to Adobe themselves.

Personally, I use Lightroom infrequently and always get confused by the user interface - but I always attribute that to the fact I don't use it daily.

Re: New Photoshop UI has become a major problem on the official feedback forum

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Post by radarsat1 »

TrevorJ wrote: post #28

That's the problem I have with the creative cloud model of forced updates. Professionals can have years invested in using a tool and becoming incredibly fast at it: all that can potentially be erased by being forced to upgrade to a version that changes the way you are used to working.

I agree. UI versioning should be a standard thing for web apps.

Re: New Photoshop UI has become a major problem on the official feedback forum

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Post by zbjornson »

The Solidworks UI also changed this year and users were upset, but Dassault issued a rather awesome reply [1] (although it seems like it was not enough for some):

> SOLIDWORKS users are passionate. We love that about you.

> SOLIDWORKS employees are also passionate about the product we deliver. We take pride in SOLIDWORKS, and in our relationship with you and responding to your feedback. We want you to love SOLIDWORKS.

> We know that some of you are not happy with the SOLIDWORKS 2016 user interface. We are listening, we are working on it, and we will share more about our plans in the coming weeks.

[1] https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/107846

Re: New Photoshop UI has become a major problem on the official feedback forum

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Post by dagw »

TrevorJ wrote: post #28

That's the problem I have with the creative cloud model of forced updates. Professionals can have years invested in using a tool and becoming incredibly fast at it: all that can potentially be erased by being forced to upgrade to a version that changes the way you are used to working.

I know Creative Cloud used to allow downgrades, I'm assuming it still does.

Re: New Photoshop UI has become a major problem on the official feedback forum

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Post by yoodenvranx »

zodPod wrote: post #30

These flat designs are the WORST. Jira, Office365, and now Photoshop? They're hideous and they're hard to read/use/work within. Who looks at existing flat designs and decides to implement it themselves? It's awful.

In my opinion the worst offender is the stock clock app in Android. I use it almost everyday but I am still confused by it's design.

Re: New Photoshop UI has become a major problem on the official feedback forum

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Post by knd775 »

mangeletti wrote: post #39

Anyone still using a product made by Adobe, in 2016, is cruisin' for a bruisin'. If you're on a Mac: 1. Affinity Photo replaces Photoshop. 2. Affinity Designer replaces Illustrator / Fireworks. Anyone have suggestions for Windows users?

Affinity Photo doesn't replace Photoshop.

Also, there are quite a few more Adobe applications than just Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks.

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