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Harry Potter
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I had Chance to work on High-end Compositors from Discreet Flame and Discreet Combustion and 5d Cyborg V2. The GUI of that software is by far the most user-friendly you will ever find, and that makes the software easy to use and most important Don't interfeare with your your workflow. In 5d Cyborg (it is very sad , 5d went down) you can Hide unwante parts of interface with mouse move. In addition to all, everything is very interactive and engaigin (especially color Correction tools). Photoshop is now version 7, and the interface is just Sux, old School stuff. It is still not possible to Change tha shape of Tools Pallete, change the color of the interface, Build your own Toolbars or at least making it possible to customize the Toolbar
See how everything is build up. That is what I wish Photoshop would Look like. Maybe I am missing something correct me if I am wrong, maybe someone invented plug-in to change the interface[/img] |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 7:56 am |
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Well, that GUI does look snazzy...
I've been using PShop since version 3, so I'm pretty use to it.
It doesn't get in the way of my workflow... Use the actions to control
palettes... Also. use the Workspace option under the Windows menu
to save multiple palette placement setups.
And, above all, get a two monitor serup... 
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| Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 9:56 am |
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| I�m using PS since version 3.0 as well but I also miss the possibility to customize the GUI of PS. They change the shortcuts with every version so you never can get used to them. 3DS-MAX is a good example here. For a software as old as PS I would expect a better GUI. Some function got worse and worse with every version (like the text tool). I�m not saying the GUI is really bad, in fact you have quite some freedom there, but customizable shortcuts would be so nice. This and "autosave"!!! |
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Loki
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| Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 10:23 am |
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Complete BS, Potter ...
Photoshop is a paint package and Flame/Inferno are compositing packages.
Whereas the discreet GUIs are pretty cool (and were inspired by old Quantel machines like the Henry, etc. ...) they end up using up too much screen estate.
Matador/Parallax, an older SGI paintpackage had a similar interface but was a pain in the ass because it ate 2 3rds of the screen.
When I'm painting I want to see the canvas as big as possible and not have screen space pissed away by a gray background of a 'cool' GUI ...
Yes, the PS GUI could be better, but it's already not bad. A second monitor is what you want.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 7:41 pm |
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yepsir... double ditto on the 2nd monitor... For whatever you're doing on a computer, if you're in it for the long haul, setup a 2nd monitor....
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Harry Potter
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| Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 9:06 pm |
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HAHA
My wish came true......there is a plug-in for Photoshop it is called Interface Improver. What it does is it hides Palletes automatically!!!! and everytime you want to acess the pallete, you just weave your mouse to the edge of the screen where the pallete is hiden ! It keep the monitor clean of those nasty palletes 
I found another great thing. Programmable keypad with 98 keys !!! Usefull thing for working in Photoshop. I will order it in a day or so. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 10:49 pm |
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| Errrr, ever tried to hit the "tab" key in Photoshop? |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 4:46 am |
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| Errrr, ever tried to hit the "tab" key in Photoshop? |
doesn't that hide the pallets?
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:15 am |
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Yes... hit the TAB key and all palettes hide... hit it again and they reappear. TAB is a toggle
Also, in PShop 7, for a nice little surprise, hit the ENTER key right after hitting the TAB key when hiding the palettes...
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 10:35 am |
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eyewoo: hey thanks for the tipp. but you can't remove it by pressing enter. you have to press tab two times afterwards....
Harry: The photoshop interface improver just slows down your mashine!!! |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 11:01 am |
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eyewoo: eh cool I didn't know about the right "enter" key. Where did you learn that ?
the caps lock key really got me to pull my hair out before I knew what it did.. "AAAH !!! I want to see the shape of my brushes not the precise ! $?/$?"$" |
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Harry Potter
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:39 pm |
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It turned out to be a good topic.
interface improver slows down my machine???.........2ghz...It will not make difference
I have 2 monitors, I wish I had a lot of money so I can buy wide screen Apple Cinema Monitor(+mac itself) and have all the screen space I could ever wish for |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 10:58 pm |
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Press SHIFT+TAB for another variation ...
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:21 am |
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I would think twice before buying a mac, Harry. I have owned macs since the 512k fat mac, I know them well. I have also watched the PC world get its act together, so now it is the world versus some (very good) engineers in Cupertino.
This is just my experienced opinion, feel free to disagree, I won't argue.
But do buy the monitor...
edit- hey loki, are you going back down to Weta? ESC needs a good MP. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 10:01 am |
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press Alt-Ctrl-Del then S then hit return, make sure u do this really fast, it works so well
and on 98 machines just Alt-Ctrl-Del twice quickly
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 10:33 am |
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Harry Potter
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 11:22 am |
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spooge demon:
There is huge number of monitors besides apple
Tab will hide palletes all of them
Shift-tab - will hide all palletes except Tools
CapsLock will show the dimensions/form of the bruh
F several times to hide other parts of interface (menu, statusbar and other crap) |
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