stress-spun reiteration

[egypturnash]

I hate Photoshop. I can't find anything in it. Ever. Where the @#$% is the tool to let you edit a gradient? I can't @#$%ing find it. I've found it before and now I can't find it, just the stupid "preset manager" that lets you delete and load and save them. I hate Photoshop.

I hate Flash, too. Every release has been slower and slower for me. It's impossible to focus on something I'm trying to do when I have to wait a second or two after damn near every click. MX2004 is *almost* usable compared to MX. It's still a big sluggish piece of garbage.

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Oh, there's the gradient editor. Click on the gradient in the gradient fill options bar instead of the drop-down next to it. Searching the help on 'gradient' managed to find that. How @#$%ing logical. I hate Photoshop.

And the first person to say the stuff about who blames their tools gets hurt. Flash is a poor tool.

Also, my net is screwed and I can't seem to upload anything larger than, say, a piece of text e-mail. So I can't put files up on the collaboration site even if I wasn't stressing and spinning my wheels, or get them out via FTP, or e-mail. I hate computers.

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While I'm venting, I'd just like to say that the least unusable version of Flash was 5. Every release since then has been downhill. Doing anything involves a lot more clicks than it used to. And waiting for Flash to get off its ass and decide to respond to those clicks. Supposedly they're going to try to fix that in the next version, but I only trust Macromedia to get it wrong. Admittedly now that Adobe bought them maybe they can go back to 5's UI. They ditched it 'cause Adobe sued them 'cause it was a bunch of easy-to-use palettes, just like Photoshop and Illustrator. It's still palette-heavy but it's ugly awkward ones now, and the main hate is for the "contextual inspector palette" that replaces the frame palette, the instance palette, and about six other palettes, and tries to be "smart" about what it shows you. "Smart" meaning in this case "annoying".

Comments

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

Gradient editing is pretty much marginalized in Photoshop by the fact it's so hard to get to. Plus the completely unnecessary dichotomy of gradient fill vs. "Gradient Overlay".

What bothers me the most about Photoshop is that each version seems to have fewer features than the last. Sure, sure, more marketroid features, but did you know that between Photoshop 7 and Photoshop CS, they completely eliminated the ability to save a 32-bit .TGA file?

It's like the world's simplest image format (you know when Linden Lab (http://secondlife.com/) picks it as the only supported texture format, it's got to be so simple a dog could implement it)... excised for no discernable reason.

Other than a "fuck you, we can make Photoshop do whatever we want" message.

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

And unmapping it so you can't Edit->Clear by hitting Delete anymore. That's another thing they cut from 7 to CS.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

edit->keyboard shortcuts

which is actually a step up - you can FINALLY edit SOME of the keyboard shortcuts.

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

Well, um, OK, thanks! c_c

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

It took me a while to find, too. I was pissed that 7 removed the 'make apple-z/apple-shift-z step through history' switch until I realized it was folded intp general key-remapping.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

You're shitting me. You can't make alpha TGAs anymore? Man, I'm sticking with 5.5 FOREVER.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

You can, but it's weird and convoluted. You have to explicitly make an alpha channel in the channels palette, it won't build one for you from the transparency embedded in your layers.

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

"it won't build one for you from the transparency embedded in your layers"

The way it used to.

The other thing I hate is the giant delay whenever I launch CS... it's like it starts up just for looks, then goes completely catatonic for around 30 seconds. I'm guessing that may be an Adobe phone-home activation thing, though... side effect of the fact I'm using legally-licensed CS at work and bootleg 7 at home.