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Being able to do things using different approaches is one of the best features of Photoshop. It makes the application incredibly powerful.
by oneplusone 17y ago
Being able to do things using different approaches is one of the best features of Photoshop. It makes the application incredibly powerful.
- wvenable 17y agoYes, but does Photoshop need 9 different ugly sliders, for example? http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/235455865/the-many-sliders-of-photoshop-cs4 http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/235455865/the-many-sliders-of-p...
- jacquesm 17y agoYou could turn that argument upside-down and say that it's quite incredible they'd go so far as to create 9 custom sliders depending on the sub-part of the application you're looking at. You can't really argue that all those fit the 'standard' mac slider concept. I think some of them could be rolled together but without knowing more about the context in which each and every one of those sliders gets used it is hard to be even sure about that. Complex user interfaces: http://www.sternstudio.com/HollandsGlorie.jpg http://www.sternstudio.com/HollandsGlorie.jpg Tend to have a lot of buttons & sliders...
- baguasquirrel 17y agoYes, but there is similarity between the sliders in that picture you show here. When you make 9 different sliders, it distracts from the settings being modified, and directs attention towards the UI itself. This is probably one of the oldest no-nos in traditional design. In the original example, the Color Balance and Layer Blending tools clearly should have been drawn from the same mold. Ditto for Brightness, Pencil Width, Blur Width, Layer Style: Scale.
- oneplusone 17y agoThe is limited to the Mac version only. Windows version has essentially 2 types of sliders that are used very consistently. Also saying that there are 9 different sliders is deceiving. The layer blending and threshold sliders for example are the exact same thing.