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Adobe stuff is bloatware and sucks. No, it's just vastly more complicated than most of the cut-down alternatives because it has to meet the needs of pro design
by cageface 15y ago
Adobe stuff is bloatware and sucks.
No, it's just vastly more complicated than most of the cut-down alternatives because it has to meet the needs of pro designers. Maybe there's some accumulated cruft there but I can guarantee you that Pixelmator, for example, would be similarly large if it had to support all the same use cases.
- systemtrigger 15y agoYes though I suspect Photoshop's load time could be significantly reduced by limiting the features available at load time. If the method code for the 223rd most popular effect is loaded into memory prior to the user being able to do anything, Adobe is doing it wrong.
- cageface 15y agoMaybe so, but that kind of dependent loading might also significantly complicate the code. I have no idea how Photoshop actually handles this but it's about as close as software gets to magic already so I'm disinclined to accuse the developers of incompetence or sloth.
- jiggy2011 15y agoYes, part of the problem that Photoshop has is that it is seen as the "go-to" tool for doing any kind of graphics work at all. Many people install pirate Photoshop to resize and put a few filters on their photos and complain that is it too slow and complicated when really they could have achieved the same result from either a freeware program or a significantly cheaper commercial one.