Comments on: Editorial: Why the Mac Needs a Photoshop Competitor http://www.thomas-fitzgerald.net/2006/11/07/editorial-why-the-mac-needs-a-photoshop-competitor/ Macintosh, Apple, Technology, and Design Blog Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dream Tiger http://www.thomas-fitzgerald.net/2006/11/07/editorial-why-the-mac-needs-a-photoshop-competitor/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Dream Tiger Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:19:00 +0000 http://www.thomas-fitzgerald.net/2006/11/07/editorial-why-the-mac-needs-a-photoshop-competitor/#comment-11 I agree that it would be great if Adobe gave more attention to utilizing Apple technologies, like Core Image. Apple could design a far superior image editor, but that is unlikely to happen soon. We can hope that Adobe covers more ground with the CS3 update, but I doubt that Photoshop will receive a major overhaul of the type suggested in this excellent article. As a digital artist, I use Photoshop every day and feel that the interface is positively dinosauric by today's standards. Why continue to do things the same old way, simply because that is the way we have always done them? I want non-destructive image editing, better control of the filters (Example: Radial Blur cannot be precisely placed), and more intuitive layout and functioning of the controls. We should be able to Crop while retaining proportionate image dimensions, for example. We shouldn't have to hunt through the menus to get things done. Make things visually obvious, for a hands-on feel. I agree that it would be great if Adobe gave more attention to utilizing Apple technologies, like Core Image. Apple could design a far superior image editor, but that is unlikely to happen soon. We can hope that Adobe covers more ground with the CS3 update, but I doubt that Photoshop will receive a major overhaul of the type suggested in this excellent article. As a digital artist, I use Photoshop every day and feel that the interface is positively dinosauric by today’s standards. Why continue to do things the same old way, simply because that is the way we have always done them? I want non-destructive image editing, better control of the filters (Example: Radial Blur cannot be precisely placed), and more intuitive layout and functioning of the controls. We should be able to Crop while retaining proportionate image dimensions, for example. We shouldn’t have to hunt through the menus to get things done. Make things visually obvious, for a hands-on feel.

]]> By: r.hutwohl http://www.thomas-fitzgerald.net/2006/11/07/editorial-why-the-mac-needs-a-photoshop-competitor/comment-page-1/#comment-10 r.hutwohl Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:46:38 +0000 http://www.thomas-fitzgerald.net/2006/11/07/editorial-why-the-mac-needs-a-photoshop-competitor/#comment-10 I for one, as a longtime Adobe adopter on the Mac, am miffed at Adobe for dragging their feet on updating the Creative Suite lineage. Upon the release of OS X, Apple has been creating and updating essential core elements for quite some time now and all along Adobe should be utilizing those features. They simply need to be updating the Mac versions of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and release Mac versions accordingly and let the Windows versions fall as they may. At this point I am all for seeing a Photoshop competitor-developer who is willing to stay abreast of Apple's technologies and release versions implementing those capabilities. Adobe's blatant willingness to release Photoshop based on where the money is (Microsoft OS) will eventually come back to haunt them. I for one, as a longtime Adobe adopter on the Mac, am miffed at Adobe for dragging their feet on updating the Creative Suite lineage. Upon the release of OS X, Apple has been creating and updating essential core elements for quite some time now and all along Adobe should be utilizing those features. They simply need to be updating the Mac versions of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and release Mac versions accordingly and let the Windows versions fall as they may.

At this point I am all for seeing a Photoshop competitor-developer who is willing to stay abreast of Apple’s technologies and release versions implementing those capabilities. Adobe’s blatant willingness to release Photoshop based on where the money is (Microsoft OS) will eventually come back to haunt them.

]]> By: pixelzombie http://www.thomas-fitzgerald.net/2006/11/07/editorial-why-the-mac-needs-a-photoshop-competitor/comment-page-1/#comment-9 pixelzombie Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:18:15 +0000 http://www.thomas-fitzgerald.net/2006/11/07/editorial-why-the-mac-needs-a-photoshop-competitor/#comment-9 photoshop did have a competitor in the form of Live Picture, but that app was badly marketed and once John Scully got his hands on it he really drove it into the ground, LP was a brilliant app and to this day it still has features that have yet to show up in photoshop... photoshop did have a competitor in the form of Live Picture, but that app was badly marketed and once John Scully got his hands on it he really drove it into the ground, LP was a brilliant app and to this day it still has features that have yet to show up in photoshop…

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