thomas fitzgerald.net

Adobe’s John Nack on the recent Photoshop file saving issue:

The short story is that we’ve been working closely with Apple to troubleshoot the issue and have identified the cause. Apple is working on a fix, and we expect they’ll release it in the next System Update.

The slightly longer story is that saving directly to a network is a generally bad idea.

[Read File-saving issues on Mac OS 10.5.3]

From iTWire:

“Mac OS X update could deliver fatal blow to Photoshop CS3″

Oh come on, give me a break. In a rare set of circumstances the update can cause problems writing files over a network, a problem which Photoshop has had on and off for some time. Hardly a “fatal blow”. I wouldn’t mind but the article itself even says as much:

“This could be the latest phase of a long standing issue involving Photoshop and file servers.”

Oh well, hype is hype i suppose.

Aperture is a great piece of software for the most part. However, there are a few additions that I would really like to see Apple make that would really round out the feature set. None of these are particularly major, I don’t think (well, one of them is) but | think they could really add the icing on the cake to an already excellent application. So, in no particular order….

1. Add the ability to save the entire adjustments stack as a preset. Basically, this would mimic the “develop module presets” from Lightroom. Yes, I know it’s a Lightroom feature, but it’s one that is badly missing from Aperture. It would also be great if you could also export and import these presets for easy sharing.
2. Open the “bricks” up to third party plug-ins. If you’re not that familiar with Aperture, the individual modules within the adjustments panel are referred to as “bricks”. By default a number are turned on but you can add and remove bricks to the image processing stack. If this were available to plug-in developers this could make Aperture an awesome piece of software, as it could allow truly non destructive filters.

All this talk recently about the possibility of Apple buying Adobe has me wondering, what would happen if such an earth shattering acquisition did happen. I’m not trying to discuss the likelihood of it, because frankly it’s pretty remote, but imagine for a second if Apple did go down that route. It would send ripples through the technology industry the likes of which have never been seen before. Windows users would immediately go into panic overdrive and cries of “monopoly” would be heard across the globe. But what would it mean for the average consumer? Who would be the winners and losers if such a take over took place?