One of the best things about workflow programs such as Lightroom and Aperture is the ease of use for the photographer to make a series of adjustments to an image in a methodical way. Both feature develop, or adjustment panels that quite prominently feature the key issues addressing the image you work on. Image too dark? Adjust exposure. Need a little punch to your photograph? Adjust vibrancy. That’s the way most of us are used to working now, and for the most part, we like it.
Then there’s photoshop.
Open an image in photoshop and the user is faced with the unknown. Your image sits in an open desert of neutral gray waiting for you to decide where to take it. You have to think of all the options, and going back and forth between those options isn’t an easy task.
But imagine if you could put your favorite controls togeather, a “develop panel” of your own making, into Photoshop. Well, good news. That’s where we’re headed.
Over at Nack’s blog via Underexposed the product for manager for photoshop talks about:
To achieve that goal, Photoshop’s interface will become more open-ended and even programmable, he said.
“You’ll see some of the things we’ve learned about Lightroom–making things browsable and less modal–come into Photoshop,” Nack said. In other words, it’ll be easier to shift Photoshop from one task to another.
Using the Flash that’s built into the creative suite users will be able to:
create and share their own Photoshop control panels written in Adobe’s Flash programming language, Nack added. “Our goal is to make it possible for expert users to reconfigure the environment on a task-by-task basis and share those workspaces with other people. You don’t have to write code. You can knock together an interface and make it sharable.”
Photoshop is many things to many people, but it would be nice to make it specifically a “photographers tool” for photographers when so desired. Also think about how cool it would be to be able to download Photographer “X” ’s workspace and plug in your own additions. This is definitely a step in an exciting direction.
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