Re: Photoshop 7 changes
Re: Photoshop 7 changes
- Subject: Re: Photoshop 7 changes
- From: Don Hutcheson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:02:19 -0500
If you want to see new 16 bit or CM features in Photoshop you need to TELL
ADOBE what it is and why you'd like to see it. Like any sensible development
company their market research reacts to the squeakiest wheel. If only a
hand-full of us ask for a new feature, we're unlikely to see it.
Unfortunately I got into the beta program too late (again) to influence new
features.
Some of what I'd love to see in PS 8 would be:
1. Full Adjustment-Layer functionality in 16 bit, same as 8 bit (moderately
easy to do.)
2. HiFi color capability, i.e. the ability to convert into 'n'-channel
profiles (as many as 8) and display n-channel files accurately (easy -
ColorBlind Edit did this as early as 1996 but display quality was limited by
CMM shortcuts.)
3. Option to drive some or all color controls by the beautifully intuitive
LCH variables rather than RGB (as did CBE & LinoColor years ago.)
4. True CIELCH readout computed from the current working space as well as
the less useful Lab readout (extremely easy.)
5. Include CIELCH as an optional output conversion space (very easy.)
6. More flexible and sophisticated Unsharp Masking functionality (easy but
determining what to add will be an emotional battle.)
7. Ability to preview and save USM settings but not apply them till later -
like a USM Adjustment Layer (tricky.)
8. Random-grain airbrush that lays down micro-spots of color texture like a
real airbrush - suggested by a real live airbrush artist in Chicago (already
done years ago on a now-extinct system.)
If you want the same or more, TELL ADOBE and discuss these ideas in public.
Maybe that will prompt more people to ask for them.
But I really can't complain too much. PS 6 and now PS 7 offer truly amazing,
high productivity and high quality image editing in an affordable and
ubiquitous package. Where would we be without it?
Don
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Don Hutcheson
Hutcheson Consulting
(Color Management Solutions)
Phone: (908) 689 7403
Mobile: (908) 500 0341
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