M***@adobeforums.com
2009-01-21 18:28:27 UTC
So now after using Photoshop CS4 as part of Adobe Master Collection CS4 for Mac, I noticed some minor but quite annoying bugs that add up and annoy me enough to have stopped using it altogether.
I have a brand new MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.6
So the list of bugs so far:
1. Zooming/Rotating with the multi-touch MacBook Pro trackpad is unstable and triggers almost totally random results. Rotating almost works fine, but the problem is zooming and rotating is done at the same time, as opposed to native OS X applications which decide whether you want to zoom or rotate at the beginning of the gesture, and not do both at the same time. Of course one could use the Rotate View tool, but why not use the trackpad which is so much more convenient? It would be nice to be able to do it with the trackpad without zooming to 0.081% while doing it.
2. The little black and white icon in the tool box called "Reset Default Foreground and Background Colors" (keyboard shortcut: d) is supposed to turn "White on Black" when selecting a layer mask, and "Black on White" when selecting a normal layer. In CS4, this icon only updates to the correct state when you mouse over it. I use this icon to check whether I am editing a layer mask or a normal layer, now it just confuses me all the time. This worked in CS3.
3. When zooming in or out with the keyboard (Cmd + and Cmd -), some layers that have been hidden (the little eye icon of the layer is deactivated) reappear for a short moment. This breaks the smoothness of zooming and I end up losing track of what area I wanted to zoom into.
4. This is not a bug but an annoying feature omission: If one decides to not use the Adjustments Panel (because it takes up an enormous amount of space, so I need to close other panels that I need and make the Layers Panel smaller, which is bad for me as I usually use dozens of layers), then it keeps reappearing every time you create a new adjustment layer. Even for adjustment layers that do not have options, such as "Invert". The panel is less practical then the window as the old Adjustments Window could be moved around without docking everywhere and it could be closed by pressing Cmd W like any window. Closing it also canceled all changed that were made, so it was a fast way of pressing Cancel AND closing the window. This now takes 2 steps: pressing the trash can icon in the Adjustments Panel, then clicking the very very tiny little X on top of the panel to close it, as this is the only way to close it, no more keyboard shortcut. As I use a graphics tablet, my hand shakes slightly and every small vibration is recognized by the computer and it becomes very hard to press such small buttons. It would be nice to be able to get the old functionality back in Options.
Thats all so far for Photoshop CS4, of course, there are loads more bugs in Flash CS4 for example, but I've ranted enough about that on the Flash forum (though no one replied). Hope someone has something to say!
Please check precisely if you did exactly what I described, before saying "well that's weird, I don't have that problem".
Thanks,
Mate
I have a brand new MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.6
So the list of bugs so far:
1. Zooming/Rotating with the multi-touch MacBook Pro trackpad is unstable and triggers almost totally random results. Rotating almost works fine, but the problem is zooming and rotating is done at the same time, as opposed to native OS X applications which decide whether you want to zoom or rotate at the beginning of the gesture, and not do both at the same time. Of course one could use the Rotate View tool, but why not use the trackpad which is so much more convenient? It would be nice to be able to do it with the trackpad without zooming to 0.081% while doing it.
2. The little black and white icon in the tool box called "Reset Default Foreground and Background Colors" (keyboard shortcut: d) is supposed to turn "White on Black" when selecting a layer mask, and "Black on White" when selecting a normal layer. In CS4, this icon only updates to the correct state when you mouse over it. I use this icon to check whether I am editing a layer mask or a normal layer, now it just confuses me all the time. This worked in CS3.
3. When zooming in or out with the keyboard (Cmd + and Cmd -), some layers that have been hidden (the little eye icon of the layer is deactivated) reappear for a short moment. This breaks the smoothness of zooming and I end up losing track of what area I wanted to zoom into.
4. This is not a bug but an annoying feature omission: If one decides to not use the Adjustments Panel (because it takes up an enormous amount of space, so I need to close other panels that I need and make the Layers Panel smaller, which is bad for me as I usually use dozens of layers), then it keeps reappearing every time you create a new adjustment layer. Even for adjustment layers that do not have options, such as "Invert". The panel is less practical then the window as the old Adjustments Window could be moved around without docking everywhere and it could be closed by pressing Cmd W like any window. Closing it also canceled all changed that were made, so it was a fast way of pressing Cancel AND closing the window. This now takes 2 steps: pressing the trash can icon in the Adjustments Panel, then clicking the very very tiny little X on top of the panel to close it, as this is the only way to close it, no more keyboard shortcut. As I use a graphics tablet, my hand shakes slightly and every small vibration is recognized by the computer and it becomes very hard to press such small buttons. It would be nice to be able to get the old functionality back in Options.
Thats all so far for Photoshop CS4, of course, there are loads more bugs in Flash CS4 for example, but I've ranted enough about that on the Flash forum (though no one replied). Hope someone has something to say!
Please check precisely if you did exactly what I described, before saying "well that's weird, I don't have that problem".
Thanks,
Mate