Re: A gripe about the Photoshop GUI

"Peter Wollenberg" <jenelisepasceci@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Norm Dresner" <ndrez@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >"2Shy" <walkingforever@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> I'm assuming you have at least a 19" monitor. If so, change your
monitor's
> >> resolution to 1280 x 1024. That will make things much easier on your
eyes.
> >
> >Unfortunately I have other applications for which I absolutely need that
> >resolution and switching back and forth is a pain since some of them
remain
> >up all the time. Speaking as a Windows programmer, it's not that
difficult
> >to make icon sizes adjustable in a program.
> >
> Buy yourself another monitor, set it to 1024x768 and move the user
> interface there. A cheap flatscreen will do and it will considerably
> improve your workflow. Since programming interfaces clutter the
> desktop in pretty the same way as Photoshop does, you will love the
> added space.
>

Yeah, if I was only using the one computer, that would be an option. But
I'm a computer (software) professional whose use of Photoshop is more hobby
than work and I actually have (depending on what I'm doing) up to 12
different computers connected via two KVM switches to a single monitor,
mouse and keyboard. Worse, the only computer I have that really has the
horsepower to run Photoshop properly (dual 2 GHz XEONs) is also my main
(Windows) programming computer and I can't change the resolution on it since
I'm never that far away from the for-work tasks.

As I said in another post, the problem isn't my computer setup, it's
Photoshop's GUI design. Whether my little voice crying softly in the
cyber-void will ever be heard by Adobe is questionable, though I have
e-mailed them with the suggestion for making the icon size variable. In the
mean time, I'm just going to have to do two things:
1) learn all of the keyboard shortcuts so I don't need most of the GUI
icons
2) learn where the icons are by memory rather than by seeing them.

Thanks for trying to suggest alternatives.
Norm

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