{"id":16600,"date":"2010-09-14T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2010-09-14T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T21:59:00","slug":"feedback-please-potential-webdrawing-features-in-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/14\/feedback-please-potential-webdrawing-features-in-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedback, please: Potential Web\/drawing features in Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photoshop’s vector shapes & layer effects (strokes, gradients, etc.) are mainstays of Web & mobile design work, but they haven’t gotten updated in a while. \u00a0If the Photoshop team were to improve this area of the app, what improvements would you find the most<\/em> important?<\/p>\n

The following list isn’t exhaustive, but it includes popular requests we’ve heard. \u00a0It would be great to get your feedback via this quick survey<\/a>. \u00a0We can’t do everything (certainly all at once, anyway), so please let us know what matters most.<\/p>\n

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  1. Enable “real” vector shapes (stroke & fill directly editable, without reliance on layer effects or a dialog box)<\/li>\n
  2. Support dashed- and dotted-line strokes<\/li>\n
  3. Enable smart shapes:\n
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    1. Preserve corner roundness when scaling rounded rectangles<\/li>\n
    2. Support other parameterized shapes (e.g. stars with an adjustable number of points; lines with arrowheads)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
        \n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • Make various layer effects enhancements:
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        1. Apply effects at the layer group level\ufeff\ufeff<\/li>\n
        2. Re-order effects<\/li>\n
        3. Duplicate effects (e.g. apply multiple strokes per layer)<\/li>\n
        4. \ufeffEnable panel-based editing of effects (instead of relying on a dialog box)<\/li>\n
        5. Add\/edit effects on multiple selected layers at once<\/li>\n
        6. Make graphical styles “live” (i.e. if edit the style definition, all styled objects update)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
            \n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
          • Enable layer search (i.e. type to filter by layer name or attributes)<\/li>\n
          • Improve snap-to-pixel behavior<\/li>\n
          • Improve text rendering<\/li>\n
          • Export text & graphical styles as CSS<\/li>\n
          • Support guide sets (e.g. for grid layouts)<\/li>\n
          • Support linked files (i.e. edit one file to update buttons, icons, etc. across multiple PSDs)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            \u00a0<\/p>\n

            Notes:<\/p>\n

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            • We want to know what’s more<\/em> important than other things, so please bear that in mind when assigning relative ratings. \u00a0(That is, don’t make everything “extremely important” or “not important.”)<\/li>\n
            • Please don’t tell me that Photoshop should never be improved\u00a0\ufeffvis-\u00e0-vis Web & mobile design, and that everyone should use Fireworks (or Illustrator or whatever). \u00a0You may be completely right about those apps, but it’s just not relevant to this survey.<\/li>\n
            • Inevitably there’s some amount of overlap among these items (e.g. applying effects at the layer group level would offer an alternative to applying multiple copies of one effect on a layer; for example, you could stroke a layer, then add another stroke on a group containing that layer).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              \u00a0<\/p>\n

              Many thanks in advance,
              J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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