{"id":15770,"date":"2009-03-23T09:47:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T09:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/03\/polishing-the-adjustments-panel-part-3-of-3.html"},"modified":"2009-03-23T09:47:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T09:47:15","slug":"polishing_the_adjustments_panel_part_3_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/polishing_the_adjustments_panel_part_3_of\/","title":{"rendered":"Polishing the Adjustments panel [Part 3 of 3]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan has now <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2009\/03\/the_design_of_adjustments.html\">listed some of the benefits<\/a> of the Adjustments panel in CS4.  That doesn&#8217;t mean we think things are perfect, however.  As Photoshop moves forward&#8211;especially as we do more things non-modally\/non-destructively&#8211;we need to address any lingering legitimate usability beefs.  Here are some possible refinements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enable an option (via the panel flyout) to have panel adjustment text fields take focus when an adjustment is created.  If you pop the dialog form of Levels, you can tab into\/among the various fields.  You can\u2019t set focus on the panel using just the keyboard.  We should fix that, either by putting focus there automatically, and\/or by adding a shortcut for the purpose (e.g. Shift-Return).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Similarly, add an option to auto-select the eyedropper tool and\/or on-canvas adjustment tool when creating\/selecting an adjustment layer.  This would better fit the modal dialog form, where there\u2019s no need to select a tool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Enable a single-key mechanism for activating the on-canvas adjustment tool. (Ah, but what key? they\u2019re all used).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anything else?<br \/>\nThanks,<br \/>\nJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan has now listed some of the benefits of the Adjustments panel in CS4. That doesn&#8217;t mean we think things are perfect, however. As Photoshop moves forward&#8211;especially as we do more things non-modally\/non-destructively&#8211;we need to address any lingering legitimate usability beefs. Here are some possible refinements: Enable an option (via the panel flyout) to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}