{"id":15994,"date":"2009-08-31T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/08\/feedback-please-task-based-workspaces-in-photoshop.html"},"modified":"2022-03-30T15:58:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T22:58:50","slug":"feedback_please_task-based_workspaces_in_ps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/feedback_please_task-based_workspaces_in_ps\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedback, please: Task-based workspaces in Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wish that Adobe made a &#8220;Photoshop for Photographers?&#8221; Or maybe a version with just what you need for Web design, or video?<\/p>\n<p>If so, I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s because Photoshop is so packed with features that the ones you need are needles in a stack of needles. The sheer volume of choices <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/12\/photoshop_the_p.html\">can be paralyzing<\/a>, and people don&#8217;t feel they&#8217;re doing things the <b>best<\/b> way.<\/p>\n<p>Most customers use only a fraction of Photoshop, <em>yet every part of Photoshop is used by a lot of people<\/em>. Therefore it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/10\/subtractive_sof.html\">difficult<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/10\/where_did_extra.html\">painful<\/a> to remove any features. How, then, can we make Photoshop fit your needs precisely without disadvantaging others?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an idea. We could revise Photoshop&#8217;s approach to workspaces with two goals in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Present a <strong>more streamlined interface<\/strong> (&#8220;everything you need, nothing you don&#8217;t&#8221;), showing only the tools and commands that are relevant to the task at hand<\/li>\n<li>Present <strong>best-practice guidance<\/strong> on how to accomplish specific tasks (&#8220;not just yet another way to do something, but the *right* way&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We plan to use an upgraded version of <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/configurator\/\">Configurator<\/a> to create custom panels that are associated with each workspace. Please see <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/task_based_workspaces.pdf\">this PDF walk-through<\/a> (note the explanatory annotations) and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear up front: This feature needs to be <b>valuable to pros, not just beginners<\/b>. For some reason people see &#8220;help&#8221; or &#8220;guidance&#8221; and think &#8220;newbie,&#8221; but there&#8217;s much more to the story here.<\/p>\n<p>So, what do you think?<br \/>\nThanks,<br \/>\nJ.<\/p>\n<p>[Related philosophical background: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/11\/photoshop_as_se.html\">Photoshop as seen through Johnny Cash<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wish that Adobe made a &#8220;Photoshop for Photographers?&#8221; Or maybe a version with just what you need for Web design, or video? If so, I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s because Photoshop is so packed with features that the ones you need are needles in a stack of needles. The sheer volume of choices can be paralyzing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994"}],"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=15994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19215,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions\/19215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}