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Joe Creative
Joe Creative
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March 1, 2020
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Rebuild Adobe Photoshop from the ground up

  • March 1, 2020
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Question, why hasn’t Adobe Photoshop programmers just throw in the towel. Let’s just redo, or rebuild Adobe Photoshop from the ground up. Since Adobe keeps adding and adding. And their so many bugs. Why hasn’t anybody asked.... the software has meant its quota! Let’s rebuild it. Your actions, filters, and functions are so outdated. Your not giving the users what they really want, or listening to the customers on how to improve the software. We all (customers) just post bugs, crashes, but never saying. “Photoshop is a really stable and awesome software to use! Thank you Adobe,” I haven’t seen that posted yet...

Adobe Photoshop that was at its best...sadly to say this was Photoshop CS6. Software engineers worked all the bugs out, and mostly everyone was happy, until the roller over to rent to use software. It hasn’t been the same. 
You guys at Adobe need to overhaul Photoshop. Next MAX meeting.... just tell the customers that your working on the new updated Photoshop. Change the outdated Ui look.... overhaul the filter library, which is Stuck in the 90’s. Improve adjustment layers... let’s add in Hue/Saturation “ORANGE”, which I have no clue why you guys haven’t added that. As a finisher/Retoucher I waste time by going to Camera Raw to adjust tones. Guess what... I use the orange Hue/Saturating all the time to adjust things.... your not making it streamline... I do not know why... but I’m sure Adobe will never review this posting. 

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    Joe Creative
    Joe CreativeAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 2, 2020
    If, I was a share holder. I would think, I would want a product that has few problems, bugs that is, and have a model that is so, cutting edge that every company looks up too.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    March 2, 2020
    Don't forget that Adobe is a publicly-traded company with shares. :))
    c.pfaffenbichler
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    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 2, 2020
    Sounds to me that as programmers are lazy. 
    Whatever your opinion of Adobe is impugning the programmers’ work ethics seems ridiculous. 
    Do you really think the programmers on the Photoshop team can do whatever they feel like? 
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      stanc1
      Participant
      March 1, 2020
      James Gray has a point. ADOBE, MAKE YOUR FLAGSHIP APP WORK CORRECTLY. There.

      Stan Coutant
      Joe Creative
      Joe CreativeAuthor
      Inspiring
      March 1, 2020
      Sounds to me that as programmers are lazy. This idea could give the frustrated programmers at Adobe the opportunity to do it right. Start from the ground up. As for the Ui... it’s old brother! 90s come on! Open your eyes! Adobe can be the frontiers and show the rest of the software engineers how things should look and operate. We are a creative world... not a number pushing operator.
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      Anonymous
      March 1, 2020
      Do any of you have any idea what it takes to do software development?  For years I did software development (not anything like Photoshop).  These vague complaints are not useful in making modifications.  I will say that Photoshop is an awesome software product.  I read so many of these complaints and wonder why I am not seeing the same errors.  Photoshop almost never crashes for me and  I use it a lot.  What specifically does "performs like an absolute dog" mean.  Redoing Photoshop from the ground up is nutty.  It would break all of the 3rd party filters, extensions, and panels.  Actions people have spent years developing would no longer work.  I would like to know what specifically is wrong with the UI.  
        leds2097726
        leds2097726
        Inspiring
        March 1, 2020
        Photoshop is driven by subscriptions and marketing now. Adobe needs to keep adding new marketable features annually justify the subscription fee. We will keep getting garbage new features and additional bloat every year thrown on top of the already creaking code base. At this point, Photoshop is a franchise - it's the equivalent of Activision releasing a new Call Of Duty or EA pushing out a FIFA every year. People will keep buying it and the shareholders are happy.  Rinse, repeat.

        I've used Photoshop since version 3.0 and am utterly dismayed at how this once beautiful application has deteriorated to the point of being unusable for even the most basic tasks. I've bought brand new computers (iMac, iMac Pro, the new Mac Pro) with zero third party applications installed solely to see if Photoshop was better suited to more modern hardware. It performs like an absolute dog on any brand new top of the line vanilla hardware config that I've tried it on. OS version doesn't matter. Photoshop is rotten at its core.

        My advice - spend an hour a day learning Affinity Photo.  Adobe are blatantly not listening to us and do not care.

        #MAGA - Make Adobe Great Again
        c.pfaffenbichler
        Community Expert
        c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        March 1, 2020
        but I’m sure Adobe will never review this posting. 
        Whatever your opinion about Photoshop and frustration with its bugs (and their number) are ... this is the official channel for Photoshop Bug Reports and Feature Requests so your post has been noted. 
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        FeedbackCommunityMember
        Inspiring
        March 1, 2020
        I think this is kind of case for PS on iPad. But I am not sure how many codebase is shared between these two.
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        stanc1
        Participant
        March 1, 2020
        Joe Creative, thank goodness, and thank you. When this journey began, it was with Aldus, and it was good. Over the years it became better as Photoshop. And improvements proliferated. I remember with great joy when the Photo Merge function appeared after its sky-blending feature was perfected. Nowadays Photoshop CC has deteriorated both rapidly and drastically. It is awful, and has become almost useless. Spot Healing Brush was great; now it is erratic. But what bothers me the most is that QuarkXPress has tripped and fallen with disastrous results, and I do not want to watch our beloved Photoshop follow Quark's lead. QXP used to cost $795, and I paid for it... happily... because it worked. When it began its fall from grace, I wrote to the company and begged for a well-planned and executed redesign. It has not happened, and now the price is one-fourth of what it was, and today—TODAY—I received FOUR emails asking (begging?) me to buy the upgrade. Everyone will suffer if Adobe's Photoshop rescue mission is not begun immediately. Joe Creative is right. Begin Monday. Do whatever it takes. Fix it. Please. Now. —Stan Coutant
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