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December 21, 2024
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Request: Bring PS UI/UX into the modern era

  • December 21, 2024
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It's almost 2025, and soon Photoshop turns 35. In an era of high resolution 30-40" display monitors and 16/32-bit precision, it is perhaps hard to believe that Photoshop still does not allow us greater accuracy in its set of grading tools.

Dialogs are too often modal and hard-coded in onscreen size. Control sliders, Levels controls, Curves and the entire myriad of PS's color grading controls cannot be scaled up or zoomed in for finer control. (The Gradient Editor and its Ramps being a rare exception). How can we artists make use of the extended dynamic range  and quantization resolution that 16 bit and 32-bit documents offer us when we're forced to do our tweaks in miniscule 1990's GUI dialogs? The answer is, very poorly and inaccurately, especially compared to other tools out there that have better adapted themselves to Retina displays and the modern age.

 

It is therefor that I plead with Adobe to get with the current times and give us a modern GUI experience. Let us freely scale up the grading tools dialogs so that they may cover the full screen if so desired. Allow us then to zoom in on say a Curves grade (look at Foundry's Nuke for inspiration here) for even finer control.

 

Adobe, come forth out of the digital stone-age please. You're focussing a disproportionate amount of development time on embedding AI tools (with questionable results in my opinion) at the cost of letting the tried and tested workhorse tools and workflows rot in the past.

Thank you for considering.
Danny