What About Moderators in the New Forum?

OK, I hear you. I can't comment on something I wasn't part of, but it does make Photoshop users sound rather intolerant.

I worked for several years with a Mac fanatic, who was so anti-Windows, he turned me against the Mac. After we stopped working together, I eventually decided to try a Mac, and quite liked it. I still prefer Windows, though. Habit, probably.

Still, this is way OT.

Please please please don't try and merge the Windows Mac forums. DW is entirely different. I use it and don't mind the merge although I don't like the DW forums much.

Merging the Photoshop forums would be a disaster!

Those like me, who want the bigger picture just visit, both forums in turn.

I agree that they don't need merging.

As Kath said, merged Photoshop Forums were tried and were a disaster equally hated by users of both platforms.

Mac users do tend to have an underlying dislike and contempt for anything connected with Microsoft or "Windoze" so it doesn't take much to trigger a full-blown flame war!

If you use both platforms, I suggest that you should read both Forums.

But don't even THINK of trying to merge them!

@Stanley...

The post #245 above may not get moved, so just come to either of the main Photoshop forums and have a look around. If you can't find the info you need, just start a new thread, with a clear title and focused, detailed questions.

The trouble is, David, we've been over this. Tried it. People didn't like it. Changed back. The arguments were gone into at great length, on both sides (merged/separate). I appreciate this is a new conversation for you and other newcomers to 'this side', but please understand there may be a bit of sighing as issues are resurrected that are seen as flogged to death and settled.

> Not in the Photoshop Forums.

I'm not a heavy Photoshop user, but I do use it on a regular basis, and would love to benefit from the expertise in a Photoshop forum. However, my desktop is a PC and my laptop is a Mac Book Pro. Both have Photoshop installed. From a purely personal point of view, a joint forum would suit me better.

I can see that certain OS- or hardware-related questions wouldn't be of interest to everybody; but, as with any topic that's not of direct interest, you can just ignore it. As for keyboard shortcuts, in my experience, the vast majority of shortcuts easily convert: Ctrl/Cmd and Alt/Opt. Of course, there are exceptions, but it's a helpful rule of thumb. When answering questions in the Dreamweaver forum, I usually give both Windows and Mac equivalents, although I agree it would be too much trouble for someone who uses only one platform.

@Ann

That is an interesting point. So perhaps if there is a decision to be made about whether to split a forum into OS-specific groups, such issues should also be considered.

On the other hand, I will say that Dreamweaver has similar OS-specific wrinkles as Photoshop seems to, and it has not proven to be a problem on the DW forum. Many of the DW users are keyboard oriented. Many of the internal files are in vastly different locations (even from one version of an OS to the next). Even some of the menus are different Mac vs. PC, just by virtue of the OS-provided functionality, and this has not caused confusion for us. In most cases, when the question is not also accompanied by an OS specification, the responder is careful to ask the necessary questions early in the thread.

Even when hardware issues are discussed, I don't see a revolt among the non-OS-friendly readers. Everyone there seems to have the notion that a nugget of information can lurk in threads which don't seem (at first, at least) relevant.

Personally, I think a much larger problem is the incredible lack of a sense of how to post a question, with a disturbing number of new threads being opened with a subject of "Help". But that is off topic here....

Thank you Stanley, for your kind comments concerning my past postings.

As for the future, at this stage I can only say that if the Forums turn-out to be organized in the way that the preliminary posted design has indicated, it is unlikely that I will any longer take the time and trouble to participate very often if at all.

Would someone please post #245 in a new thread in a photoshop forum, and post a link here to that thread? While it has some relevance here, I would like to hear a more technical explanation that is not really suited to this topic. You do not, of course, resample when simply changing dpi, but I am prepared to learn something. The main variable that would change the size is the quality of a jpg.

I'd like a link to that thread because I don't track the PS forums. That said, Ann, given your history of helping users on these forums, I just don't get your intensity. So I visited and looked up some of your posts. Very professional and helpful (very much in line with your post #249 here, which came in while I was composing this). I'm not a PS newbie, but I learned a couple things. So I do hope that the new forum format is something you can settle into, and that you can get back to helping us users that seek assistance.