I am an eperienced, professional Photoshoper user who has worked with Photoshop for over 25 years. I TOTALLY DESPAIR of the way Adobe fiddle with simple, working tools - like the crop tool. None of us where having any problem with cropping things guys. Now, in Adobe Camera RAW there is a new crop feature that I genuinely cannot get to work. At all. We're talking 20 minutes of trying diffenrt things and eventually just outputting the whole image and cropping in Photoshop. On a sclae of 1-10 how successful would you think this has been, really - did you test this abomination outside the office?
At the risk of having a rant, as a real-world user who is contantly under time pressures to complete complex tasks, having 'Malcolm in the back room' filling his time by changing the interface really isn't helping. I have already had to get onto Adobe on-line support twice in the past month to have system roll-backs and fixes done in order to get Camera Raw to work. For experineced users the effect is like being about to go on stage to do a flute solo and finding that someone from Adobe has thought of a better place to put all the keys! It is unclear how many time you can roll out half-baked updates and annoy your paying customers before you get it: just STOP fiddling about, we do not appreciate it. It seems to be a justification for the development/cost model and has the effect of wasting hours of end-users lives.
Before anyone says: "it would be helpful if we knew your set-up...", I am using a 3-month old bespoke build photo, Windows 10 workstation with 64Gb RAM, latest nVidia card, 30TB of drive space etc. The problem is not my machine, believe me.
JM
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