P: Allow customization/hiding of the splash screen

Usually I don't look at it. Once was enough. I don't want to start my work with that sort of emotions and go in depth of that .... mmm...  so-called art. Yeah... it is amateur's work and have no WOW effect and doesn't inspire a hunger to go ahead and reach the same heights.
I exaggerate, of course, but would you start from the Munk's Scream daily? Negative emotions harm my creativity. May be there are people who get inspiration from this, but I doubt if we would like to see their works in our daily lives.


> .."empathetic pain"... !?  For me it is a disgust. Nothing else.>

I take it you don't see the subject's pain and suffering in her expression? Like I said, how people respond isn't something I can assume.

...."empathetic pain"... !?  For me it is a disgust. Nothing else. 

I think we're not supposed to get past anything when we look at art. <g> I can't separate my response from the execution—the one evokes the other— but I have been wrong about how others respond to the same thing. That's why I don't want to begin to judge how others viewed it or why they either created it or picked it.

However, maybe they'll learn something from our response to it and pick something next time that is a little less jarring, without going overboard into the saccharin. If it's butterflies and bunnies, at least demonstrate some humor through them.  <bg>

I have tried to look at it from an artistic viewpoint, but I just can't get past the other part.

Although some of us apparently have had the same reaction—that  at least she's seriously disturbed by something— perhaps others only saw the harsh, bold colors and geometric shapes spelling "modern" to them?

> I doubt the person that selected this image was a woman.>

I couldn't hazard a guess, except that it was a committee at the end of the day, after however many eliminating rounds. She at least is well outside of any stereotypical representation of women.  '-} But yes, if they want me to feel some empathetic pain each time I launch Photoshop, they've succeeded. At least I now don't think I'm being oversensitive. <s>

I also think that the woman on the splash screen appears to be an abuse victim, Darlene. I have known too many women who have been abused and the Splash Screen Woman looks like too many of the ones that I have met.

Whether or not this art is intended to draw attention to the plight of abused women (I don't know), I think that the Photoshop Splash Screen is an inappropriate place for this art -- there is no explanation or title. It is unimaginable to me that the artists (both women) would allow this picture to be featured without some kind of explanation.

But this is a very controversial splash screen image -- and I question Adobe's decision-making that is behind featuring it.

How in the world could Adobe have thought that this portrays a good image of a woman or a good illustration of what can be done through Photoshop???

Or were the decision-makers unconcerned about the impact of this picture on how people view women?

I've seen lots of complaints about this splash screen on other websites.  So it isn't just you and me.  I doubt the person that selected this image was a woman.

So I'm not the only one that thinks I'm looking at a woman whose life has somehow gone horribly wrong.  I've quit watching PS launch, preferring to do something else. But it must have appealed to many people to have them decide to go with it, and I think they're currently rightly busy fixing other more critical issues. Hopefully, after that, they'll be terribly busy with producing great features. We can look away and hope they don't come up with an equally depressing sight for their next splash screen.

If they do spend a lot of time redesigning the splash screen so we can put what we want onto it, you can expect they'll receive a lot of criticism for working on a feature that is not all that critical to anyone's workflow instead of on any of the other things that we consider vital.  <g>

But perhaps enough votes will convince them that to us it really is worth the man-hours recoding it?