| Monday, April 22, 2002 |
21:04 - Feelin' Free... Classic Free...
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My copy of Photoshop 7.0 came today. Woo-hoo!
I haven't had a chance yet to play with it much, but it looks like there's a lot of new stuff. I'm jumping straight from 5.5 to 7.0, so I don't know what I missed in the 6.x versions; but this one looks like they've polished up the UI experience one hell of a lot. Tools now have actual labels; palettes are dockable; there's a top toolbar with contextual controls for your current tool; so on and so forth. And all the old stuff that I've always liked about Photoshop-- the zoom behavior, the selection tools, the layering-- is all still there and better than before. Even having the drop-shadow from the top toolbar falling on the title bar of the open picture seems like a cool effect, the first useful application of the 3D depth of OS X that I've seen.
And it's OS X-native now. So no more memory allocation, no more crashing, no more counterintuitive menu organization... and no more Classic.
Ah yes, I am happy.
Now, if only for a scanner driver...
By the way-- I was over on Fark.com the other day, and one person posted a picture which he described as his "Photoshop 7 cherry-popping picture", the first one he'd done with the new version. Someone responded saying, "Wait, how did you get your copy of PS7 so early? Or are you one of those Macintosh people? Not that there's anything wrong with that..."
So do we get PS7 before Wintel people do? Like in the old days? Hey, if so, bonus...
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