CS2 and lack of support

It’s now in the Info window. With the brush tool selected, for example, the lowest pane of the Info window says: "Click and drag to paint using foreground colr. Use Shift, Alt, and Ctrl for additional features." You need to have "Show Tool Hints" checked in the Info Pallette Options.

Michael,

Thank you for showing me where to find the information. I would have never found it since I do not recall ever even looking at the "info window"

The info pallette also has the ability to display the other information from the bottom of the screen (document size, dimensions, scratch size, memory, etc.).

Every time a company changes the version of something – be it software, cars, cameras, and so on – they change the layout of the controls. I sometimes wonder if this is to convince the public that the new version really is different?

Same thing with Microsoft Word, same thing with your favorite brand of stereo amplifiers, and so on.

Whatever happened to "if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it"?

Dana,

I totally agree with you. Adding new features or improving existing features is a great idea, but to move something just for the sake of being paid to develop new software code is just wrong.

But that is life

A more likely reason is cross-platform consistency. The Mac doesn’t have a Status Bar or a Window for that matter. It does have a Status Bar for EACH window which is MUCH more useful. Now Windows users have the same feature they’re not happy <shrug> The Info palette info is just icing on the cake.

Now Windows users have the same feature they’re not happy

Exactly!

It still amounts to fixinging something that did not need to be fixed. All that happened was that some programmers were paid to do something that was not needed. Maybe the goal was to make Windows look more like the Apple. But who would want that.

I say, i don’t care. let em change it. documentation would be nice, but personally i have bigger things in life to complain about.

And I’d say that unless you were on the development team, you have know way to judge what needed or didn’t need to be changed.

Bob

On the other hand if we wanted Mac functionality we would have bought a Mac and not a Windows machine.

Robert

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Every time a company changes the version of something – be it software, cars, cameras, and so on – they change the layout of the controls. I sometimes wonder if this is to convince the public that the new version really is different?

Same thing with Microsoft Word, same thing with your favorite brand of stereo amplifiers, and so on.

Whatever happened to "if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it"?

There seems to be a good reason for this (at least under the Windows version).

PS no longer uses the traditional Multiple Document Interface styel display – all the document windows can now float outside of the Photoshop window. You can shrink the PS window down to just a narrow bar, and still see all of your photoshop image in floating windows over your desktop. This is GREAT, and about time. But of course, it would render the old status bar useless as almost all of the time it’d be covered up by your document windows!

The new way is MUCH better.

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In the past whenever a tool was selected in Photoshop (Windows version) there was always a help menu at the bottom of the screen that would act as a reminder of what could be done with the tool. Now it seems that Adobe has seen fit to remove this help feature.

I now have to wonder how many other features were removed in this version.

Personally, I think the new way is MUCH better.

Dana – it was broken: it forced Photoshop to always have a solid window behind the documents. Getting rid of that window meant moving the status display.

Getting rid of that window meant moving the status display.

ahhh! good call. i’ll take that trade!