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I have been using Photoshop for many versions.
What you can do with the program is astounding. What I don’t get is why the interface has devolved (degenerated?) to the current three headed beast of Bridge/Camera Raw/Photoshop.
As you can open up raw, jpeg and tiff images in the raw converter anyway I see no reason why the raw converter continues to be maintained separate from Photoshop itself. It is counterproductive, particularly since there are several controls that exist in both Photoshop and the raw converter with no clear reason why one tool is in one workspace and not the other or in both. The raw converter was an emergency add-on to earlier versions of Photoshop, before dSLR raw image capture went mainstream, that has now been given exclusive rights to image processing functions that should be in Photoshop and easily accessible for use with images at any stage of processing. Although I suspect that some tools are labelled one thing in Photoshop and another in the raw converter but perform identical transformations on the underlying data Photoshop usability/productivity would marekdly improve by fusing the Raw Converter with the basic Photoshop workspace and unifying the control set/interface.
In the next version of Photoshop I would like to see the raw converter completely done away with as a stand-alone entity, or at least leave that as an option. It should be no problem to maintain a tweaked image in Bridge of the original raw data to which no irreversible changes have been applied regardless of whether the image opens in a separate raw converter or on the base Photoshop desktop.
I would much prefer that raw images open up in the Photoshop desktop workspace with one set of controls accessible for use with all images at all stages of processing without having to go through the kludge of a separate raw converter workspace.
What you can do with the program is astounding. What I don’t get is why the interface has devolved (degenerated?) to the current three headed beast of Bridge/Camera Raw/Photoshop.
As you can open up raw, jpeg and tiff images in the raw converter anyway I see no reason why the raw converter continues to be maintained separate from Photoshop itself. It is counterproductive, particularly since there are several controls that exist in both Photoshop and the raw converter with no clear reason why one tool is in one workspace and not the other or in both. The raw converter was an emergency add-on to earlier versions of Photoshop, before dSLR raw image capture went mainstream, that has now been given exclusive rights to image processing functions that should be in Photoshop and easily accessible for use with images at any stage of processing. Although I suspect that some tools are labelled one thing in Photoshop and another in the raw converter but perform identical transformations on the underlying data Photoshop usability/productivity would marekdly improve by fusing the Raw Converter with the basic Photoshop workspace and unifying the control set/interface.
In the next version of Photoshop I would like to see the raw converter completely done away with as a stand-alone entity, or at least leave that as an option. It should be no problem to maintain a tweaked image in Bridge of the original raw data to which no irreversible changes have been applied regardless of whether the image opens in a separate raw converter or on the base Photoshop desktop.
I would much prefer that raw images open up in the Photoshop desktop workspace with one set of controls accessible for use with all images at all stages of processing without having to go through the kludge of a separate raw converter workspace.
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