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    [–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    The damn thing was written by a couple of College Students who had no experience with graphic arts and man does it show. The UI has been the number #1 complaint since the 1.0 release back in 1998; how it's never been updated / overhauled is simply beyond me.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

    It looks good to me...

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Why? Looks basically the same as photoshop, which everybody seems to love.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Among other things:

    • monochrome color scheme prevents easy recognition of tools
    • dozens and dozens of arcane options listed alongside super basic options
    • weird sizing of buttons
    • no help search, and no search that can associate synonyms where users don't know what term to search for
    • no inbuilt suggestions when user behaves strangely (eg. user is spamming the escape key, searching "deselect", maybe suggest the deselect all hotkey?)
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    You can change the icon theme in the settings to a color one. That's what I always do. The scaling can be changed as well.

    May I ask what are some of the arcane options supposed to be?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    How do you change scaling of buttons?

    what are some of the arcane options supposed to be?

    Not at PC for a few days but IIRC I was overwhelmed whenever going through any drop down menu.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

    Edit > Preferences > Interface > Icon Theme > Custom icon size

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

    Newer versions of Photoshop have like 8 buttons and a toolbar which is terrible imo.