{"id":22077,"date":"2009-11-27T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/uncategorized\/adobe-mulls-photoshop-elements-8-overhaul-interview-22077"},"modified":"2014-10-28T11:29:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T11:29:27","slug":"adobe-mulls-photoshop-elements-8-overhaul-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/photo-news\/adobe-mulls-photoshop-elements-8-overhaul-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe mulls Photoshop Elements 8 overhaul (interview)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Page One: Lightroom changes Adobe market<\/p>\n

\"Photoshop<\/img><\/p>\n

Future updates to Adobe Photoshop Elements may well include much greater control over image curve adjustments, according to Photoshop product manager Bryan O?Neil Hughes.<\/p>\n

In the latest version, Elements 8 (introduced in September this year), the curves adjustment is restricted to just four sliding controls that allow the user to alter image brightness and contrast by manipulating pre-designated areas of the curve.<\/p>\n

O?Neil Hughes said this has much more to do with a desire to make the control accessible and understandable to a wider audience than to make a clear delineation between Photoshop CS4 and Elements. <\/p>\n

He added that the situation had moved on from the position a couple of years ago when Adobe was convinced that Photoshop was for professional photographers, while Elements was for amateur users. <\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with Amateur Photographer<\/em> (AP) technical editor Angela Nicholson, he said that Adobe Lightroom has ‘blurred the edges [of the different markets] a lot?.<\/p>\n

O?Neil Hughes suggested that more intuitive adjustments – made using the Targeted Adjustment tool introduced with an update to Camera Raw for CS4 – may appear in later versions of Elements. <\/p>\n

This tool allows the user to click on the image to select the tone they want and move the cursor up or down to make adjustments. <\/p>\n

As well as being easier to use – a key aim for Elements – this type of adjustment can be more powerful and may be used to adjust several aspects with one move.<\/p>\n

During the AP interview, Photoshop engineering architect Russell Williams added that Adobe?s goals include simplifying the Photoshop user interface to make the regularly used features easier to find and employ. <\/p>\n

<\/span> Page Two: Users have ‘great ideas’<\/p>\n

‘Just do it’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adobe says that only around a fifth of the proposed changes usually make it into an upgrade. So, Williams is a fan of holding what he refers to ?JDI? (just do it) days (or weeks) when the firm’s staff focus their attention on addressing some of the minor issues with Photoshop. <\/p>\n

These usually address the items that keep appearing on the wish list for changes, but aren?t headline grabbing. They make some of the ?little things? faster and easier. <\/p>\n

Adobe may, for example, make Photoshop suggest the location and file format – when saving images – on the basis of the user?s preferences. <\/p>\n

Russell said that one of the problems with making changes to Adobe?s software is achieving a consensus between users about what is the best way to proceed. <\/p>\n

He went on to say that users often have great ideas about how to make minor changes to boost the software package?s efficiency.<\/p>\n

But the revolutionary changes tend to come from within Adobe. <\/p>\n

Before the Healing tool came along for instance, users offered useful suggestions about how the cloning tool could be made to work better.<\/p>\n

But nobody suggested making it a ‘one-click’ tool, as the healing tool now is. That came from inside Adobe. <\/p>\n

To help improve communications between Adobe and its software users, the company plans to launch a website dedicated to giving consumers a forum for making suggestions for the packages.<\/p>\n

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Read all our Adobe stories here<\/h2>\n

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Discuss this story in our News forum thread<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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