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i wish you could “place” more than one file at a time.

I wish you could duplicate multiple layers using “command + j.” Single layers can be duplicated but yet not multiple? sup with dat?

Inversely, why can’t Adobe take Photoshop’s ‘copy filter’ function and add it to Illustrator?

When you want to create a triangle, use the polygon tool. Put 3 as the number of sides, and voila! You have a triangle

1) A polygon with 3 sides is a triangle. So use the polygon shape.
2) Try the Auto-Select feature when using the Move Tool – that way you can click on the element and select its layer automatically.
3) You really shouldn’t use Photoshop to set type. Use InDesign or Illustrator instead.

For that last one, you can just the crop tool, just crop to the existing size and it will crop out all the extra junk outside of your canvas.

To make triangles just select the polygon tool and choose 3 points. Much easier than deleting one corner of a square. I don’t think we need a separate tool for this.

Triangle is a polygon, and can be made with the polygon tool.

Other than that, I agree.

To be fair, both the shape tool and the polygon tool can make triangles…

Your other points are more then valid though (Esp no4. which I keep assuming they have)

You know what isn’t there? Shapes for the Marquee (m) tool. The shape (u) tool has them, why can’t they both?

(Btw, the polygon shape tool has an option for three sides.)

Jake, totally agree with the Marquee shapes. Especially corner radius (maybe they have that already???)

The polygon function is still one extra step though!!! GIMME TRIANGLES!

chris: Select the layers and drag them over the new layer icon.

Photoshop has a lot of core issues, I wish they’d do the Snow Leopard and focus on delivering more solid product. CS5 looks somewhat promising but I hope they’ve worked on their memory and stability issues.

This was an awesome list.

…and not just shapes, but everything. Hello – Rounded rectangles anyone?

You don’t know Photoshop guy.

Number 1: Select Polygon. Change # of sides on the top toolbar.

Number 2: Useless. Who is going to remember all of their layer names in order to search for them? Especially when you have over 30 layers. Simply turn on the selection tool, set it to Layer and click on the object you want. It will automatically select the layer it is on for you.

Number 3: I fail to see how this would be useful. Just paste the text into a text field and open the paragraph and character palette for type adjustment.

Number 4: Already exists. Select the object, select transform (command+T, Control+T), the math fields open in the top tool bar. Enter your measurements.

Number 5: Right click on the folder, select convert to smart object, apply an adjustment layer to the smart object. If you need to edit the contents of the smart object, double click on its icon in the layer palette. I guess applying it directly to the folder would be ok, but not all that useful IMO.

Number 6: It does. Make your canvas larger than your design. When you export you are going to slice it anyways if you are using it for Web Design so the canvas size is irrelevant.

Number 7: To get rid of the “Big Data (this is what Adobe calls image data outside of the canvas)”, select All on any layer, then crop the document. I guess an option to automate this would be nice, but again, if you are using PS for web design you are going to slice the images anyways to the “Big Data” is irrelevant.

“Me,” I will reply to your comment as I did on Reddit.
1. I’m aware a triangle is 3-sided polygon. Still an extra step. I use triangles more than I need multi-sided objects.

2. If you have a naming convention (css-friendly) when designing, why would you not remember layer names? (ie. nav.divider). I know how to find layers using the single selection tool, but this would make things easier.

3. That is what happens now. I’m asking for a Lorem Ipsum pallete so I don’t have to do that.

4. As far as I know, the transform tool does not allow for math…literally typing in /, -, +, * to calculate new proportions.

5. At least you acknowledge the potential benefit of this function. Your solution, again is what currently has to be done.

6. I’ll give you this one, but there are limitations with your solution.

7. Again, thanks for acknowledging potential benefits of this feature.

Thanks for commenting!

Dear Adobe

Slice manager! I’d love to be able to edit slices without double-clicking each one

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I think it would be nice if photoshop could:

- save layers into a library that we can use later.
- create tables and lists
- change inline text to textblock and vice versa

do you guys agree?

Just a small point… but Lorem Ipsum is actually latin. I know the term “greeked text” is technically correct, (yet also, in this instance a little ambiguous as the term greeking in the field of digital page layout actually referes to rendering shaded grey boxes instead of type at small point sizes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeking#In_computing) but when refering specifically to Lorem Ipsum is still seems wrong. If what you are proposing is that the panel includes a number of styles of dummy text, like perhaps Jabberwocky, Greek, Latin etc… then this might be a good idea. I for one love Lorem Ipsum due to its roman character set, but always cut off the first paragraph as it’s too well known.

Just a thought.

I know this articles deals with Photoshop specifically – but does anyone else find it very annoying that the short cut keys aren’t all the same across the whole suite? I use photoshop, illustrator, indesign, flash, dreamweaver, contribute and premier (regularly, the others I use if necessary) and I’m constantly hitting shortcut keys without thinking about it and all manner of windows pop-up.

I know it’s only a small feature – but a bit of consideration for streamlining work-flow between programs would be nice..

ed, I totally agree. On top of hot-keys not being the same, tool functions are different, too (ie. you can use the mouse track ball to see the effects of different blend modes in photoshop, but not Illustrator).

@Hollow Gram – HAHA Duh! I feel so silly. I do that all the time too. Oh well.

All in all, I think Ryan is pretty spot on with most of his requests.
1) Triangle, yes, let me cycle through my shapes with a keystroke. I don’t want to type 3, I want to hit ‘U’ until I’m on the triangle shape.
2) I’m a bit of a freak in that I can remember most of my layers even without naming them. It would be dope if I could do Command + alt + s and quickly search through my layers, or at least my folders. For those who have so generate loads of layers…label your layers, nuff said.
3) I hate widgets and loath visiting lipsum.com and the like. I can generate lipsum in other tools, why not PS? And why wouldn’t I use photoshop for layout? Honestly, everyone here uses fireworks or illustrator? Really? Okay, sure.
I’d comment on the rest but my fingers are bruised…

One thing that is not just for photoshop, but for all applications is when you do “Save as” or “Save for web”, always default to the location of the file first. If I’m working on one project and save to an assets folder, then I switch to another project, the save as folder defaults to my last used. Then I have to navigate to the folder I want. I just want to be able to save quickly.

Great read, thakns…

I wish photoshop had the same “text style” eyedropper functionality as illustrator.

I wish Photoshop crashed less.

Also, wish Illustrator, InDesign, & Photoshop had the vector tools from Freehand/Fireworks.

The one feature I’d love to see (and moan like mad that it isn’t included) is auto-save. Even MS Word has auto save, why doesn’t photoshop? I’ve found CS4 really unstable on my mac at work and could have saved alot of swearing if this was included.

Simple things for my Photoshop Wish list:

1. Fill with a pattern to test it without having to save it first. Geeez, do you know how this junks up my patterns with tests that don’t quite work yet? And then it takes me extra time to delete them. And I have to make sure I don’t delete the wrong one.

2. Do a pattern fill on an angle.

3. Paste a new image without having to do File, New, OK, paste. Just right click on the workspace and select paste new image

4. Math!! Sign me up as a MATH fan – I’d love adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing on the toolbar. Really, Adobe, there are people who use Photoshop where the size matters just as much as it does in Illustrator.

5. Filter presets. I’m tired of noting what settings I used on which filter for a project so I can go back and add something new with the same look. Smart filters was a nice thing, but they don’t seem to me to be as comprehensive as just having filter presets work. You can load/save a style, why not a noise setting, the amount of blur, or a texturizer setting?! Actions are nothing but a work-around for this function.

(and yes, I know how to do all of these with PS’s multi-stepped methods now)

I’d just like a few less steps for my wrist, and a few more creature comforts for my muse.

deb

P.S. There are some menu items that could use some user-friendly renaming too. Of course, then I’ll whine because Adobe changed the name of something and I have to learn it’s new name.

I wish that when you made a rounded-corner rectangle, you could select an option to free transform the rectangle while keeping the corner-radius the same..

@Adrian
that´s bullshit. try it and you won’t get an equal-sided triangle.

@deb, those are great recommendations! I can’t stand having bunk patterns saved.