May 30, 2000
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You beta, you beta, you bet. AppleInsider has an in depth look at the next full version revs of Adobe’s workhorse image applications, Photoshop and ImageReady. The Photoshop 6.0 feature list is impressively massive, including such gems as on-screen text entry a la ImageReady 2.0, OpenType support (now all we need is for Adobe to starting shipping some OpenType fonts), removal of the 99 layer limit (yes, this has been a peeve of mine for quite a while), much improved layer and palette management, some snarky looking layer styles, and woo hoo!, print preview.
A questionable addition to the mix is a context sensitive toolbar that docks to either the top or bottom of the screen. A toolbar theoretically takes up less vertical real estate, but since you can logically only display a subset of the controls that a full palette could contain, you’re probably going to have both the toolbar and a palette visible at the same time anyway. I must be missing something here. Organizing and grouping huge numbers of controls and options was why Adobe went to great pains to develop its groovy palette architecture in the first place, wasn’t it?
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