On January 4, 2011 08:12:29 am paul womack wrote:
> kfj wrote:
> > if a user progresses beyond a simple standard interface and chooses to
> > use an 'expert' mode, he will be much more aware of the fact that in
> > this mode things may take some effort to get right and may go wrong
> > spectacularly if not used appropriately.
> 
> My favourite implementation of this used to be in Photoshop (IIRC).
> When using any of the tools which are subsets of the curve tool
> (e.g. threshold, quantise, invert, min/max), the shape of the curve
> that would be equivalent to the tool being used was shown.
> 
> As some point, the user ended up trained to use the curve tool...
> 
> So (by analogy) when using the assistant, the user should be shown
> what the assistant is doing - the assistant should only (!!)
> automate the "real features", not replace them.

+1
Yuv

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