> > What I am frustrated with is the continual revisionist approach to > > software development... that photshop seemed great 20 years > ago really > > doesn't mean we should still be subjected to it's awkwardness today. > > Which is why a lot of photographers now use LightRoom, > Aperture or similar...
There are a lot of older applications that do not follow modern guidelines - they pretty much predated the guidelines. The problem with older apps is that for all the users who get truly fed up with their arcane workflow, there are many, many others who have spent a decade perfecting their knowledge of how to do things with it. Vendors think twice about upsetting them. Think about institutional buyers who purchase several thousand units at at time, and then face the prospect of having to retrain their people. My software publishing company Mirye publishes a 3D application that was first released in 1986. I believe that pre-dates even MAX. But both Shade and MAX do things their own way, because there are so many people who would be very upset if they were changed to the core. What the Shade guys do though is add new functionality and UI and make it possible to turn them off, or reconfigure the UI in a way that you can stick to the old tried-and-true methods. And yeah, I never liked Photoshop, but really like Fireworks ;-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Mirye Software Publishing http://www.mirye.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution