Photoshop CS3 annoyances. Workarounds?
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Hey guys. I switched to cs3 a while back, and there are a few things that are really getting on my nerves. I'm hoping someone knows a way to 'fix' them.
-If I'm working zoomed in and I alt-tab, and alt-tab back to Photoshop, my view will be in the top left corner, no matter where I was before. This is a royal pain, and the only way around it I can find is to go into one of the other windowing modes (whatever they're called, what you get when you press F), which isn't always practical, but a decent workaround I suppose. This is only a problem when you've maximised the window inside of Photoshop, I think.
-Another problem you only run into when you've maximised your window inside of PS is that even only BARELY touching the sides of the window auto-scrolls you to that side, REALLY fast. Not pleasant or practical.
-In a similar vein, if you've hidden your tools (tab), touching the sides of your screen with the cursor makes them pop up, or at least makes the drag-out bar appear. Not the greatest problem, but I'm venting.
-Much as I loved being able to dock palettes under eachother, not having them overlap or have gaps if you resize one, my colour-palette always seems to go back to take up roughly one third of the vertical screen-space if I close and open photoshop, which is far more than what I need. I'll drag the border between the palette and the one under it upwards to where I want it, and it'll just be back to where it was the next time I open PS. Again, nothing terribly annoying, but I'm venting. Join me, it's liberating.
-If I'm working zoomed in and I alt-tab, and alt-tab back to Photoshop, my view will be in the top left corner, no matter where I was before. This is a royal pain, and the only way around it I can find is to go into one of the other windowing modes (whatever they're called, what you get when you press F), which isn't always practical, but a decent workaround I suppose. This is only a problem when you've maximised the window inside of Photoshop, I think.
-Another problem you only run into when you've maximised your window inside of PS is that even only BARELY touching the sides of the window auto-scrolls you to that side, REALLY fast. Not pleasant or practical.
-In a similar vein, if you've hidden your tools (tab), touching the sides of your screen with the cursor makes them pop up, or at least makes the drag-out bar appear. Not the greatest problem, but I'm venting.
-Much as I loved being able to dock palettes under eachother, not having them overlap or have gaps if you resize one, my colour-palette always seems to go back to take up roughly one third of the vertical screen-space if I close and open photoshop, which is far more than what I need. I'll drag the border between the palette and the one under it upwards to where I want it, and it'll just be back to where it was the next time I open PS. Again, nothing terribly annoying, but I'm venting. Join me, it's liberating.
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Not very helpful post, I'm afraid, but.. you're not alone :P
I like the F modes a lot actually, since I can pan beyond the image border. Helpful when the Transform gizmo is larger than the image.
I'm not encountering this either. My experience only has the window autoscroll when I have a selection tool (urm) selected - and in those circumstances the speed of scrolling is related to how close the cursor is to the edge of the screen - it starts scroling slowly about 20 pixels out, and speeds up when I'm right at the edge. I used to have th eproblem you mention with older versions of the software, but I haven't had it with CS3.
Yes, it does pop the menus out if you hit the side, but you need to hold the cursor there for a split second - they don't pop out (or shouldn't) if you just brush against them for a moment while painting .
As to your last point Pea, have you tried saving the workspace, as Eric suggested, and then *not reloading it? It occurs to me that I've never encountered the problem you speak of (except when PS has not been closed properly - in those instances any UI changes are not recalled as a default), but then I always save my prefered workspace as soon as I can, because PS has always had an issue with spontaniously forgetting all it's interface settings - Thanks to the workspace options I can quickly get back my prefered locations without messing around. So possibly one reason I haven't seen thsi issue and you have is that I have my workspace saved as a seperate file rather than just the default...
As for thomap's issue, that is indeed a bit crap.
My own issue? It now takes far longer to open a document window than in any other version of PS (I find that both at home and at work), be it starting a new document, or opening an existing one, or duplication one that's already open - it takes... a while. In fact most operations seem slower, well, *are slower, I checked by writing a script compatable with both CS2 and CS3 that timed certain operations. CS3 was considerably slower in about 50% of the operations I tried.
Harl, make sure that your default printer is not an online printer. If it is, even the smallest .jpg (or any file for that matter) will always make CS3 freeze for like 5 seconds instead of opening the file instantly. Something that some users might not notice, but when it comes to opening/closing textures dozen times a day it is a real pain.
You also need do clear the recent documents list to clear that one problem. My solution was to set a bogus xps printer as default, to override network printers (something you are very likely to need to do if this is a work machine on a network). I had to figure out that one myself since the official support guys contacted at work did not provide any solution.
Hope this helps. Sorry Peapea, I have no solution to your probs, CS3 is a pain for me too espeially the new docking crap. The new shortcuts for layer grouping/ctrl-selecting are nice tho.
And a few other things are really nice as well.
Alex
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Alex
Yeah Sage CS3 doesn't have an option to prevent it, afaik. Happens with layers too. Though it doesn't add Copy if you save in a different folder than the PSD. The history trick is nice, you'll like it.
I always end up printscreening those things as a workaround.
step 1 - Get Vtools.
step 2 - Love Vtools.
It's as simple as that!
(I really need to finish some of these other scripts I've got half done