Well there is other ways to include more context help - why not having a contextual help palette that one can have on or off just any other window (brushes, tool presets, channels) that simply describes what the tool can do. This could even be stored in an open format, so that users could easily overwrite them/provide…
yeah had the very same though today, was already digging: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/photoshop/ there is a nice and easy tutorial how to do it in just Flash (guess many people here have some basic skills for that): http://scriptplayground.com/tutorials/as/Creating-Flash-Panels-for-Photoshop-using-Flash-CS4/ I had some…
"Ok guys what about this (since it seems that many tricks are hidden and go unnoticed for years) It could expand after a click in the corner, or after a longer time with the mouse on it. Or middle click on the icon." Too many details, not enough screen space (Elements tried it, and the tooltips took over the screen) And if…