Yeah, I have to say I hate osx. And actually I have a very specific reason. If anyone out there knows how I can do THIS with OSX, please tell me.Quote:
Originally Posted by SarahG
I take digital pictures and edit them in Photoshop 6. Please don't laugh and tell me to get with times and all that BS. I DO have 2 newer versions of Photoshop and OSX up to 10.4 on other machines , but this would take 10x longer to do in X than 9.
When I am in photoshop, I have to sift through and edit approx 150-200 photos. I generally do a few simple hue/saturation/ tweakes and then add some screen/overlay layers, flatten them, resize them and save them. All my actions are saved in "Actions" and are hot keyed.
So the first thing I do is that in photoshop 6 /OS 9.22, I open the first 20 pictures. Then I do my actions, resize and save As them (to another folder). When i finish with those 20, I open the next bunch of 20.
This goes very, VERY smoothly in OS9.. OS 9 REMEMBERS where the last file you opened was, and remembers the last place you saved a file. Its funny, because it doesnt remember the first time, but after the second time, it develops a pattern and then whenever you "save as" the next file, it goes where you put the last one. WONDERFUL!!! That's Intuitive, with a capital "I".
OSX, however, ALWAYS, ALWAYS takes me back to the root level of the file hierarchy. It always wants to "save as" the altered file wherever I opened the last file from. And it also is horrible when it comes to the order it shows the files being in any "open" windows. This is annoying to no end, and I can't seem to find anything to make X behave like 9. I've looked high and low in my photoshop 7 and CS prefrences and can't find anything that will make it behave the way I feel it ought to.
X takes away funtionality and added.. ooh a cool looking interface! Big fucking deal! I'll stick with 9.2 and Photoshop 6.5 for this particular workflow issue, thank you.
In X the opening and saving process means a lot of searching through folders and "why the hell does it want to put it there" sort of crap.. it would add about 5- 10 extra steps to my otherwise smooth process that I can pretty much do blindfolded.
Generally I use X if I want to web stuff and have pages look right, and that's it. And for running webcam software. If I have a machine that barely goes on the net, I'll use 9 (my final cut and DVD studio pro only work in 9). You'd think X would be more stable, but programs crash all the time (but the whole computer hardly ever locks up, like it sometimes does in 9)
I find the same crap with X and opening and saving files also applies to Safari. It doesn't remember the last place I got a file from, which is helpful if it did.
-Tara