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The fabulous Ps CC experience I'm having right now, combined with the incredible touch bar experience I've had in FCPX over the past 2 weeks, has me completely convinced of the touch bar. It's pretty useless in everyday apps, but as soon as you go into a pro app, it's really amazing!
 
The fabulous Ps CC experience I'm having right now, combined with the incredible touch bar experience I've had in FCPX over the past 2 weeks, has me completely convinced of the touch bar. It's pretty useless in everyday apps, but as soon as you go into a pro app, it's really amazing!

Yep. Same can be said for touch screens on desktops and laptops. I never even use the touch screen on my Surface Pro.
 
Yep. Same can be said for touch screens on desktops and laptops. I never even use the touch screen on my Surface Pro.

Yeah except touch screens can't rly be used for photo, video & design because the screen gets all smudged. Which is a 100% dealbreaker for most creative professionals. Frickin NOBODY touches my screen. Not even me. I clean it every time a flake of dandruff lands on it hahaha.

That's why people use wacom !

As a completely unrelated sidenote, the one non-pro app I've seen really great touch bar support on is my NES emulator OpenROM. They were on it from like, launch day. And their touch bar integration is better than most Apple apps.
 
Guess I may have to upgrade my CS6 now.

I dunno if you use typefaces much, but I have to say, having recently upgraded to CC, the one thing no one talks about which turns out to be completely amazing, is the Adobe TypeKit integration. Being able to browse & preview fonts on their site, then one-click add it to all my Adobe stuff? hooooo-dzang yes please. Especially amazing for any web-based projects, since a lot of platforms support TypeKit.
 
I dunno if you use typefaces much, but I have to say, having recently upgraded to CC, the one thing no one talks about which turns out to be completely amazing, is the Adobe TypeKit integration. Being able to browse & preview fonts on their site, then one-click add it to all my Adobe stuff? hooooo-dzang yes please. Especially amazing for any web-based projects, since a lot of platforms support TypeKit.

Yup. One of the reasons I no longer resent paying a subscription. Also the fact that TB support has come so quickly - a few years ago, that would have been held back for a paid whole version upgrade.
 
Yup. One of the reasons I no longer resent paying a subscription
I'm on the photographer subscription plan, and my feelings are the polar opposite. I thought it would be a good value for get PS and LR on subscription but sadly, I'm not seeing value in it. While I will say PS has been updated, I've not used it as much because Lightroom (especially with plugins) does a great job editing. I've not see Adobe extend and provide great features in LR, a lot of the changes has been focused on the mobile markets. There's been a couple of releases that cause more problems and headaches, which hadn't helped matters.
 
Perhaps it's because Apple was promoting it by showing how you can use it with emojis. They really didn't help sell it as a professional tool, with emojis imo.

Also, from my reading, many of the things you can do on the TB can be done via shortcut keys, which will generally be more efficient then trying to use the TB - just my opinion.

oh really? I watched the MacBook keynote a few times now. Apple showed off many use cases for the TocuhBar. For you to focus on just the emoji is not being very honest.
 
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Can't wait to get home and try this out! Adobe got it out sooner than I expected.

It's the X'th time someone makes a keyboard with programmable layout. It was a gimmick then, it a gimmick now. Razor had it for a few years on their laptop and dropped it, nobody was using it, it didn't drive any sales.
Really now? Razer's implementation wasn't even similar to what Apple is doing at all. It was the primary input device on the laptop (replacing a dedicated trackpad entirely) and it was pitched for gaming first and foremost. Pretty hard to use that screen for anything useful when you're using it to control the cursor in the first place. That left just 10 separate physical keys with small screens to program icons/shortcuts onto. Whoopee. It's not hard to see why they dropped it in favor of an actual touchpad on later models.

Lenovo was closer to Apple's intention, but it was a simple monochrome display that never went beyond the basic "button" idea to actually utilize horizontal display space for more useful functions like Apple is doing. It also really just switched between 'Button Set A', 'Button Set B', 'Button Set C', etc. It was less-than-half baked.

Anything else besides those 2?
 
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The selection is limit d but has some nice selections. Did you notice that you can use the Step Back button as a multiple undo function even if you don't want the history slider.

Would have been nice to have a touch bar shortcuts to Actions.

Sadly nothing for Bridge. Would be great to press once to export selection to either JPG, TIFF etc
 
Anyone use Serif Affinity Photo 1.5.1? It has touch bar support now. Just wondered how it compares to Photoshop.
 
It compares to Paint Shop Pro.

Don't hold your breathe wait for a true Photoshop competitor. We have seen a dozen wannabes come and go.

I read through a few reviews and they seem to think it's pretty good, might give it a go as it's only 30 quid and will dump Photoshop CS6 if it does everything I need.
 
Yes, they did show off PS, but they also showed off emojis which is my point.
I'm still confused about your point.

33 seconds is the amount of time Craig Federighi spent demonstrating how emojis work w/ the new touch bar.

4 minutes 18 seconds is the amount of time spent demonstrating Final Cut Pro w/ the new touch bar.
4 minutes 30 seconds is the amount of time spent demonstrating Photoshop w/ the new touch bar.
3 minutes 33 seconds is the amount of time spend demonstrating DJ Pro w/ the new touch bar.

So your point is that the 16 minutes 18 seconds of the presentation devoted to showing how professional apps can be aided by the new touch bar was all for naught because of the 33 seconds spent showing how it works with emojis?

I'm not sure why, but from some of your posts lately, emojis seem to really be bugging you. 🙂
 
I'm still confused about your point.

33 seconds is the amount of time Craig Federighi spent demonstrating how emojis work w/ the new touch bar.

4 minutes 18 seconds is the amount of time spent demonstrating Final Cut Pro w/ the new touch bar.
4 minutes 30 seconds is the amount of time spent demonstrating Photoshop w/ the new touch bar.
3 minutes 33 seconds is the amount of time spend demonstrating DJ Pro w/ the new touch bar.

So your point is that the 16 minutes 18 seconds of the presentation devoted to showing how professional apps can be aided by the new touch bar was all for naught because of the 33 seconds spent showing how it works with emojis?

I'm not sure why, but from some of your posts lately, emojis seem to really be bugging you. 🙂

A few more demos and these 'gimmick' complainers would have kept silent.
 
A few more demos and these 'gimmick' complainers would have kept silent.

dont think many other pro apps had done any good support yet for the tb when the keynote was, i want adobe to make an option to do own touchbar buttons with my own functions sometime 🙂 but the ones we can choose from now is ok for now
 
dont think many other pro apps had done any support yet for the tb
Maybe but when I tried it with GarageBand I was really surprised how I could use it to change instruments with own hand while still playing with the other on the keyboard. You can't do that with a cursor. Your brain will turn into spaghetti.
 
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Maybe but when I tried it with GarageBand I was really surprised how I could use it to change instruments with own hand while still playing with the other on the keyboard. You can't do that with a cursor. Your brain will turn into spaghetti.

Yeah really looking forward to the logic update for TB 🙂
 
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