Why Photoshop ...WHY!!

I’ve used photoshop in some capacity for at least 15 years now and together with autodesk’s Maya, it is one of the packages I verbally abuse most (and both deserve it imo). Now as a colleague rightfully pointed out – we curse and moan, but do we ever let the developers know? Hence this post
I am probably woefully unaware of various of tools or tricks - if I am I would love to know - but I don’t care much for workarounds, if I paid that much I would want my software to WORK . But these are the some of the things that annoyed me in just one day of work:
(this is using CS5, if some of these are moot in later versions – my apologies) ..
- Why can I not fill or apply a filter to a layer that is hidden (with an annoying popup no less!), but things like brightness / contrast are allowed.
- Why is so much of the UI locked when settings windows are open (maybe I want to toggle a layer on / off while I am previewing my blur filter!)
- Make sure your foreground color is something other than black / white / grey, select a layer mask (so your Fg / Bg colors now turn greyscale) then edit a gradient, add a point and see what color it turns out like – right, your original foreground color (even though you cannot see this anywhere in the UI), then in the color pulldown select foreground – black n white version again? Why?
- Why if I copy and paste a selection of a layer with transparency, does it paste it to the center of my canvas and not where it came from.
- Why do some filters have miniscule preview windows and don’t preview it on the entire image while others do.
- Why is the tolerance setting of the magic wand selection tool a textbox, why can’t it be dynamically adjusted after the selection has been made
- Why can’t I move the contents of a selection when I have layers linked (the whole layer moves for all linked layers regardless of selection)
- Why are some tools (like the polygon tool) artificially limited (to 100 sides? What if I want 180 ?)
- Why can I sometimes select the pivot of a Free Transform directly, and other times I have to hold Alt for it to work.
- Why can I only pan an image beyond certain boundaries? What if I have layers with images bigger than this and I want to transform them? What if I have a guideline further out and I want to nudge it a pixel, but I need accuracy so I don’t want to zoom out?
- Why is there no simple bend deform on a selection? (no, the lattice tool does not do the job)
Why are paths not hide-able like normal layers – why do the normal selection tools select the path (always) and not just let the path tools handle this, why is the only way to select something other than paths by hiding (ctrl H) which then cycles through varying states of (in)visibility of your selection and guidelines.
It seems some are to do with legacy tools that remained near unaltered through the versions, inconsistencies that grew after functionality was bolted on and plain badly implemented tools. To me though alot of these are fundamental parts needed for a consistent workflow.
Sorry .. I just had to get that off my chest
Cheers,
Elco

Thank you for your thoughts.
I'll add one more: I wish they'd get to all the unfinished work, such as making all of the 8 bit-only filters work on deeper data.
I can understand the need to unload frustration, and there's a decent chance your thoughts will be seen by the right folks here, though there's even a better place (http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family).
I'm a software engineer, though not with Adobe. I have some thoughts and questions:
- Why can I not fill or apply a filter to a layer that is hidden (with an annoying popup no less!), but things like brightness / contrast are allowed.
Can you list steps leading to the ability to apply Brightness/Contrast to a hidden layer? Sounds like a bug to me, and I wasn't able to do it directly. I'm assuming you've found an indirect way to do so.
<philosophical mode on>
Several of the things you describe are what most of us would consider just plain bugs.
Adobe seems to put a lot of effort into new features and when they get time (seemingly rarely) they address a few bugs. But reported bugs (if they're not considered by Adobe to be egregious) can be seen to remain in the software for many major versions. So long, sometimes, as to gain an inertia of their own, making future fixes even less likely as people grow to rely upon them. I'm sure there must be a sign up somewhere at Adobe that says "One person's bug is another's feature."
Much as we'd all like to see everyone at Adobe take a deep breath and fix all the niggling bugs and unfinished features, Adobe clearly finds this "put off what's not absolutely necessary right now" strategy to work, selling version after version of hugely expensive software. Hate to say it, but it's not likely to change - it's hard to argue with business success.
Photoshop is clearly an object-oriented system and its design structure was initially set during its early development, which as you can probably guess (given your long history with it) was some 2-1/2 decades ago. By some accounts the Photoshop source code has grown over the years to over 4 million lines of code. That it's been able to withstand so many decades of development is testament to how good that original design structure must have been. I'm sure Thomas Knoll and company strove to make it as capable and flexible as possible all through time, but there are just some things dependent on others that are reflected ultimately in what you are and are not allowed to do.
I suspect far more is involved with enabling combinatorial activities not currently allowed (such as hiding or showing a layer while doing a transform) than you might think - meaning in a practical sense it would be expensive and time consuming for Adobe, as well as potentially introducing major new bugs. The basic design structure of a system this complex is not the kind of thing that can just be undone and redone from scratch on a whim, and as much as we might think throwing more engineering into the product or maybe even doing a rewrite might be justifiable given the millions/billions the product makes, Adobe just doesn't.
-Noel

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