This is Adobe’s way to saying “you shouldn’t be doing anything type-heavy in Photoshop.” I have the feeling anyone this passionate is also making massively complicated web interfaces in Photoshop — which is clearly not the best tool for that job either. Get to know Illustrator, or better yet, InDesign. Photoshop is designed to create and manipulate images, not text.
Also, “Photoshop” is a trademarked name, and therefore should be spelled with only one capital letter — the P. Ironic, coming from such an apparent type-hawk.
Well if you need it that badly you can also use the glyphs palette of your operating system. Yes PS should not be used for too typographic projects, but there are some exceptions where it makes sense to use it.
Still it would be nice to have glyphs integrated in PS as you would not have to open the OS palette all the time.
In one way you are correct. Type heavy documents should be done in another programme.
However don’t be too narrow-minded about this, I’ve been in need of the glyphs panel in Photoshop for years. In particular, when working with Icon fonts (i.e. images not text) with no recognisable key assignment. It’s just tiresome to have to open indesign/illustrator os-keyboard just to find out where the right icon is.
So yes Adobe – please make glyphs possible in PS. And more importantly, please iron out all the inconsistencies in your CS interfaces.
@Prescott: it doesn’t bloat the application. The keyboard palette is part of OS X and available in any program. Just turn it on in the keyboard settings and you’ll find it in your menu bar. OS X also has standard UI elements in order to select fonts and colours. All those palettes allow you to save favorites and browse and search for glyphs/fonts/colours.
Maybe I’m missing something important here; but on Mac OS I just open the Character Viewer from the Input Menu. And it’s far better designed than any other glyphs pallette I’ve used.
I thought this was a good inside joke for a minute … until I realized it wasn’t. I think I’ll just design everything in MS Word from now on. It handles pictures right?
Designers are asking for a Photoshop Glyph palette to be allowed to use OpenType features with the same power than Indesign or Illustrator has. Support this! (and would be nice to have a common use of fonts across CS products, right?)
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This is Adobe’s way to saying “you shouldn’t be doing anything type-heavy in Photoshop.” I have the feeling anyone this passionate is also making massively complicated web interfaces in Photoshop — which is clearly not the best tool for that job either. Get to know Illustrator, or better yet, InDesign. Photoshop is designed to create and manipulate images, not text.
Mar 30th, 2010 / 10:10 pm
Also, “Photoshop” is a trademarked name, and therefore should be spelled with only one capital letter — the P. Ironic, coming from such an apparent type-hawk.
Mar 30th, 2010 / 10:11 pm
Well if you need it that badly you can also use the glyphs palette of your operating system. Yes PS should not be used for too typographic projects, but there are some exceptions where it makes sense to use it.
Still it would be nice to have glyphs integrated in PS as you would not have to open the OS palette all the time.
Mar 31st, 2010 / 5:57 am
In one way you are correct. Type heavy documents should be done in another programme.
However don’t be too narrow-minded about this, I’ve been in need of the glyphs panel in Photoshop for years. In particular, when working with Icon fonts (i.e. images not text) with no recognisable key assignment. It’s just tiresome to have to open indesign/illustrator os-keyboard just to find out where the right icon is.
So yes Adobe – please make glyphs possible in PS. And more importantly, please iron out all the inconsistencies in your CS interfaces.
Mar 31st, 2010 / 9:39 am
Read: Adobe, please use the features of the OS where your application runs…
:P
Mar 31st, 2010 / 9:40 am
As long as it doesn’t further bloat the application, I’m all for it. But I’d still rather have people use the right tool for the job.
Mar 31st, 2010 / 11:31 am
@Prescott: it doesn’t bloat the application. The keyboard palette is part of OS X and available in any program. Just turn it on in the keyboard settings and you’ll find it in your menu bar. OS X also has standard UI elements in order to select fonts and colours. All those palettes allow you to save favorites and browse and search for glyphs/fonts/colours.
Mar 31st, 2010 / 3:53 pm
Maybe I’m missing something important here; but on Mac OS I just open the Character Viewer from the Input Menu. And it’s far better designed than any other glyphs pallette I’ve used.
Apr 1st, 2010 / 6:32 am
I thought this was a good inside joke for a minute … until I realized it wasn’t. I think I’ll just design everything in MS Word from now on. It handles pictures right?
Apr 1st, 2010 / 11:27 pm
Designers are asking for a Photoshop Glyph palette to be allowed to use OpenType features with the same power than Indesign or Illustrator has. Support this! (and would be nice to have a common use of fonts across CS products, right?)
Apr 5th, 2010 / 5:16 pm
I WANT IT !
Thanks for this amazing blog.
I love typography too.
Myriam
Apr 8th, 2010 / 10:16 am
as many people have already said you shouldn’t be using text in photoshop!!! its for photos!!!
Apr 19th, 2010 / 5:55 pm
is someone reading my mind there?
May 31st, 2010 / 8:21 pm