Picky color picker

November 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Dear Adobe,

I want to pick a color overlay for a layer style. But Photoshop (CS3) makes me open 2 windows instead of one to do so. It’s a bit aggravating and wasteful. Please combine these windows.

When trying to change a color overlay, I’m confronted with this:

Naturally, I want to change the color on this menu. Which brings me to this:

But what I really want is both in one, like this:

Wouldn’t that be great? Now get on it, Adobe. Thanks!

Tags: Design · Interface · User Experience · Usability · Tools · Adobe

3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Johns Beharry // Dec 3, 2008 at 4:00 am

    ha ha Great post! You should get more technical and talk about their improper use of space in the first window.

    Just awesome though
    Send it off to them

  • 2 Harry Roberts // Dec 8, 2008 at 10:04 am

    I’d never thought about this before, but it looks much nicer!

  • 3 Jason Robb // Dec 8, 2008 at 11:07 am

    Thanks for the note Harry, glad you like it!

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