It’s a shame when good killer APP gets tormented:/(Īnother APP i liked was Cyberstudio (or something like that) Golive. In Windows 3.1x Photoshop was slow as hell freezin’ and Windows ver’s multiple-windows-in-one-window sucks as always and nowadays the Carbon version for Mac OS X is stupid and slow (but it can be the whole OSX to blame, they should make total rewrite, no threading and so). In 6 or 6.5 they modified the basic tool options panel and it was very sucky idea.
When they released history, it was amazing (but buggy), but with that, photoshop slowed down like elephant which bought a lada (car, you know ). In ver 4 they made some big changes like you were forced to use the moving tool (what’s that called) when you could in ver 3 just move your selections with that selection tool you used. 1 and 2 were hard to use because all the floating palettes (like colors-palette and so, except the main toolbar) were in menus and when you opened one of them, it locked your screen so you couldn’t do anything except choose color. I am not illustrator user, but i’ve been using Photoshop from it’s 1.xx version to the CS. Longer version: Adobe is de facto, it can’t be ignored, but it’s UIs are getting badder and badder. Short version: Adobe’s stupid and it’s products sucks nowadays.