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t 7
Real-World Productivity for Imaging Professionals
0 5 10 15 20 25
0 5 10 15 20 25
Arrange
3 open
documents
Combine elements
from several
documents
Manage windows
7.78
17.09
14.95
7.25
19.54
23.08
CS3 or older
CS4
Photoshop CS4: User Interface Efficiency
Time in seconds. Shorter is better.
0 5 10 15 20 25
0 5 10 15 20 25
Arrange
3 open
documents
Combine elements
from several
documents
Manage windows
7.78
17.09
14.95
7.25
19.54
23.08
CS3 or older
CS4
Photoshop CS4: User Interface Efficiency
Time in seconds. Shorter is better.
How it affects
productivity: e time
spent shuing windows
around accumulates
quickly; the new user
interface can provide
very signicant
productivity gains
almost immediately.
The feature: e
available screen real-
estate can be split
among several open
documents with a
single click. Switching
between dierent
congurations is simple;
the space necessary for
panels is automatically
taken into account.
Bottom Line: The tabbed user interface in Photoshop CS4 can save you over 3 hours a month.
(Based on 20 repetitions of benchmarked operations per day. Click here to find out more.)
t The new user interface increases
the efficiency of working with
multiple documents.
t Software:
Photoshop CS4
InDesign CS4
Illustrator CS4
Flash CS4 Professional
Fireworks CS4
t While the new
Application Frame
and Application
Bar in Adobe CS4
applications are a
change from previous
ways of managing
windows, they offer
immediate productivity
gains once you start
working with them.
What is it all about?
Adobe Creative Suite 4 sports a new
user interface for managing windows
and panels, making working with
multiple documents much more
convenient. If you like the classic
way of shuing windows around to
see what they contain, you can still
do this, but the tabbed user interface
common to the key applications in
AdobeCS4 clearly more convenient:
Open documents show up as tabs
in the main application frame, and
splitting the screen to compare several
windows is very easy.
How do I use it?
AdobeCS4 applications have a
new Application Bar that gives
very fast access to dierent display
congurations that can be adapted
manually if necessary. Multiple
documents appear as tabs, so
switching between documents is as
easy as clicking on the right tab.
How Adobe Creative Suite 4 Increases Efficiency in Managing Windows
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