First let me say I love Photoshop that is the only program I use for my digital art. Everyone is always talking about how great photoshop is (which is correct) and about the great features it has. But no one ever talks about the features it lacks and the things that are not good. I upgraded to CS2 and the first thing I was looking forward to was the Adobe Bridge program. Sure the interface looks great but it takes way to long for a 'file browser' to open. By the way, its not my system really, 1GB RAM 2GHz AMD Turion 64X processor, which is really inconvienent. Then when I double click on the image(s) I want to open, I am expectng Photoshop to open them like it would if I had used the File>Open command but what does it do? It opens the files yes, but in my web browser! WTF is with that?!? Then I reselect my files and go looking around the buttons and menus for a command that does open them in photoshop with no luck. So I was forced to discover that the only way I know of to open them is to drag them from Adobe Bridge to Photoshop which is a pain especially when I have Bridge maximized.

The other thing I dont enjoy which is probobly not Photoshop/s fault is that when I am using the colour picker in the colours box if I pick a colour that suits what I am doing, and it displays the not in printing gamma icon, I click on it so that it can choose the closest colour that is printable. But that colour is way too dark or light of the original hue which doesnt fit in my image at all!

The filter gallary isnt much of a life saver unless you dont know which kind of filter you want to use but even then, it doesn't even display half of the filters available. I dont see how Photoshop can choose which filters we want to consider and which ones we dont. So why not make the program so that it displays all the filters? Eh? lol

The other thing I dont like, is that there is no print preview command like the ones in Microsoft Word or other programs. Sure the Print with Preview command is useful but it doesnt do enough, the image it shows us is not large enough for us to make out the actual spacing and detalis of the image. Sure, it helps us make sure the image is centered and not hanging out but its hard to exactly mkae sure the image is correctly sized.

Heres another problem I have, whenever I make a selection with my pen tool lets say of a car, then I was to deslect the windows, when I make a path aorund the window and right click>make selection and choose subtract from selection option, it deletes my previous selection and only uses the current one of the windows. Is it just me or is that the exact same result that I'd get if I had clicked new selection? So instead I have to use the intersect selections and hope that it works. I didn't used to have this other problem but now (before I even upgraded and yet it still presists), whenever I make a selection, the selction selects everything EXCEPT what I had went around of, so then I have to inverse the selection, and it gets very bothersome. Especially when I am used to it selected what I went around of , I now tend to erase, copy, or affect the wrong part of the image because of this nuasance which wastes a lot of my time.

The healing brush is very useful except that it sucks in a way. If you erase a part of an image and want to fill it in with a different part of the image, the healing brush gives you this very light effect of the copied area because below what you just brushed over is the blank canvas because you just erased what was there before, and if you dont you get what you want there overlapping the older imperfection which then blend together. So this means you must first clone over the area then use the healing brush (**sigh**).Anotehr thing, if you are working around an object that is on a white background and if the healing brush is seeing it all as one layer then if you click lets say on the object's shirt near the edge of the object, then the area is whitened because of white area near the object.

Yes these problems arn't technically Photoshop's fault; well most of them anyways. But they sure don't improve my life. And if anything, decrease the value of it. Alrigth well thanks for putting up with my compliants. But they are technically valid points. dont you think so?