Chapter 7. Managing and Customizing the Interface

For the last several versions of its applications, Adobe has pushed to give its creative products a similar user interface. Adobe Creative Suite 2 can now boast the most common elements and the most similar interface in this long evolution towards what Steve sometimes refers to as “the Adobe way” of working. In this chapter, we’ll focus on elements in common among Adobe applications, not the least of which is a shared core technology.

What’s so important about this commonality? Efficiency, in short. It’s easy and efficient to switch between applications if they share similar interface elements and ways of working. It’s easy to learn a new CS2 application if you’re already familiar with one or ...

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