I’ve been trying to slowly learn the ins and outs of PhotoForge2 for iPhone and iPad, partly because I loved the original PhotoForge app, and partly because the video demos of the app make it seem extremely powerful. I still have no doubts about the power behind the app, but it has been months now, and I’ve made very little progress with regards to understanding more of the UI. PhotoForge2 is proving to be a very hard nut to crack.
But if there’s one thing I’d like to nitpick on today, it’s the ridiculous carousel interface for displaying tools (e.g. crop, resize, etc.) and effects (e.g. black & white, pixellate, etc.). It looks all right on the iPhone, but it’s almost dizzying on the iPad, especially because the carousal lacks any start or end points. Of course, this is how carousels work, but you can only really gauge where you are in a carousel when it’s laid out in three dimensions. not two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaNWEdbdMZQ&sns=em
As is, you can spin the carousel and end up right back where you started, and it’s very hard to keep track of the icons because many of them share the same basic shape and colour scheme. The lack of alphabetization also makes it very difficult for you to remember where a given effect is. For an app that specializes in tweaking visuals, you’d think the graphical interface in PhotoForge2 could have been made a little more user-friendly.
I’ll continue to plug away at the app because it still seems like one of the only solutions for using layer masks on iOS, but this carousel paradim really needs to go.
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