The many sliders of Photoshop CS4

mrgan:

Preferences > Memory Usage

Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast

Filters

Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)

Layer Blending

Layer Style

Threshold

Color Balance

Things to keep in mind:

1. These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here’s the first one I found in Illustrator CS5:
   
2. The most common out of all these seems to be second one, Brightness Adjustment.
3. They’re all ugly. The only near-acceptable one is the Layer Style slider.
4. None of these looks like the standard OS X slider:

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   I whined about this to someone recently.

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   Preferences > Memory Usage Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast Filters Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow) Layer...

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    consistency wha?

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    Check out this assessment of the insane variety of UI inconsistencies in Photoshop CS4.

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    world’s premier graphics suite have such a god-awful interface? (Cosmetically and functionally, IMO.)

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     post that inspired me to start this tumblr. Inconsistent controls are an automatic fail.

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     In fact, there’s nothing acceptable about...Layer Style slider either. The entire...

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     special function ones like...Blending, however blur takes

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