Top 5 Useless Tools in Photoshop!
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Date: 2022-07-19
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jdnelms62
I agree entirely that these tools are useless. Most seems to be legacy tools from Photoshop's infancy that either Adobe or it's programmers are hesitant to get rid off. The shape tools for example come from Adobe Illustrator and while their usefulness in Photoshop is dubious, they are still powerful tools in Illustrator. The path tool was and still is lllustrator's best legacy tool and works very effectively in Photoshop as well, so perhaps that's why Adobe just let the other shape tools stay.
As for the dodge tool, yes many of us old timers still use it, typically on a duplicate layer since it is destructive. Adobe hopefully will never eliminate it, because it like the burn tool, it harkens back to the era of actual dark room photo printing and the little cardboard and wire dodge tools used to on making photo prints.
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I agree entirely that these tools are useless. Most seems to be legacy tools from Photoshop's infancy that either Adobe or it's programmers are hesitant to get rid off. The shape tools for example come from Adobe Illustrator and while their usefulness in Photoshop is dubious, they are still powerful tools in Illustrator. The path tool was and still is lllustrator's best legacy tool and works very effectively in Photoshop as well, so perhaps that's why Adobe just let the other shape tools stay.
As for the dodge tool, yes many of us old timers still use it, typically on a duplicate layer since it is destructive. Adobe hopefully will never eliminate it, because it like the burn tool, it harkens back to the era of actual dark room photo printing and the little cardboard and wire dodge tools used to on making photo prints.
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Mauro
Hi Unmesh, i like all your videos, im a follower. i know why that triangle and rounded box coming, and exists yet. because they carring them from the old photoshops. when that tools didnt have all that changing options after the square box was a square and triangle was a triangle without any options, and now becuase they added advantages to each tool. some of them are useless and repetitive. im hope im right i was using photoshop since i was 8 y. o. when i used to make a web page from a cybercafe (when they exists lol) and in the times of netscape navigator so imagine that old, i think was photoshop 2. 0 i think i already have in some floppy disks in my biblio: )
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Hi Unmesh, i like all your videos, im a follower. i know why that triangle and rounded box coming, and exists yet. because they carring them from the old photoshops. when that tools didnt have all that changing options after the square box was a square and triangle was a triangle without any options, and now becuase they added advantages to each tool. some of them are useless and repetitive. im hope im right i was using photoshop since i was 8 y. o. when i used to make a web page from a cybercafe (when they exists lol) and in the times of netscape navigator so imagine that old, i think was photoshop 2. 0 i think i already have in some floppy disks in my biblio: )
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Lilly
The triangle and rounded square tools are there for beginners! I remember years ago when I had to look up a tutorial for how to create a triangle in Photoshop because it wasn't obvious, so I'm glad they finally have it even though it's not necessary. Same with the rounded rectangle, a new user won't understand right away that the corners can be modified with the round dots on a normal rectangle. Photoshop is so intimidating to new users, so I'm actually really happy with how much Adobe has worked to make things more intuitive for beginners. As for the first four tools you mentioned, I couldn't agree more!
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The triangle and rounded square tools are there for beginners! I remember years ago when I had to look up a tutorial for how to create a triangle in Photoshop because it wasn't obvious, so I'm glad they finally have it even though it's not necessary. Same with the rounded rectangle, a new user won't understand right away that the corners can be modified with the round dots on a normal rectangle. Photoshop is so intimidating to new users, so I'm actually really happy with how much Adobe has worked to make things more intuitive for beginners. As for the first four tools you mentioned, I couldn't agree more!
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faketrophy
As I see when you talked about pencil and brush tools, these tools have completely different textures and expressions, so how can someone say that one of them is useless because of a theme like I think it's ugly. And for the other tools that you mentioned they can be pretty useful when you don't manipulate photos but putting some effects on them, working based on areas more than based on borders or when you work on a plain white workspace from scratch. I find this video unnecessarily bold.
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As I see when you talked about pencil and brush tools, these tools have completely different textures and expressions, so how can someone say that one of them is useless because of a theme like I think it's ugly. And for the other tools that you mentioned they can be pretty useful when you don't manipulate photos but putting some effects on them, working based on areas more than based on borders or when you work on a plain white workspace from scratch. I find this video unnecessarily bold.
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Oliver
I think the standalone triangle shape exists purely for convenience. It's a far more common and more recognized term than polygon, from the perspective of a non-english-speaking newbie at least. It's just good UX: giving you multiple ways to approach a problem while keeping it accessible to the largest possible demographic. If we think that's pointless, then. why do we need a circle shape again? It's just a polygon with infinite edges, isn't it? Or maybe zero? Minus one?
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I think the standalone triangle shape exists purely for convenience. It's a far more common and more recognized term than polygon, from the perspective of a non-english-speaking newbie at least. It's just good UX: giving you multiple ways to approach a problem while keeping it accessible to the largest possible demographic. If we think that's pointless, then. why do we need a circle shape again? It's just a polygon with infinite edges, isn't it? Or maybe zero? Minus one?
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freezer
I use magic eraser to quickly remove white backgound to make it transperrent, i often work with small pictures 800-1200p or smaller and i need make a lot of them so i dont have time and need to mask every single one of them. Select color is unaccurate with low ress pictures. I agree that ME is nish tool and not all people found it useful but it far from useless.
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I use magic eraser to quickly remove white backgound to make it transperrent, i often work with small pictures 800-1200p or smaller and i need make a lot of them so i dont have time and need to mask every single one of them. Select color is unaccurate with low ress pictures. I agree that ME is nish tool and not all people found it useful but it far from useless.
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Jacquelyn
Im assuming some of these tools were either kept from the older versions so users dont freak out when they cant find their prized go to tool (you know the grandma who uses Adobe for her cat pillow designs ) - or someone thought it would be a nice shortcut. Would be nice if Adobe could cut out some of the bloat from their programs.
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Im assuming some of these tools were either kept from the older versions so users dont freak out when they cant find their prized go to tool (you know the grandma who uses Adobe for her cat pillow designs ) - or someone thought it would be a nice shortcut. Would be nice if Adobe could cut out some of the bloat from their programs.
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Robert
The difference between the rectangle tool and the rounded rectangle tool can be that the name is different in the layers panel. One says rectangle the other rounded rectangle so you know which is which. Of course you can rename the layer but this way it does it for you. Not a big benefit but maybe for somebody is useful.
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The difference between the rectangle tool and the rounded rectangle tool can be that the name is different in the layers panel. One says rectangle the other rounded rectangle so you know which is which. Of course you can rename the layer but this way it does it for you. Not a big benefit but maybe for somebody is useful.
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PicyPoe
Pattern Stamp tool is great for recreating pattern in fabric. It lets you also change the brush opacity and set its blending mode.
Rounded Rectangle - that round edge selection was not always there, hence the old tool still exists. And it is more straight forward to use than going into the submenus of rect tool.
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Pattern Stamp tool is great for recreating pattern in fabric. It lets you also change the brush opacity and set its blending mode.
Rounded Rectangle - that round edge selection was not always there, hence the old tool still exists. And it is more straight forward to use than going into the submenus of rect tool.
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KOZMOGRAF/X
I can see the Triangle tool being a useful go-to like a rectangle or an oval/circle, which are very common elements, especially for signage. While it may only be a savings of microseconds, it does eliminate the mental hurdle of having to set up the triangle settings within the polygon tool.
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I can see the Triangle tool being a useful go-to like a rectangle or an oval/circle, which are very common elements, especially for signage. While it may only be a savings of microseconds, it does eliminate the mental hurdle of having to set up the triangle settings within the polygon tool.
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jaad
You can always revert changes done by those destructive tools by setting a proper history state for the History Brush and just painting it back. I don't say it is a better way by any means, but it is not true that you can't get it back. :)
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You can always revert changes done by those destructive tools by setting a proper history state for the History Brush and just painting it back. I don't say it is a better way by any means, but it is not true that you can't get it back. :)
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Vn-Hiu
The rounded rectangle tool is just a legacy feature, back in the days when you couldn't easily round corners because such a feature didn't exist. Just goes to show how much of a godsend the ability to round any corner is nowadays.
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The rounded rectangle tool is just a legacy feature, back in the days when you couldn't easily round corners because such a feature didn't exist. Just goes to show how much of a godsend the ability to round any corner is nowadays.
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Michael
By your logic, the regular (non-rounded) rectangle tool is equally as pointless and redundant as the triangle, being a 4-sided polygon. It seems very arbitrary to single out the triangle tool for scorn but not the rectangle.
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By your logic, the regular (non-rounded) rectangle tool is equally as pointless and redundant as the triangle, being a 4-sided polygon. It seems very arbitrary to single out the triangle tool for scorn but not the rectangle.
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Andy
Hello Unmesh. Could we request an in depth video on retouching studio paper please? For full length shots where the shadows and lighting are slightly uneven. What would your recommended fixes be?
Keep up the amazing work.
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Hello Unmesh. Could we request an in depth video on retouching studio paper please? For full length shots where the shadows and lighting are slightly uneven. What would your recommended fixes be?
Keep up the amazing work.
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Thomas
Mr. Unmesh Dinda - your Windows are so amazing! Always I thought, my Photoshop compositions and my knowledge about Photoshop is good. But after I viewed your tutorials, I reworked my old works and they looks so much better!
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Mr. Unmesh Dinda - your Windows are so amazing! Always I thought, my Photoshop compositions and my knowledge about Photoshop is good. But after I viewed your tutorials, I reworked my old works and they looks so much better!
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El
Well pencil may be useless in your line but for example in digital art sometimes you need hard edges without anti-aliasing and pencil is perfect for that, still I love your videos even in digital art your videos are incredibkle
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Well pencil may be useless in your line but for example in digital art sometimes you need hard edges without anti-aliasing and pencil is perfect for that, still I love your videos even in digital art your videos are incredibkle
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ah
What you listed as useless tools are actually my preferences of tools for my work, just because you don't need them in your line of work or have no idea how to utilize them doesn't mean they are useless.
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What you listed as useless tools are actually my preferences of tools for my work, just because you don't need them in your line of work or have no idea how to utilize them doesn't mean they are useless.
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Rochelle
PiXimperfect When I heard the word: The BRUSH PEN IS JUST A DUMB VERSION. made me laugh a bit and thought of a great content to title it with HOW TO DRAW WITH A DUMB VERSION BRUSH in PHOTOSHOP
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PiXimperfect When I heard the word: The BRUSH PEN IS JUST A DUMB VERSION. made me laugh a bit and thought of a great content to title it with HOW TO DRAW WITH A DUMB VERSION BRUSH in PHOTOSHOP
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mt145
You do the exact same thing as your older siblings but you do it worse and make things complicated. This is something we should think about
Said by my asian parents at every family dinner
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You do the exact same thing as your older siblings but you do it worse and make things complicated. This is something we should think about
Said by my asian parents at every family dinner
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Suresh
Thanks for suggest to Adobe as I was thinking about the same for some of the tools available in the program which are not required at all or not so useful in the workflow with regards,
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Thanks for suggest to Adobe as I was thinking about the same for some of the tools available in the program which are not required at all or not so useful in the workflow with regards,
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