Apple Breaks Their Tools
I had a fairly dismaying time with Lion this morning; one of the changes Apple made has really impacted my workflow in a negative way. The change is pretty stupid, too. Consider how I would deal with an image in Snow Leopard:
- Export a .pct image from a video using QuickTime Pro (the old version; the new version still stinks)
- Open the image in Preview
- Crop, resize, save, all in the same session
Now ponder the *cough* improved *cough* workflow:
- Export a .pct from a video using QuickTime Pro (the old version; the new version still stinks)
- Open in Preview
- Export to a PDF
- Open the PDF, export to a JPG (or PNG, etc)
- Open the new file, crop, resize, export yet again
What the heck was wrong with Save As? Why do I have to walk through PDF, when it's clear that Preview still handles all the image formats? Who at Apple thought all of these extra steps served a purpose? Who at Apple is going to fix the problem? And who decided that eliminating Save As across all the stock tools and replacing it with Export was helpful? I understand the versioning idea, but heck - that's not how every other blasted tool on the planet works. Give me back my old workflow - if I wanted to have a crappy time working, I'd use Office with the idiotic ribbon....