Most annoying “usability” feature ever
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008Automatic saving functionality – make a change, it’s saved.
It’s not so bad with revision control; if the changes don’t work out the way you want them, revert and you’re done.
But what if your workflow is:
- Open image you plan on editing
- Make changes you want
- Either Save As… or Save the current picture. Either way, until the edits are done you’re committed to neither choice
With the “automatic save” functionality, once (2) is done, your original is toast. To preserve originals, I’m forced to change my workflow, creating a copy before any work is done.
Save a recovery copy automatically, but let me choose Save or Save As… – I’m smarter than you because I’m actually editing the photo myself. I probably know what I want to do with it better than the computer.
