Adobe has released a comprehensive user guide for it’s new free Adobe Configurator application, that lets people create customised Photoshop CS4 control panels and share them with others.
The first full version of Adobe Configurator was announced last week. The open source utility enables the easy creation of panels (palettes) for use in Photoshop CS4 and runs on Adobe's AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) foundation.
Configurator is designed to make it easy to drag and drop tools, menu items, scripts, actions, and other objects into a panel design, then export the results for use inside Photoshop.
“The app is designed to be very straightforward to use, but the guide can help answer questions as you start using Configurator more intensively,” explains Adobe’s John Nack in a blog posting. “The team has also provided a list of known issues - rough edges and their workarounds.”
Nack also highlights a few ideas for Configurator, Adobe are “kicking around”:
* Support containers (sub-tabs, accordions, etc.) that would make it easy to provide more content within a single panel
* Offer better localisation/auto-layout (so that a tab could be switched from English to German to Japanese on the fly; this is essential if we're to use Configurator to create content that ships in the box)
* Include more widgets that can be dragged in (e.g. a foreground/background color indicator/selector like the one at the bottom of the PS toolbar)
The Configurator PDF user guide can be downloaded here.
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