The Good: (Quicktime 5 & 6)

The Bad: (Quicktime 3 & 4)

The UGLY: (QUICKTIME 7 !!!)

Do you guys think it's ugly? Personally, I would change the icon file.

Last edited: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at 6:51:26 PM

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Why make a topic about this?...

...and weren't you gone?...

Last edited: Monday, January 17, 2005 at 3:36:39 PM

Pfft.. That's nothing, have you seen the Photoshop and Illustrator CS icons?

When graphic designers are attacked by marketing people.

Aye

The good, the bad, and the tally

B

UGLY QT7!

Good riddance to Lady Venus and the EYE. They've been bugging me for the last 8 years or so. ;)

Illustrator 10

Illustrator 11 (CS)

Photoshop 7

Photoshop 8 (CS)

Last edited: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at 4:56:13 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon

The eye drove me nuts. It looked like one of those old comic book ads: "Amaze your friends with your incredible new HYPNO powers!".

I named the hard drive for my last computer "Mind Control" as a joke because of that creepy thing. I ended up regretting it because if I forgot to include something in a job I'd get a call that "X.file" located on volume "Mind Control" is missing.

"Why did you name your computer mind control?"
...lengthy explanation.
"...oh. I see."

Oh yeah, I really despise those icons. Just change the icon to something like this:

Or this:

Or this:

Or This:

;)

Yeah, the Photoshop eye kinda freaked me out. I'm glad they got rid of it.
But it is not completely gone, however. This is the alternate splash screen from Photoshop CS.

Tally the iconoclast....

Monkee you are looking at those icons at the wrong size. What kills me about the new icons is how poorly they scale down:

Meh.

Last edited: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 2:10:30 AM

Ah, I see your problem now 56k. You're viewing the icons on a Windows machine! Ick! No wonder they look so crappy to you. Hehe. :)

Truthfully, although I don't mind the new CS icons, it seems to be an epidemic these days for companies to redesign their app icons. My problem with this in general is that after so many years of looking at the same type of icon, whether you liks it or not, to have an abrupt change throws people off. Take the new Stuffit 9 icons for example. They look so diff from previous versions that at first I couldn't even recognize Stuffit file anymore. Especially for designers, this change can be upsetting. They like to have things just so.

Last edited: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 4:09:53 AM

Ya know, I really like those new stuffit icons, but I liked the old ones better. Of course, it was a pain just to make new icons for OSX, which needed to be alot bigger than the old OS 9 icons.

:)
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Last edited: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 6:26:16 AM

Hmm OM, you may be right.....

Please donate to the "Get Laggy a Mac so he can find out if he likes the new CS icons better in OSX" fund.

The needs are as follows:

Please, don't let laggy be annoyed by the lame CS icons any longer. If we work together we can solve this crisis.

We are currently $3.12 toward our goal.

_{Oh, can I get a $1,799.00 23" Cinema display too?}

Last edited: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 1:30:26 PM

Well, sounds like a worth enough cause Laggy. I have a few bucks sitting in my PayPal account that I'll send your way. You can thank me later. :P

In lieu of the almost $6800 set up listed above, would you settle for a crusty ol' Bondi iMac I've got somewhere around here at work? I'll sell it cheap! ;)