[egypturnash]

“When a musician plays, if they have to constantly look through dropdown menus to find the next chord, the music would not be very good. It’s farfetched and maybe not possible, but we’d love for, some day, artists to play Photoshop, to stay in flow, to be expressive without interruption.”

I've been using Illustrator for a decade. I've fiddled with the key commands to make the tools I like to use a quick key press away. I've recorded macros and assigned keystrokes to them (and am currently swearing a lot because a recent update broke some of them). I've written little scripts.

And yeah, all this helps the flow. I work a lot faster then I did when I was first using AI.

I have been thinking about this lately, and want to survey my artist friends to see how many of them have also extensively customized the interface of their favorite art tools. I have an intuition that it's one of the signs of being a pro: you've explored enough of the deep set of tools within a modern art program that you can say "this is an important part of my process" and make it more accessible.