You may or may not be aware that Adobe has released a beta of Photoshop CS3, mainly I think to prove to those Intel Mac owners that there will be X86 versions on their way. There have been many posts of the subject so I won’t bore you with the details, I’ll just state my opinion and offer some appropriate links.
I started off liking them for, mmm, around 5 minutes untill I realised how essentially broken they are. The CS/CS2 icons are fairly broken, but examples like Icon Masks and the comedic Their Toolbar make the point quite well. BeckleyWorks makes a good arguement, unfortunatly he also links to the Icon Masks image, which is equally true in the pre-CS style squares. I’m happy with abstract, but really icons should be icons not minature versions of the finder label highlights.
Comment by beckley
08/01/2007 @ 12:39 am
Actually, Chris, the icon masks of CS/CS2 are unique shapes from one another, albeit subtly, because the flower, feather, etc. extend beyond the square. I’m not saying they’re good, their masks are just slightly better.
Nice post & site.
Cheers.
Comment by Chris
08/01/2007 @ 1:59 pm
I ment the pre-CS style squares not the CS white box look. As in your example of the Photoshop 3 icon.