Shortcut-S Photoshop keyboard on kickstarter.

[wharrislv]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5074048/special-dedicated-editing-keyboard-for-photoshop

My wife is a photographer and she wants one.  This might be the first time that this keyboard stuff will actually make her smile.   

[simon_C]

That looks terrible. Too large, too much hand movement, poor layout, and are those tact switches under a flat plastic membrane?. Looks like a giant microwave keypad. and having a completely flat surface means you need to constantly look down to re-orient yourself, you cant just press buttons by feel.

Seriously.... its awful.

I like the idea, but the execution and design is terrible.

[Zeal]

319 unique keys...I guess you could memorize the layout via muscle memory...but the flat membrane pad. 

[Grendel]

Eew, Omron microswitches

[Pacifist]

1. Buy 3 Cherry matrix POS boards with relegendables

2. Program macros

3. Profit?

[Lastpilot]

The built-in keyboard shortcuts are enough.

[zeroni13]

That keyboard looks like it would be more work than a regular keyboard. I can remembet lots of shortcuts and I know my keyboard layout wihout looking. With this I need to look down constantly to find the right key, not very practical.

If i needed a new keyboard to make photoshop easier I think i would go for this one instead:
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/popularis/

[berserkfan]

1. Buy 3 Cherry matrix POS boards with relegendables

2. Program macros

3. Profit?

Not cheap and not easy. There's a 80-1950 now on ebay for $85 if I am not mistaken. I ain't buying, and not putting it in great finds either.

[jacobolus]

I could’ve sworn there was already a discussion about this. Maybe I just talked about it with friends or something.

Anyway, this has to be the stupidest imaginable photoshop controller. There’s no way finding and pressing the right key on this monstrosity is as fast as just using the regular keyboard shortcut, or as discoverable as just clicking the control with a mouse.

Someone had a cute idea, but I can’t imagine anyone ever tried using this thing to do real work. If they had, they would have quickly abandoned the idea.

There’s no way this makes anything “30% faster for professionals”. My guess is after a few months of practice with it, a professional could get back to about 50% slower than with a regular keyboard (i.e. half the speed). The professional photographers / photo retouchers / illustrators I know use the crap out of existing keyboard shortcuts, and also have downloaded or created a number of their own scripts, recorded macros ("actions"), plugins, etc., which they assign keyboard shortcuts to. They are highly efficient at switching tools, at creating layers, invoking various adjustments, etc.

[Hyde]

I remember WASD Keyboards used to sell these:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yd5ug6ntsUI/UD9tYidqcyI/AAAAAAAAAXI/MZnIwVgcRic/s1600/5_1.jpg

In my opinion this would be a better / cheaper alternatives.  Though it's really not that hard to memorize the shortcuts and you gain muscle memory after a while.

Though I feel bad for OP.  Sorry I know your wife's excited but I think you can find her better alternatives. 

[SpAmRaY]

This was already posted

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=54537.0

[wharrislv]

Ah sorry for the repost, I swear I searched for it before I posted!

I'll buy it for her just because its weird, and I like strange keyboard stuff.  I am definitely on the lookout for one of those WASD PS legend sets though, those are nice!