More intelligent New Document dialog for Adobe Illustrator

Wouldn't it be nice if Adobe Illustrator remembers the (5) most recent used document setups for a  new document. In that way, the presents are kind of self learning.

Shortcut to Expand traced images in Adobe Illustrator?

When working with Image Trace, I usually end up with an 'Expand'. The Image Trace controls float beautifully and handy, but it lacks an Expand-button. To use it, I have to find it in the menu (Object/Image Trace/Expand). A button is desired.

C4d - A more intuitive mapping for the wood shader?

I have a problem with mapping:

When applying wood to a cylinder, I always want the annual ring to be visible on the caps, and just the veins/nerves in the length direction.

But neither the UVW-mapping, nor the Cylindrical-mapping lets me achieve this without adjustment. And when rotating the Cylinder mapping, the GUI is very contra-intuitive.

Does anyone have a tip on what I am doing wrong? Or should love C4D just be more intelligent when it comes to apply procedural materials to procedural primitives.

3 cylinders: 

leftmost with UVW active as mapping, center with Cylindrical mapping, right with rotated Cylindrical mapping.

See how the yellow mapping gizmo is rotated unlogically (even as the texture preview)

The second image is a render.

Use All Masks as 'Mask Reference' for and Effect's Compositing Options

A great new AECC2014 feature allows us to make use of a mask for specific effects applied to a layer. But I miss the 'All Masks' option here. Sometimes one mask is not suitable to do the job. Now we need to apply the effect multiple times to make use of the feature (or create it the old way, using an Adjustment Layer).

I hope the All Masks option comes available in the next update.

Another nice future feature would be to integrate the blend modes here as well, so e.g. a Gradient Ramp or Fill effect can be applied with a specific blend mode.

Let AE icon count down when rendering

At this moment, After Effects' icon in the Dock (I am a Mac user…), reflects the number of the current render. When we have 30 items in the Queue, render 9 will be shown as a '9' in the icon.
When we have 12 items in the Queue, render 9 will be show as a '9' as well.
This does not make much sense in terms of progress.

Why not let it count down, so the icon reflect the number of renders to go!
Much more informative!

Please add all interpretation parameters to the import dialog

When importing footage, a panel is presented, where we can choose some options about alpha interpretation. It would be nice to have the other interpretation settings in there as well: framerate, field dominance etc. Now we have to go to the interpretation settings afterwards.

So please give us this complete panel, at import stage:

Not only this: (as is currently the case)

:

Use numbers in Typekit preview text

For some reason, numbers are not allowed in Typekit's preview text box.
Why? I want to preview numbers there as well!