FUCK ADOBE!
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- capn_ron0
Why do i need to pay for an adobe stock membership on top of my adobe membership! I get paying for stock images, but why per month? A client sent me 7 images they want on adobe stock and now I'm going to have to subscribe just for those images. At least i will get the first month free, but i hate that everything is monthly bullshit now.
- btw if u don't use the images monthly, they add up but ONLY to 120 images total - after that, they just take the moneyz and you got 120 images forevergrafician
- ^the PM who thought of that needs a big raise and also to be put in the Punches For threadgrafician
- not to mention if your card on file expires or not enough cash on it, you CANNOT access even those 120 images/credits you have on file
it's literally extortiongrafician - The irony is that I milk the free with CC sub categories all-the-time! Especially vector images since those are easily repurposed.evilpeacock
- Another annoying thing is that 3D materials for Substance Designer are another payment on top of Adobe Stock.CyBrainX
- Yes, everything 3D - they have an entire suite of apps now - is a separate subscription and not cheap, with 2 tiers for 30 and 50 materials per monthgrafician
- Their materials are nice but that's not really worth it.CyBrainX
- BusterBoy2
If you're a CC subscriber...just a tip if you haven't already done so. I went on to online chat the other day and basically said I wanted to cancel. You have to be prepared to push hard, which I did...said no to the small concessions they offered. When they switched me through to some other person, I was basically given 3 months free and a reduction in my subscription by around 40%. No strings...easy.
- sausages1
Fuck adobe and fuck the cloud.
We had Adobe libraries forced on us by a dickhead at work because he was too lazy to follow basic file management practices. An update to the cloud app happened overnight and libraries are busted. Every job needs to be relinked from source files on the server.
I'd rather dig holes for a living than do this shit.
- it's time for the dickhead to come forwardoey_oey
- That dickhead will ruin you life before and after Adobe.CyBrainX
- silly customer! you cannot fuck a cloud!sarahfailin
- CyBrainX0
Adobe finally added the Adobe color picker to After Effects Colorama after a quarter century.
- i_monk0
lol
- Nairn1
In relation to ^this, I think Adobe have realised what their saturation point is in terms of being able to extract coin each month.
I say this as I just today capitulated and went to sign up to Photoshop again as I just can't fucking do Affinity Photo because I can get done much quicker and better in PS than I can in that bloody thing.
Right there, without asking - 40% 'offer', so I now have the whole CC suite again, most of which I'll never personally use. Nd yes, in 12 month's time, the usual dance around the maypole on live support maintaining the same offer that I couldn't be bothered with last time.
- i_monk4
Who asked for this? The people I'm sending these files to don't have Creative Cloud and aren't going to sign up for Adobe accounts (or whatever hoops) to 'review' the final files. Fuck off Adobe.
- Eventually you will only be able to save to the cloud.hydro74
- "Anyone can comment without an account"evilpeacock
- ...but I'd still never use it.evilpeacock
- "Maybe later"... Maybe never!shapesalad
- Still assumes "review" and a dogshit workflow. Job starts in email, then goes through adobe?i_monk
- Resistance is futile BUT I too hate that Adobe perceive ‘share for review’ to be a better way. I’ve used it with tech savvy clients BUT folks want a .pdf.ideaist
- Adobe should just integrate with email and “share” should just export the pdf and make the attachment in a new email.monospaced
- Creative teams could get approval internally with it. Could it really be that much worse than something like Wrike? I'd love to stop using pile of manure.CyBrainX
- grafician-1
Adobe's generative AI based on Stable Diffusion and ofc trained on Adobe Stock with no permissions from copyright holders
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- Not to mention using all your content from Creative Cloud for machine learning
https://helpx.adobe.…grafician - I welcome our new overlordsGnash
- It's called capitalism, ask Hotknobby!utopian
- Not to mention using all your content from Creative Cloud for machine learning
- Gnash0
https://www.adobe.com/sensei/gen…
Beta open
- Fuck'em and Their AI... https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- Amazing how everybody is jumping in this AI bandwagon
Last year it was NFT features, then metaverse futures, now jumping to "generative AI"
Fucking griftersgrafician - To be fair, Adobe has been adding AI-based features going back years; Might explain why this looks more thought-out/integrat... than other options.evilpeacock
- Lol what? These functionalities replicate the free plugins already available
https://christiancan…grafician - and it's based on Stable Diffusion with training from Adobe Stock and other sources without permission ofcgrafician
- oey_oey0
Adobe Express
Thoughts anyone?
- I’ve been meaning to play around with it. Wondering about their brand setup and if I can get client libraries set upGnash
- Just haven’t had time to dig inGnash
- I use https://ezgif.com/vi…
How is express better?hotroddy - I don't know, I never used it
That's why I was asking.
i almost used Canva once, even have an account.oey_oey - They have a remove photos background tool in Expressoey_oey
- Adobe Express? Is that like Tesco Express?shapesalad
- NBQ000
Riddle me this:
Why does it yank layers out of a clippiing mask whenever you duplicate a layer within a clipping mask?
I always have to put those layers back in just because I duplicated a layer below. So annoying.
- PonyBoy3
I got my fucking credits back!!!!
It took nearly four months of convincing Adobe agents via their support chat (not one vocal conversation... 100% chat room support) ...but one of those bastards hung in there w/me until the very end to see my already-paid-for credits restored.
Now I can search through garbage imagery for hours and actually download it if need-be!! <3
- What, you don't like paying for the same shit over and over? Huh.
;)Nairn
- What, you don't like paying for the same shit over and over? Huh.
- PonyBoy2
Every couple of years Adobe will run a promotion where I can save some money but retain all my apps / credits etc (I usually find out about it from one of you clowns here on QBN, I'd gleefully honk your big red noses if I could)...
However... currently I'd rip my hair out if I could... but I don't have any.
I contacted sales and had them set me up w/the promo pricing about 4-5 months back and it looked like I was good-to-go.
I found out the hard way that their online sales staff (via chat) are fucking useless as all of my already-paid-for stock credits vanished.
The first time I went to grab a stock image I see ALL my stored up credits from YEARS of payments were gone. Mind you - I hit their ceiling in terms of how many credits you can have (which is fucked up in itself as they cap you but continue charging you each month to retain those credits).
I should have 120 image credits... I paid for them... just because I take advantage of a promo doesn't mean what is already paid for should be wiped out - yes??
I've been battling 2+ months now to get my credit restored.
In my mind all I did was 'refinance my loan'... If a person pays 2 years of car payments that money paid towards their loan doesn't just disappear and they start over at the top...
...what a bunch of fucking thieves.
- Adobe stock images... just don't even bother.shapesalad
- Just cancel your subscription, online, you get an offer thing come up. Take offer. It's best to do this a few weeks before the annual renewal.shapesalad
- I'm just trying to get back what I already paid for. I rarely use their stock (I'm capped out @ 120)... but it's often handy on a quick cheap project.PonyBoy
- Every once in a while the company I work for tells us how many unused Adobe Stock credits we have or how many Getty things we need to download or lose.CyBrainX
- They, we all have to go on a downloading festival.CyBrainX
- NBQ000
It's funny I'm actually doing more and more layouts for pitches in Apple's Keynote than in Indesign.
- Pitchwork is punishment, no matter the software. At least you're not using PowerPoint.CyBrainX
- Google Slides that's the real punishmentsted
- Worse than PowerPoint?CyBrainX
- is anything worse than powerpoint?hans_glib
- MS Word perhaps worstutopian
- PowerPoint F-ng sucks. Ass puckering time when the Client loves the deck they ask 4 an editable version and you cheated by placing stylized pngs in it.jonny_quest_lives
- Ummm define "editable"jonny_quest_lives
- Can design apps in Keynote...grafician
- I was doing a proposal in PowerPoint the other day, nearly punched fuck out of the monitor trying to outline some text.PhanLo
- utopian2
I just received my annual subscription increase via email. So once again, I will have call some person who barely speaks English at one of Adobe's off-shore call centers (India) and tell them that I'm canceling myself subscription...so that I can continue getting my subscription at my existing price. Fuck you Adobe for making me do this every year.
The 20 minute phone call with Adobe always ends like this.
"Great news Mr. Michael, I just spoke with my manager and we are going to upgrade your subscription at the existing price...thank you for being a valuable customer of Adobe, good day sir."
- What you don't see is he gives you the middle finger like in "Wolf of Wall Street" and then hangs up.NBQ00
- live chat, it takes 5 mins topsfadein11
- "Great News Mr Fadein" I will try live chat!!!utopian
- I might employ this system with my clients, just bill them for more. No mention of it. If they pay, they pay. If they realise, then call me - customer service,shapesalad
- and i'll give the the rate originally agreed. if only 1 out of 10 clients pays the increased amount, it's worth it.shapesalad
- it's called inflation utopian. That's what happens when you print money to pay for all your shit.hotroddy
- Everybody is increasing their prices. Shopify subscriptions jumped by 40%.hotroddy
- You dont even have to talk to anyone. Right through the website you can cancel, keep cancelling until you get the "ok dont go, here is our final offer to stay"ArmandoEstrada
- Just did it. Saving $120 a year. Every little bit counts!hotroddy
- We our need ChatGPT: to fill in our time for us here.Nairn
- Why didn't you pay the full asking pricing Hotknobby? Your hands must be really tired from all that begging...you welfare commie socialist pig. Get a job moran!utopian
- not a commie but a freelancer and Adobe is overhead. If I was a commie I wouldn't be able to afford it.hotroddy
- sounds like you're just trying to get a handout while everyone else pulls up their bootstraps, like welfare scummonospaced
- handout out by a corporation? QBNer's displaying their fine American education.hotroddy
- If Adobe is so readily giving out large discounts, then they themselves know the product is not worth as much as they charge.ETM
- And for some, can be easily replaced with the right motivation. I'm not a creative anymore, and the discount is the only reason I'm not all in Affinity yet.ETM
- NBQ00-1
You know what would be cool?
If Photoshop had the same non-destructive style of applying filters and effects like After Effects. Basically the layers would work teh same like the ones in AE. That you can quickly switch on or off or adjust per layer basis.
- Projectile1
llustrator on a 4k laptop screen...
If I'm trying to select or cut a stroke, it takes me like 6 tries,as I have to be so damn precise even if the stroke width is huge! I have to zoom all the way in every time. Really messing with my patience here.
It doesn't happen on my monitor at home as it's standard dpi.
Anyone resolved this?
- You're not alone.shapesalad
- https://illustrator.…shapesalad
- I've found Illy really janky these past few months.i_monk
- Or maybe it's my wacom dyingi_monk
- ^ could you have stroke smoothing off? or maybe on, where it used to be off?monNom
- PhanLo0
Been playing with Adobe Aero today in the office.
It's so easy to use. Trying to do AR in the past was such headache I'd always give up.