FUCK ADOBE!
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- i_monk3
Fuck off with these sudden pop ups of shitty new features while I'm working (and you know I'm working because it's triggered by clicking layout elements) fuck you very much.
- Yup. The one in Photoshop that I thought i'd fixed is driving me nuts. Advertising (AI at that) within paid-for Photoshop.
The fucking nerve.Nairn - When I see those I think they're struggling with user adoption of new features and a manager decided to push notifications to boost stats.evilpeacock
- Bloody roots my boot too! Agree totally.sab
- Maybe if the UI weren't shit people could actually find the new features to use them.i_monk
- Yup. The one in Photoshop that I thought i'd fixed is driving me nuts. Advertising (AI at that) within paid-for Photoshop.
- OctopiStimuli6
I agree with the above, currently paying £38.11 for full Adobe CC since 2015.
I subsidise the cost by using the 5 free web hosting slots on Business Catalyst with clients paying £10 a month.
Having Adobe CC actually makes me £140 a year. RESULT!
- MrT2
So now Adobe fonts can only be activated through that bloated Creative Corpse app? The one that wets the bed when you try and quit it and uses more CPU than After Effects just to sit there like a cunt.
1. Search fonts on the website.
2. Add fonts to the CC app.
3. Leave website.
4. Open the CC app (hang on, updating...)
5. Find the tiny f for fonts (so clever).
6. Activate fonts.
7. Find another font? Back to #1.UX vs Get Fucked.
- They need a complete UI/UX overhaul across all programs.i_monk
- They do. I appreciate that complex software has a learning curve and will have quirks to adopt/understand, but so many of these changes are just fuckery.MrT
- Ps, Ae & Ai at their cores are the same software as 20 years ago - but with a load of whatever was trendy that year added in. All conflicting ux/ui.shapesalad
- fucking adobe have been ripping people off for years, charging the earth for basically fuck all improvement.hans_glib
- I still refuse to use Adobe Fonts. Prefer to run my own font manager and library of local fonts. Fugg em!sab
- i_monk2
I have to reset my workspace in Illustrator and PS nearly every time I launch the program or wake the computer. It shifts everything around like it's been running on a much smaller monitor, and randomly hides the toolbar sometimes. InDesign doesn't seem to have this issue.
- SameGnash
- I have a 32" display and all my toolbars that I have open play hide and seek every time that I engage with the Adobe apps.utopian
- 32" here too.i_monk
- Same shit here too... including inDesign.PonyBoy
- Same. It makes me want to cry. Twice a day, every fucking day moving the palettes back. Ilus, InD & PS!HAYZ1LLLA
- 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
- sted2
Adobe is making users/studios break their client NDA-s by allowing third parties to access image data.
- While shitty you can just switch it off (for now)sausages
- The peeps/ it staff not saavy enuff to toggle it off will provide a sufficient training model for Adobe. I hear tge exciting field of wind turbine repairjonny_quest_lives
- Calling me now... swoosh, swoosh, swoosh. Exercise, outdoors... possibility of electrocution/fallin... to one's deathjonny_quest_lives
- But is it REALLY off when you switch it off? think about how much money is going to be made for Adobe by this...hydro74
- This is for teaching their AI. Everyone should turn this offGnash
- Turn them off here:
https://account.adob…utopian
- nb2
Boom!
“Make a spot color, call it the Pantone color you intend to print. This is what I have always done, printers don’t care, and IMHO the RGB screen values in Adobe products have never truly matched up to how the actual PMS color prints”
– Jessica Hische
- This won't work with the zillions of older files using Pantone swatches
You will need to change EVERY SINGLE FILEgrafician - Also good luck editing colors in highly detailed illustrations with 6-12 Pantone colors now all black...grafician
- Only the ones you want to editnb
- Pass the cost on to your clientsnb
- Filling in black is a dick move, but you’re the one who chose to use Adobe. You deserve at least some of the blamenb
- This thread is nine years old. You still using Photoshop? Who’s fault is thatnb
- @graf can’t you just pay the $21?nb
- it's the fucking principle, not the sum!grafician
- "The RGB screen values in Adobe products have never truly matched up to how the actual PMS color print"jonny_quest_lives
- Because Pantone provides those values... and Pantone was in the switchback selling business not the make Adobe look good businessjonny_quest_lives
- *Swatchbookjonny_quest_lives
- So two companies with no regard for helping the other out and Adobe transitioning away from print headaches as it's becoming an RGB screen worldjonny_quest_lives
- Print advertising budgets are abysmal so there's no growth market for Adobe there and specialty inks require bigger budgets and are limited topackagingjonny_quest_lives
- Everyone has shit dropped shipped via Amazon anyway so why put money into elaborate consumer facing productsjonny_quest_lives
- Fuck Pantone for making on screen display of files look like shit, penalizing is for using them at allmonospaced
- I get you can't select Pantone colors now, but will the Pantone colors in old documents disappear?jagara
- This won't work with the zillions of older files using Pantone swatches
- NBQ002
I wish they'd put in more effort in some AI tech to generate realistic shadows.
Let's say you have a cutout of a person and place it on a background. You could define the floor and light source/ direction/ type/ strength, etc and Photoshop would generate a realistic non-linear shadow that you could further tweak.
Nothing more annoying than creating realistic shadows with good contact shadows and nice falloff.
- This is a good video that shows how to do it from scratch: https://www.youtube.…SimonFFM
- Takes forever though and I also wish it'd be possible in a quicker way...SimonFFM
- Nice tutorial Simon.CyBrainX
- Thanks Simon. Exactly. I wish this process could be sped up.NBQ00
- There is an easy way: Blender.
https://www.youtube.… (bit of a crap video, but gives you the idea)monNom - Oh yeah I want to start a 3D app every time I need shadows ;) no thanks.NBQ00
- there is a method with ps 3D if it's still activated: https://photoshoptra…uan
- utopian1
I just upgraded to Apple Monterey 12.3 and PS 23.2.2
And now Photoshop 23.2.2 "Can't open/update vector smart object in Illustrator!"
https://community.adobe.com/t5/p…
Fuck You Adobe & Apple!
- that smile is not making things bettermonNom
- User errormonospaced
- I don't like these alerts, miss the class wider style.shapesalad
- https://helpx.adobe.…shapesalad
- Typical snarky fanboy response from mono. And no...not a user error. Fuck you, Apple and Adobe!utopian
- lolAQUTE
- Big Sur works, Monterey is a mess, not recommended yetgrafician
- nb3
Wow guys I recently read they bought macromedia
- Free Freehand https://creativepro.…shapesalad
- not sure when free freehand ended, they were fighting a long battle... shining hope..shapesalad
- Hopefully they don’t ruin Flash that’s my bread and butternb
- lol. yup whole design/game companies built a revenue stream on Flash.microkorg
- found a simpler workaround... just open each eps, paste something and delete it, and save+close.Projectile
- CyBrainX1
Photoshop type in After Effects.
If you ever scale your Photoshop text in a psd that you later import into After Effects, you can end up with something like an 1 pt. text layer scaled up to 489%. I've seen way more extreme numbers that that. Why is Photoshop mysteriously changing your text scale and font size without telling you? This has been going on for at least 10 years. I've gotten into the habit of never scaling text in Photoshop because of this software version of irritable bowel syndrome.
- This thread is 7 years old but I never noticed how therapeutic it is until this month.CyBrainX
- Is your ppi set wrong in PS? PS works in inches lulznb
- Ps and Ae should work in pixels tho'grafician
- I have Photoshop units set to pixels. You can change it to picas, points, inches, mm, cm or percent. AE is pixels and type measurements are in points.CyBrainX
- The appearance of the type from PS in AE looks right but the scale and font size are messed up and it can be a problem in some cases.CyBrainX
- This is weird, photoshop used to not change your pt size when you performed a transform on a text layer (IE: 7pt type, scaled at 200% looks 14 but still is 7pt)zarkonite
- but a few YEARS ago it changed that behaviour to changing the point size... so maybe just reset all your setting and see what happens?zarkonite
- I change all the settings every time I get a PSD from someone else who doesn't know about this issue and scales the photoshop text several times before sharing.CyBrainX
- outline type om PS. retype it in AE and match the outlined layer. then delete the psd layer?shapesalad
- I could do that but it's quicker to change the scale to 100% and match the type size from Photoshop.CyBrainX
- I usually convert PS type layers to a native AE type via the "Create" menu; If changes occur I just make them in AE going forward.evilpeacock
- utopian3
Every single time that you import an Illustrator "Smart Object" vector into Photoshop...the proportions need to be corrected at least twice. This has been going on for decades.
- lol, you're right - i just dropped a 100mm square .ai file into a 150mm square PS document and it came in at 100.19%.
Why?Nairn - That was for a 72dpi doc. at 300dpi I match your 100.08%. At 600dpi it's 100.03%. At 1200dpi it's 100.01%.
So, it's a resolution issue.Nairn - Which, in a product that pretty much fundamentally works with resolution, that's really hard to understand or forgive.Nairn
- It's a plot to murder me with my own OCD.CyBrainX
- Does it have to do with pixel snapping perhaps?monospaced
- ^pixel snapping to %? Doubt it.grafician
- pixel snapping absolutely can mess with percentages, it does it all the timemonospaced
- lol, you're right - i just dropped a 100mm square .ai file into a 150mm square PS document and it came in at 100.19%.
- oey_oey1
Well I must say that "crying" helps.
I pay 36,59€ at the moment.
I should start paying 57, 59 from next month on.
After contacting Adobe Support I will be paying 34,69 for a year.
And I'll receive a 4€ refund.Every year sort of the same story for four years now.
Awesome!- even with discounted rates for a lot of people who asked for them, Adobe made billions in profit last yeargrafician
- hardly surprising when they're just scamming everyone for €400+ a time.hans_glib
- @graf and @hans I know guys I know, but for me not having to pay those 20€ it's a victory everytime :-Doey_oey
- More like 240EUR..
And yes, I'm due my twice annual customer support chat with Adobe.Nairn - lol wait... did you cry to Adobe Support?pango
- when your subscription ends for any reason, just don't close Ai or Ps or restart your Mac, keep the apps open for 2-3 months for free with the system on standbygrafician
- ^ this is goldoey_oey
- @pango, no man I didn't really cry...LOL! I just complained about life ;-) and debts and shit...oey_oey
- @Nairn, exactly 240€ that i will directly invest in my daughters future...I'm buying myself a 2nd hand 4 channel mixeroey_oey
- you followed my advice :) You see, it works.Bennn
- my job is paying it for me since May, iam very lucky.Bennn
- because there's no way i will ever pay that amount ever again. It's like 10K over 15 years, fuck that shit seriously. Investing 10K is much better life choice.Bennn
- (i talk for someone who doesnt personally make much money out of it)Bennn
- @Bennn yes I did# I wouldn't have done it if there wasn't a promo. But after y o u wrote I thought Fuck it, let's tryoey_oey
- Good :)Bennn
- Bennn3
You need to pay the secret 5$/month to have the stable version of their programs.
But first you have to be a member of Adobe Elite Pro Club™ .... only 12$/month.
You have to be invited by someone to get in the AEPClub™
I have one invite left. I can sell it to someone in here for 2,000$ ... worth around 3,500$ on eBay.
- you forgot that it requires a $5k depositsted
- Fax me the invite, can send you a mail cheque from overseasgrafician
- Ill give you $7000 thats my final offermoldero
- sorry moldero i wont accept anything higher than 2K. Some says selling it at a higher price brings bad Adobe karma and make their apps crash.Bennn
- nb3
Trying to shoot tethered in Lightroom Classic because I'm scanning film with a DSLR.
Recently purchased a new subscription to Adobe (lost my job, so...). Suddenly Lightroom Classic will not connect to camera, it just hangs. Contacted customer support, they put me on hold for 20 minutes while they looked into it "we've been having an issue with tethering".
"I will look into this tomorrow can I get back to you"
"Ok, we can give you three months free while you wait for an update."
"Maybe you should try (regular) Lightroom that might work."
They can't even keep tethering working? And they want me to trust my images to their cloud?! Hahahaha as if, Adobe. I wasn't born yesterday.
- If you're willing to try an alternative I'd try Capture One; It's a bit to learn and get used to, but overall is more powerful than Lightroom.evilpeacock
- Capture One is the best for tethering.grafician
- Capture One is best. 30days for free.Morning_star
- I use a brilliant plugin called Negative Lab Pro for converting negative scans. Only works in LR. Don't really want to run a separate full app for tethering.nb
- i_monk0
Why don't Pantone libraries stay updated? I'm finding a bunch of swatches just don't exist in the default PANTONE+ Solid Coated library but are valid numbers on the Pantone site and elsewhere.
- more of a fuck pantone thingimbecile
- Those are too well hidden and unimportant to updategrafician
- You have to download updated library files from Pantone's site or their Color Manager software. Adobe doesn't update them.evilpeacock
- ^ that and adobe begrudgingly pays them royaltiesGnash
- Nobody likes paying for Pantone libraries; My previous employer liked to use the same books for 10 years.evilpeacock
- ^ lol, same. Finally bought my own set, but the same one for 6Gnash
- My Pantone books are in a pleather case from 1996. MrsT now uses it as a yoga block.MrT
- My pantone book has inexplicably faded around the edges despite having been dutifully kept in the dark for ever. Sus.Nairn
- Light finds a wayGnash
- I put mine in a box, inside of a box, and then hide them away in the closet. Not paying 285.00 per year to that org. Architects don't pay for paint selectorsJosev
- Nairn3
YOU'VE REACHED YOUR DEVICE ACTIVATION LIMIT.
*stares blankly at desktop and laptop that are side by side, with Illy only open on the desktop, which for some reason CC seems to have forgotten the name of (Lazarus is the desktop, Tichy the laptop).
- "sign out of all other computers" - should be pretty easy to fix?zarkonite
- Yeah, it was easily fixable (except for having to dig out Adobe password) I just don't see why it was broken in the first place as I was on one of the computersNairn
- Dig out? Are you 90 and write them down on a post it? Use a password manager.ArmandoEstrada
- No. But thanks.Nairn
- Dig out as in digging out that safe you buried in the backyard with these gold coins?Bennn
- Exactly!Nairn
- Bennn1
Adobe CC is 40% off for the Black Friday....
will they give it to current customers or only new one?
- ask them and report back to us... thx ♥PonyBoy
- New only.
Hack is new account/email.
I'm anxious to move AWAY from these cockeaters.ideaist - I’ve never paid full price. Every year at renewal time I renegotiate at half-offGnash
- After a long bit of frustration with Resolve, I'm almost tempted to go back to Premiere. Almost.garbage
- H4ck is NOT new email/acc anymore, they will ask for your CC upfront even for the free trial, then auto bill you after 7 days!grafician
- what gnash saidfadein11
- helloeatbreathedrive4
Adobe exposed nearly 7.5 million Creative Cloud accounts to the public
- Bindegal2
- It's just occurred to me that Macromedia's logo is pretty negative—darkening, descending, diminishing.i_monk
- flash: security threats from all directions.
shockwave: number of users with shockwave installed.monNom - Lingo was my first pseudo codeplash
- lol monNomNairn
- i did some flash, i did not like it, it felt not intuitive and just with action script you could gain full potential it took me a lot of time...api