FUCK ADOBE!
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- Centigrade1
This crazy Photoshop bug still exists on Mac.
With Photoshop open (in the background) browsers can often loose the ability to show the pointer icon (the hand) when hovering over a link. Madness!
- CyBrainX0
After Effects can extract live text from a Photoshop comp but it can't do the same with Illustrator. I can't be the only one who has wanted this for the last 20 years.
- Hint: Open your AI file in Adobe XD. Select all artboards and use XD's specific export to AE command. Voila! All your text is native in AE with a few clicks.evilpeacock
- You can also get the third-party Overlord script: https://www.battleax…evilpeacock
- Seriously looking into Overlord now. That's a lot of very nice features. I forgot how many other limitations Illustrator has moving to AE compared to Photoshop.CyBrainX
- CyBrainX2
@evilpeacock:
I got that Overlord plugin you suggested. This thing is a winner. I did a side by side on my logo which had a lot of Illustrator shenanigans.
What worked: gradients on strokes, which is amazing since getting any gradient to work in AE from Illustrator is pure luck.What didn't work:
Stroke width profiles made with the Stroke width tool in Illustrator. That's not even a feature in After Effects.
A blend object that had two diagonal lines with strokes.There may even be solutions for those issues. I didn't go through all their documentation yet.
Not bad for $45.
- AE on the left with swatches you can push from AI. Original Illustrator on the right.CyBrainX
- Here's a link in case anyone is interested.
https://www.battleax…CyBrainX - +1 for Overlord, it's the nuts. And your stroke profile and blends have to be expanded in AI before Overlording...MrT
- Sweet! Glad that's working out. IMO Overlord is the best tool for moving between these apps. The XD trick is still faster for lots of text objects!evilpeacock
- ...and @MrT is correct — any really fancy visual attributes in AI will need to be "expanded" or "flattened" to work. That's the norm with most apps anyway.evilpeacock
- To be honest, I expected worse. The swatch export to AE guide layers is something I didn't expect at all.CyBrainX
- Nice feature i use a lot is the palette export. Sends a nice OCD-approved set of coloured squares to a guide layer in AE.MrT
- PonyBoy3
- damn.. not heaving anything overwhelmingly positive about the new M1's + new OSX + Adobe combo.shapesalad
- garbage-4
Honest question:
How many professionals here have a LTL setup in a sandbox here that they find works better than CC?
- -minus one "here"garbage
- what is LTL?monNom
- I'm guessing LTL is "less than legit"evilpeacock
- Less than legal, but close. I thought it was a common acronym, but maybe it's just been an in-joke between me and colleagues for years.garbage
- CyBrainX0
I was trying to use the posterizeTime() expression in After Effects. Here are two restrictions:
It has to be the first line of code.
It can't be the only line of code, You can type value; as a workaround.
- nb1
Dark patterns
- CyBrainX0
I have a feeling we all take this for granted after years of abuse, but why can't Media Encoder remember the last folder you saved from?
Why would it default to the AME folder at the same level as your AE file? That's the last place anyone would put anything. I wish that folder wasn't even necessary.
- Just use handbrake. Export pro res, mp4 with handbrake.shapesalad
- ^ this but sometimes the AE-ME is quicker for me. It is a pain deleting all those temp AME projects.MrT
- Get Anubis if you're looking for quick exports, exports MP4 and ProRes directly from AE UIfyoucher1
- 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
- grafician0
WHY TF does Adobe fucking Illustrator SAVE IN BACKGROUND a 20-30MB file ON A FUCKING APPLE SSD WITH HUNDREDS OF GB OF BANDWIDTH?!
Explain to me you fucking morons from Adobe why is this a thing?
- Nairn0
Had problems with the internet at work today. Don't know what's going on, but weak wifi connection, which kept dropping out.
So, Illustrator refused to work. I mean, it was working, but after a reset, it wouldn't let me use it without a check.
I'm midway through my billing period, so there's really no need to get flustered at a check anyway, yet I was unable to work, so left to come home.
Fucking Adobe. Fucking, fucking Adobe.
- And yes, it only dawned on me when I got back I could've plugged in my mobile's connection. Subconsciously, I just wanted a whinge, and to come home.Nairn
- But still.Nairn
- we should be able to use software without being connected. train, plane, remote location. always on is an unreasonable expectation of infrastructure & resourcesimbecile
- Yup. And we should also be able to by software without some stupid fucking subscription too, but here we are in this most glorious future.Nairn
- apple and bmw are planning for hardware subscriptions (somehow different than a lease) if they have their way, we'll never own anything again.imbecile
- "yes, your car came with heated seats installed, but unless you subscribe, you can't access that warm fuzzy feeling."imbecile
- CyBrainX-1
What happened to the Refine Edge selection tool? That thing used to be perfect nearly every time. Now, it just adds to the mask which is the opposite of what anyone would want.
- * Subtracts from the maskCyBrainX
- Select and Mask now I think, there’s a whole interface for it.monospaced
- Yes, it's very similar looking but it's a miserable failure now.CyBrainX
- CyBrainX0
- OMFG, this annoys me so much.Chimp
- Preferences > Type > [ ] Show Character Alternativesshapesalad
- ^ untick.shapesalad
- Thank you * a million.CyBrainX
- Yes, thanks hahafuturefood
- i_monk0
They moved InDesign's Find & Replace, renamed is Find/Change and put Find & Replace Font in its place. Fuckers! Thought I was going crazy.
- CyBrainX0
Illustrator Issue:
I lose GPU zooming after viewing in artwork mode in Illustrator. Is there a way to prevent this other than restarting the app?I have GPU checked under Preferences - Performance.
- CyBrainX1
I finally got a very tough project approved this morning. All of a sudden my computer crashes and I can't open my after effects file. Auto save is set to every 15 minutes but my newest file is from last night. I have to recreate a day of work, aside from imported PSDs other linked files.
- this kind of shit makes you change careers...grafician
- (activate Time machine if you use Apple and you'll maybe have different file versions saved somewhere :| )grafician
- sounds odd - check where it was saved? maybe the autosaves are in another location, search hd for file name.shapesalad
- AE autosaves are always adjacent to the project file *unless* you've manually set a custom location. Worth checking in prefs.evilpeacock
- I used to put AE autosaves on a different volume/in Dropbox, etc. just to be sure, but organization gets chaotic after a while.evilpeacock
- The autosave files were adjacent to the project file. I went into two recent temp aep files in the AME folder and was able to...CyBrainX
- ...together the day's work. All my linked files were fine. It cost me less than an hour but it was terrifying. Most of that work had just been approved.CyBrainX
- NBQ000
Adobe seriously need to overhaul the 3D viewport in After Effects. It's so shite. And the way it's handling the zooming and viewing of it. The navigation is so crappy, just frustration.
It has been the same pretty much since the 90's?
They really need to make it like other pro compositors like Nuke or Flame.
Any being able to import 3D objects as well and some basic 3D options. They could incorporate their new 3D tech and make it compatible with the "Substance 3D"-apps.
AE hasn't really gotten any substantial big stuff in the past 10-20 years it's really time they overhaul this.
- make one point camera. make null. turn on '3d' for null. parent cam to null. animate the null position/rotation. don't use camera tools.shapesalad
- but yeah, the 3d in it is shite it's making blender seem more a viable tool.shapesalad
- Blender isn't an alternative to After Effects but I avoid After Effects 3D like the plague. There's nothing like a dedicated program for 3D.CyBrainX
- There's a reason AE comes with C4D "Lite".evilpeacock
- Who uses "C4D Lite"? I also don't wanna use a real external 3D program for comping stuff in 3D.NBQ00
- I can't think of another program that doesn't have smooth zooming. It's been about 35 years. Can we have that some time before we retire?CyBrainX
- SimonFFM0
Photoshop keeps adding really ugly LUTs to the presets folder every time there's an update. I have my own LUTs and don't want the list full of Adobe LUTs (e.g. HorrorBlue).
I manually delete the presets folder contents. Is there a way to tell Photoshop not to put the ugly LUTs in there?
It's really a first world problem, I know.