FUCK ADOBE!
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- 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.
- CyBrainX0
What happened to the option in Camera Raw for Photoshop to embed .xmp sidecar files? I don't want a stupid .xmp file on my drive every time I open a file in Camera Raw.
- 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
- CyBrainX0
I probably have mentioned this before but exporting from AE or Media Encoder I'm always careful to delete the relentless _1 from file names in the output field. Despite that, about half the time AE or Media Encoder will put it back. It's so annoying that I've gotten into the habit of deleting the files I want to replace.
- 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
- stoplying1
UNRESOLVABLE FONT issue in After Effects. You've got to be fucking joking Adobe.
- now searching for AE threadstoplying
- AE is picky about fonts it will work with. Worse case, outline it in Illy and import it.shapesalad
- 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.
- i_monk1
In the latest build of AI, grouped objects with the same fill colour don't show when that colour is changed. You have to ungroup them for it to change, then regroup.
- monNom0
Client requested to use a specific typekit font. It worked fine*(it would grind Photoshop to a complete halt if I used any typekit fonts ), for weeks of revisions, until today. Deadline day. Now Illustrator has lost the ability to load just one specific face (bold) from the set... typekit shows it as installed. Illustrator puts a little * beside it and makes the text pink. I'm just getting ready to output final artwork and now I get to dick around with font loading.
This fucking company...
- wow that is new :) tried to reinstall the font?sted
- Adobe is to Design what Herpes is to humans. Once you get (use it) you are pretty much fucked with it till the end.hydro74
- reinstalled the font, restarted illustrator. works again. I don't need that kind of stress in my life.monNom
- ^ lol too true.monNom
- no, you need real stress in your life ;-)oey_oey
- That's why I like to control my own fonts and load them via FontExplorer or font base, not through Adobe fonts. Fugg that!sab
- Funny that font or font cache corruption is still a major headache; I've been dealing with that off-and-on my entire life/career!evilpeacock
- CyBrainX0
After Effects' Mocha plug-in.
What a steaming pile of incomprehensible. unreliable shit. Good luck if you ever need it for less than perfect video footage.
- 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
- CyBrainX1
While we're talking about Photoshop, there's a known bug - GUDE files being saved in the same location as the file you're working on. The only way to prevent it at this point is to go to the Performance section in settings and disable GPU usage. This limits all GPU functions including zoom-dragging. The GUDE files littering my hard drive are less annoying.
- And you have to close Photoshop before those GUDE text files can be deleted.
https://community.ad…CyBrainX
- And you have to close Photoshop before those GUDE text files can be deleted.
- Hayzilla0
Whenever I reduce the size of an image in Photoshop I get a horrible semi opaque border round the edges of the image. Anyone experience this or know a fix?
I've tried the settings and hard edges seems the only option that doesn't do it but isn't desirable.
- This seems to be a common complaint here. Can you just re-size to +1 pixel dimensions over what you want, then crop out the shitty translucent square?Nairn
- ..er.. +2 pixels each on X&Y, obviously.Nairn
- ^ Yea that's the workaround for sure. Just annoying especially Batch resizing 100 imagesHayzilla
- flatten the image before batchingimbecile
- sted0
brand new joke in illustrator, simple object copy-paste ends up with a text-box loaded with svg code.
- we can all be NEO now, they should change it to green on black text.uan
- Are you shit-pasting, or something? I often inadvertantly try pasting clipboard contents from Illy into other apps and see long svg markup strings like thisNairn
- *shift-pasting, lolNairn
- idk what that is in this context but i'm trying doing the pasta from an other AI file. it would be a completely normal clipboard operation but no.sted
- if I do a selection on the object it works, so it does this only with select all+copy+paste to new.sted
- Ah, so you're pasting literal contents? How meta!Nairn
- Clipboard prefs set to svg instead of pdf?sausages
- Nairn, you seriously threw me off with "shit pasting" I was thinking shit posting.CyBrainX