FUCK ADOBE!
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- 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.
- 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
- 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
- sted2
- 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
- sted0
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- NBQ000
- that is really goodkingsteven
- Nice. I'll have to have a muck about with this.Ianbolton
- Yeah no, don't believe this works as in this video, it probably depends A LOT on the actual original microphone and most phone recordings will be trashgrafician
- SimonFFM0
WOW! Photoshop does not support working on a photo with several rolled bank notes on it. It's a stock image, I work on for a client.
Now, I have to take a screenshot and put this in.
Fuck this shit!
- Welcome to the 90s? You know this has been the case for literally decades?
https://en.wikipedia…Nairn - The photo I have has around 60 different parts of bank notes in it. All just in pieces. It's just a joke.SimonFFM
- I doubt that older versions of PS cannot open the stock photo.SimonFFM
- Well, blame whoever made teh stock photo, not Adobe. And yes, PS back in 97 or so often got defeated by this. I know, I tried. I also defeated it, but..Nairn
- Actually, it would've been '98 at least, as that's when I first started working properly and played with money scans in my first job.Nairn
- To me this is like the new Pantone feature. It's not a warning popping up, it won't open the file. Screenshot and done. But sucks.SimonFFM
- Bitcoin solves this.shapesalad
- The photo was even sold by Adobe Stock.SimonFFM
- ^ Adobe wins in irony.CyBrainX
- Welcome to the 90s? You know this has been the case for literally decades?
- grafician-1
Punches Ai for drawing by default a line with a fill instead of a STROKE!
- this is what i'm talking about - a simple bit of if/else code would make their software massively easier to useshapesalad
- shift-X ?uan
- Wouldn't either one be annoying half the time?CyBrainX
- ^Nairn
- I still don't understand what SS demands here unless he expects AI to be intelligent and prescient. As you say, 50%+ of the time, it'll get whatever wrong.Nairn
- Personally I'd love it if every new form came with a 0.01pt stroke and no fill, but I'm like 0.001% of AI users, so I click on such a thing first, THEN start.Nairn
- It should use your last setting or whatever is presently set in fill/stroke when nothing is selected. Then, offer options in preferences to change how it works.CyBrainX
- Why would a LINE have a FILL?!
What's the logic?grafician - There's no 'draw line' tool, it's just the pen which isn't specific, just beziers. Start with the the pencil or brush and it defaults to a black line.MrT
- the logic is that a lot of the time, people use the fucking line tool to draw a shape with a fill you cretinmonospaced
- monospaced That's the PEN TOOL the line tool is a DIFFERENT TOOL you TOOL!grafician
- CyBrainX yeah it seems to keep the LAST settings saved somehow somewhere and have no clue how to change that behaviour to something else by default! Grrrrgrafician
- i_monk1
InDesign 2023 will not close normally, have to force quit it every time.
- shapesalad0
I am 6 months into my yearly plan... went to cancel it...
get past the warning of early cancelation fee = £130...
to get offer of next 60days for free
bringing the yearly plans monthly average down a bit...
will see what I can get when it renews in 6 months time.I did try the chat thing to get a better offer... but pushed for time so didn't bother pushing it too much.
- TLDR: worth cancelling plan mid way through subscription to see if what offer you can get.shapesalad
- grabby fuckers are desperate to keep their poor value scammy racket goinghans_glib
- keep in mind the offer that gets will start a new yearly subscription, so you are hooked for another 12 monthszaq
- CyBrainX0
The fantastic Width Tool in Illustrator is almost addicting. Why can't we have that in any other program? It's been more than 10 years. There are workarounds for it in Illustrator but it's a bitch to deal with.
- ?Nairn
- This: https://i.imgur.com/…CyBrainX
- I meant there are workarounds for it in After Effects.CyBrainX
- Aah! Yes, that's One of like Five things I think are worthwhile updates since forever in Illy.Nairn
- I used another vector app on Mac who had width tool
Actually the really tricky feature is Blend...
Figma has some blend plugins tho'grafician - Btw if you do type and use the width tool, try https://www.lttrink.…grafician
- it's a breeze to use in Moho. Same with Moho's magnet tool for pushing anchor points around. all works beautifullyshapesalad
- So it is possible to code usable tools, but Adobe - no... but maybe since they bought figma they will learn some UI/UX skills?shapesalad
- No they won't, Adobe CC = crapwaregrafician
- grafician-1
Adobe Stock selling AI generated stock "art"...
- Looks more like 'People using the Adobe stock marketplace are selling AI-generated "art"'Nairn
- Yes paying for a stock subscription to get this crap instead...
I swear Adobe is the worse at everything!grafician - Getty banned the sale of AI art https://www.theverge…grafician
- fadein114
Okay, we all know the threatening to cancel subscription gets you the reduced rate.
But this year I got the best yet.
Was going up from around £30 (discounted) to £54 a month.
I have just secured £19 a month all app package (best deal I've had yet).
A 5 minute live chat, they don't even try to argue.
Good start to the day, if you are a freelancer, do it.- I was thinking of trying it but I thought I'm happy enough with just paying half for it. but hey congrats, because for me that's what's it's actually worth.oey_oey
- sorry for the "that's what's it's..." :-)
I would only update/upgrade every three years so if you divide the yearly cost by three you'll have +-20€/monthoey_oey - yeah you've got a good deal anyway, mine was going from £30ish to £54 a month. But it's this really low deal that got me excited :)fadein11
- can you do it mid cycle? I'm on £54 till may!shapesalad
- Don't think I have done it mid cycle before, just when the discount ends.fadein11
- ah bummer.... well i might try when i get a quiet moment, see if mid cycle works.shapesalad
- Yes, $19 is the lowest they will go. I had that before cancelling last year, now this year back to $60 or so, kind reminder to call them again for the new dealgrafician
- ROTFL ROTFL ROTFL ROTFL ROTFLsted
- @fadein11 nice one, thanks :)sted
- Why does Adobe make one haggle each and every year for a reduced discount?utopian
- Because love the beggars?:D It's like a club, some make it a hobby to talk to the support once a year.You can get creative like grafician when the $:£ is 1:1sted
- @sted Adobe keeps the same price offer, they just change the currencygrafician
- didnt even have to speak to anyone this year, just did cancel and followed the steps past the threat of a cancellation fee - 30 a month. bo! took 2 minswoowahesque