FUCK ADOBE!
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- oey_oey1
So it's that time of the year.
I was charged 61,59€ for my Adobe CC subscription.
I was like okay, I will cancel it.I'm canceling it and step by step I come to a window with an offer that is basically the same as what I'm paying now, 35,69€
Still, the offer marked as "best offer" is 2 months free then 61,59 a month.
I mean, what?! how is this possible?
Fior sure this will be possible to do every year, so why would anyone choose the "best offer"?I'm talking with an assistant now and check.
I really like to be able to use Adobe at the end of the day and I have 22 years of work.I really gave a thought today about quitting, but then come the questions like "what if I need it?"
- Things is I could just buy one version and maybe would need a new version in three years. Like Affinity did. Maybe I don't need the new version. Damn.oey_oey
- I mean, I make enough money to pay for it but...oey_oey
- The best thing would be to get a job for a company that hands me a MBP to work with Adobe CC and that doesn't mind me to use it for my own workoey_oey
- I'm on it this now... every year, the same bs :(OBBTKN
- I spoke with my partner and she said come on 35€? Just keep it and continue to support Affinity and continue to learn how to use it.oey_oey
- If the day comes they don't offer you a good subscription plan the quit when that time comes. Industry standard is an important factoroey_oey
- Personal projects Affinity. Client work Adobe.oey_oey
- If it's for photoshop - just use http://photopea.com instead.shapesalad
- or little snitch + cracked versionshapesalad
- ah missed those days. Adobe CS6oey_oey
- You just need to get ahead of the game. Set yourself a reminder and you'll keep paying half the price.
#don't be a chumppalimpsest - ^ hahaha!oey_oey
- I actually do that every year...but this year I had some serious family health business going on. no lets purchase V2 of Affinity :-)oey_oey
- No.
I think you're fucked for the whole year.
If you open an OnlyFans and post pics of your feet I'm in!palimpsest - What?!oey_oey
- Did I fucking stutter?palimpsest
- Affinity is amazing for non-professionals but spend an afternoon working with it and you'll pay anything for Photoshop.SlashPeckham
- i_monk2
- This is now the default save option in Illustrator.i_monk
- a simple do not show this prompt again toggle in the UI but nooo Adobe wants your creative on their servers... FU I need to work locally.jonny_quest_lives
- they want users to save their files on the cloud so they can scrub the images so Adobe's AI image algorithms get better... Prove me wrongjonny_quest_lives
- it's just convenient...you can switch in preferences file handling if you prefer old school (at least in ps)uan
- Just set default location thanks! Still think there should be a set default dialog on that window so you can be done with it there.jonny_quest_lives
- I would NEVER trust anyone with my files on their server but I've been able to get adobe to stop asking me to save to cloud. There's a Don't ask again option.CyBrainX
- sausages3
Updated InDesign on Saturday and now the file I created on Friday won't export as a PDF despite working fine before the update. No useful error messages - just says "Failed to export the PDF file". Had to crack out distiller for the first time in a long while and it works fine there. Fuckin hopeless
- utopian2
I had to uninstall Photoshop 2021 and revert back to PS 2020, PS 2021 keep crashing for no apparent reason. "Adobe Photoshop has unexpectedly quit" Fuck you Adobe!
- yeah, i have that same issue.Bluejam
- https://affinity.ser…hans_glib
- Same here, across the board on all apps, except for Bridge. Because Bridge is so important.fyoucher1
- I haven't had crashing issues. I love Bridge. I use it all the time and more since I switched to Windows last year.CyBrainX
- utopian0
- Is that a rubber wig on his head?mathinc
- Lol magHayoth
- i think it's an animojihans_glib
- God I hate this smug cunt.Continuity
- 12 seconds in and i had to stopdorf
- Dude needs to run the new feature that removes the unibrowShenanigansTV
- WhiteFace1
Getting very close to sacking off Adobe completely, has anyone done this successfully? How is it working with other people, file sharing etc? Any issues with compatibility?
- No good replacement for InDesignnb
- i like affinity publisher but i doubt it's compatible.hans_glib
- You can only do this if you're a freelancer and works good for one-off projects. If you work with other teams, you need a subscription again fuuuuugrafician
- +1 grafMrT
- I would flat out refuse to work with youProjectile
- OK. Call me old-fashioned but some form of offer is typically a prerequisite for refusal.MrT
- thumb_screws2
This update has been really buggy for me. Indesign is having issues with scrolling in a document. Whats in the viewport remains static but the scrollers still work.
Also having some major issues in photoshop with "Export as" feature which is something I rely on heavily. I get an error report in the export window on files that worked fine in the previous version. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- At least, its only 600$ a year! Imagine if it was 5K lol We're lucky in the end :D
...Bennn - For me InDesign 2019 would always lock up just after launching, even on a clean OS install! ID 2020 finally works again, though I'm sure there are other bugs...evilpeacock
- Im sharing indd files and PS files with a colleague and he's having no issues with the same files. Prob some issue my side.thumb_screws
- affinity. just sayinghans_glib
- At least, its only 600$ a year! Imagine if it was 5K lol We're lucky in the end :D
- thumb_screws1
I just bought an image of USD coming out of an ATM form Adobe Stock. When i went to open it with Photoshop i get the "this application does not support the editing of bank note images" dialogue box.
It's weird as it never been an issue with shots i have used of any currency over the years.
Would of been great to know that an image I bought from their stock library is not editable with their products before paying tor the extended licence.
- fascinatingmonospaced
- intrigued to know how they identify currency. The image have a metadata tag or is it their something PS that picks it up.thumb_screws
- they recognize the pattern from the money with a bit of code inside photoshop, been there nearly 20 yearsimbecile
- have you tried importing the image onto a blank canvas?imbecile
- Will give it a go. Cheers.thumb_screws
- I've scan money in the past and I always got this message, i had a trick to bypass it... dont remember whatBennn
- I remember when I first read about the EURion constellation in my 1st job, the first thing I did was hi-resolution scan money in and.. no warning. Disappoint.Nairn
- monNom0
I get a gazillion emails from Adobe, always asking me to check out XD because it is so great and "professionals love it" . When, as far as I can tell it's still the same half-baked, do-nothing app it was during the beta. Am I missing something? You can draw boxes and make them clickable. Is this really the hallmark of innovation? This should be a palette inside illustrator, not a stand alone app.
- It's a mixed bag, but I think XD is faster for a lot of things and has some potential. They add stuff to it at an alarming rate, which makes learning it harder.evilpeacock
- XD can import artboards or arrayed content from PS, and from text files. Nothing else Adobe makes can do this as easily.evilpeacock
- If nothing else you can use XD to import AI artboards, then export to AE quicker than it would usually take to batch AI to files, etc.evilpeacock
- i'm using it, it's not that bad. has potential. the text tool is a piece of shitBluejam
- I'm loving XD, it's light and super practical. They haven't ruined it with too many features yet!zarkonite
- I'm liking it. takes some getting used to, though. It can get messy real fastGnash
- They just added Guides...grafician
- < exactly. That seems like a version 1 feature. It's all just a bit lacking. Like it was designed first for the ipad, and desktop was an afterthought.monNom
- Buuuuut I'm not cobbling together user flows all day every day. Maybe it's good for this tasks.monNom
- *thosemonNom
- Nairn1
Nnngh, this is ... odd.
In Photoshop, I have a rectangular thing in the centre of a document, and it's layer is otherwise transparent. When I go to filters to distort it - either using pinch or the filter menu - the fucking thing's off-centre. Given I want to have a consistent, centred distortion, this presents a problem.
Only cludge I can think of to get around it (I'm in a hurry) is to fill the transparent area, forcing the bit I actually give a shit about, into the centre. This means I then need to clean up around after distorting, which is ... irksome
I can't even begin to get my head around whatever logic is underpinning this problem.
These filters are Photoshop 101.
Fuck Adobe.
- is there something else on the layer you don't see and therefore the center is off?uan
- No, that was the first thing I thought of. Weird thing is, if I change doc size, the offsetness of the centreing changes.Nairn
- i blame a stray pixelhans_glib
- fuck, it's true.uan
- What do you mean, uan - you've replicated it at your end??
@hans - Nope, it can' tbe because of way rectangle was added, but I checked anyway. 'tis odd.Nairn - yes i tried with a rectangle, centered to the stage and filter-distort-spher... center it uses is not the center of the layer nor the doc...uan
- !!!
What version are you on? (lol, I just checked - i'm still on 2014 on this machine - perhaps I should upgrade...)
Thanks, uan.Nairn - version 2017.1.1.
you can select the content, expand the selection by some hundert pixels and then it works as you would think it should.uan - CMD + T
If the Transform bounding box is bigger than the rectangle you have on the canvas then you have a stray pixel or something on the layer.Centigrade - Are you on an artboard? A lot of filters get thrown off by artboards because the document is actually much bigger than the ab but you can't see its bounds.zarkonite
- so it looks like you're centered on the ab but you're, for example, way on the left side of the entire doc.zarkonite
- Thanks guys, but nup — this doc was as simple as simple could be — flat source cropped bitmap, added rectangle fill... pain in the arse glitch.Nairn
- imbecile1
good morning illustrator, any particular reason that the rectangle tool and ellipse tool are no longer together? k thx bye
- change workspace to essentials-should be there.lvl_13
- Click ellipses on the left (...), hit the tiny icon on the top right of the next bit, change from "Advanced" to "Basic".
Was losing my mind over this shit.ideaist - thximbecile
- Once you've adjusted those simple settings finish by gently blotting your eyes and cheeks w/kleenex.PonyBoy
- pony, i've said it once i'll say it again, go fuck yourselfimbecile
- Uh oh... someone ran out of KleenexPonyBoy
- I love the passive agressive vibe lolhelloeatbreathedrive
- helloeatbreathedrive4
As I mentioned above 'Once its up, I'm out for alt ways cos this trend will never end with only one sub service.'
Yep, just received an email from Gsuite, 5 bucks to 6, 10 to 12. This trend will continue. Those little dollars add up to billions in unpaid tax revenue in offshore accounts. Nice going.
- Gucci1
Interesting updates. At first glance it seems like they tried to improve on things rather than add a tonne of new functionality that no one asked for.
- Is this new stuff already available to update from CC updater?NBQ00
- Indeed it is.Gucci
- basically yep, good update.helloeatbreathedrive
- Illustrator crashes for me (on a new iMac Pro too). I reverted back to 2018.fyoucher1
- Illustrator is fixed for me (on a new MacBook Pro).monospaced
- oey3
No way!
Photoshop Update...all preferences and plugins gone!
Should I send an Invoice for the time lost?
- Chimp0
The door is wide open for a competitor to come in and steal some of the market share.
Sketch has already done it with interaction design.
- good luck paying the patent fees.sted
- there are competitors for most of them - it's the fact you get the whole suite of apps for peanuts that makes them hard to beat.fadein11
- steed's right. the biggest barrier to competition are the patents.Gnash
- Does Affinity use their patents?i_monk
- not sure, but it's not just the software they have patents on, it UI as well.Gnash
- ie., Adobe's got a patent on Tabbed Tool Palettes.Gnash
- Patents expire... I think adobe was fighting macromedia about the tabs 20years ago... that patent is probably done now.monNom
- Funny how Adobe have ripped off Sketch. I wonder if Adobe have patented producing bloated over priced software.Chimp
- Ripped off Sketch?? He?sted