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🍔Very disappointed in todays news, anyone feeling the same should go and sign this petition so thousands of signatures can be completely ignored by Adobe just like they were with Freehand, just like they will be the next time the monopoly kills part of your workflow.
Vote with your wallets next time:
Adobe details plans for updating the following to HiDPI
Bad news for Fireworks users even though it’s page and state support would be ideal for working in multiple DPIs. So yeah I guess you can wait for Adobe to provide this “over the next few months” or you could just buy the excellent Sketch today for a fraction of the price.
Actually just noticed that Flash isn’t mentioned either… no one in the comments seems to care though.
Pixel Bender was one of the cooler things Adobe has done in recent years. I’ve used it on many many occasions in After Effects projects. Never in Photoshop because the implementation was clunky and lets be honest After Effects makes Photoshop look like a joke for any filter or processing work anyway.
Maybe you would have had more success with Pixel Bender if you had finally tore out the entirety of the Photoshop filters menu and replaced it with a more modern and extendable implementation.
Instead we’re stuck with the legacy filters that practically creak when you run them, the Filter Gallery set of filters, the woefully underpowered layer effects and now the GPU enabled blur filters in their own interface. It’s a fucking shambles compared to the power and speed of After Effects and that’s probably being polite about it.
Really disappointed After Effects has to give up easily programmable and sharable filters just because the Photoshop team couldn’t get to grips with it or sort out their jumbled mess of an application.
Actually the thing that annoyed me most was this comment
The popular Oil Paint effect has been brought into Photoshop CS6
I can picture the meeting where this was discussed and the short sightedness of it irritates me.
New Flash Player update pops up, one of the features is less update popups.
Photoshop: Vector masks becoming completely detached from their actual rendering.
Anyone else experiencing this? Getting it on two different machines, both CS5 + 6, and OpenGL doesn’t make a different I get it either way.
Flash: Could Save All (which doesn’t have an sort of prompt FYI) and Revert be in any worse position.
Being polar opposites and one of them potentially catastrophic if you wanted to click the other one.
I haven’t got round to updating yet but I’m not surprised by this experience at all.
He compares it to upgrading Coda, which of course is a speedy and pleasant experience as everyone knows Panic are top of their game. Now Adobe management would probably argue that Panic is a fraction of the size of Adobe so things should be simpler for them.
However Apple is large organisation, how did the upgrade for Lion go? Surely upgrading an OS is a much more complicated procedure than just a few pieces of image/video editing software. You can estimate at how many copies of Coda 2 were sold since launch and it’s a wonder a small company wouldn’t crumble under that amount of transactions.
So we have a smaller company and a larger company than Adobe, both shipping very popular digital products without any ridiculous 2 day wait.
As many times as i’ve griped about Adobe in the past, i’m going to say they’ve done a stellar job on CS6 this time around - the experience detailed in this post is simply from the mis-understanding that the ‘creative cloud’ membership requires a serial number (as per previous releases) however simply logging in with your purchasing adobe id in the application will make it ‘just work’. Kinda sounds like a certain company Adobe is being compared to.
For once i’m glad Adobe has reached down with their leasing program to make their product affordable and a whole bunch more usable - I’m actually using a version i’m paying a reasonable price for, for the first time in my 10+ year design career, and i’m happy to be supporting the team for their hard efforts over the years. Here’s to you Adobe / macromedia, for sticking with it and giving me the tools to live my dream career, year after year.
Now go put inner shadow in illustrator goddamit
I haven’t got round to updating yet but I’m not surprised by this experience at all.
He compares it to upgrading Coda, which of course is a speedy and pleasant experience as everyone knows Panic are top of their game. Now Adobe management would probably argue that Panic is a fraction of the size of Adobe so things should be simpler for them.
However Apple is large organisation, how did the upgrade for Lion go? Surely upgrading an OS is a much more complicated procedure than just a few pieces of image/video editing software. You can estimate at how many copies of Coda 2 were sold since launch and it’s a wonder a small company wouldn’t crumble under that amount of transactions.
So we have a smaller company and a larger company than Adobe, both shipping very popular digital products without any ridiculous 2 day wait.
