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I love Adobe CC. I would consider it the first thing Adobe has done right in a long time. A year's subscription is less than what I bill per day and I have ac
by jawngee 13y ago
I love Adobe CC. I would consider it the first thing Adobe has done right in a long time.
A year's subscription is less than what I bill per day and I have access to every app that they produce. I can run it on my laptop, my other laptop, as well as my desktop machine that just gathers dust these days.
As someone who has used Photoshop since Version 3.0, I can say, with some authority I guess, that the current version is really, really good. Except for the crop tool. The crop tool sucks. It sucks so bad I had to write a replacement stand alone app. All they need to do to fix it is put the image resizing step back in, instead of having to do that separately.
Their other apps are also improving in quality from a low point of a few years ago. Premiere is solid, After Effects is way faster than the previous version, Prelude and SpeedGrade are a little inaccessible but once you learn the non-standard UIs are useful tools. Illustrator is still a bit of a drag though. I don't touch InDesign unless I'm designing a photo book for Blurb.
And then there is the whole extensibility of the suite that most people don't get too involved in, but I do. We started out writing some pretty heavy javascript extendscript stuff to do asset prep but have since moved on to Flex + Adobe Creative Suite Extension SDK. Was kind of gnarly to get going, but once going has allowed us to extend Photoshop into a full blown authoring tool for the kind of retail iPad apps we build for clients. What once took us about 2-3 weeks to build, now takes about a day thanks to that.
So, +1 Adobe.
- gmurphy 13y ago> I can run it on my laptop, my other laptop, as well > as my desktop machine that just gathers dust these days. I'm not sure how you're doing this - a killer problem for me with CC is that there's a two-machine limit for product activations. I used to own two Photoshop licences so I could run it on three machines, but you can't get multiple Creative Cloud subs under one Adobe account.
- drawkbox 13y agoThis two activation nonsense has to end. That was fine before when we all had one desktop. I have been harping Adobe and Unity to allow 3 activations by default. I don't know one developer that doesn't have at least a mac, windows and laptop for testing. It's a silly game to keep moving the activations around when they are below the common threshold. 3-5 activations, one user per use is needed, maybe no activations required on that (isn't that what the cloud is really?). I have no problem having the app shut down on the other machine if I use on another device/computer but being blocked from using if you leave it open on two machines at work is annoying.
- stan_rogers 13y agoAn awful lot of us asked for an awful lot of years to have the crop and resize separated so that we could specify an aspect ratio without committing to pixels (or fully committing to the crop, for that matter). It finally works right for me, even you if you think it's broken now, and it only took a decade of nagging.
- egeozcan 13y agoThis couldn't be more relevant: http://xkcd.com/1172/ http://xkcd.com/1172/