Adobe to Release iPad-Compatible Cloud Stylus and Digital Ruler in 2014

[benwiggy]

I'm not saying Adobe is amazing, but if you need more than just basic photo editing (especially if you're a web designer or graphic designer), you don't really have a choice. The other options are either still lacking in usability, features, or support.

Frankly, most web designers could get by happily with Pixelmator.
If you need 16-bit, CMYK, Lab: Photoline is getting a lot of attention.
Corel's suite is also coming back to the fore.
Quark is seeing people returning, who moved away to InDesign.

There ARE professional alternatives out there for the whole range. Maybe they haven't got all the features; maybe they have: but they'll certainly be keen to develop their software if it attracts people away from Creative Cash.

 

[mudman2]

And most of them are subpar.

I'm not saying Adobe is amazing, but if you need more than just basic photo editing (especially if you're a web designer or graphic designer), you don't really have a choice. The other options are either still lacking in usability, features, or support.

This is so sad if true, all adobe do is destroy good products they buy

Nothing they touch these days is problem free. I always opt for alternatives if possible. There are some really good smaller programs that out PS, PS, but nothing complete

 

[throttlemeister]

No it isn't. Professional users are moving away from Adobe in droves, and other companies are heeding the message. Even if it were true: should we merely concede the battle? Or demand something better? It is for customers to demand what the market should offer.

Source?

That's a circular argument. Many large companies have created artwork that is their major business asset. They don't want to pay protection to Adobe just to be able to use their files; and they don't want to be on a meter to Adobe.

That's a non-argument. All the CS applications save in file formats that are either open or are supported through other applications so companies or individuals should never have a problem using their files. Particularly PSD (since we're talking Photoshop) can be read by just about any program that can remotely do something with images, including OSX Preview. File formats is definitely not an issue here.

Regardless, switching from one piece of software to another can always be a pain, regardless of wether you have a DVD or a subscription. Point is, if you don't want to subscribe anymore, that means you do not want to use the program anymore, therefor it is your responsibility to make sure you can read or convert your old files to something you can work with using your new software.

 

[benwiggy]

That's a non-argument. All the CS applications save in file formats that are either open or are supported through other applications so companies or individuals should never have a problem using their files. Particularly PSD (since we're talking Photoshop) can be read by just about any program that can remotely do something with images, including OSX Preview. File formats is definitely not an issue here.

You can't have it both ways: either Photoshop has got unique features that other apps don't have: or other apps can open and handle their documents correctly, having the same capabilities.

Can you open and edit a Lab or CMYK 16-bit with loads of Adjustment Layers, effects, bells, whistles, etc in Preview?

Also, try opening an InDesign file in anything else accurately. I'm sure the same is true for others in the Suite.

If you think that Creative Cloud presents no problems, off you go; have fun. However, there ARE people who think otherwise.
I'll be using CS6 until a version of OS X renders it broken. Then I'll be moving elsewhere, unless Adobe has seen sense.
Pretty much every comment thread on any website that mentions CC is full of people saying they won't be using it. I know several publishing companies who are not taking up CC.

 

[Renzatic]

You can't have it both ways: either Photoshop has got unique features that other apps don't have: or other apps can open and handle their documents correctly, having the same capabilities.

Looking at them, being able to open them, and being able to edit them with the same fidelity as PS are three different things. Like OSX can look at .psd files without any issues, as do tons of 3rd party picture viewers. GIMP can open .psd files, but it can't translate the layer stack over since it's missing most of the features PS has.

So there, he can have it both ways. The problem isn't that .psd files are difficult to work with when using other applications, it's that nothing out there is quite as feature rich.

From what I've seen, Pixelmator comes closest to matching PS in terms of features and ease of use, but even it's still many a year away from being able to equal it.

 

[gw5815]

You think it's just a ruler? You need to watch the video demo. It's a far more complex device than that!

Wait... I'm going to buy, charge and carry a RULER?

They do know there's another way to make graphics software draw a perfect line... don't they?

And oh, how I crave more ways to tie into Adobe's "Creative Cloud" subscription!

The pen could be nice; you can keep the ruler and the cloud.