Adobe Unveils New Mobile Apps, Adobe Portfolio and Updates to Desktop Apps at Adobe MAX

[Traverse]

According to their website: 20Gb for individuals, 100Gb per user for team plans.

Well that's great! Shooting RAW means you can pass that 20GB in a few months, but that is much much better than their previous offer.

TAKE NOTE DROPBOX!

 

[Atomic Walrus]

Since Surface has a dedicated digitiser for pen input - it is already more responsive than Apple Pencil can ever be.

Unfortunately not true. The Surface Pro 1 and 2 had Wacom digitizers, but MS moved to N-trig for the 3 and beyond. The N-trig implementation is active capacitive like the pencil, but it's extremely disappointing compared to both the old Wacom digitizer and what we've seen of Pencil. Even the SP1/2's "penabled" Wacom tech isn't great once you start comparing to a real Cintiq, but it was better than the N-trig version.

I'm holding onto my SP2 for the foreseeable future, but it's still good news to have more competitors in a field that's been dominated by one company for decades. I think Apple's implementation could easily be a better performer than both N-trig and the low-tier Wacom digitizers they sell to 3rd parties. The issue of iOS vs. real software is going to be the limiting factor, and nothing Adobe is doing here addresses that issue.

 

[definitive]

Maybe I'm just getting old, but does anyone else think they have *way* too many apps? I mean the number of desktop CC apps is already a dozen or so, and now they have a bunch of mobile apps, all with different names and overlapping/non overlapping feature sets than the desktop counterparts...

They're lazy and greedy.. They could have combined several apps into one by now, but they don't bother. I won't even get into the amount of bloat that their apps have...

 

[Marx55]

Overdue Acrobat Pro DC 2015 update?

 

[Caseynd]

This, along with the metal fiasco has me turned off to Adobe

 

[mindquest]

Any mention of Adobe creating photo extensions now that El Cap is the surest OSX? Surprising not seeing many phot extensions available win the app store but other companies and hoping Adobe would join in.

 

[Dana Beck]

I'm still using CS5 which is paid for and meets my current needs as freelance web developer.

I use Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, and some Illustrator; and, I have no desire to go to a subscription ecosystem. I'm still trying to find a decent replacement for Fireworks which is/was a fantastic tool for those who knew how to use it. Part of the issue is making time to learn something new. The other issue is that other tools don't seem to offer the features that FW has.

This.

 

[campyguy]

Unfortunately not true. The Surface Pro 1 and 2 had Wacom digitizers, but MS moved to N-trig for the 3 and forever...

Agreed, and agreed. After MS bought N-Trig's "tablet tech" earlier this year (http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/1/8529029/microsoft-n-trig-surface-pro-3), I resigned myself to the Surface's tablet tech being on par with the Wacom ADB interface tablets from about 15 years ago (but without the packaged Sensiva software that I still miss to this day).

I had considered a Surface as a second device until MS went with N-Trig "tech" (bwah ha ha hah, ha ha. sniff. good one.). The best Surface for drawing is a Surface with an Intuos Pro attached.

 

[campyguy]

IMHO, it's nice to see that Adobe is paring down the large number of iOS apps.

Now, if they could channel that reduction in labor to reducing the cost of their monthly subscription and/or porting their OS X apps, that would be simply grand! I'd likely see a winning Powerball ticket first...

 

[mikeandbecka]

So this is the deal that killed Aperture? Sill wondering about that.. Adobe probably threatened pulling the plug on Photoshop. 😛 lame.

 

[Kavok]

I'm curious how many of us are still running with CS6?

And, for those of us who are, what killer feature or client requirement is it going to take that will force your hand and make you switch to CC?

For me, the monthly subscription is the deal-killer. At least with CS6 I don't have to worry about shelling out money every month just to make sure I can still work with my files.

 

[Inkling]

Is it just me that feels that Adobe is focusing on the wrong things. As a professional illustrator I dont care very much about the ton of mobile apps. And not touch either. I just want the features that are in Photoshop/after effects etc to become better, more up to date and most importantly I wish they focused more on performance. Its going to be a long time until I can replace a computer for any professional work anyway, and I really dont care about using touch capabilities in Photoshop. Focus on major performance boosts, Metal, etc...Adobe programs are the slowest and most demanding programs on my computers, without being the most advanced.

Adobe is frustrating many of their users and turning off potential users with the limited set of plans they offer. The full Creative Cloud plan offers far more apps that most users can manage. It's a bit like paying for a seven-course meal in an expensive restaurant, but only having time to eat two courses. The food may be excellent, but you feel cheated. Add to that the fact that Adobe's devoting most of its attention to video and animation software, and quite a few people feel $50/month is too much to pay for what they get.

Offering a $20/month, single-app plan goes to the other extreme. Users are expected to pay 40% of the cost of the everything plan for but a single app. They feel cheated by getting too little for their money. Imagine a fancy restaurant where a mere salad cost 40% of the price of a full seven-course meal.

The one plan that gets it right for many users—perhaps because photographers protested very loudly—is the $10/month Photography plan with Photoshop and Lightroom. Adobe needs to look into creating a set of similar plans for users with specialized needs. You've mentioned one option, that for graphic illustrators. Others might be an Author plan with InDesign and Lightroom and a Podcaster plan with perhaps Audition and Muse. Those should do well, quiet a lot of the grumbling, and attract far more CC members.

I do like what Adobe is doing with Behance, creating a more full-features Adobe Portfolio so an creator, whatever his field, can create and constantly update a professional website without a lot of bother. That's a good move. But I'm frustrated with not having a CC plan that fits my needs.

 

[AppleZilla]

So you are still forced to use the lame Behance (LinkedIn for designers, but much less useful) network with Portfolio? Argh! Nothing like having to use two systems to create one site. Sounds like Prosite v1.1.

Sticking with Squarespace.

 

[J_T]

I could be wrong, but that photo looks suspiciously like an early reveal of the MS Surface Book, given the size.

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[Renzatic]

Maybe I'm just getting old, but does anyone else think they have *way* too many apps? I mean the number of desktop CC apps is already a dozen or so, and now they have a bunch of mobile apps, all with different names and overlapping/non overlapping feature sets than the desktop counterparts...

Probably a bit of Column A, bit of Column B. But don't feel bad. We're all getting there. 😛

Though the thing about the CC is that each of those dozen programs are tailored to a specific task, and they all play well together. Like Photoshop does image editing, Illustrator vector art, InDesign page layout, etc. etc. There's some justification there.

But the app situation is a little ridiculous. It's like they're chopping up parts of their desktop programs, and designing apps around the functions. It's why we now have, like, 500 Photoshop X apps by now. At some point, you think it'd be better just to make full on Photoshop for the iPad. Same functionality, but with far less overhead.