Adobe releases major update to Creative Cloud desktop apps
Adobe on Monday updated its subscription-based professional image editing suite, bringing "hundreds" of new features to premiere offerings like Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, among others.
As with the suite's debut in May, files created with the updated "CC" desktop apps can be shared across platforms and the online creative community Behance via Adobe's Creative Cloud.
?We?ve added a ton of new innovation to all our CC desktop apps like Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign," said David Wadhwani, senior vice president and general manager of Digital Media at Adobe. "These apps include new features that increase productivity, streamline the effort to build mobile content and showcase some stunning new imaging and video science."
One of the release's major features is a streamlined workflow experience. The new Creative Cloud app allows users to keep files synced and organized not only locally, but across websites and mobile devices. Adobe is also integrating the Behance community with CC, offering new portfolio publishing options that let users get feedback on works in progress from the community's over 1.4 million members.
Cloud storage and syncing remain the same, with 20GB of storage for individual members that can be used to share and edit work on a number of platforms, including iOS.
In addition, Adobe is launching the Create Now: A Celebration of Creativity initiative, which will host collaborative art projects, celebrate the birthday of a "design icon" and open up a forum for Adobe users to connect and collaborate.
Adobe's Creative Cloud update is available now through the company's website, with special pricing for educators and students starting at $19.99 per month. Individual pricing for new users is $49.99 per month, while customers using Adobe CS3 or higher get a discount down to $29.99 per month. Single-app access can is also avaialable for $19.99 a month.
As with the suite's debut in May, files created with the updated "CC" desktop apps can be shared across platforms and the online creative community Behance via Adobe's Creative Cloud.
?We?ve added a ton of new innovation to all our CC desktop apps like Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign," said David Wadhwani, senior vice president and general manager of Digital Media at Adobe. "These apps include new features that increase productivity, streamline the effort to build mobile content and showcase some stunning new imaging and video science."
One of the release's major features is a streamlined workflow experience. The new Creative Cloud app allows users to keep files synced and organized not only locally, but across websites and mobile devices. Adobe is also integrating the Behance community with CC, offering new portfolio publishing options that let users get feedback on works in progress from the community's over 1.4 million members.
Cloud storage and syncing remain the same, with 20GB of storage for individual members that can be used to share and edit work on a number of platforms, including iOS.
In addition, Adobe is launching the Create Now: A Celebration of Creativity initiative, which will host collaborative art projects, celebrate the birthday of a "design icon" and open up a forum for Adobe users to connect and collaborate.
Adobe's Creative Cloud update is available now through the company's website, with special pricing for educators and students starting at $19.99 per month. Individual pricing for new users is $49.99 per month, while customers using Adobe CS3 or higher get a discount down to $29.99 per month. Single-app access can is also avaialable for $19.99 a month.
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Hello, Tallest Skil, enjoying your ban?
I see you still log in... not being able to "come back" with toxic one-liners must eat you up...
Sad to see this pricing model being adopted by Adobe. They have made some top class software but this tax is the last straw - I can't see this working in the long term. People will turn away and look for alternatives. I guess I'll keep my standalone PS PR AE AI running until my machine dies. They've lost me as a customer.
oh well,
Hey, Tallest Skil!
What will you do next?
Appeal your ban here?
Or will you pop up in another forum?
If so, will you use the same handle, and the same obnoxious avatar?
If they have actually added "hundreds" of features to each product (or even to them all together) then they have certainly ruined the product.
Adobe is just ridiculous nowadays. I'd be ashamed to work for them or be associated with them.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 2
Hey, Tallest Skil!
What will you do next?
Appeal your ban here?
Or will you pop up in another forum?
If so, will you use the same handle, and the same obnoxious avatar?
Please take your personal business elsewhere. I have reported your posts.
(snip)
I honestly don't know what to say. I do not want your comments back here mixed in between some of the educated people who actually know what's going on.
Especially if you're just going to start instigating fights for no reason.
For instance, if I have a problem with Apple this is what it looks like.
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That's cut short. You just have a problem with everyone here.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 2
Hey, Tallest Skil!
What will you do next?
Appeal your ban here?
Or will you pop up in another forum?
If so, will you use the same handle, and the same obnoxious avatar?
Tallest Skil definitely had very strong opinions and was a valuable member of the community. Comments like yours however usually denote the mental capacity of a 3 year old.
We're in our second year of what is now CC, and we're quite pleased. Interesting coincidence with Apple's own metamorphosis out of its "big cat" naming phase with Mavericks. Can't wait to see how these new Adobe tools run in it AND on the new Mac Pro!
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Originally Posted by GadgetCanadaV2
Tallest Skil definitely had very strong opinions and was a valuable member of the community. Comments like yours however usually denote the mental capacity of a 3 year old.
Imagine the nightmare of having to deal with "Tallest Skil" in real life... talk about completely absence of social skills.
In any case, that appletard is history for now.
It will be fun seeing when, where, and in what form he will reappear.
We will be waiting to expose and mock him mercilessly. ^^
South Korea FTW!
Yea - they lost their way ever since Ol John Warnock stepped down. I think Chizens was next - FAIL lol
Adobe can go **** itself. I bought CS6 just a couple months ago, and it's now pretty much obsolete with no new features to be added. Disgusting.
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Originally Posted by xtensha
Interesting but couldn't really care less. Adobe move to a monthly tax was the final straw for me. I will keep using my stand alone software and slowly switch over to other options.
I agree. I'm warning people about the new 'subscription' model.
Personally, I think it's the last gasps of a dying breed. I think Microsoft is going to find out pretty soon. If they can pad their numbers this year from unexpected users and unaware IT people then it will be next year.
Also, since when did IT people get a huge review on this site? They sit around and do nothing all day. (if you are one and you don't then you're rare. Invest well and plan for the future) Both in corporate an scholar environments.
I'm heavily leaning against the corporate subscription model. It's actually a more secure financial move to purchase an iWorks suite right now. It will actually read almost all of your documents, and the few that don't seem to transition quite right need little repair work.
When I read "100's of new features" I automatically replaced "features" with "gimmicks". The whole CC subscription idea was already the last straw, but it really stands out how right after announcing CC, they apparently already had updates waiting to be implemented. It's as if they grab any chance to take more money out of your bank account with every new feature.
"Oh wait, we have a new feature here for you guys… BAM $10 out of your pocket"
Really Pixelmator, Sketch and other possible alternative apps. I hope you've been reading all the unhappy comments of Adobe customers, and are able to fill the gap sooner rather then later. I can't wait to not use Adobe anymore. As much as I used to love their extensive products, it just leaves a sour flavour in my mouth every time I think about CC and their pricing.
Im not sure how you can draw a parallel between Apple's OS names and Adobe's monthly pricing - but hey why not if you think it's valid, that's all that counts, right ?
Look, good for you and the business - great it works for you.
Doesn't suit me and I don't believe in the model.
Wheat from chaff ? Oh, right ....paying Adobe every month will get you there.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 2
Imagine the nightmare of having to deal with "Tallest Skil" in real life... talk about completely absence of social skills.
In any case, that appletard is history for now.
It will be fun seeing when, where, and in what form he will reappear.
We will be waiting to expose and mock him mercilessly. ^^
South Korea FTW!
Changed my mind.
lol
"I owe my soul to the company store ... "
Sixteen tonnes, Tennessee Ernie Ford. 1955
First released by the one and only Merle Travis, 1946
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Originally Posted by unDED
How do you access your CC file and work on them when you stop paying Adobe's monthly "protection money?"
Unless you can hack, you don't.
You have to pay them again.
On one hand, it has been a huge win for me who do print layouts and web design with quite a few multimedia projects in between to be able to use whatever Adobe app I need at a given time.
On the other hand, it sucks to be hold by the balls, paying for softwares you don't even own%u2026 at the mercy of Adobe marketeers when they feel like to up the CC monthly price%u2026
We are severely lacking any worthy competitor in the graphic arts to end Adobe monopoly.
As for this new CC upgrade, having Indesign go Retina is enough to satisfy me. The addition of barcode editing alone will allow me to stop upgrading hugely ovepriced Barcode Producer%u2026