A happy Sunday morning.

I just cancelled my #Adobe subscription and bought the #Affinity Apps universal license from Seif. I'm https://affinity.serif.com/

I'm not jingoistic in the slightest, but buying from a UK company rather than a US one was a surprising cherry on top. Thanks JD Vance. (Always add the JD, because we've got a *lot* to thank Jack Vance for, and I want nobody confusing numbnuts with brilliance)

Ok, now I have to learn how to use these excellent purchases.

The "Fillable" PDF application for a #Canadian passport.... doesn't let you save and come back later.

If you save it, the fields are locked when you re-open it.

Awesome to throw all my time working on these into the trash to start over. WTH.

Hoping a last ditch effort of Adobe Acrobat Pro free trial will help.

Government technology is always bloody incompetent.

Oh and I guess if you have a Linux PC, then just get lost.

Es muss nicht immer Adobe Lightroom sein. Es gibt einige freie RAW-Entwickler, die Hervorragendes leisten und in Betracht gezogen werden sollten.

https://norberteder.photography/fotoentwicklung-unter-linux-ein-status-quo/

Turns out people are using AI like a personal shopper

“The conversion gap reinforces that AI is being utilized during the research and consideration stage, in advance of when shoppers are ready to hit the buy button.” But, it added, the closing gap “shows that consumers are also increasingly comfortable completing a transaction directly after an AI-powered chat experience.”

https://qz.com/gen-ai-personal-shopper-adobe-e-commerce-1851770510

Tried Joysticks N' Sliders for a "Burnout" by Green Day drum animation. Epic Fail!

Not built for complex animation like that. Might use DUIK Bassel 2 or Cartoon Animator 5 instead.

Peep the WIP! More to come! Stay Posi, Keep Creating!

me he dado de baja de la suscripcion de #adobe de #acrobatpro una mierda menos, eso de que sea un contrato anual es un chantaje total y era carisimo.

Teneis alternativas #foss o casi gratis que aconsejeis para acrobat pro en #windows11 ?

...damnit, #AcrobatReader is _such_ a piece of crap nowadays.

It's been declining for years, constantly triggering "out of memory" errors when I opened up multiple PDFs at the same time. But I've reached my limit when it crashed multiple times when I tried to search a very simple three-page PDF - while displaying an " #AI Assistant" bar that I didn't ask for and cannot seem to switch off.

I've now installed SumatraPDF . #Adobe is not worth the aggravation.

We spent the weekend with members of The Earthbuilders Guild (TEG) in Albuquerque, a wonderful collective of largely indigenous earthen home builders. So inspiring! We stayed in a beautiful #adobe home and studied another that is under construction.

Building with local materials and #PassiveSolar design is the way. No concrete—horrible for the planet to produce and transport. Naturally cool in summer, warm in winter. Earth building is an ancient highly refined tech, so beautiful and embracing.

I know its like a drop in the ocean but we sat down today and went through #US based services we use here in #JP. We cancelled #Spotify , #Youtube Premium, #Netflix (no replacements for now), #Amazon Prime (#Rakuten), plan to move our #IBKR portfolios over to Rakuten Securities and #Degiro , #Adobe CC. I am still looking for good replacement for #Cloudflare , #Backblaze and we need to decide what to do with #Apple iCloud and #Google One, GMail and their other services.

Adobe analyzed thousands of videos and its recent data indicates that 29% of music fans are more likely to purchase a product featured alongside a song they like. Hip-hop is the most frequently featured genre in branded campaigns using licensed tracks, while enthusiasts of indie music tend to make spontaneous in-app purchases.

Vieles habe ich ja schon vor Jahren gelöscht. Das einzige ist noch #iphone und #adobe auf dem windows netbook. Das Betriebssystem läuft aus. In einer alten Version von Photoshop Elements 11 waren gestern meine Fotos nicht mehr in der Voransicht zu sehen! Es setzt sich die voransicht von #adobe auf meine Fotos, soll neuen Versionskauf tätigen.Frech. Hat das auch schon mal jemand gehabt? Werde jetzt Linux weiter….Statt neuem iphone überlege ich wieder Fairphone. #unplugTrump

Skripte können die Arbeit in InDesign enorm erleichtern. Project Octopus stellt eigens von Fachleuten entwickelte Skripte in einer bedienfreundlichen Oberfläche bereit. So können auch Nicht-Skripter das Potenzial nutzen.

Aktuell sind einige sehr empfehlenswerte Skripte für die Vorbereitung zum PDF/UA-Export dazugekommen. In meinem Blog-Beitrag stelle ich die Funktionen des kostenlosen Angebots kurz vor.

#Adobe #InDesign #PDFUA #PDF #accessiblePDF #Barrierefreiheit

https://www.alexandra-oettler.de/2025/neue-skripte-unterst%C3%BCtzen-barrierefreie-pdfs-aus-indesign

US-Unternehmen meiden – Warum jetzt?
In den #USA boykottieren viele Menschen große Konzerne wegen ihrer politischen Verflechtungen. Wer das auch hier tun will:

US-Firmen: #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Apple, #Google, #Intel, #AMD, #Dell, #HP, #Disney, #Facebook, #Instagram, #Netflix, #Twitter, #Tesla, #Adobe, #eBay, #Snapchat, #Airbnb, #Fitbit, #Activision, #Uber, #Garmin, #Bose.

Alternativen: #Nextcloud, #Fairphone, #Qwant, #DuckDuckGo. #boykott

#Photoshop will soon be coming for #Android, but would fancy the idea of doing digital art from a phone anyway? Maybe it's just me... https://mindsconnect.jcink.net/index.php?showtopic=1017&view=getnewpost #adobe #adobephotoshop #software #app #mobile #design #digitalart #tech

Irgendwann habe ich nicht mehr mitgezählt, wieviele Photoshop-Versionen Adobe für das iPhone herausgebracht hat. Ab heute ist die neueste Inkarnation verfügbar. Mit KI-Funktionen, einer durchdachten Bedienoberfläche für kleine Displays und in der Einstiegsvariante kostenlos. Mit erweiterter Funktionalität wird ein Abo fällig.

#Adobe #Photoshop #iPhone

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2025/02/25/all-new-photoshop-iphone-app-reimagines-image-editing-for-mobile-creators