Photostopped: Adobe Cloud evaporates in mass outage. Hope none of you are on a deadline, eh? Adobe technicians scrambled on Wednesday to restore multiple cloud services after a severe outage left customers stranded. Starting around 0600 PDT (1300 UTC) Adobe's status board began lighting up with red outage notifications. At the time this article was written, 13 major issues were ongoing and five had been resolved. By …
Only some of Adobe's software can be run exclusively locally, such as PS, AI, ID etc. The bulk of Creative Cloud services and apps require cloud access simply to launch. That can mean no fonts, no content libraries (e.g. across your team) and none of the mobile apps. Educators were complaining yesterday that their Spark coursework was dead and were frantically trying to come up with Google app alternatives for their classrooms.
It appears I'm saving more than just money then using Affinity's products, even though I didn't even buy them at the current major discounts.
Good :)
Yeah. Ya just can't tell some people.
I turned down a contract to transition a small org to The Cloud. Gave them all the reasons why it wasn't a great idea. "There is an IT budget that had to be spent, and The Cloud is shiny." They went with it using another contractor.. Now IT costs more than it would to keep me around. Oh well.
The Cloud ..... The place where you upload your documents so that everyone in the world except for you can access them. .... Anonymous Coward
Actually, AC, the Cloud Space is much more like a bank place which has all of your human capital stock to put at risk whilst the remarkable source of their own is never to be questioned?
They both, the Cloud and banks, appear to strictly adhere very much to the same old formula/modus operandi et vivendi ...... And it 's gone ........ although unparalleled success for second rate, third party renegade rogue robber barons in those fields is nowadays too almightily dependent upon ignorance reigning supreme in simulations where arrogance stimulates dumb captured markets trying to captivate novel virgin sectors ........with the next great things ....... to be thought of as anything worth saving for implementing in the future in its current criminally negligent and wilfully corrupted forms?
I wonder if they have any viable and easily accepted Plan Bs to seamlessly and secretly operate and offer their exclusive elite executive administrative skills to in order to ensure and insure and assure responsible heads their continued attachment/engagement for survival?
"Adobe's servers are currently down," wrote Element Animation on Twitter. "If you pay for any of their software, you can't use it right now. Remember when we used to own our own software?"
Well Element Animation... hate to tell you but us professionals, still do own our own software.
Only absolute amateurs would stake their livelihoods on the cloud ;)
> Well Element Animation... hate to tell you but us professionals, still do own our own software.
How can you own closed software like Photoshop Creative Suite, AFAIK CS6 (2017) was the last that could be bought traditionally without the subscription model.
For professionals there are not that many alternatives to Illustrator and Photoshop.
As a simple programmer I manage with Krita and Inkscape.
Bit like Pixelogic's Zbrush - You think Windows can be unstable? Zbrush takes it to whole heights for £700+ (and now some scary subscription price) The interface also is also a car crash, file menu being in the middle rather than the left hand edge and other stuff being here there and everywhere.
For professionals there are not that many alternatives to Illustrator and Photoshop.
Might be time to start looking. Adobe sucks donkey balls, especially given they're supposedly trade. Like listening to them try and answer boring questions when they switched to the cloudy subscription model. What to do if/when you're on location? Pray?
Bought PShop elements March 24. Installed. It would not accept the password the Adobe Gods sent. Three times i have spent escalated hours on escalated help chats and it STILL won't accept my password. I can login, my accountIs there, my purchased software and receipt is there but yes we have no Adobe. It's a bit of a pain but Graphic Converter works and I can go from scratch and start my project again. Aggggghhh!
Using Elements 2009. Obviously I'm not using it as a pro user would use full fat Photoshop. Having a "licensed" copy is owning in the same sense as having a long lease is owning your home - maybe more so, no one from Adobe tells me what colours I can make my pictures.
But using subscription software is like renting a short let flat in a development area.
How many alternatives do you need! Why not go for the one that is really making headway?
Seriously, check out the excellent and compatible alternatives (Photo and Designer) from Affinity https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/ and https://is.gd/PxCKKR and https://is.gd/So4rEQ
Modern, well-coded alternatives for macOS, Windows and iPad that use your computer's power to the full. No subscription, just a one-off low price. They do a 90-day free trial and at the moment a 50% discount to support the design community.
Since last year, along with their InDesign compatible Publisher app, you've been able to take advantage of
I was under the impression that Photoshop and Illustrator had not been considered 'Professional' for several years.
My wife is an illustrator and designer and she's went to Affinity Photo recently and has had designer for the last couple of years. She likes them both and found the transition from Adobe reasonably easy.
A few things are different and some have slightly convulted ways of doing things (I'm guessing to side step a software patent or similar for example you can't import Indesign files directly into Affinity Publisher)
She's also now looking at inkscape (which is now "industry standard" due to it being mentioned in a growing number of job advertisements alongside the usual mentions of adobe products)
I'm still on the desktop version of Lightroom but I haven't bought a new camera since 2016.
While there are other photo editing options available none of them offer the mix of library management and processing in bulk that Lightroom gives me. Processing an entire wedding's photographs by tea time the next day isn't something I'd want to give up.
Similarly while I use paint.net for things like book cover design, I'm not doing a dozen book covers a day. The Adobe toolset is actually superb, even if their business practices are shoddy. I can easily understand professionals compromising on software ownership in order to retain access to highly productive tools.
I am though hoping that this issue causes enough backlash for Adobe to realise they need to assure offline working is viable. I lack hope that it'll lead to a new desktop version of Lightroom, even though they'd get an upgrade payment from me even before I buy my next camera.
You just need to let go of the memories of Photoshop. Start from scratch. I was the same when moving from Photoshop 6 to GIMP (biggest beef was that there was no Text FX feature in GIMP which allowed for quick drop shadows and outlines on text). The moment I let Photoshop go GIMP became way easier. Sure, it's still 5 extra steps, but it doesn't matter anymore, I can do that as quickly as it takes me to invoke the functionality in Photoshop now.
Luckily, I could turn to my own trusty PC with an ancient version of Photoshop, and was able to pull some images off pages from our own website to crop and colour-change, so I muddled through. But I kicked myself once again for not getting Photoshop CS 5.5 in a box when I had the chance.
Few service interruptions have hit Adobe so far. I'm sure many will use this to promote goinng back to fat-client use. With more info on fat-clients the effects of disasters will more frequently entail data-loss. And may result in higher average down times *though less concentrated).
Backing up and confirming restore is much easier when the backup is in your stocky paws, and not some vague promise by someone else.
Especially when that someone else has no real skin in the game.
If my backups fail, I stand to lose a huge amount of valuable work. It might even kill my business.
If Adobe destroy my work, what does it cost them? An apologetic mass email?
I jumped on Affinity as well. There are a few things I miss from Illustrator, but all in all I've been happy.
I noticed the outage when I went to set up a new user to Acrobat Pro. While I'm happy to switch to Affinity for design, unfortunately in this industry (AEC) not using Acrobat can lead to some weird issues when contractors use Adobe toolchains to put together PDF submittals. It's really annoying, but the other PDF options aren't workable or are more or less just as expensive.
I'd like to force everybody to use LaTeX, but I don't think I could weather the fury.
It depends on your situation. You owe it to yourself to at least check it out. I am finding it, yes different, but once I understand their line of thinking, it is pretty darn simple, and seems to me to be very full-featured to craft up a pro job. I also like the way they do the 'behind the scenes code' options. Really useful. But check it out—it just may not work for you.
"Adobe Analytics, Experience Manager, Social, Target, Audience Manager, Cross-Cloud Capabilities, Campaign, Platform Core Services, Data Science Workspace, Experience Cloud Home, Data Foundation, Query Service, and Journey Orchestration."
So many buzzwords, so little work. They just need "AI" and "blockchain" in that lot and they'll have the full set.
Coloured pencils anyone?
Ah, progress.
You pay through the nose to not be able to access your own documents when someone else's server is feeling iffy.
Once upon a time, we had Personal Computers. We now have Someone Else's Platform, and we pay royally for the privilege.
Well, those of us who can't avoid it, that is.
Yes, agreed. Products that come out of the 'New Age of Stupid' really deserve to fail. This just demonstrates that some businesses are too full of arrogance, and themselves, to do market research—and take it seriously.
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