The Visual Scholar
The Visual Scholar
Tim Mcburnie
E36: Adobe is Legacy Software. What Does The Future Look Like?
1 hour 43 minutes Posted Jun 26, 2024 at 5:10 am.
Intro
Welcome
What's My Take On This?
What Good Creative Software Needs To Be... The Dangers of Switching
That Time I Gave Up Photoshop For Corel Painter...
Reliability...
Learning & Community
Different Artists Need Different Features... Pro Vs The Rest
Professional Features (That Most People Don't Care About)
Production Integration
Chameleon: Photoshop Can Be Many Things
Extensibility
Real Professional Reliability
Speeed
TLDR: Bugs And Tech Hurdles Can Ruin Your Art Flow
What About Adobe As A Company (Evil INC)
The History... Aggressive Monopoly
Adobe The Dinosaur (Legacy Software and Legacy Attitude)
Adobe Is Struggling To Be A Modern SAAS Company
Publicly Traded Companies Can't Take Care Of Their Customers.
The Silicon Valley Hype Cycle
Symbiosis: How Good Software Is Made
The Protopian Ideal
Incentives: It's Not A Matter of Good Or Evil.
What Does The Future Of Software Look Like?
The Community Matters
The Photoshop Interface Built Adobe
Piracy Helped Build The Monopoly
No Free Version = No One Uses It... Or Cares.
Adobe In Trouble?
Has Adobe Forgotten How To Make And Promote Software?
The Street Price Of Creative Cloud
Adobe Actually Has A Great Deal...
The Traps Large Companies Fall Into
Business Models And Functionality Are Linked!
Photoshop IS Unique
The Real Issue? (AI)
The Hype Train
If AGI and Superintelligence Are Coming... Why Is Adobe Putting AI In Photoshop
The Double Speak Of Generative Imagery and LLMs
The Real Reason I Want OFF The Adobe Train Now
Takeaways!
The Analytical Takeaway
Marker 3
The practical Takeaway
The Philosophical Takeaway
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This is The Thirty Sixth Episode of the Visual Scholar Podcast - With Tim Mcburnie.
Let's talk Adobe...
There is a lot of drama and outrage aimed at Adobe. I normally stay away from this stuff on the Visual Scholar... But people often ask for my opinion as I do use Adobe products, and teach people how to use them.
So this episode is dedicated to my thoughts on the future of Photoshop. But as you know if you have been following this show, it won't be simple, and I will weave in some more interesting topics.
I want to walk though:
1 What we should expect from Software as artists 2 What can we learn by looking closer at Adobe Inc 3 What Ethics, Morality, Publicly traded companies... and AI say about the future of Customer/Product Symbiosis.
So yeah... This is a long form essay. That no one really asked for. But if you want to rise above the noise and outrage FUD... strap in!
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