Not really. Completely normal and expected pricing for corporate professional training in a country like the UK.    That said, these kind of jobs are already disappearing due to AI assistants.  AI will replace these type of personal instruction classes/sessions rapidly. Similar to how many artists are currently struggling to attract new freelance work.  ... View more

I do agree - the original license of CS6 was supposed to be a perpetual license.   I feel it is also important from a historical point of view to preserve older versions of software. Ironically enough the only 'dependable' method to achieve this goal has been to rely on cracked versions (as seen on the Internet Archive and other misc software archives).   I myself run a cracked portable version of Fireworks to maintain access to older FW files (and yes: I own a licensed copy of CS6). In cases like these my opinion is that I have ethics no my side to justify using a cracked version. ... View more

No need anymore to install Fireworks to convert .FW files to another file format. Photopea reads and opens native Fireworks files, which can then be saved as PSD files (for example).   https://www.photopea.com/ ... View more

Since your IN5 html project will be a static one, even Github or GitLab could work. Another free option is Altervista (Italian free hosting). You get a free subdomain yourname.altervista.org and free hosting. Make sure to register for the filemanager option, and avoid the WordPress hosting. Then you can upload your files to your hosting space.   Just make sure the first file (home page / start page) is named index.html. Anyone browsing to your yourname.altervista.org will then see your publication.   https://en.altervista.org/create-free-site.php   Or GitLab: https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/pages/ ... View more

...and another new account with an AI generated generic comment/answer. That answers the original OP's AI generated question.   I wonder if someone is testing an AI bot...? ... View more

Interestingly enough this answer was also written (or translated) with AI. And a new account with only one post to answer this particular question.   The anwer itself is generic with odd insertions like "Test early for mobile!'. And who would ever combine two very different pipelines like that - "mix manual keyframes with tweening in Adobe Animate for walks" and speed those up with "bone rigs in Spine or Anima2D"? What the heck? Makes no sense at all.   This is a typical non-sensical answer generated by AI.     ... View more

Only that together with the link in your post as well as being a new account that those are three red flags for spam. Usually, that is.   This time may be the exception to the rule. ... View more

The OP's text is 100% AI generated. As are the other 3 messages this user posted.     ... View more

@wink_apk7049 is a new account, and this message is spam. The text is 100% AI generated, and includes a link to a third-party service.     ... View more

The "best practices" lists "Ensure your images are 300 DPI for crisp, print-quality visuals.", which is just vague and wrong advice.   For images in a FXL layout work at the native resolution of the screen that is your main target device. If that is 1024x768, that is the resolution of a full screen image. If your base target resolution is 2560x1600: that will be the resolution of a full screen image.   Resolutions for FLX epubs are often measured against various iPad models (because interactive FXL epubs tend to only work semi-properly on those devices and the iBooks reader): from 1024x768 up to 2732x2048 pixels, with the 2560x1600 a good average resolution.   When you create a new document in InDesign that is based on the Mobile publishing intent, the pt resolution refers to pixels: 1pt equates to 1px. That is why those fonts are so small: InDesign works with the native pixel resolution rather than comparing it against a PPI value that is attached to a document.   That is why it is also so very important to turn down the PPI export value in the FXL epub export dialog to 72ppi: only at 72ppi are images exported at the native device's target resolution. Any higher than but wastes file storage, resolution, and performance.   As for that template that you downloaded: I am pretty sure the publishing intent is set to something different than Mobile. You can check for this in the document setup properties.   It is also important to note that compatibility between the different publishing platforms for FXL epubs is all over the place. As I wrote earlier: FLX epubs generated from InDesign with interactive features only function reasonably well on iPads and the iBooks readers. On the Kindle, Android readers, Nobo/Kobo almost nothing works, but static pages. That also means custom fonts, etc.: basically you'll be better off to just convert your entire pages to static images if you need compatibility across all platforms.   And then there is the issue of page size proportions: 4x3 is iPad world. But Kindles and other platforms may have other proportions, so your beautiful fixed layout epub pages won't fill the entire screen (unless zoomed in, and have part of the page cut off).   To mitigate these issues you would ideally have to create a custom version for each one of the major publishing targets.   Oh, and the reason why most templates are limited to a portrait version: attempts to convert a full spread art directly to landscape generally just doesn't work out well at all. Ideally you will have to redesign every single spread for a 4x3 landscape version. Most publishers don't have the luxury of time (or money) for that extra effort.   In effect, prepare for a world of pain when dealing with FXL epub layouts and publishing those to the various platforms.    Honestly, it is probably not worth the effort or time in most cases. And FXL epub compatibility between platforms is absolutely terrible.  That is why a lot of FXL epubs are simply a collection of static image-based pages nowadays. FXL epubs are, pretty much, containers for a slideshow of images. ... View more

...in another AI model "Liar" produced images of blonde women only. Generic words only produce biased results in these things. Don't expect anything else. Use more specific prompting. ... View more

A male business owner / a female business owner (first try):     Why do all men have beards? How WOKE is that! And why are all white women blond haired?! More WOKENESS!   Why do all white women and men cross their arms? WOKE WOKE WOKE!   This is "a terrible person" (first try) in Firefly:   Jeez, a black man in an army outfit is included here with three zombies. Wow, that's pretty WOKE! Where are those white males then?   ...Anyway. Instead of crying "WOKE!" every single time something doesn't yield to one's expectations, just type more specific prompts. All these AI models are incredibly biased. This has nothing to do "wokeness". For example, in my experience all AI models tend to favour women in these type of generic prompts.   Here is "a business owner" in an open source AI model:   And here "a male business owner": This particular AI model is utterly biased in favour of white people. WOKE! So WOKE!  And young white males only. With NO beards!!! And perfect teeth!!! How WOKE is that?!!!   Joking! Just joking! 😉   @sharp_partner0967Simply use more specific prompts. And using negative biased prompting here is merely trying to rile up things and evoke negative emotional responses.   PS "terrible persons" generally does point at males throughout the world and its history since males, for the most part, have been responsible for the majority of human kind's suffering. So it kinda makes sense that the AI model would favour males when "terrible person" is included in a prompt! 😜 ... View more

It's an older thread, but still useful for those looking for an answer:   PhotoLine loads and saves multi-page TIFF files without any problem.  Also supports colour management and higher bit depths, as well as 1 bitt TIFF files with multi-pages.   (No other image editor on the market can handle TIFF files with multiple 1-bit image pages, btw) ... View more

Well... @creative explorer Let's take a pragmatic view on things 😉   Dreamweaver (once king in the lands of code editing) is discontinued and no longer actively developed and struggles onward in a zombie state, endlessy roaming the wide lands they once ruled, and despised and ridiculed by the one who stabbed him in the back with an accursed dagger: Visual Studio Code. Animate (once Queen of the realms of animation) --as far as Adobe's silence can tell us-- is no longer actively developed and, in the likeness of Ophelia, drowned in the rivers of 2d animation she once commanded. Still barely alive, those who still serve her and her younger selves keep her memory alive. To no avail: ToonBoom, the Conquerer, rules supreme in 2D animation land now, yet allows those who wish to keep Animate's memory alive to serve her in her death. Adobe XD (once a promising upstart prince in prototyping lands) is discontinued and lies in a shallow grave, with some followers feeding him tears - hoping for a ressurection that will never arrive. Hope is a sweet worded yet deceitful friend indeed. Muse (a beautiful princess once pacifying the courts of visual web page development) is discontinued and left the world bereft of dreams and filling it with sorrow in her stead. Fireworks (once ruling over the vale of web graphics): dead and long forgotten, its dried corpse hidden in the Caves of Perpetual Licenses, with aging apostles clinging on, and chanting to their demi-goddess in sorrowful and melancholic voices. "If only...." "if only..." Air... Gone with the winds... And lest we forget those other rulers of old that went before: Authorware, Director, Freehand, GoLive, ImageReady, Dimensions, and others. Their visages engraved on the pillars supporting the Adobe Halls of Termination, filled with the apoplectic whispers of betrayed acolytes.   But! I hear you plead: What of those still ruling the courts of Adobe? Photoshop, cold ruler over image editing,  lost the battles to maintain dominance in the Southern lands of Digital Painting and in the North had to withdraw from webgraphics and web mockups. Photoshop's rule is besieged from all sides by a number of rebellious upstart lordlings who are quickly maturing. In the midst of this war of attrition, Photoshop hopes to appeace the masses with magical AI spells, yet their fair looking countenance is betrayed again and again by their aging and decrepit soul. Age catches us all in the end. Illustrator in the wild isles kingdom of Vector maintains a strong hold on dominance. Yet here too a small crowd of younger rebels vie for attention and leech users away. Princess VectorStyler is very close to feature parity, while prince Designer sports fine looks... InDesign's supremacy over the Mountain Kingdoms of Desktop Publishing remains in place. Those few contenders for the throne are still too young to threaten it.  The old emperor's (Quark) acted as a tyrant and made too many enemies. Too old to matter and despised by the populous, he is holding on to old memories of greatness, yet lives a solitary live with a few who continue to serve him: banned to the Isle of Mist. But Lo: the latest youngling's affinity may be closing the gap to InDesign... Premiere always had to share ruling the Kingdom of Video Editing with all its brothers and sisters: Avid for the editorial regions and DaVinci Resolve in colour and finishing lands. The provinces of marketing, web media, advertising - those Premiere still commands. The lure of DaVinci's no-taxes rule attracts many new followers though... After Effects remains the only Night Queen of Layered Motion Graphics and her FX domains range far and wide. An uncertain and fragile truce holds between her and the Dark Lord of Noodles, the undisputed ruler over the dark swamps of Nodal Visual Effects . Quite a few youngling attempted to breach this truce, yet none have survived the ruthless smiting of any potential rival by either. It is rumored that the Night Queen and Dark Lord of Noodles are lovers in secret and it is foretold that their heir shall replace them both... The Adobe court is alive with younger siblings and cousins: Adobe Express, Dimension, Rush, Fresco, Firefly, to name but a few. None of those hold their own lands yet, because too many compete with them. And those outside of the courts are fairer and more powerful. Their future is uncertain and for most death is what awaits them outside the court.   'Tis a sad and sorrowful yet all the more intriguing story: but for Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, the hegemony of Adobe's software agents is a shallow existence, and time will lift the final telling's veils. ... View more

Notwithstanding the good intent behind your post: once more history repeats itself here. As with other products being sidelined by Adobe and development stopped, users proposed the exact same legal actions, class action suits, etcetera etcetera.   It has never worked, and it never will (with Adobe). When Freehand was cancelled by Adobe, the Freehand community started legal action, and even had a in-person meeting with Adobe's management. In the end nothing could be/was done or resolved.   So while I understand the sentiment, history shows us that there is absolutely no point in trying. Been there, done that. Pointless. ... View more

History once again repeats itself. This is Adobe management's standard behavioural pattern, people! Nothing new to see here. ... View more

@DdavidChung   First, I actually am in favour of full freedom of information and art. If people here want to use genAI to create nudes in their art, then it is simple enough to install open source tools that are available for free and do not censor the output. Get a good Nvidia GPU, and you have full creative control!   Secondly, it is impossible to separate the tools from the actors and vice versa. It is well researched and documented that a tool will influence the actor's behaviour, thoughts, intentions, and interactions in the external world. It is an extremely naive worldview to think otherwise. Context is everything. And everything is connected, nothing is truly separable.   What is happening in the world right now only proves that the average human being still needs supervision. Earlier in this thread someone mentioned that only children need to be watched over. Obviously many adult humans require the constant threat and supervision of the law and societies policing to behave "nicely". And unfortunately this works on both micro and macro levels: give a country nuclear weapons and their behaviour changes dramatically on the world stage.   If it were true that human adults require no supervision we wouldn't still have wars, strife, and untold human and non-human suffering all around our small and fragile planet. We would work together instead and nurture every single human life and non-human life. This, unfortunately, is not the case.    So while I hope for a better future in which humans can be allowed full freedom, reality tells us otherwise at this point in time. Controls and supervision need to be in place. GenAI's threshold for destructive purposes is too low. The proverbial monkey could generate "art" with it.   Now, I do agree that it would be possible for Adobe to put firewalls and paywalls up for those who want to use its genAI tools to create nude art. It is however a cost-benefit calculation, and it seems Adobe management decided against potential litigation and a large extra financial overhead to maintain these.   Anyway, the tools are out there to do what you @DdavidChung want to do. Redirect your attention elsewhere instead of butting heads with a corporate wall that will not and cannot budge (for good reasons). ... View more

Making counterfeit money is illegal.   Making nude art is not.   ... Using nudes to extort, bully, emotionally intimidate, abuse others is, however.   GenAI is very, VERY good at that.   So using money in art is legal. Making counterfeit money is illegal.   Making nude art is legal in some countries, and illegal in other countries. Using nude art to extort, etc. others is illegal.   See? Not so simple. Nothing is ever black-and-white. It depends on the context.   If I were Adobe I'd think twice before allowing full "creative freedom" and enabling ANYONE --without any artistic technical skills-- to generate photo-realistic offensive and illegal imagery within seconds anywhere in the world.   It's all about context. ... View more

Here ya go. Easy peasy. 😉     ... View more

JPEG/JFIF supports a maximum image size of 65,535×65,535 pixels. So not an option for the OP's file which has much larger dimensions. ... View more

Have you considered BMP yet? I can save a million pixel wide file in PhotoLine as a BMP.  BMP ought to work.   Scratch that, Photoshop doesn't support BMP for larger files. Sigh. I should've known. Tiresome.   I'd just switch to an alternative at this point, to be honest. Download the fully functional trial version of PhotoLine at pl32.com, import the psb, export as BMP.  Or even as a RAW image. Share with the others. Done.   If the tool is found wanting, find another tool.   (Unlike Photoshop, PhotoLine doesn't impose arbitrary limits on its image dimensions - it's memory limited. That said, saving a 1,000,000 by 500,000 monochrome image as a 62.5GB BMP file did take a while on my 128GB machine 😄   Another advantage of PhotoLine over Photoshop is that layers have their own individual dimensions, bitdepth and resolution. That allows for a much more efficient resource management compared to Photoshop. A small edit in a huge file only has to take place in that one particular spot.   Yes, it loads fits files too. ) ... View more

Wowsers! My feature request is approaching the 8 year mark!   Perhaps a screenshot of PhotoLine might serve as inspiration. Compare Photoshop's tiny Curves editor with PhotoLine's infinitely scalable Curves editor:     ...and why is it still not possible to work with LAB or HSV in the curve editor while in RGB image mode? Sigh...   ... View more

If we consider historic precedences at Adobe (Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Adobe XD, Muse, etc.) then at this point it is reasonable to assume that the Animate development team was probably disbanded a while ago. Or a pitiful shell of its former self remains.   I doubt that there is (much of) a product team left at this point in time. The way this communication debacle is going down matches Adobe management's historic behaviour. ... View more

Don't bother with the rigging and bone tools in Animate. Those are well-known for being half-baked, buggy, and almost worthless.   There is a way out, though. Flanimate's rigging and character animation plugin tools for Animate and Flash are a brilliant modern and actually working replacement! Save yourself the frustration. Get the tools here: https://flash-powertools.com/   ... View more

...not that simple. The same desktop software is used in schools, colleges, and universities. Both by adults and under age people.   And what about religious institutes? And government places? Or businesses whose management want to avoid their designers/employees from abusing genAI for unwanted imagery?   Adobe software used at home by professionals is often shared with their children.   It's never as simple as it seems. Human society and behaviour are very, very messy. There is no black-and-white answer within that context. Only "it depends" answers apply. ... View more

Step 1: Go To Edit > Free Transform To activate the Transform Tool, select a layer and then use the following menu path: Edit > Free Transform or press Control + T (Win) or Command + T (Mac). Note: To preserve the quality of the object when scaling first, convert it to a Smart Object by right-clicking on the layer and selecting Convert to Smart Object.   Step 2: Right-Click To Select The Transform Mode You can right-click (Win) or Control + click (Mac) to access the Transform Tool options. Or you can use any of the shortcuts detailed in the next section to access each mode. Select Perspective.     Step 3: Perspective The Perspective setting automatically moves the opposite handle in the opposite direction to add a one-point perspective to an item. This is an accurate way to change the perspective of an object.   Hold in Shift + Alt + Control (Win) or Shift + Option + Command (Mac) to temporarily activate the Perspective setting, then drag a corner handle, and the opposite handle will move in the opposite direction, creating a perspective distortion. Source: https://www.bwillcreative.com/free-transform-tool-in-photoshop/     ... View more

@griffin_3550  JoãoCésar already provided a good list of animation software with proper looking bitmap brushes for the type of work mentioned by you.   Additional contenders vying for such a job --with good raster paint brush engines-- would be OpenToonz (free, open source), Tahoma (simplified user interface variant of OpenToonz) and TVPaint.  ... View more

Hi Guys,  Can we create interactive email newsletter, emailer in indesign,   No. NOT POSSIBLE. However, you can create a visual design for your newletter and then have a developer convert the design. You cannot create a working version that actually 'works' in InDesign.   Also: email newletters do not support interactivity. Only if you link from an email to an external URL with a server-side application can that be achieved. Even static email newsletters based on a single image often fail to work effectively for recipients, because many email clients turn off images by default when they receive email from unknown senders. And the html that InDesign produces isn't suitable for email newsletters either. So it needs to be recoded.   In short: not worth the time or effort.     Please provide some best of best examples projects, so i can get inspired and learn.   By @Yogendran5FEA   Sorry, there are no example projects for interactive email newsletters made in InDesign, because that is impossible. But you could google general newsletter designs or mockups, both paper as well as email designs..   At any rate: designing a visual mockup for an email newsletter design is better done in Illustrator, Photoshop, or (preferred nowadays): Figma. ... View more

What I would love is the functionality of the Image > Mode > Indexed Color wherein my final result is separated in to individual channels that I can see in the channels window. If I could extract channels or even layers from the 'Indexed Color' process, that would allow me to separate any art file in to the spot colors that I need to run a screen print. It would also take little to no time/effort which can't be said for current separation processes. By @Ciminelli   Separating colours into (named) layers can be done automatically in Krita. Krita is free and open source: download it from krita.org.   Import your indexed coloured version and choose Layer-->Split--> Split Layer.     It will even automatically name the layers according to the colours. And it is possible to use your own palette, if need be - handy for your spot colour scheme. Save the result to PSD and load the result back in Photoshop (if required) to convert those to spot colours.   It may potentially save you a lot of time and headaches when prepping for screen printing.   By the way, Photoshop's conversion to indexed mode leaves something to be desired. There are better tools to generate an indexed colour reduced version at higher quality and with far more contol over the end result. I prefer Color Quantizer myself. https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Others/Color-quantizer.shtml Krita also has an interesting Palettise function that allows you to feed it a specific limited colour palette and an Indexed Colours function for additional control.     ... View more