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

Petitions never influenced any of Adobe's decisions. Freehand, AdobeXD, Adobe CC subscriptions, ... No effect whatsoever.   Well, not entirely true that last statement: with Freehand the community's "leaders" did get a live meeting, but in the end it was a big "Sorry, but no sorry".   Save your breath. Adobe management does as Adobe management wants. ... View more

Zipping multiple PSB files adds an additional point of potential file loss.   See it this way: suppose you saved your files to an external backup drive. You saved a bunch of PSB files in one folder to that drive and a zipped version of that folder with PSBs.   Now suppose that the backup drive's file system is corrupted for some reason (for example, due to a power outage or a system crash while saving another file to that drive).   Your attempt to fix the file system is only partially successful: the folder with the PSB files and the zipped folder with PSBs are affected.  So what are the chances of rescuing our data compared for each?   First you check the folder with PSB files. It seems that out of all the PSB files (let's say 5) 2 files are corrupted. Because each file was saved separately, 3 files are fine. Then you use various PSD/PSB repair tools as well as opening the PSB in Photoshop or other image editors. One of the PSBs you can repair, and the other file at least could be partially opened in another editor, and you saved a few layers.   Now, your chance to repair and rescue all or part(s) of the PSB files in the ZIP archive is (much) smaller, because: (a) all PSB files are part of that ZIP file. (b) there is almost no redundancy built into a zip file (unlike proper backup tools that compress the files). That means you need to somehow rescue all data for each PSB that is zipped. (b) it depends wholly on which part of the datastream in the ZIP file is damaged. For example, if the compressed data stream is corrupted somewhere at the beginning of the ZIP file, chances are you will not be able to recover any of those files without dedicated zip recovery tools. Or if the data errors/CRC errors persist for different files throughout the corrupted ZIP file: that going to be a tough nut to fix, if it is possible at all. Or if the headers are corrupted, we would need to manually fix those headers. If the ZIP's "dictionary" is kaputt, and there is no second copy saved or that second copy is also toast: no way to save any of the files (what I understand).   Anyway, from personal experience: at some point I thought it was a good idea to save work files in a ZIP file as an archive on a USB drive. That archive got corrupted. I failed in repairing and retrieving any of the files, despite my best efforts. All was lost.   Had I saved those files individually in a folder on that drive, I would probably have been able to repair and rescue the majority of my files. Had I used a proper backup utility to create a compressed backup of all my files: I would probably have been able to repair and rescue most of my files, if not all, as well even with a corrupted and repaired file system.   If you want to compress your files for archival purposes, my advice is simply: - NEVER use a regular compressing method (zip, 7zip, etc) to do so. You merely add additional potential points for corruption and file loss. - DO archive your files using a proper backup utility. Those tools add various levels of redundancy, and will be able to retrieve and repair most if not all your compressed files even if they are subjected to certain levels of corruption.   In short: ZIP is not a valid compressed archival format. It is too fragile for that. ... View more

Well, yes - one can wait until the end of time for Adobe to improve the animation timeline in Photoshop and fruitlessy bash one's head in frustration against Adobe's unwillingness, praying and hoping, to add all the features that you want/wish/require.   Based on past (and personal) experience with Adobe, however, I prefer to take the reigns when choosing tools that will solve my needs and problems NOW instead of waiting for something that is most probably not going to change in the foreseeable future (if ever).   I mean: if Adobe's management can't even manage to develop and maintain Adobe Animate (formerly known as Flash), then I assume they just aren't interested in improving Photoshop's animation tools either. And history tells us that Adobe's management never understood the needs of traditional 2d animators. Adobe pulled out of the 2d animation market a long time ago.   And if that is the case, since we are part of a relatively small segment of Photoshop users --who are interested in animation-- that Adobe management is willing to ignore. There is no money in it for them or the shareholders. Because 2D animation is dead, right?   Instead ridiculous genAI tools are added to all of Adobe's products now. Animate anything with AI! Who needs manual animation tools!   Righto... Message received.   Thus, I vote with my wallet: switch to other animation software that does do what one needs as a 2d animator. Photoshop was never meant to be a frame-by-frame animation drawing software. If that is your goal, then it is a better idea (in my opinion) to add a new tool to your existing set of tools that fits your needs.  Even free open source tools manage to do a (far) better job than Photoshop in this regard (frame-by-frame) animation.   Life is too short for such humbug from Adobe. Take control over your own workflow and pipeline instead of relying on a company such as Adobe to magically solve these for you. Because you'll be waiting a LOOONG time indeed. Adobe management doesn't care. Neither should we care for Adobe and expect them to improve the animation tools in Photoshop. They won't.   (Sorry to be such a downer... Just being a realist after 3 decades of dealing with Adobe) ... View more

All signs point toward Animate's been discontinued, unfortunately. It will not receive improved advanced rigging tools.   If you need solid rigging tools, either install Flanimate's rigging plugins for Animate, or switch to Moho Pro, CelAction, or Toonboom. Or even consider switching to a 3D app such as Blender or Maya (which have great rigging tools that also work for 2d work). ... View more

@HUnknown1Even IF Adobe would continue to develop Animate, implementing those features you mention would take years based on the last few years' development "speed".   And instead of adding a lot of AI stuff (which most artists detest and it would drive them away from Animate) it would be critical to first fix all the broken half-baked stuff first.   No: it is obvious by now that Animate is done and over with. ... View more

The point of discussing Animate's buggy animation features is probably moot: it seems slated for discontinued development anyway. ... View more

In a most ironic sense you might be too late: all signs point to Adobe discontinuing Animate --or at the very least put its development on life support for minor bug fixing only.   The future of Animate is uncertain, and Adobe is running in silent mode about Animate. ... View more

Animate is prone to corrupt files under circumstances.   Obviously you saved versions of your animation under different names, right? Because that's something we should always do.   If not, your only recourse might be to try to recover some of the file contents via the WinRar method:   ---- 1.Change the damaged file extension from .fla to .rar. 2.Open the damaged file using your WinRAR. 3.Winrar will display an error that you are about to open a damaged file, ignore this warning. 4.Select Tools>Repair Archive. This will make sure that the archive and FLA is repaired. 5.Change the file extension back to .fla ---   On Mac you might find a recovery file in your library folder (if I recall correctly). In any case search for the file name on your entire machine: you might get lucky.   From another related thread: ---- if you had auto-recovery enabled there's a small chance there's a non-corrupt recovery file.   for win users, open C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Adobe\<animate version>\en_US\Configuration\AutoRecoverFilenames.txt and see if there was a saved file and, if so, check the folder location listed   for mac users, check the folder (for a file with name recover_) where the fla was saved. if the fla wasn't saved, i think you're out of luck, but you can still search your computer for "recover_" ---- Otherwise, unless you saved incremental versions (which you should) you may be out of luck.   @kglad  wrote a nice script to save incremental versions. https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate-discussions/potentially-corrupted-fla-file/m-p/14256103   ... View more

I checked the date on the header image for that article: 23 October. With the lead time on such a project, I'd imagine the design brief was given a longer time ago, and since marketing and development streams work independently,  I'd wager a bet that that article means absolutely nothing in regard to Animate's continued development chances.   With Adobe's management's history and past behaviour/events with sidelining and shelving their previous products in mind, though? Very telling, and matches the current events and communication blackout surrounding Animate.   Animate is on the chopping block. It's over. ... View more

A corporate entity such as Adobe isn't beholden to you or anyone else. It's not a democracy. Simple as that. Take it or leave it.   If you want to take genAI prompts further than the censored ones provided by Adobe, your recourse is to (for example) download open source tools like Krita and its genAI plugin. Free, and completely uncensored. Download additional AI models from Civitai and other sources.   Of course, those AI models all rely on stolen imagery from countless artists just like you.   Your responsibility, your choice. ... View more

A free, open source, and uncensored genAI alternative would be Krita with its free genAI extension.   https://krita.org/en/ https://kritaaidiffusion.com/ ... View more

@n. tilcheff If events follow history, Animate's active development is already, or will be, halted, with perhaps a few years of remaining basic support given to Animate users. At some point then Flash CS6 will no longer be a viable option due to OS/hardware changes. Even though it is the arguably best version of Flash it isn't legally available for sale nor does it receive any support outside of your Flanimate tools.   With Animate's future uncertain (and probably at the end of its lifeline), Flash/Animate as a viable tool will become untenable/unmaintainable.   I myself currently use a combination of Clip Studio, Moho, OpenToonz/Tahoma2d, and Blender for various animation jobs. Clip Studio might go rental-only in the near future.   The way I see it: a strong open source and community driven alternative is a good answer to animation software going rental or disappearing/be acquired by larger business entities.   OpenToonz/Tahoma2d is already in its core far more advanced than Flash/Animate CC. It's more on par with ToonBoom Animate Advanced and production proven for classic frame-by-frame animation workflows. What is missing in its current state, however, are modern 2d puppet rigging and animation tools: the ones that do exist in OpenToonz/Tahoma2D are rather basic compared to Moho Pro or your Flanimate tools.   I think we already had this discussion years ago, but I would love to see your tools implemented in OpenToonz/Tahoma2D. Would you consider becoming contributers to OpenToonz as developers and slowly transitioning your Flanimate EDAP tools to that open source animation platform? Because the way I see it is that Flash/Animate is now most probably a dead-end that will at some point in the upcoming few years no longer be available to animators, and those animators --including yourself-- will have to migrate to other software anyway. Or at the very least release your tools for other animation software, because Flash/Animate will no longer be an available or supported animation software.   And it would be a crying shame to see your work and EDAP tools/workflow concepts lost to the next generation of animators. ... View more

Unfortunately this behaviour is exactly as expected based on past behaviour. Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Adobe XD, Muse, ... All started with a deafening silence. And then after a (long) pause in communication a message that active development had been stopped, and the software would be in 'support' only mode.   Next will be a call from users begging Adobe to open source Animate and/or sell it to another party.   Which will be ignored by Adobe. More silence.     ... View more

Adobe Animate ist für Animationen gedacht, nicht für die Videobearbeitung oder Diashows. Es ist tatsächlich ziemlich schwierig, einen sanften Übergang zu erstellen, da es in Animate keine Standardübergänge gibt. Das ist ein manueller Animationsprozess. Um Videos mit einer Diashow von Bildern zu erstellen, die fließend übergehen, kann fast jede Videobearbeitungssoftware verwendet werden. Und es ist nicht einmal notwendig, für diese Art von einfacher Videobearbeitungssoftware zu bezahlen. Es gibt gute bis hervorragende kostenlose Optionen.   PS: Kaufen Sie NIEMALS Adobe-Software bei eBay. Dort werden zu viele raubkopierte Versionen verkauft. ... View more

As an online web-based Photoshop alternative, open your PSD or image files in Photopea instead.  It supports changing the image mode between RGB and CMYK, as well as 8bit, 16bit, and 32bit image modes. ... View more

Have you tried the simplified version of OpenToonz called Tahoma? May be easier for you to work with. https://tahoma2d.org/index.html   Krita is also pretty simple to animate frame-by-frame with. And free. https://krita.org/en/ ... View more

Increasing the resolution from 2048px to 4000px will increase the required CPU/GPU time, RAM, and storage server resources by roughly 4 times. That also means 4 times the costs to run their servers.   A solution for Adobe would be to ask for extra credits depending on the resolution to offset the extra costs. ... View more

@Oh.N8That would only work if the smart object is scaled down, not up. Converting an image layer to a smart object allows for non-destructive scaling, i.e. the original resolution doesn't change, but it also means that a low resolution image embedded in a smart object isn't magically scaled up with extra details or sharpness. It just gets fuzzier, just like scaling up that image destructively with the transform option.   Of course, it is possible to use AI/smart upscale software (both free and commercial options are out there).   All this said: Firefly is rather limited in its resolution and proportion choice. Free and open source genAI image generators allow for any resolution (limited to the hardware's capabilities, of course). ... View more

The only viable SFW alternative that I know of that supports modern web image formats is Squoosh:   https://squoosh.app   WebP, WebP2, AVIF, QOI (!) export aside from the expected JPG, PNG, and JPG XL export formats precise final optimized file size reporting resize option with the excellent Catmull-Rom reduction resampling algorith and one for pixel art. With an option to premultiply the alpha channel. And works with the preview! complete control over WebP, AVIF, and other file format settings if required. much improved preview to compare with the original using a slider   There is no Photoshop plugin. Create a selection in Photoshop, copy merged, and paste the image in Squoosh. Or drag and drop a full quality PNG. Ensure Squoosh is running in a Chrome compatible browser otherwise transparency will not be preserved (Firefox has issues with this).   Squoosh is a web app and runs online. It is open source, a free download and also runs locally in a webserver installed on one's system for those who prefer to run it on their local machine.   Instructions to install the app and download its source here: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh     ... View more

...so it is fine to harm other people that happen to be celebrities or happen to have their faces publically known?   Wow. Just wow.   And as others have stated here: real harm is done with genAI abused for sextortion and fooling people out of their hard-earned money. Lives are wrecked as I write this, and people have taken their own lives.   So spare me the hollow excuses. Adobe is proctecting itself and its users here.   If you want uncensored genAI imagery, install one of the many open source and free AI generators, and invest in a good graphics card. Have all the freedom you want by actually taking responsibility yourself rather than asking others for taking the hit for you. ... View more

L'IA générative est stupide et n'est pas consciente - l'algorithme de diffusion stable ne comprend pas les « textures sans couture ». Les méthodes classiques de création de cartes de texture sans couture sont nombreuses sur YouTube. Pour Photoshop également. Une alternative rapide consiste à utiliser Materialize et sa fonction intégrée de tuilage sans couture. Elle fonctionne très bien pour les textures génériques. Deux techniques sont disponibles : le chevauchement ou le « splat » :     Ici, j'ai traité une texture diffuse que j'ai générée avec generative ai et je l'ai mise en carreaux. Ensuite, j'ai demandé à Materialize de calculer toutes les autres cartes de texture. Rapide, efficace, et de bons résultats en général. Télécharger gratuitement : https://www.boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize/index.php ... View more

To amend @Tammy_Moore 's answer: aside from Captivate and Animate, other options for highly interactive learning content are visual game engines such as: Gdevelop https://gdevelop.io/ A free open source and feature rich visual game authoring environment that exports projects directly to the web or an executable for Windows, Mac, Linux and mobile platforms. Very easy to learn. Compared to Adobe Animate it lacks the animation timeline, but it is easy to import animations from other apps and the easy to learn visual programming makes it a doddle to generate highly interactive content and games at a rapid rate. It's also free and runs on the web - also interesting for kids to create their own content, btw. It is free for download and use, although the number of mobile app export is limited per day unless the user pays for additional ones, I believe. Other than that: completely free! No subs, no licensing, just download, install, and start creating. Or use the online version. Exports to html5 projects for inclusion in learning environments. Godot https://godotengine.org/ Again an open source and free option. This does sport an animation timeline, and also supports 3D projects aside from 2d ones. This one is more complex to learn, but does have an extension that allows for Scratch-like visual programming, which simplifies the coding process dramatically.  Has a built-in GUI system as well. No limitations and it is completely free. Exports to a webassembly based web project for inclusion in learning environments. Construct 3 https://www.construct.net/en Similar to Gdevelop, Construct is a commercial alternative. It also comes with an animation timeline. Very easy to learn and use to create complex interactive learner projects. Exports to html5 and most other platforms. Subscription only, however, and lacks a desktop version (browser-based only).   Other game engines exist, of course, but these are very popular and have been used for interactive learning content. A mountain of YouTube tutorials are available online for these.   Here is an example of Gdevelop that is used for large touch-screen educational games at the Baltic Sea Science Center at the Skansen museum in Sweden: https://gdevelop.io/blog/making-interactive-experiences-museums-gdevelop   Quite amazing for a completely free and open source product! 🙂 ... View more

This is exactly why I don't bother with Photoshop's PNG export. And the fact that 8bit PNG files cannot be saved with full transparency is just ridiculous.   I use Color Quantizer to open the PSD file (drag it into CQ) and export a correct PNG file. It offers advanced PNG export and editing options that cannot be found in any other visual PNG export software, including full control over how alpha is treated and exported. It is by far the best PNG export and optimization tool out there.     https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Others/Color-quantizer.shtml   The official website only runs via http, so a browser will warn against visiting it. But it is safe otherwise. http://x128.ho.ua/color-quantizer.html ... View more

Other options are: ModLab https://store.steampowered.com/app/768970/ModLab/ AwesomeBump https://github.com/kmkolasinski/AwesomeBump CrazyBump   I wouldn't want to use CrazyBump anymore: it's a rather old and no longer updated tool. The site is not secured either, so I did not link to it.   ModLab works fine and is free. But just as fast (or slow) as Materialize. The gui is much less intuitive in my opinion.   AwesomeBump seems much faster loading texture maps compared to either Materialize or ModLab, but crashes a lot on my machine and the opengl view self-destructs often. The interface is (sorry!) atrocious.   I work with 8K maps in Materialize, and on my system (3900x, 128GB, 3080ti) it can take around 25 seconds to open the initial 8K diffuse map. Opening a height map takes around 10 seconds for me.   But following that creating a height map (if I only have a diffuse map) takes a few seconds, and the normal map, AO map, and other maps take a second to complete.   Then I save the maps which takes a few seconds for each map. It's actually quite fast, and allows me to finish a texture based on 1 diffuse map within 2 minutes. Same with quick tiled setups. I do keep a texture set in its own folder, however, because Materialize's open and save dialogs take a long time to generate thumbnails.   From your comments I feel that you are having more difficulties with the actual workflow in Materialize rather than the speed itself? Did you watch the tutorials? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMrWNe2EWAk   The only other tool that I feel is equivalent is ModLab. I don't like that GUI personally, but it may jive better for you. ... View more