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Adobe Creative Cloud Business Model - Total Disregard for Loyal Users and Destructive Impact on theOpen for Voting

As a professional graphic designer since 1998 — over 25 years using your tools — I am writing to you with profound indignation and disappointment at the direction the company has taken with the Adobe Creative Cloud business model.For more than two decades, I have been a faithful user of your products. I have invested not only money, but time, knowledge, and constant feedback that contributed to the evolution and improvement of the tools that made Adobe the technological giant it is today. I actively participated in the creative community that tested, suggested improvements, promoted, and defended your products among colleagues and students.This historical loyalty is now being completely disrespected.The current mandatory subscription model — which forces me to pay for an expensive complete package to access only 2 or 3 applications I actually use — is an affront to all professionals who built the solid foundation of your company. It is unacceptable that, after decades of investment and loyalty, I am forced to pay for dozens of programs I will never use, just to remain competitive in the market.Adobe is actively contributing to the exclusion of senior designers and freelancers from the job market.As a freelancer, I am forced to individually bear costs that reach €1000 annually, just to access the basic tools of my work. This is unsustainable and discriminatory. You are creating a financial barrier that prevents experienced designers — who don't have company backing to pay for these subscriptions — from staying active and competitive.I demand that Adobe:Create customizable packages that allow choosing only the necessary applications, with proportional pricingImplement significant discounts for long-time users and freelancersReintroduce perpetual license options or lower-cost packages for independent professionalsRecognize and compensate the historical contribution of loyal users who helped build the Adobe empireYour current strategy is purely capitalist and predatory. You are transforming essential design tools into luxury items, forcing qualified professionals to abandon the market or seek alternatives.As a member of the creative community who has always defended and promoted your products, I feel betrayed and discarded. If you continue on this path, you have not only lost a loyal customer of 27 years, but also an advocate who will now actively recommend the available alternatives.Adobe has the opportunity to correct this injustice. I hope you demonstrate the same respect for the creative community that it has always shown for you.

gregarmoured
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P: Face recognition - allow user to specify criteria (eg capture time) to exclude names from suggested matchesOpen for Voting

Feature: allow users to provide criteria for name-space search (face-name matches) that exclude (prefer) according to user-specified criteria. Most important criteria for matching is capture time, but other criteria (keyword / keyword groups, for example) could be used. Fuzzy logic implementation would also be possible (e.g. heavily weight likely results by year of capture, presence in collections/collection sets, etc)This will GREATLY reduce the number of false-positive matches.Example using capture time:-User has large catalog containing many photographs, including images going many years.-Selects a group of photos (by collection set, folder years, search criteria, etc) that all have capture times of 2025.-In suggested matches, Lightroom currently displays potential matches for names that are only in images prior to 2005 (real world example). -Provide an option for user to specify capture-time periods (eg 2020-present), and the number of false matches drops dramatically. -All of this data already exists in the Lightroom catalog internal database, and implementation could be done in background (i.e. present possible matches but remove those suggestions that do not fit criteria as they are identified, in same way that the people panel view moves/removes potential matches as analysis proceeds.-For some criteria, fuzzy logic (non-exact matching) would also improve results (eg allow names from slightly outside the specified criteria, as long as 'proximate' in time or in other collections within a collection set (tree hierarchy could be used to weight likelihood/exclusion).-Similarly, the same approach could be used for other criteria, such as keywords (eg 'family', 'hockey', 'work', 'college' whatever), presence in collection sets, or other.Note, while I am suggesting a user-controlled mechanism to define criteria, nothing presents using this approach to 'weight' results in the people view suggestions (Lightroom may already be doing this to some degree but weighting criteria does not seem to play much of a role, despite it being an ‘AI’ feature, it is clearly not making much use of eg capture time).