CC 2019 Apps Rubbish

As for the other issues....absolutely the same. The latest update has been nothing short of a [inappropriate language removed by moderator] joke. I make no apologies for any language I use during the following rant: I've paid enough money over the last[inappropriate language removed by moderator] -knows-how-many years to Adobe for the software to have gotten progressively worse, that I'm allowing myself the entitlement to share by utter  [inappropriate language removed by moderator]  contempt.

InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop are all now ridiculously slow. The most mundane and basic of tasks takes longer that loading Cobra for the Spectrum ZX. Processing power, ram and storage on this machine are certainly not the issue. Its squarely in the greedy mits of Adobe. The countless hours I'm now losing waiting for basic functions, or having the program just quit....can't say I blame them really, I probably would if i worked for Adobe too.

These updates are nonsense. From what i can see they are only being churned out to merit being able to charge a subscription fee. The rest seems to be a case of breaking something that didn't need fixed and not fixing the  [inappropriate language removed by moderator]  that is broken. Adobe you do realise we pay for this hassle, we pay with money and time. The whole thing is becoming utter [inappropriate language removed by moderator].

But, I can install a previous version (this is probably the most said thing)...it then begs the question what was the  [inappropriate language removed by moderator]  in the update if I'm going to have to use a previous version. That by definition means the software isn't fit for purpose and as consumers we're all entitled by statutory law to get a refund... [inappropriate language removed by moderator] chance

lol, Adam Kenneth Campbell. Too funny! You scream and complain and rant about the "fan boys" yet you are still on here yourself, taking quite a bit of time to write a huge post, just to sneer and deride what? A piece of software? You really need to get out more bro!

I am going to chime in on this post, even though Adobe doesn't care about their users anymore.

The problem with modern software development doesn't lie with a lack of talent on the teams of people who build this stuff. It lies squarely on the terrible management of software teams.

The agile methodology used to create software runs on the premise that you can have "Good, Fast, and Cheap" — but you only get to pick 2.

Modern software development has COMPLETELY abandoned the "GOOD" in favor of "Fast and Cheap" these days. If you use products such as Sketch, InVision, Evernote, and others created by fresh startups — you will see this as the dominating factor across the board.

It used to be that the old vanguards of large companies took more pride, and had more resources available to make sure their shippable products were relatively bug free. You cannot fully eliminate bugs before release, as it takes SOME user testing in the real world for bugs to present themselves.

With cloud based computing, we are watching quality control completely collapse, not just from the small shops but large corporations as well. The rush to get software into the hands of users FAST, and filling it up with NEW FEATURES rules the day. Fixing BROKEN features will ONLY happen if enough customers complain. If you look on message boards for the previously mentioned InVision, Evernote, and Sketch — you will see their boards completely full of user complaints going back 11-15 years that these companies have no intention of fixing.

Now we are seeing the larger software companies completely throwing QA out the window. Large AAA video game releases are typically so riddled with bugs on release that the games are unplayable. Players need to wait days or weeks for patch fixes just to play the game they bought. It is now more acceptable to release a broken piece of garbage than to delay the release date.

Same thing with Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, etc. This 2019 release of Adobe products is HANDS DOWN the worst "upgrade" i've ever seen from this company. I've been using Adobe products going back to Illustrator 88 as well.

Yes, every single new release of Adobe software presents some bugs. Patch releases tend to smooth those out fairly quickly — but this 2019 release is a TOTAL  [inappropriate language removed by moderator]  SHOW. There are SO MANY BUGS in ALL of the software I've used since the update, AND most of the "new functionality" like completely breaking the Transform tools in Photoshop, the brush lag, and all of the other things I've had to reset back to the previous way things worked using various methods such as inserting an override prefs file, running terminal commands, etc just proves my point. They did not even provide a graceful way IN THE  [inappropriate language removed by moderator]  SOFTWARE ITSELF to turn off these problematic features.

GARBAGE GARBAGE GARBAGE

But don't worry, the Adobe fan boys who have nothing to do than spend their time for free posting on a message board — essentially doing Adobe's job FOR THEM, FOR FREE will jump on the thread to tell everyone how wrong they are.

Not many issues with any of the apps here either. A little with Photoshop that I spent about 20 minutes getting rectified, but that had a lot to do with updating photoshop and my OS and my Wacom drivers al at one time. few things still there like the think wheel when rulers are showing and things like that. Expect some fixes shortly for those, but no real complaints here.

I'm seriously considering downgrading our entire department back to CC 2018. All the 2019 apps have new bugs that didn't exist before. Working over a network is worse and slower than ever. Unnecessary changes made to features that worked fine before. Bugs in the user interface, such as inability to control window size in Illustrator, inability to see outline of layer in Photoshop's free transform distort, missing pieces of user interface in save-as dialog. And what's with the new sizing of all the panels and toolbar? Overall, the apps have a very junky, amateurish feel to them — like using something developed by Corel back in the late 1990s. The 2019 release is pure junk. Do the developers not test and do peer reviews before releasing major upgrades?

Using a one-year-old iMac Pro to do all the work — a very expensive and capable computer.

Dunno about anyone else, but I'm going back to CC 2018 until Adobe sorts this shambles out. Photoshop crashing all over the place. Everything so slow. Utter joke. Can I get my money back?

ADOBE - WHY DO YOU HATE US?

This makes me feel so much better, I was seriously thinking it was my new computer acting up...

As a full time graphic designer, Adobe needs to step it up and fix this and fix this quick!  I do not have time to wait for Illustrator to keep "thinking".  It has taken me 3 times longer to do the simplest tasks..

If anyone has come across a setting or anything to speed it up, please pass it along, just so we can all work faster, and wait for them to fix this bug.

Totally agree. I am on a PC and indesign hangs doing just about everything, and you don't even get a dialog box. Just sits there forever. Trying to convert some text to a table and it never got it done. I jumped back to my 2014 version that we have to have still because of stibo plugins, and it took it less than 2 seconds to do it. Spending my morning rolling back to earlier versions, then sending out a dept wide memo to NOT upgrade.  25+ year Adobe user who now no longer recommends Adobe.

This is one of the worst updates Adobe has done. Everything is slower, InDesign keeps spinning the rainbow wheel of death in EMPTY page documents before I even do anything. If Photoshop crashes for whatever reason it's screws up my Suitcase plugins and need to quit all Adobe software open to get it sort itself. Illustrator has been getting steady worse for years now and again, is sooooooo slooooooowwwwwww. I absolutely HATE working in Illustrator as it is so clunky. Why does After Effets open, show the content, then disappear and load then content in again?

And Adobe, bin that bloody stupid scaling option in Photoshop and slap the developer who thought it was a 'great' idea. Every other Adobe software scales in size holding down shift, why the heck do you want to NOT have that anymore in Photoshop is beyond me.