CC 2019 Apps Rubbish

I'm glad other users are experiencing the same issues as I am (sorry, but just glad I'm not alone). This is horrendous ADOBE need to sort this out!!

Photoshop transform tool is an utter mess, full of bugs, having to re-place linked images twice over to to get them to render correctly. The tool has been 'updated' or easier to say changed for no reason whatsoever and just doesn't function in a conventional manner as it did before.

Don't even get me started on colour profiles. Utter nightmare!!!! MY work looks like I design it on acid.

I've lost days of billing hours trying to fix problems I didn't have before the update, or just been slowed down by bugs and weird changes. Been apologising to clients for delays and unexplainable errors making it look like I'm using Adobe as an excuse for a whole shed load of problems! These aren't even updates that 'you'll get used  to eventually.' They're a mess.

I can't believe for one second anyone involved in these updates uses creative suite on a daily basis as their main tool of business. Shambles is the most polite word that comes to mind.

I've been using Adobe applications for over 25 years and wish i had an alternative because I would show my utter contempt by going elsewhere.

Another rant over. Back to trying to catch up and making excuses.

Any response Adobe??

I agree that this update is probably one of the worst I have ever come across from Adobe and I have been using Adobe products since Illustrator 88!!!

I upgraded on one machine to test and instantly came across problems.  I have three more to upgrade and will not be doing that till Adobe sorts the bugs out.  Auto collapsing menus creating multiple clicking to use options that would have one take one click in the past, slow opening files, low RAM warnings (caused by both Photoshop and Illustrator not clearing RAM when files where closed), preferences not actually working (can't get rid of the home screen in most apps), menu items being moved and having to spend ages finding them all again.  And Adobe, we professionals, who have been using the software for many, many years, don't care about a CLEAN interface, we need the options and tools for efficiency.  Stop moving stuff around and switch off the tour popups and notifications by default.  If we want to find out about new features we will go looking for them. 

Sorry rant over!!!!!!!!!!

I'm having the same issues with Indesign and Photoshop 2019. Hangs up or just outright crashes continuously. I have a pretty stout machine.

I have had to go back to the previous version, which was very stable... no issues at all. I really hope Adobe fixes this quickly. It is rapidly becoming a pain when sharing files with users that are able to use the newest version.

Yep, same for me.

At first I was blaming my MacBook Pro for being a tad old (although CC 2018 was working smoothly). However now I'm seeing that people are complaining about CC 2019 on more recent machines, so I thought I would share.

The worst for me is InDesign. Keeps quitting on me for no reason and became slower. One of the reasons I'm using InDesign for layout it's for it snappiness while dealing with massive amount of files at the same time (especially when designing magazines). Well that snappiness is gone. It's still working but it feels clumsier. Also InDesign doesn't seem to open recent files that are located on a server. It shows it on the list of recently opened file but then can't find it even if I'm connected to the server.

Premiere had some major issues in the beginning. It was quitting every 10-15min or so. Then I read that I had to install new softwares to optimize my graphic card or something. Now it works well.

Photoshop is still working fine. The Content Aware is really amazing. Big up on that!

Illustrator is is taking a lot more time to save a file which has always been the case, especially for large files, but now it's even for small ridiculous files. Oh and it's even slow to open documents, large or small. One last thing I noticed is that when I update a link on Photoshop and update it right away on Illustrator (which I do maybe 100-200 times a day) now it loses the link like 1 our 3 times, which is a huge loss of time

It would be nice to know if this is something Adobe is working on and would be fixed in a later update? or if they think their software is perfect and we are left all alone here with our faulty apps?

Wait is this real? And it clears my 2018 apps.

I have urgent colour sensitive job to finish today, and my colour profiles keeps reseting.

hey, I have the same issues - nice to meet you! :-)

I bought my macbook pro last year in November. biggest and fastest one. but the big machine doesn’t help at all: after upgrading to CC2019, it runs hot every time I launch an Adobe app and the cpu is on overload.

I use the same apps as you. Indesign is super slow! I mean: click. wait. mark text. wait. scroll. wait. change colour. wait. open a second document... waaaaaiiiiit. so I make lunch. eat. wait a little longer... I am getting furious.

I cannot work in “fine preview“ mode and have to turn it down to low resolution, which I the worst when you create designs. wtf?! today I had to wait at least three times for about five minutes until I was allowed to work on because Indesign randomly hangs itself („indesign does not respond“).

It is definitely a software problem. everything was fine until I clicked on „update“. I hope they will fix this asap because working like this is pain in the... you know...

but at least I can help you with the colour profiles which turned me nuts, as well:

go to photoshop and adjust your preferred colour profile settings there. save them as e.g. „your name“.

go to bridge and load the colour profile there. be sure that „your name“ is activated (the colour ring icon must be closed).

open indesign again an check the profile. it should be correct now - using the „global“ setting.

this worked for me. and if you still get popup messages when opening old documents, make sure to adjust the profile setting mentioned above correctly or click „don‘t show massage again“.

good luck to both of us! :-)

(I cannot tell how much I hate spending 49 eur each month for this! It‘s like working with my hands tied on my back.)