Your software is bad, and you should feel bad.
I'm going to start off with simple words, I feel this is a good thing to do in this century. Yesterday I was auto-updated to CC 2019. After the Adobe Creative Cloud process successfully updated itself, it demanded me to log in and decided to present me a multi-level Google captcha. (the one where you have to click through several iterations of traffic lights)
WHAT THE FU*DGE?
This was literally the first imptression I had of Creative Cloud 2019 - congratulations Adobe Development Team, you outdid yourself!
Now, I solve the annoying riddle to proove that I'm not a robot, making me feel I'm about to enter a shady anime streaming site rather than a design suite, I am first presented with a login screen, featuring a Google and a Facebook login. What the he*dge.
I don't know if the Adobe decisionmakers are deaf or dumb, but all current data fu*dgeups are cause by either Google or Facebook (Amazon, Apple, ...), I don't know why they would present me with the insult to open my image manipulation software with Mr. Page and Mr. Zuckerberg reading in on it. Please remove those APIs! These are probably not even GDPR conform! Just remove it, nobody asked for that!
I am paying about thirty bucks every month, there really should be no need for you to sell my data! This is one of those points that you should feel especially bad about. That is just bad practice.
Now I log myself in, and instead of the familiar choice of installed graphics applications, I see a fullscreen ad for Adobe Stock, a service that I don't use and I don't intend to use.
WHAT THE F*DGE?
Now I click the Apps Tab, just above the list of applications that I was expecing to see on launch is hovering a third-sized ad for Adobe XD (no joke! they really chose the combination XD to name one of the latest codeturds in their cloudparade!). I have no option to hide the ad of the product that I don't use and that I don't intend to use, so I choose to ignore the banner.
I finally am able to update to Photoshop CC 2019.
My long forgotten task was to simply remove some safety lights and sprinklers from an architectural photography. This usually is a task of 10 minutes, when the software does what it is supposed to do: mainpulate pixels. But it decides to make a horrible user experience instead. Let's open Photoshop and let the nightmare continue.
In earlier photoshop versions, you'd see a simple form here, that asks for the dimensions and the bitdepth of the image you intend to create, but instead, we see a "buffering" animation, a blue circle rotating, something is happening in the background. This is yet onotherone of those times where you feel like opening a shady streaming service, not a design suite app.
After that, we see thumbnails of previous projects. I open a TIF of about 60mB, about 4000 x 6000 pixels in dimensions, so nothing wild. Photoshop eats 2.5 gB ram at that moment.
I use the stamp tool together with an intuos graphics tablet to remove the sprinklers and sefety lights from the photo, but every stroke feels extremely sluggish. When I hold the alt key, to change my source, the cursor updates with a latency of about one whole second. That is just unbearable. The performance dropped so hard with this update!
Get your shit together, don't forget the professionals! We don't care about posting every step of our work to social media, we want high performance, fast to use and user centric software!
We want safe and unverbose sofware, that values our privacy!
We want software, that doesn't talk to the internet when starting up.
We want meaningful updates.
Every update (and there are many) doesn't seem to change much, but it eventually breaks a lot! I lost so much work to unnecessary updates and backwards incompability, you sould feel bad for the choice to go with faster releases than with quality releases!
Please don't get worse, I still need Photoshop.
I successfully layed off AfterEffects in favor of Nuke, I replaced Media Encoder with ffempeg, I will be using Debian over Windows soon and for all my threedimensional stuff I alsways have been using blender und will continue to do so. Photoshop is one of the key softwares that keeps me paying what you ask every month, but as soon as I see a viable alternative for that too, I'm gone! (Gimp is sadly not there yet, but Krita looks promising). Please recommend software in the comments!
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