Are you a musician?

floramc · ‎Dec 07, 2015

Hello creatives! it's been a while I had a chance to play music but lately I have been blessed by the luck of meeting soulmates who both are artists AND musicians and so I wonder, just for the sake of a good creative conversation, how many of you can play one or more instruments and what does that give to your creative life? I have been playing piano, sax, bassoon and I've been a singer for many years. Gave up 14 years ago and went shyly back to just piano hopefully to stay - I like playing soundtracks mainly. A damage to my vocal chords makes it hard to sing but I still try now and then, but it is I admit very awful at times What music has given me that made my skills in Photoshop grow is the mindset of creating things a bit at a time, going back and refining small parts while you connect them to the rest of the score. The fact that building the piece whether I write (yes I can write music too, I had some composition at the conservatory of music, while at - I have written some children songs just for fun a couple of years ago) or I play does not go from A to Z but that I have to jump back and forth and that a complete piece is made of repetition, construction, execution and interpretation are a school for life, almost. To get to the top of the iceberg you have to go all steps. How about you?

floramc · ‎Nov 15, 2015

I have to say that I understand your point. For a long time I felt the same way too. The classical and traditional thinking: where is my design premium? Why do you want me to pay for programs that I never use? There is a very incisive factor to consider nowadays and that I experimented on my own skin. That is, being a professional and working with digital tools today is not the same thing as it was. There was a day I was tremendously content with Dw, today I need so much more than that if I say yes to a commission in web design. This week I brought one of my assistants to get a new camera. I asked our best expert to teach him which camera to buy. And this expert was all the time telling him that being a photographer today and being professional means above all being able to answer 'yes' to a client and deliver a professional result above the standards. Which means, get a camera that gives outstanding videos. On the other side I, the boss, who were a photographer, sit often editing videos in Pr for my colleagues who took the photography plan to discover that photography covers video too. I gain that sum of money they would on their own services if they had the open-mindedness to invest on a CC subscription. that said, guessing you work with web design, I would suggest you to not ignore the edge family. Working with whatever form of creative design today means a flexibility that does not belong to the former shaped reality where everybody had a steady defined role. To nob the content of CC and say 'I would just not use it' is closing your own doors. I spent my first 10 months with CC on my own tools until I realized Adobe had a better one to do the job and so I learned it. The comparison with a cable tv seems to me quite out of place. You do not subscribe a creative to CC the same way you get a Netflix or an HBO subscription. While incredibly entertaining, CC is working material and is there to complete the amount of services that you can offer as a professional. To ignore the possibility is your choice. To investigate the tools that are given, on the other hand, gives you the choice to answer 'yes' to a client who asks eg 'while at, can we put some animations on this banner?', deliver a professional result and put that 35 to 40% more on your bill just because you answered 'sure we can' and could to a business development issue. This for me has become being a professional today and in years as a pro with CC I promise I went from using 4 to using 9 of the tools. I wish you the same professional growth, to get there, start exploring those tools "you will never use". ‌

floramc · ‎Nov 13, 2015

Gracias, estoy muy contenta de que te gusta esa foto. Gracias tambien por la adición

floramc · ‎Nov 02, 2015

Hi creatives! I was rolling around Behance, that is almost my new pinterest, and found out this incredibly gorgeous and generous project that I want to share https://www.behance.net/gallery/30884153/Comic-Effect-Kit-(Photoshop-Add-ons) Also: if you find more, use this thread to share! I had no idea artists where doing this on Behance but I love it.

floramc · ‎Nov 01, 2015

Hear the saddest part about my life: I was never to a halloween party

floramc · ‎Nov 01, 2015

Muy bonito! Mi perfil es Behance

floramc · ‎Oct 24, 2015

Although not as experienced as Brad, I like the variety in our forum, which I visit twice a week. At times I just sit and read answers to others' questions and enjoy the high level of competences and communication skills on the forum. I do not always visit to answer, but also to learn from others.. I think the dynamic here is a one of a kind. It is cool that the forum is growing into a space for more than just the tools. There is a lot of fun around them and I am sure it is great to give the choice to all of us to come here and increase the interaction. A good way to improve is to keep on presenting us to the new 30% together with the 70% who has grown with us. This forum is a good place to visit, I confirm what Brad says: not so much trolls and when some legitimate frustration may occur it is very committing to see the enthusiasm and will to help from all sides: mvps acps experienced users and staff. I think it is quite unique, on internet

floramc · ‎Oct 10, 2015

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floramc · ‎Oct 02, 2015

Wow, thanks everybody! You are surely giving me a lot to read and think about Trevor, I joined the group and as to AE, I am learning, very humbly very on my own as the crew who took me as their trainee is now in Brazil and I could not follow them. All I did for them was inside PrPro, I never did anything that advanced to connect AE and PrPRo. It's on the plans but when... eh, when I am ready for it I do really appreciate the time you took to answer me, and thank you immensely for the links. RameezKhan: no I had no idea about that page, thanks for giving me a good reference! I surely love video editing, it -is- a happy editing, thanks so kindly for giving me some info to get me up and running! Dave: Super Dave! What can a person do without you!? So adorable to invest time telling so many useful things. You're precious!

floramc · ‎Sep 20, 2015

You are surely going to see me, Scott: did you hear the great news? I am to be there on behalf of Adobe such an incredible honour! It's all on my blog but I am not sure I can link it here.

floramc · ‎Sep 20, 2015

Wow, some real great work here! Do you have a profile on behance too?

floramc · ‎Sep 16, 2015

Hi folks, I hope any of you is interested in starting a conversation about this. Since a couple of years, maybe a bit less, I am devoting part of my time to learn the video tools and my first step was to befriend PremierePro. I went attending some classes in film editing but they were not using Premiere so I dropped the classes and now I am teaching myself with lynda and so forth. Although, the hardest part of this I had to experience when I asked a group of video photographers and director enthusiasts to practice with them. They were searching for Final Cut users, which was the program used in the classes I dropped - that's how we found each other. I just threw a question if they would move to premiere and they did with no big issues, as I had the tool on CC. Now what I experienced there was the hardest part, was not in the cutting and rendering and editing, which is extremely intuitive (for me at least) in premiere and does look like a funny video game. It is the part about the video cameras. Resolution, quality, sizes - everything that comes before the editing. Gave me nightmares. Now I train and grateful for that, using raw footage from colleagues - which means they all give me clips taken with the same camera at different times. Hard times are not to be seen as you just put together material that comes from the same tool with the same resolution and so forth. But what if part is done with an iPhone, part is done with a video camera part is done with the heck knows what? Tip anyone? And please, feel free to address me to books, videos, tutes or whatever might help me understand this foggy part of video-editing. Thanks in advance!

floramc · ‎Sep 16, 2015

I hear you Ko - I am very curious about Pencil+iPadPro, been for a while now. I use both wacom creative stylus on my iPad, as I could not put my hands on Ink&slide nor I have a longed Adonit. There are some issues that for me who's not as skilled as you are make the whole experience quite frustrating. Both styluses behave a bit differently - as to their design one the first one had a gummy soft ball to reproduce the finger touch. The Stylus 2 has a harder point. Now I like to work with both and I struggle happily with both. One thing I noticed is that you have to keep your stylus quite straight. If you bow it on a side (which is a challenge for me because when I use a real pencil it's never 90° on the paper, always a bit curved) then the line is some millimeters off. I don't know if you get what I mean. Consider you draw a line, and then you want to continue the same line after you have lifted up the stylus from the iPad for whatever reason. Well, if your pen is slightly curved on the screen, although you put your pen on the ending point of your line, the new one will continue some millimeter away from it. Is this clean in any possible way? It might as well be me, not the pen, though. So it needs precision, I would say, which is not my strong side and that depends plainly on experience, me thinks. They are good stylus, for those of you who are at Max, I will bring both with me, so pass by and feel free to ask to test them if you are curious. I find them a bit dull on the pressure side. Touch sensitive. But I would say: touch not incredibly sensitive. It would be interesting to hear about your experiences, so if by chance any of you has the hands on a Wacom stylus, Flo is curious

floramc · ‎Aug 24, 2015

‌¡Hola! Lo sinto, mira he encontrado esa resolución pero es en inglés, a ver si finciona, trato de traducir pero no conozco premiere en español busca y localiza en la papelera de proyecto (project bin), haz clic con il botón derecho del ratón y elige Sequence Settings (¿configuración de secuencias?) abaco de la ventana hay una Codec Previewing (¿vista previa codec?), elige un Codec meno exigente como Frame y establece una resolucion más baja, como ejemplo una resolución de 1080p No sé si te voy a dar un buen consejo. También puede leer cómo cambiar las preferencias, lo siento si lo encuentro solo en Inglés Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Preferences

floramc · ‎Jul 24, 2015

Carleton Van Selman wrote: Please, please please - what do I have to do to make this stop. It seems I am one of possibly hundreds of people with the same problems and Adobe do not want to do anything about it as long as they keep getting the money. I'd rather go we haven't found a solution that works for everybody, so try those who are given here and see if any works.

floramc · ‎Jul 22, 2015

what has happened to you is beyond my understanding - I really really really am negatively astonished. And frustrated I could not solve it. apologize if you feel I insist, it is just that we volunteers seem to be the solution found on the forum and I hope to see it working because I do this with Adobe as many more like me and we really want to change this image with all our commitment. I really felt for your case as I feel for many others but especially your case and I appreciate your help as it seems there are no solutione that fit all users. I am frustrated too and I want to help. It is horrible to feel powerless believe me.

floramc · ‎Jul 22, 2015

‌the volunteers program is an attempt to humanize the contact with users. The staff relies on our expertise and human skills to cover what they likely understood was not working. We don't work for adobe but we work with adobe and our efforts are to be seen as an extend of the company's will to get closer, to solve problems and it is somehow telling we hear you and trying to give this forum a status. A place to come to solve problems and connect with other creatives at the same time. I am very aware of your personal story and you know I went as high aa I could to complain, I hope it gave something back, if not I am not afraid to complain about your case again and again. Believe we are not just sitting here, we are merciless reporting things and adobe is humbly taking all the insults. I know because I bring them around all the time. they can't say sorry for choosing the subscription mode, why should they? Unfortunately a change in the market will always mean that those who preferred another system would probably stay disappointed and heck all these bugs are not making it easier and I suppose the updates need to be covered faster from all third parties that sell plugins as often the fixes do not come as fast as when they had two years of time for an upgrade. I never made a mystery that I like the subscription more than selling licenses, I respect whoever preferred the former choice. I am somehow for re-introducing packages like video, premium design and so forth but I understand it is dated. I Exactly as adobe self aware that it looks accidental. They work on it. We volunteers agree to work on it together with the company. I might agree a forum is quite an interesting way to choose a solution, but it is different from not trying at all. The goal is to solve problem and I believe whatever does the work if it does let's use it. you make me guess you had not the assistance I hoped you to have. I apologize and will try harder to make your point.

floramc · ‎Jul 22, 2015

Paul Smith wrote: Can't help with why this is happening but the reason is because Adobe no longer give a stuff about their customers. They only care about getting and holding onto a constant revenue stream (i.e. CC subscription). ‌ that is not true, come on. They are aware the system with customer service is far from customer succes but they are trying to collect all synergies to raise the quality. Even we volunteers give the heck of our best to support customers (while customers too, indeed) - subscribing to a service is how most services work today: netflix, skype, spotify.... They are not just greedy it is how the market is developing. There is no connection with the customer service and how good it works. I understand the forum has become one of the primary sources to connect with the company for the users, which is a news to me, and I know you have all reasons to be annoyed, let's just not exaggerate. I agree there are reasons to wish for more, but don't be that hostile, it brings nowhere. Let's be constructive, shall we?

floramc · ‎Jul 15, 2015

Hi back! h‌ere some answer, let me know if it helps, I hope this is the solution for you to delets the opm.db file and work free: Recreating the opm.db is a really good idea for this. This file is where the login information is stored. The Creative Cloud must be complete shut down before you can delete this file. There are several components to this though. 1) Signing out of the applications will have no effect on whether or not the applications are running. So, instead of signing out, just quit the application from the gear menu 2) In task manager, close any processes (from the Processes tab, not the Applications tab) that start with the name “Adobe,” mention “Creative Cloud,” or have the Creative Cloud icon. There should be a few of these like the Adobe CEF Helper and Core Sync. Once these process have been closed, the file can be deleted 3) If it still says it can’t be deleted because it is in use, this is because something else is “using” it. This would commonly be things like anti-virus scanning the file, backup utilities copying the file, or some other application engaging the file in some way. If this is the case, it would certainly explain the behavior seen: for as long as another application is locking the file, your login information will never be saved to the file, and thus you would be continually asked to login. 4) The best thing to do would be to follow these instructions: https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/disable-startup-items-services-windows.html Then delete the opm.db file and launch the Creative Cloud desktop app and sign in. This should prevent the opm from becoming locked, allow it’s deletion and also allow the login information to be successfully saved to a new file.

floramc · ‎Jul 15, 2015

‌oh, don't thank me, I did nothing. But I will take your question a level up and hope to find a solution. Hold on and thanks for your patience! ps: I am not ACP, I am Flora

floramc · ‎Jul 15, 2015

More people like you in the creative world would make the creative world the best place to be. Thank you for your priceless support, I really appreciate your commitment to help other users. That's the best spirit in a forum, it makes me happy to come back and see the interaction. I am just sorry we don't have a solution that works for everybody, what worked for me does not work for others so useless to keep on repeating that one. Really, thank you kindly for visiting back and help our user. Yes, this -is- an issue and I hope there are developers working on it. I will send a letter where I can and report about this returning problem again and again, I promise.

floramc · ‎Jul 15, 2015

‌Hello, this his is very much a returning problem and it seems there is no solution that works for everybody. Please, look two posts above yours and see if that is a solution that works for you. We have a superhero here and he found a way that helped others.

floramc · ‎Jul 08, 2015

‌oh no.. I am so impressed by your aplomb and patience. I see people loose their minds for half this problem. I really hope it will get solved and I will keep on reporting what I hear.

floramc · ‎Jun 30, 2015

‌ok, that is only a chance to use online storage, nothing you would worry about. I will send you a private message. Normally you open a member's profile and click on the yellow envelope to send a private a message. I will do it.

floramc · ‎Jun 30, 2015

Donna Purcell wrote: I never logged into Cloud because it was not enough memory for me. I tried Adobe on trial period but was not what I was looking for. I now can not open some of my .pdf's on my computer or my external hard drive, some as old as 2005. It keeps telling me I need an adobe password. The only password I have is the one I used to get here today. Never had any other passwords that I know of. I am to the point of deleting all Adobe and NEVER using again. I am currently using another .pdf program to open my .pdf because I don't trust Adobe now. Hi! I would like to help you but you must help me help you: ‌1) what do you mean by "I never logged into Cloud"? Are you talking about the storage or are you talking about the cc manager, ie what you use to download the programs? 2) did you use adobe before these episodes? How did you open your pdfs before? How did you create your pdfs, are you the author? you can even use the private messages and send me one of those pdfs to see if I find the issue, or if I can open them. Please send me a private message before you stop trusting Adobe. Let me try, would you?

floramc · ‎Jun 10, 2015

‌ ‌I understand your point, for me it is still frustrated, not arrogant, but it is important for me too, to understand how words are received in the forum. To measure my own words. Very flattered to hear you appreciate my replies. Funnily enough I am not a fan of forums, and probably that is why my help was asked. It looks for me like there is a need often to get answers very fast, and as you see I am more of the talkative kind and at the same time we must all sit and ponder the tone we use, the more words the harder. Neutrality can be taken as rudeness, here I feel like frustration is taken as artogance. It is a very tough work to be in the forum and answer for the company - and I would like to remind that ACPs are volunteers, I personally like to be polite and chat, even if it falls off topic at times. I am a person, you are person, Chris is an engineer but they are persons too I was told Let's keep this human. Because of my own personality, I react reading that post like "oh good, someone found a solution". I am also more for conversation that makes a strange choice to have me here, but I am happy if I can do both: answer questions and create a dialog that reminds we are all human beings here, dealing with the same issues, we are all on the same boat together, even the staff. At times it just does not work, it is a possibility. We are all trying. I look positively at Adobe choosing people like me to get involved, if you forgive it. It is not lack of modesty it is just a very peculiar choice, and I am surely not alone. I am very much not the forum kind, I am chatty, but you should give this little penny to the company: it was not an easy task to bring some of us ACPs in. I was flattered when I was invited but I also thought, me? Why? And I know they know my style from the social medias, so they knew who they were going to. It was humble, many ACPs are independent minds. I believe they take the critics from the forum and work on themselves and are humble enough to ask people like me who are not rockstars on forums to borrow a different style ttying to make users feel welcome. Finally I am happy too to have a chance to spend some moments converstating with people like you.

floramc · ‎Jun 10, 2015

I am sorry, in this case it does not sound to me like the staff is being arrogant. At a point I can see some frustration as their answers are being rejected but they are not rude. One can always do better and I see the communication somehow got lost. For me this is not a case of bad service, just the limits of communicating on a thread. But I will keep in mind that you react negatively to those answers. We are all different and react differently to the written language. It really requires time and dedication and occasionally one can still got lost in translation. I take a lot of time to write my answers, even when it is about two sentences, I think a lot about the words I choose. Not everybody has the same time, and it does not make me infallible too. Frustration is human, all who participated in that thread were somehow hitting the wall, nobody was trying to be mean or arrogant looking from the outside. Believe me, I am a woman in tech, have a list of nuances longer than the Pantone palettes of colours to keep me good company as to mean, rude and arrogant and how they might or do translate in and outside forums. We get a master degree from the school of life on that. Chris Cox is a very skilful person, he's a very sharp engineer, just the fact he takes over, means this thread is getting attention among the best qualified employees. He is very very very competent. As many on his level, he probably feels particularly frustrated as his messages are not getting through. I remember I supported users locally, not on this forum, who had the same issues and the solutions he was giving are the same I gave and they worked in my cases. I am sorry to read you found that arrogant. It is surely something that makes me think as to how careful we must be when we answer on this forum.

floramc · ‎Jun 04, 2015

I am so immensely sorry, and please believe me the company struggles to give better service. The mere fact that they started calling volunteers llike me means they want to change a lot. I understand from this last post that you either have CC team or enterprise. and you have right to a free call to expert support. This was handled in a very confused way, and I still want to report to the managers because they must know. I personally agreed to support the forum to bring all these cases to attention. There are millions of users and different experiences with the customer service. To focus on not-so-awesome experiences is something that I personally agreed to find hoping to ameliorate the relationship you have with Adobe. Believe, the fact that I am here means they care, all we ACPs who started appearing in the forums are volunteering hoping to bring a change. I do not accept this, as easy as that, I don't drop cases like yours. This is a story that must reach the right people. I can't personally change anything, but if we don't put lights on these facts, nobody else can either. I feel personally responsible for the posts I read, dropping would mean I accept what happened to you as normal, and I don't. It is just not me. And Adobe would not consider that normal either or they would not have ACPs in the forums. It is your right for the money you invest and it is my duty as a professional. It costs me nothing and I know I am doing something right. Again, I am very very very sorry to read what you experienced.

floramc · ‎Jun 04, 2015

That is so not ok. I am not in the position to discuss with the staff, but I want to report this episode to the heads of customer service I can reach. If you allow me I would share your comments with the managers I am in touch with. I suppose it would still be good to know who were the people or was the person who gave you such an unacceptable support, in a private conversation. If you want to get back on this privately, regardless if your issue is solved or not (which I have lost on the way forgive me, I hope so, and if not this is really twice unacceptable) I believe the managers behind Adobe customer support must know about these episodes. I can send this episode, I can't promise anything will follow but to make this situation reach the chefs of customer support, that is something I can do. If it in any case can be a small compensation.

floramc · ‎Jun 04, 2015

Paul Smith wrote: Plus, when an Adobe helper gives you their email address and asks you to mail them it would help if they ever replied or got back to you. It's rude, arrogant and unprofessional. ‌that is unacceptable. When you say Adobe helper, do you mean a member of Adobe staff who did not reply, or some community professional (what the ACP means: adobe community professional, we are volunteers who try to help other users in the forum finding solutions) or someone marked MVP in the forum? While I can only bow and say sorry if it was the staff, I would be very upset to hear it is somebody from the forum community who treated you arrogantly. In that case, would you be so kind and send me a private message, please? Just click on my name on top of this post and you get to my profile. There can you find a button for sending private messages. If it is one of us, I want to report this to the heads of customer service. We really do not need users to meet arrogance just when the service is showing lacks. You are a valuable member paying for many licences, I react when you say "adobe helper" - helpers should help and stay humble. It is a small compensation for all of this, but if the person you refer to is a member of this online community, I really want to report it.

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