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 Dear Adobe Team,I write to you not only as a designer, but as a long-standing and loyal customer who has invested tens of thousands of dollars in your software over more than 35 years. Adobe has been a cornerstone of my creative journey, from the earliest days of digital design through to the modern cloud-based tools of today.But now, I—and many others—find myself priced out of the ecosystem I helped support and champion. The current subscription-based model has become financially unsustainable for individual creators, retirees looking to stay engaged, or even professionals wanting to keep their skills sharp without a full-time design income. The ability to own and use software independently has been replaced with dependency on perpetual payments—where even access to personal artwork is restricted by an ongoing subscription.I urge you to reflect on the cautionary tale of QuarkXPress. Once the undisputed leader in publishing software, Quark lost its way by prioritizing short-term

Up till to-day, I could always opens files and attachments as well write and sign on them with a Apple Pencil. At once while writing a message appears that I have to give my "Ownerspassword" before I can finish my written comments on the opende file.The problem is that I do not know my "Ownerspassword" or how to find and/or reset it. They say that the "Ownerspassword" is needed in order to unlock the document and safeguard it.Thanks,Hugo

This was the address listed at the end of one of those scam emails threatening that your service has been compromised: Act now,The Juno Webmail Security Team Juno Webmail | 123 Email Lane, Juno City, JU 12345  

Hi Adobe Community, I just wanted to take a moment to share a positive experience. I recently completed the design and launch of my travel website – <link removed - kglad>– and I couldn’t have done it without Adobe tools! From initial wireframes in Adobe XD, to creating custom graphics in Illustrator and optimizing visuals with Photoshop, the process was smooth and efficient. The flexibility and precision these tools offered made a real difference in the final product. If you're working on a web or tourism project, I highly recommend incorporating Adobe Creative Cloud into your workflow – it’s a total game-changer. Thanks to the Adobe team and this great community for all the tips and support along the way! Cheers, [Personal information removed by moderator.]

I need help removing remote management from my macbook pro 

Hi team,  am looking for tracking the WhatsApp traffic to my website.so I tried to implement the processing rule in one eVar using this document.referrer. After the analysis I realized that WhatsApp mobile tracking was not possible & web-WhatsApp is possible through query params because WhatsApp not allowing referrer .However query params is limited to few of URLs but I want traffic for entire my website pages . How can we achieve this without query params? 

Hallo meine lieben bin neu hier , freue mich sehr euch kenn zu lernen.Möchte euch mein Stil meine Bilder zeigen und freue mich auf eure Meinungen. Erfahrung tausch und Tipps. lg Arek 

Cannot remove printers that are long gone and cannot use printer/scanner that is attached to my computer. The only solutions are for Windows 10 but nothing works for Windows 11. Used to be able to just plug and play but apparently Adobe is too complicated to do that anymore. Probably better off getting rid of it unless someone will come (for free) to fix it.

Hi, Am I the only one, except NASA, who want to work full time only on Linux? ADOBE, time to go forward! Or you are waiting for a Serif to make a milestone?   PS: Color management is much more easy and 'stable' compared to Windows. (x-rite i1display PRO PLUS + DisplayCAL)   [Moderator moved the thread to the correct forum]

i rec'd this email. look legit from Adobe but reads very suspicious. anyone else recieve this or have any insight? thank you! 

Greetings, I couldn't find where to ask for this, but we are hosting a conference here at the school where I teach graphic design. We are already customers of Adobe and all our students have access to Adobe's full line of products. As a way of encouraging them to attend the conference, I thought it could be nice to offer a FREE licence for a year to a winner that would be drawn in the names of our graduates. You can see the visuals of the conference here:https://www.instagram.com/p/DIwbx-gOmwo/?img_index=1 If Adobe could respond here, you can see I'm logged in with my school's credentials. Thank you in advance for encouraging our students!! Philippe

We want Adobe Products on Linux.Because Linux more stable an operating system.We like Linux!Community Support: https://www.change.org/adobeonlinux

How can I assign/transfer my certification from my old primary email to the new one? After changing Adobe's primary email, all my certifications are missing from https://certification.adobe.com/user/certifications

Hello I get "how To" instructional emails from Adobe and recently got one on how to blend two images in PS. I wanted to learn how to do this and so I downloaded the sample files that were provided by Adobe (both .psd files). But when I tried to open them up in PS, it gave me a message saying that PS "could not open the clipboard because PS didn't recognize this type of file". I don't get it. THe files were from Adobe and were .psd files. I updated PS just in case, but it still would not open these files. PS works fine otherwise. I can move images from Lightroom etc. What am I missing? Is there some setting that needs to be changed? thanks in advance

Bjr,J'ai une licence perpétuelle (lifetime) d'Adobe PDF Architecht version 6 et 7 (PRO + OCR)le 8.09.2018 (commande UEEKERP8 - UEESDKES)   /  e.benetasse@2bi.infoDepuis quelque temps impossible de l'ouvrir, cela reste figé sur la page d'accueilQue se passe t'il ?Je suis obligé d'utiliser un autre logiciel...Cordialement,

I recently had to move 2 Marion berry plants, and was warned not to use 'too much' water in the new place or the roots 'might' rot (leaves are 'droopy' from the shock of being moved, so I am watering 'often' while new roots grow).If root rot from lots of water after transplanting is true... why do ALL plant roots not rot in the winter when rain is constant?

https://www.businessinsider.com/adobe-ends-diversity-hiring-targets-following-industry-changes-internal-meeting-2025-4#selection-2675.0-2687.58   That hasn't panned out too well for the retailer Target. https://fortune.com/2025/04/01/target-dei-demise-boycott-foot-traffic-down-eighth-consecutive-week/    

Supposed 'account verification' notice from USAA but the domain is uni-wuppertal.de and the verification link is ad.apsalar.com - which I can see BEFORE letting a message come to my computer because I use https://www.firetrust.com/products/mailwasher-pro to view messages on the server

HelloA yr13 student needs an imac for photoshop to prep for photography exam for 1 month - can anyone recommend a place? thank you

Obligatory Captchas of various forms are a common occurrence on websites. But some Captchas are not what they seem.    It usually starts on websites that provide popular content. Nobody thinks twice when asked to prove they are not a robot.   But when a Captcha invokes another set of 'verification steps,' it's likely that you've encountered a FAKE.    DON'T DO what it tells you to do.  It could put your computer at risk for malware. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/fake-captcha-websites-hijack-your-clipboard-to-install-information-stealers  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSVHQigxJVE   In 2021, Tesla engineers tried to convince Musk not to give up on radar for its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving effort. The automaker decided to remove its front-facing radar and ultrasonic sensors. An approach called "Tesla Vision ” where the automaker believed that the best way to achieve self-driving is through cameras.    Some Tesla engineers were aghast. Without radar, Teslas would be susceptible to basic perception errors if the cameras were obscured by raindrops or bright sunlight, problems that could lead to crashes.   Musk was unconvinced and overruled his engineers. Soon after, the company began disabling radar and the result was an uptick in crashes, near misses and other embarrassing mistakes by Teslas without the critical sensors.   Later, Tesla introduced a new radar sensor, a better version of the previous radar, but not by much. Given its narrow field of view and it's placement behin

Anja Rozen, a 13-year-old primary school student in Slovenia, won a world-wide competition to depict what world peace looks like. -Humans are woven together-“If someone gives up, others fall.We are all connected to our planet and to each other, but unfortunately we are little aware of it.”  

Hi, Vectorworks is crashing all the time and is very slow. At school they forbidden us to upgrade to version 2025. What can I do to solve this?Version of the app: Vectorworks 2024Windows 11 Microsoft 365Basic steps to reproduce the problem: Vectorworks is crashing and is very slowExpected result: that Vectorworks is not crashing anymore and I can work with normal performance within that programVery important; because I have an examen on it next Tuesday Can you help me to resolve this, please? Thanks in advance, Ruhne Nys 

I have a product image of seven bracelets laying on a white background . Each bracelet has a unique stone and all of the bracelets together lay on a light colored background. Each bracelet has created a small shadow from the lights used. I'd like to color(ize) the shadow of each bracelet to be the color of the unique stone in each bracket (still looking like a shadow but carrying the tone of the unique stone). Can anyone suggest an easy way to do this? Here's what I tried: select the main subject, invert. However this selects the background and I want just the shadows. I also tried using the color replacement brush but I could not get this to work properly.  Thoughts or ideas?

Hello Adobe, I have "Billions" of Dollors idea; are you intrested contact me then I will give you full idea with demo.hint(it's depand on huge probelem and no one is focus on this, contact me I am serious) if you interested I give demo.