Comments on: Feedback, please: Next steps for Creative Cloud?

By: Bryan Stoughton

Bryan Stoughton — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:27:49 +0000

I am not a big fan of any of the “clouds” and don’t like to be restricted to download an application tied to a subscription. Do you have any plans to offer Adobe Edge (Animate) as “regular” software for purchase. I had started to use it in its various pre-release versions and I felt it had potential to become a useful tool. As it is I will not be using it as a part of the “Cloud”. If you don’t plan on selling it as a standalone or part of a physical suite, I guess I will need to start looking for an alternative from other software developers. I use the Adobe Master Suite in my position as Creative Director and I was hoping to add Edge to my existing tools. And one comment on adobe.com, you must not take criticism well as you make it a real bugger to submit feedback.

By: Robert Bethune

Robert Bethune — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:57:58 +0000

It’s a small thing, but it sure is annoying. Why isn’t the Adobe Application Manager window re-sizable? It’s insane to have to scroll up and down in the thing. The list of apps is just not that long! Trust me, it will fit on our screens! Or if it won’t, hey, we’ll resize it! I promise!

By: Brad Gerrard

Brad Gerrard — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:04:45 +0000

It’s too expensive from the UK. If you could equal the price I would be paying in Dollars from the States, me and allot more of the followers in the UK would be interested.
It’s the same though for the rest of Adobe software the price from foreign shores no where near equates to the price one pays from the States. Just check the price you pay from Australia.
In England, we know it as ‘rip off Britian’.
Shame.

By: Jessica Sideways

Jessica Sideways — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:41:54 +0000

How about releasing Lightroom? I think that’ll be a good move for Creative Cloud.

By: Skyler Kline

Skyler Kline — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:41:00 +0000

I just noticed that the proof quality in browser for the Creative Cloud is atrocious. I just noticed this after sending a client a link to it. Thankfully they can still download the PDF, but now I’m wondering what the advantages are over just sending them a PDF.
I’m noticing too, that there is no quality zoom in the browser, in spite of having a zoom button. I would be happy with the lower quality preview, if it zoomed in on an actual PDF.

I would also like to request that it package InDesign files for collaboration if I upload an .indd. Or at least have a Package for CC option. Also a package for previous versions option would be awsome. Even better, have that happen at a server level, so all I have to do is upload the file I’m working on.

By: Jim Harmer

Jim Harmer — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:31:57 +0000

Oh, and you should include more details on how creative cloud connects on the web to make sure your subscription is valid. If I go do a shoot in the sticks for two weeks and that happens to fall on the day that it checks, then I will be forever done with creative cloud.

And it’s annoying that I don’t get a discount for buying two subscriptions for me and my employee.

By: Jim Harmer

Jim Harmer — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:26:20 +0000

I am using creative cloud for my studio. The price is good. Two things would help it go mainstream: First, include Lightroom. I understand that it has not been traditionally included in the suites, but this is not a traditional product. Second, make a yearly price at a reduced rate as an additional option to the monthly price. Everyone hates monthly fees.

Oh, and it’s annoying that type kit is limited to five hundred thousand views per month. Don’t punish us for having a successful website.

By: Daniel Bachler

Daniel Bachler — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:20:53 +0000

I am quite surprised by the lack of innovative ideas here in the comments so far. I think it is pretty obvious that besides storing preferences etc, the real advantage of the cloud would be collaboration.

For this, two main areas come to mind: first to augment the workflow of reviews and comments across the suite. A lot of creatives using your software have to get client approval on their work, or get feedback from colleagues or need customers to pick from a range of design options. The cloud should make this easy. Write good web interfaces that need no further software at the client where possible and that let you send stuff to a client for review with the click of a button. Be it video, hundreds of photos, indesign documents or websites. All of course with easy to set up security in mind.

The other avenue is to make all your native file formats (from premiere projects to indesign to photoshop tiffs) a lot more diff friendly and provide version control in the cloud. A bit like github, where designers can work on different parts of the same project and only deal with merge conflicts where they really overlap. If docuements could be easily branched from a public repository this would enable designers to contribute a lot more to open source projects because the tools would provide better support for the required workflows.

By: Toby Fairchild

Toby Fairchild — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:21:07 +0000

I would just like to be clear on what the creative cloud CAN do. I have no idea how I would use it. What does it do exactly? I hear phrases like “create collaboratively” and such but what do I do? How do I do it? How do I access and utilize it? I’d like Adobe to be more specific and post some tutorials and introduce some clarity to what the creative cloud is and how we (the user’s) can leverage it and how it’s suppose to help us do our work better and more efficiently.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:51:30 +0000

I am not going to start a “holier than thou” attitude here , but, to those being so critical of Adobe and it’s business practices and venting their frustrations on John here. Come on guys, get real. This is 2012. America is on the edge of being a third world country. Business in general is barely staying alive. We are being lied to by politicians as to the state of our country. Real unemployment is close to 20%. Let us all work together and help and support each other and make America get back on top where it was. Let “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” be the only question we try to answer.

By: John Dabarno

John Dabarno — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:25:28 +0000

I was not aware that you could get a subscription for Photoshop CS6 individually, I went out and bought the upgrade because I thought you had to subscribe to the entire creative cloud, and other than Lightroom I don’t really use at all. Too bad I would have looked more closely considering the advantages, oh well, too late now, next upgrade I will switch to the subscription version.

By: Chuck Uebele

Chuck Uebele — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:39:43 +0000

Another thing that I think is making people hesitant to sign up for the cloud is the fact that if you fall on hard times, you lose your subscription to the apps that you depend upon. While it might be against Adobe’s marketing plan to keep people upgrading by signing up for the cloud, you might consider a hardship option where if the subscriber has paid into the cloud more than the total price of all the apps, they can get a perpetual license. Of course you can also have this if they take this option, they have to start all over again in building up their equity in the apps. While you may lose some people to this offer, you might gain more than you lose and the total net might be better than if you didn’t offer it.

By: Chuck Uebele

Chuck Uebele — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:18:14 +0000

The company I work for, which is a very large company, will never go to the cloud. There are just too many security risk, they have a strict policy of not allowing any upgrades unless they’re tested, we even have firewalls within the company so that certain parts can’t see what other parts are doing. While a lot of the aspects of the cloud seem appealing, I worry that we will be left in the cold.

By: Luis

Luis — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:01:06 +0000

Hi John,
I like your blog and I usually check into it from time to time, now that you asked about the cloud seems that Adobe only has 2 options: PERPETUAL PAYMENT (Creative Cloud) or PERPETUAL LICENSE. I signed up on the cloud but I’m not convinced I want to keep it longer more than a few months or past a year. Do you know if there will be an option to upgrade from the cloud to an actual license? Thank you

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:12:20 +0000

Sigh, still no stand alone subscription for photoshop cs6 extended.