Adobe Creative Suite

They're making social posts during team meetings in Teams.

Microsoft just said, "What if we put professional-level design capabilities directly inside those workflows?" This isn't about competing with Adobe Creative Suite.

This is about making Adobe Creative Suite obsolete for ninety percent of the design work that happens in the business world.

And that's terrifying if you're Adobe because ninety percent of design work is where the money is.

The timing here is absolutely crucial.

The question isn't whether AI will change design work.

That's already happening.

The question is whether the future of design looks more like Adobe's Creative Suite or Microsoft's productivity platform.

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... for Creative Suite.

So you could just-

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about this new application or group of applications called art craft.

So somebody I have a link down in the description to a, to an article that if you want to go check it out more, but essentially somebody was fed up with Adobe's practices and said, you know what, I'm going to use AI to essentially reverse engineer the Creative Suite and offer you the same features for free and it's open source.

So yeah, I think we all have some very interesting opinions about this, but I want to go to Mike first because I think I want to hear your take.

he's our photoshop guy whenever we need photoshop we go hey mike can you make me a picture yeah we do

So that's where I picked up the skills.

But I haven't bought an Adobe product since I wanna say 2011.

I just kept the copy of Creative Suite 2 that I had going for over a decade because I didn't wanna pay a subscription for it.

That's dumb.

And I remember when Adobe did go to the subscription model.

People said, "Oh, this is gonna be great, guys, 'cause you always get access to the latest versions of their products, and it's gonna be fantastic, and, uh, this is so much easier and so much cheaper to basically rent your software." It's so much cheaper to do that than to drop a couple thousand dollars a pop on Creative Suite.

And, uh, God, I would love to go back to Creative Suite.

But the current versions of Adobe's software packages are ass, and the only reason I use them at all is for legacy files.

Uh, most of the new stuff I'm making is, are built with other tools, and, uh, I'm seriously gonna look into Artcraft.

This though, this looks a lot more familiar and I think Adobe is probably going to start shrieking.

So this comes from Ars Technica.

For a while, those hoping to avoid the difficult and expensive act of dealing with Adobe's Creative Suite have been able to use several free and open source alternatives that replicate some of those capabilities.

Now, I'm sure you know the gist of what their business is about, but essentially they're in the business of multimedia and creative software products, which can be broken down into their three main business segments, which are digital media, digital marketing, and print and publishing.

They are most well known for their Creative Suite, which comes under the digital media segment, and it comprises of some of the most well-used and well-known softwares in the world, such as Photoshop and Premiere Pro.

In the earlier years of their business, these products and more were sold on a buy-and-keep-forever basis.

However, in 2013, they changed their Creative Suite to a subscription-only model.

Many at the time thought this might kill Adobe's success and that many of their customers would move to cheaper competing products.

However, they were very wrong.