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Adobe to discontinue Creative Cloud syncing

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Adobe will be pulling the plug on its Creative Cloud syncing from early next year. Starting February 1, 2024, Adobe will begin to discontinue Creative Cloud Synced files for all free and paid personal users. After October 1, 2023, new users will not have any access to file syncing.

The company has said, however, that users associated with Creative Cloud for enterprise or a Creative Cloud for teams business account will not be affected. So what does this mean for the rest of us mere mortals who use the Creative Cloud?

Canva now has four times more active users than Adobe

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I believe most of us photographers still use Adobe programs to edit our photos. But when it comes to the general public and people who aren’t into photography and design – it looks like Canva rules.

This free, simple design software now has more than 100 million monthly active users. For comparison, it’s nearly four times more than paying Adobe users. What makes it so popular? I have theories, so let’s explore them together.

You’ve already got it and you don’t know it! Streamline your creative team work in Premiere Pro with Frame.io

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Adobe acquired the online collaborative platform Frame.io late last year and brought it into its Creative Cloud suite. But what is Frame.io and how can it help creative teams work better together? DIYP spoke to Michael Cioni from Adobe about the acquisition to find out more.

Frame.io is an interactive online platform that allows teams to connect their video with all of their collaborators. Editors, content creators and clients. Wherever they are in the world they can easily and fully interact in the full creative process.

Adobe takes on Canva with its newly launched Creative Cloud Express

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Remember Adobe’s recently announced web-based version of Photoshop? It’s finally available online and its name is Creative Cloud Express. It’s designed for experienced photographers and designers, but also those who’ve never used Adobe editing tools before. It’s a crossover between Adobe Spark and Photoshop Express, but it strangely reminds me of Canva, too.

Adobe releases new AI features to Photoshop CC: improved masking, depth blur, and more

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In addition to making Photoshop and Illustrator available on the web, Adobe has introduced a bunch of other new features to its apps. The trend of relying on artificial intelligence continues, so Photoshop is now getting even more advanced Object Selection, new neural filters, artificial depth blur, and plenty more. So without further ado, let’s right into it.

Adobe Photography Plan users to get Photoshop Express and Premiere Rush for free from next week

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Adobe has announced that from next week, Adobe is adding Adobe Premiere Rush and Adobe Photoshop Express apps into the Creative Cloud Photography plan at no extra cost. Photoshop Express is a simple cut-down image editing app for iOS and Android devices. Premiere Rush is a basic video editing application available for both mobile and desktop operating systems.

Photoshop sees big new updates to Sky Replacement, Healing Brush and Magic Wand for iPad and desktop

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Adobe has today announced new updates for Adobe Photoshop on both the desktop and the iPad. For the iPad the Healing Brush and Magic Wand tools you know and love from Photoshop for Desktop have finally arrived. Photoshop for iPad also receives a new Canvas Projection feature, which allows you to send your image to an external monitor or TV while you’re working on it.

Photoshop for Desktop sees a big upgrade with the Sky Replacement tool, with a bunch of new skies to choose from and the ability to import up to 5,000 skies at once. Finally, one that’s long overdue, the Transform Warp tool now has bezier handles to let you warp things over whatever shape you want.

Adobe After Effects’ new Composition Profiler helps you to speed up your renders

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There’s a small bit significant new feature coming to Adobe After Effects. It’s currently available in the latest After Effects Beta and I expect it’ll be coming to the final release once it’s all ready. Essentially, it lets you see exactly how much each layer in your composition affects your render time.

This is a pretty massive feature, as it’s often difficult to figure out exactly which part of your composition might be slowing everything down without manually checking each layer on and off in turn. Now, the new feature shows your entire render frame time with each layer broken down individually, allowing you to easily pinpoint layers you can optimise.

Adobe Premiere Pro now has AI speech recognition for automatic subtitle creation

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Adobe has released a new July 2021 update to Adobe Premiere Pro with two big headline features. The first is that Premiere Pro can now natively transcribe the speech in your videos to text in order to text documents for closed-caption subtitles. Previously, you’d need to purchase separate AI transcription tools like Simon Says, but now it can all be done natively within Premiere Pro itself.

The other big news from the Adobe camp is that Premiere Pro’s native Apple M1 version has now been officially released in its final form. Apple M1 support was launched as a beta in December 2020, but after seven months of testing, it’s now ready for prime time, with Adobe claiming speeds almost 80% faster than comparable Intel-based Macs.

Adobe Premiere Pro beta shows a major UX facelift for creating and exporting projects

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Adobe has announced a new import and exposure interface for Adobe Premiere Pro. And while I described it as a “facelift” in the title, it’s more like major reconstructive surgery. Like John Travolta & Nick Cage levels of different. It’s currently in public beta, so you can all go and have a play with it, but it comes with a whole new streamlined way of importing your media and exporting your final results.

One thing that should be made clear is that this change doesn’t take away anything you’ve already got. If you prefer to do things the old fashioned way, you can still do that. The new enhancements are simply extra options that add to your overall experience. And, I have to say, they look pretty awesome for speeding up your project workflow – at least the very beginning and end of it.

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