{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Visual Scholar","title":"E36: Adobe is Legacy Software. What Does The Future Look Like?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6226,"description":"Check out my Free Brainstorming Workshop: https://mightyartisan.com/worldbuilding Learn to silence your inner critic. Ignite creative ideas. And watch a live demo of these techniques in action.\n\n---\n\nThis is The Thirty Sixth Episode of the Visual Scholar Podcast - With Tim Mcburnie.\n\nLet's talk Adobe... \n\nThere is a lot of drama and outrage aimed at Adobe. I normally stay away from this stuff on the Visual Scholar... But people often ask for my opinion as I do use Adobe products, and teach people how to use them.\n\nSo this episode is dedicated to my thoughts on the future of Photoshop. But as you know if you have been following this show, it won't be simple, and I will weave in some more interesting topics. \n\nI want to walk though: \n\n1 What we should expect from Software as artists 2 What can we learn by looking closer at Adobe Inc 3 What Ethics, Morality, Publicly traded companies... and AI say about the future of Customer/Product Symbiosis.\n\nSo yeah... This is a long form essay. That no one really asked for. But if you want to rise above the noise and outrage FUD... strap in! \n\nCHAPTERS:\n\n00:00:00 Intro\n00:03:03 Welcome\n00:03:28 What's My Take On This?\n00:07:07 What Good Creative Software Needs To Be... The Dangers of Switching\n00:08:45 That Time I Gave Up Photoshop For Corel Painter...\n00:14:56 Reliability...\n00:15:33 Learning & Community\n00:16:55 Different Artists Need Different Features... Pro Vs The Rest\n00:19:06 Professional Features (That Most People Don't Care About)\n00:20:06 Production Integration\n00:21:16 Chameleon: Photoshop Can Be Many Things\n00:23:27 Extensibility\n00:26:51 Real Professional Reliability\n00:30:03 Speeed\n00:32:03 TLDR: Bugs And Tech Hurdles Can Ruin Your Art Flow\n00:33:11 What About Adobe As A Company (Evil INC)\n00:33:50 The History... Aggressive Monopoly\n00:35:22 Adobe The Dinosaur (Legacy Software and Legacy Attitude)\n00:38:19 Adobe Is Struggling To Be A Modern SAAS Company\n00:39:15 Publicly Traded Companies Can't Take Care Of Their...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/vKDSN9jHBhdcDhTN53TJ3mCaTYFbZaRoFiNZnCjOgAM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMjM2/YTU1Y2I4Mzc1M2Vm/ZjQ5N2Q2Yzg3MzEz/Yjg3NC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}