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• Adobe doubles down on subscriptions

  Posted on December 9, 2024 at 02:45 CST by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 21.50 • 2024-12-09

  SOFTWARE

  

  By Will Fastie

  Adobe converted its Elements line into subscription products, while at the same time claiming it hadn’t.

  For 20 years, Adobe sold Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, along with the Adobe Organizer, as economical and perpetual-license versions of its mainstream products, Photoshop and Premiere. Even after Adobe moved those mainstream products into subscriptions — moving from Creative Suite to Creative Cloud — the Elements line remained perpetual.

  Around Thanksgiving, Adobe began aggressively promoting the 2025 version of both Elements products, either individually or in a bundle. But this time, the license terms changed. And Adobe was a bit sneaky about it.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.50.0, 2024-12-09).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Software Adobe, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Premiere Elements, Corel PaintShop Pro, Corel VideoStudio Pro, Newsletters, Subscription model

• Behind the scenes: The newsletter

  Posted on November 28, 2022 at 02:42 CST by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  COMMENTARY

  

  By Will Fastie

  When I took this job, I was surprised at the number of moving parts involved in publishing the newsletter.

  My predecessor, editor emeritus Tracey Capen, did an excellent job with general organization and collaboration. Tracey wrote a very comprehensive document in OneNote about how to produce the newsletter, which was extremely helpful in my early days. I was very grateful to have that guide because otherwise, I would have been at sea on day one.

  Publishing an issue of the newsletter involves a lot of steps.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.48.0, 2022-11-28).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Commentary Adobe Photoshop Elements, CSS, Dreamweaver, Editors, Expression Web, HTML, Newsletters, Photo Editing, Publishing

• Secret Photoshop feature won’t open images with certain filenames

  Posted on April 4, 2022 at 02:43 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  An undocumented feature of Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and related programs makes the applications open but fail to load an image — and the apps then close abruptly — if you launch the apps using a filename with specific characters, according to numerous licensed users.

  This weird behavior, which is either an inadvertent bug or a deliberate Easter egg programmed in by some Adobe developer, can be seen on releases of the software all the way back to Photoshop version 5 (1998) and through Photoshop 23.2.2.325, which is the current version in Adobe’s Creative Cloud 2022.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.14.0, 2022-04-04).

  Public Defender Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Newsletters, Public Defender

• Photoshop Elements: Fun with pictures

  Posted on April 27, 2020 at 01:05 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  PHOTO EDITING

  By Lincoln Spector

  Special effects aren’t limited to Hollywood movies anymore — or professional photographers.

  Today, with some help from image-editing apps, even a snapshooter can perform photographic tricks — place yourself somewhere you’ve never actually visited, turn black-and-white into color (and vice versa). With the right tools, almost anyone can cleanly remove people from a photo — without cropping! (Are you paying attention, Match subscribers?)

  There are dozens of photo editors to choose from, but I’ve been using Adobe’s Photoshop Elements for longer than I can remember. It’s the cheaper and somewhat less powerful version of the classic Photoshop. It’s rare that Elements lacks a tool I need … but then I’m not a professional graphic artist.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.16.0 (2020-04-27).

  Software Adobe Photoshop Elements, AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Image manipulation