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What this misses is that Creative Cloud is much more than a bundle of apps. It includes everything you need around the apps for pro workflows (i.e. fonts, AI, stock, collaboration, etc...).

(I work for Adobe)

No, Lightroom is a dedicated photo editor and DAM.

Pixelmator is closer to Photoshop, you can do some photo editing, but its not focused on it, and does not have asset management.

Relevant read is Chomsky's and Herman's Manufacturing Consent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

Basically, there has always been a strong bias and structural constraints toward US / elite views.

I think the core question is why trust has gotten particularly bad over the last decade (I have some ideas, including one side particularly trying to weaken trust in it).

Yes. I think Generative Remove is a perfect example of a use of ai that augments the user. It of course possible to remove items in the past, but now it is much quick / easier.

There are still gaps sometime with quality and control, but both of those are improving at a rapid pace.

Sorry for the delay on this and hope you see this.

MOGRT support will be in the uxp 1.0 release. I dont have a specific date to share with you, but around end of summer time frame (subject to change). Will probably be in the beta builds before that, so I would keep an eye out over the next couple of weeks.

Transcriptions are not planned to be in the 1.0 (we are focusing on parity with CEP initially).

Hope that helps...

(I work for Adobe)

Yeah, I really like UXP in general, but to your point, it requires that the App expose the APIs. Premiere Pro support is just in beta, so its pretty basic right now.

For what its worth though, they have been open to the feedback and prioritizing requests for this use case when Ive shared with them.

If there anything that would be a specific unlock for you?

(I work for Adobe)

Proof of concept project to create AI Agents for Adobe tools (Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere) by providing an interface to LLMs via the MCP protocol.

Video examples here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrZcuHfRluqt5JQiKzMWe...

It has been really interesting playing with this, seeing how well the agents can control the apps, and understand what they should do. Ive been particularly surprised by how "creative" the agents can be, both in solving how to accomplish tasks, but also in seemingly creative choices in what they do. Really excited (and scared) about this space.

I grew up going through a gifted program (in the 80s) and it was the gifted program that was the subculture i fell into that really pushed me.

Before that I was isolated and flunking out. Maybe I would eventually have found my people, but at least for me the gifted program found me, and got me on the right path at an early enough age to matter.

Btw, this was in a region where intellectual capability and success was not as celebrated as it is in the Bay area.

You can have both!

Cool features that excite users (and that they ultimately end of using), and that get investors excited.

(i.e. Adobe mentioned in the day 1 keynote that Generative Fill, released last year and powered by Adobe Firefly is not one of the top 5 used features in Photoshop).

The features we make, and how we use gen ai is based on a lot of discussions and back and forth with the community (both public and private)

I guess Adobe could make features that look cool, but no one wants to use, but that doesn't seem to really make any sense.

(I work for Adobe)

This is Adobe Max, which is a huge event held by Adobe for creators.

This session is "Sneaks" which is held every year, and has a fun, casual atmosphere. i.e. it has a theme, has a celebrity co-host, lots of jokes, food and drink served, etc...

Its basically a bunch of people who are creative, and are having fun nerding out on the tech...

Its a lot of fun.

(I work for Adobe)

This brings back so many memories. When I was in graduate school in the mid 90s (economics and European politics), it was difficult to get detailed, daily news in English on Eastern Europe. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was one of the best resources, with a daily email with an overview of news from the region.

I would print this out every single day on an old dot matrix printer so I could then take it to the library where I would read it with everything else.

Can find the archives (in a not very user friendly format) here: https://www.rferl.org/Newsline

btw, second best source of daily news in English in Eastern Europe was shortwave.

Given that they can train their models on your Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Premiere projects according to their ToC,

No, that is not correct.

https://www.adobe.com/ai/overview/firefly/gen-ai-commitments...

Adobe Firefly is trained on a dataset of licensed content, such as Adobe Stock, and public domain content where copyright has expired. Adobe Stock content is covered under a separate license agreement, and Adobe compensates contributors for the use of that content.

We do not train and have never trained Adobe Firefly on user content.

We recently updated our General Terms of Use to explicitly spell out this commitment (Sections 2.2F and 4.3C2).

From the TOU:

https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html

(F) Generative AI. We will not use your Local or Cloud Content to train generative AI models except for Content you choose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace, and this use is governed by the separate Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement.

Generative AI. We will not use your Content to train generative AI models except for Content you chose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace, and this use is governed by the separate Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement.

(I work for Adobe)

I have been seriously considering picking up one of these for a dedicate e-reader device just for The Economist (using a custom version of the Economist I create every week), mostly for around my house.

The main thing holding me back is still needing to carry two devices when im mobile, and of course, investing in hardware for a single publication.

I really prefer reading on e-ink, I like the form factor of this, and the performance seems decent for reading.