Adobe has announced the release of Photoshop 21.1 with an improved Content-Aware Fill tool that allows you to fill multiple areas and an improved Lens Blur that uses the GPU. Find out more on Adobe’s website.
Photoshop 21.1 released
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This is outrageous! This is actually a deliberate ignoring of the market, the customer needs, the production trends and developments. No, it is not on the scale of Autodesk-madness, where you are losing the users to Blender and as a countermeasure engage a 33% price increase – it has more the smell of an Abandon-ware.
– No OCIO support (even some $ 25,- shareware paint-software or Affinity can do it). I read in the official forum somewhere that they answered they do not need it because of PhotoShop positions itself as a print- and photo-camera format software. I gasped for the air several times after reading such a bold statement in the Year 2020.
– No serious support or method for 32bit image manipulation.
– No correct working color view profiles for 32 bit, broken ICC, API older than the Bible, broken PNG, experimental and broken 16bit, in the core so damaged that there no way to implement even a Filimic color profile, and so on:
-> and therefore absolutely unusable in any combination with EXR, HDR, 32bit CM or any other high dynamic color range input/outputs for usage in any halfway-professional image-editing VFX, R&D, 3D-rendered image retouch and compositing, for advertising studios, design industry and so on.
BUT: AI Red Eye Removal Tool and useless GPU-LensBlur (in 8BIT) toys after 6 Months of development.
As long as you make only Facebook or Artstation JPGs and GIFs, this is a perfect tool for you.
Never, never in my life was I so close to buying Affinity, despite the fact I considered it so far for a very uncomfortable app. I must fundamentally reconsider my future 2D-editing pipeline since this here – this is not moving anywhere …
Did you test Affinity ? I use it now for about two years and i am very happy with it. Still Adobe in some areas is better, but for about 95 % of all jobs, affinity does it and it does it very very good. Usualy its just a bit of just training your muskelbrain to use the new tool. But now. I do not miss Adobe in no way any more.
Especialy, also becaus i could be part of an it Team that had to implement Adobe for a 500 People Company.. These are pirates..
I know. MOst of these Companys as Autodesk struggle with the fact that teir tools are now not aged, but .. lets say mostly finished.. Years ago you bought a programm becaus new features apeared. But now. nearly all of them are there.. Why buying a new Program. so They only can survive by lending their Product, so you have to pay it again and again.. and this again leads to slower ongoing developement. Something a Quasi monopolist uses as much as he can.
Yes, same thoughts here. And this isn’t new, it has been like that for the past 10 years (at least). That’s it, that is what PS will look like for the rest of its lifetime. A few more “AI” shenanigans of course, but apart from that, PS is done.
I am still using PS CS3, the golden release. Best painting tool. As for other uses… Affinity suits me. It does good job for most of the tasks, despite its flaws, broken color space paradigm being one. It does great job at painting, and is much more pleasant for making UI assets.
As to the policies of Adobeware, Autodestructoid and other companies who hire too many marketing men and too few devs… I recommend the great read: “The Master Switch: Rise and Fall of Information Empires” by Tim Wu. Photoshop is a very old piece of soft with totally archaic architecture, it’s life cycle is about to make full wheel soon. Natural order of things.
It’s not outrageous, it was totally expected, a lot of people depends on theirs software, so even if you go to Affinity, a lot has to happen to make you abandon your adobe subs, so no need to make an effort for the user, they only need to keep this pace as much as possible.
In the next release they may elevate OCIO support and nothing else and many users (maybe you, maybe not you) will perceive it like a great release, even when the only feature is a single thing in a whole year.
That’s how subs only works to maintain the elephant, the less evolution possible on each release, the necessary to show “something”, but not too much so they don’t loose months worth of money, before you could “vote” with your decision to upgrade, now you have no vote unless yo go through the traumatic situation of changing your software, and in case of Adobe those are several packages.
Photoshop as all soft from AD going to nowhere. Nothing new really useful at least since from CS6. And as always monopolist is destructing themself.