Smart Objects rendered incorrectly in CS6

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:44:43 GMT

Here is a logo, pasted as a smart object from Illustrator into Photoshop CS5.1 :

Here is the same logo pasted as a smart object from Illustrator to Photoshop CS6:

Note the gaps in the orange gradient at the top of the graphic, and the transparent areas in the border of the shield. This discrepancy appears (to me) to be a result of using a "sharper" antialiasing mode in CS6 which is leaving 1 pixel wide gaps between objects that are actually completely aligned to the same points in Illustrator. Scaling the object will result in the gaps showing up in different areas of the graphic. This is incorrect behavior on the part of Photoshop CS6. Will there be a fix forthcoming? I'll have to keep working in Photoshop CS5.1 for the time being until issues like this are resolved.

Analysis of Adobe CS6 to CC upgrade costs

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:42:40 GMT

In March 2013 we purchased 19 licences of Adobe Creative Suite CS6, at a cost of $17,082.45. At that time, CS6 had been on the market since May 2012. This means that the software was less than a year old when we purchased it, and since that time the software has received only two updates (technically four but some of those updates skipped version numbers). These updates have to-date not addressed several outstanding issues in the software. Particularly aggravating to the workflow we have in the office is the issue of incorrect rendering of imported vector art into Photoshop (documented on Adobe's forum here and here) which has never been fixed in CS6.

Updates of CS6 have ceased, as far as I can tell, and Adobe is telling customers that they must instead switch to their new rent-seeking business model - the Creative Cloud, or CC for short. For "only" $30 per month, per seat, in perpetuity, you can have access to all of the CC programs that Adobe decides to keep supporting. New features will be available instantly, bug-fixes will still be on Adobe's time-line. Based on their actions with the rendering of Smart objects in CS6, a bug-fix might show up somewhere between 8 months and never.

Now, of course we are current CS6 customers, so we get a break - for only $19.95 a month per seat we can have CC for two years. This means that for only $4558 dollars per year we can have our 19 people working on CC, right? Well, not quite. See, each CC "seat" is tied to a particular email address. So if Bob in our design department decides to quit, we will, of course, shut down the bob @ ourcompany.com email address, and somehow we lose the CC license associated with that address, or something. I'm sort of fuzzy on the details. So the bright minds at Adobe have come up with a solution - the Creative Cloud Team. For "only" $39.99 per seat, per month, you can have a centralized management of your CC licenses, and assign them to people as needed. Yes, you read that right, double the price to fix a fairly non-existent problem. That means we would be spending $9118 dollars per year for the privilege of running Adobe's latest and greatest.

Now, I can think of a way to mitigate the CC Team cost--to not pay it. So what if Bob quits? - I cancel his CC subscription and start up another one, right? Or I can create a number of dummy "adobeID01 @ ourcompay.com" email addresses and use those for the CC IDs... I'm not sure how this feature is worth double or a third more (depending on if you are talking full retail or the discount "deal" here) for the cost of the CC seats we need.

But, this still comes down to this point. Do I trust Adobe enough to give them MORE money to fix bugs in a product that was very expensive to begin with, that never saw the bug fixes it requires? CC seems like an awesome idea for Adobe - steady income from a largely captive market. It doesn't seem like such a great deal for the customer.

Thoughts?

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Smart Objects rendered incorrectly in CS6

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