Where can I find Adobe Exchange Classic?

Hi kevinldfw,

As you may be aware the Exchange Classic and Photoshop Marketplace websites have been closed and now redirect to the Add-ons website. This was not a decision made by the Add-ons team but rather by our IT department largely due to security issues. Those websites were very old and had become extremely difficult to maintain they had also become an issue in terms of malware and spyware. For example many products were not actually hosted on the website but rather linked to another website, users would click thinking they were downloading the product and salt they could be downloading a virus or some other malicious file. While this was not common place it was increasing in frequency and was difficult to police. The website was also difficult to maintain because each product team was in charge of product approvals, rather than being managed centrally like Add-ons so a lot of producers were very unhappy with Exchange Classic. Many of the producers that were on Exchange Classic also have products on Add-ons and you can download them, many are compatible with CS4 and if so will state this in their descriptions or elsewhere. Many generic files will also work. Additionally almost all the producers have their own website so if you know what your after a simple web search should find them.

So to reiterate, this was not an action to 'punish' users of older versions, it was a decision to safeguard users and also provide a better more secure system. I appreciate that Add-ons is not focused on the older versions as much as the newer ones but on the flip side Exchange Classic had nothing for CC users. We focus on CS6 and CC from a testing persecutive but as mentioned many products will work with CS4 and earlier too.

hi Jonathan,

Just to add: there are now several people engaged in using Adobe's own Behance site as an alternative gateway to add-on products. Like this, for example: http://bit.ly/1smHn6k (where the original goods were first made available at Creative Market: Ed J Brown Illustration ~ Creative Market).

John

Thanks for the info John. It's great to see things like that on Behance. So the question becomes what would you use Add-ons for? Well it provides many new options like the ability to sell or privately share plus if it's something that needs to get installed it can be installed to the right place, not exactly important for images but worth knowing about. Aobe also recently launched something called Market for paid members of CC and you will find it in the CC desktop app and in various Adobe mobile apps.

Hope that helps.

Jonathan

hi again Jonathan,

I wasn't expecting a response here. My message was just to fill in the blanks on this topic.

But, since you wrote .... what would - IMHO - make a (big) difference between the Adobe offering(s) and those from Envato, Creative Market and the like is ... HELP!

You Adobe crew members should consider devoting some time to making instructional content in video format for both subscribers and authors/producers. And then have that content available by one click from the CC desktop app.

just sayin'

John