Tuesday, 4 August 2015

What's the use of Creative Cloud? Beats me.

For about three hours this morning, I have tried to figure out what Adobe is up to. Considering that hardly anything works except my laptop applications, my conclusion is: they are abandoning everything else.

Photoshop Touch for iOS which previously sold for 9.99 is no longer supported. No other application has come in its place.

Lightroom for iOS does not import RAW files from the device. Other applications happily import the JPEG version of RAW files, so you at least can visualise them, but Lightroom blocks them. 

Lightroom for desktop/laptop has a bug (?) which prevents you from syncing files with Creative Cloud. The first help pages you find on Adobe's site describe how it used to work with options that no longer are there. 

The result of this is that the RAW editor Lightroom for iOS has no way to import any RAW files to edit. 

Well, what do you expect from free software? 

Well, well, indeed. 

I expect free software to work better than Adobe's software, which I actually pay for.

Update: In a help forum, Adobe asked me to try some things to get the sync going. I did try and synching now works fine. I lost all my previous Lightroom files on all my iOS devices, but at least, I can now put new RAW files in Lightroom for iOS.


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