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Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by ryanSrich »

Xeoncross wrote: post #6

There really isn't any other software to compete at this point. Aviary and Gimp were the only Photoshop competitors. Inkscape and Aviary were the only Illustrator competitors.

In my field (Product Design/UI/UX) Photoshop seems to be falling out of popularity. It's being replaced with apps like Sketch and even frameworks like Framerjs.com. Photoshop is very poor for Product Design. These other applications are doing a great job of giving designers what they really want (easily repeatable elements, more precise measuring, better plugins, svg, etc).

I know the Product Design market may not be one of Adobe's bigger ones but it's refreshing to see it being used less and less.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by bwang29 »

It's very sad to see Aviary go and didn't choose to continue pushing their web editors to a more advanced audience and photo hobbyists. If they're abandoning plans moving forward in the web, Polarr (https://www.polarr.co/) might just be the last player trying to push web photo editing experience. It always seems like the web has not done with photo processing yet though companies are all jumping into mobile these days or moving on to video processing.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by chenyisheng »

bwang29 wrote: post #32

It's very sad to see Aviary go and didn't choose to continue pushing their web editors to a more advanced audience and photo hobbyists. If they're abandoning plans moving forward in the web, Polarr ( https://www.polarr.co/ ) might just be the last player trying to push web photo editing experience. It always seems like the web has not done with photo processing yet though companies are all jumping into mobile these d…

Just signed up and find Polarr is probably a much better on-line photo editing platform for me. It is what I call Lightroom-on-demand! Plus, there are much more potentials for its intelligent personal style learning.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by craigching »

koenbok wrote: post #28
mmanfrin wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the negativity comes not from the fact that Adobe bought them, but that Aviary was the main, visible competition to Adobe. Google and Apple get panned all the time for acquisitions, what are you talking about? Did you not see the thread when Apple announced they were buying Beats? Or every other Google-acquisition thread about users bemoaning the possible shuttering of the purchased service? People aren't hat…

I think the competition is Sketch and Pixate.

Would you mind providing links to both of those? I googled for "sketch" but would rather be sure I have what everyone is talking about.

EDIT: Ok, this [1] and [2] would seem to be what everyone is talking about. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[1] -- http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/ [2] -- http://www.pixate.com

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by ThomPete »

jpablo wrote: post #16
ThomPete wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a reason for this. It makes no sense to make a photoshop competitor as this is not where we are heading. Instead we are heading towards vectors as the primary asset which means toward visual editors that allow for scripting and much more granular control off assets such as animiation. In 5-10 years ex. Sketch and other much more dynamic environments will be one of the de-facto standards as the older generati…

Photoshop is for editing photos, not for drawing "assets". Unless you are trying to tell me that digital cameras will produce a vector drawing of scenes, I don't see bitmap editing software going away anytime soon, or ever.

I am well aware what photoshop can do and can't do having used it since it's early days.

You are however missing the point here.

Photoshop is being used for web design and app design as much if not more and have also added things like vectors to it's suite of tools to reflect that.

It's has nothing to do with whether bitmap editing goes aware but with what is going to be the de facto standard. If anything post-processing of images have removed much of the need for the core functionality of photoshop and will be easily re-produced by other editors.

You know I don't mind being downvoted if I talk about things I have no idea about and which are flat out wrong.

But please tell me why this comment deserve a down-vote?

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by ThomPete »

nkozyra wrote: post #29
endergen wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Photoshop is not used primarily for editing photos in the software industry from my experience. In a world with responsive design needs vector based just gives you more versions of assets at different resolutions for less effort than any other approach. Sure photo editing is one use for it. But much of it is in creating icons, mockups, non photo realistic things, and more.

How Photoshop is used doesn't really matter - it's intended as a photo editing product. Adobe already has an illustration / vector product and there's a reason they're separate.

How it's intended is most certainly what doesn't matter given how many people use it for other things than photo-editing.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by nkozyra »

ThomPete wrote: post #36
nkozyra wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How Photoshop is used doesn't really matter - it's intended as a photo editing product. Adobe already has an illustration / vector product and there's a reason they're separate.

How it's intended is most certainly what doesn't matter given how many people use it for other things than photo-editing.

First, I'd say "most people" is anecdotal and supposition.

Second, even if "most people" used Microsoft Word to build web pages I wouldn't treat it like a web IDE.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by ThomPete »

nkozyra wrote: post #37
ThomPete wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How it's intended is most certainly what doesn't matter given how many people use it for other things than photo-editing.

First, I'd say "most people" is anecdotal and supposition. Second, even if "most people" used Microsoft Word to build web pages I wouldn't treat it like a web IDE.

Which is why I never said it was that categorically so why the strawman?

But you know being a designer having worked with designers, having had a large design agency and done some work for Adobe I do consider myself fairly informed on the matter.

Whether you wanted to consider it a web IDE is besides the point. I remember the days when notepad was considered the gold standard.

If it helps you get the work done who care about what it was supposed to help them with.

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