Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary • Hacker News Board

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by MichaelApproved » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 1:33 AM UTC

craigching wrote: post #34

koenbok wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Until I saw your link, I thought everyone was referring to Skitch, the much more limited graphic editor. I was surprised that it was seen as competition.

https://evernote.com/skitch/

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by ninavizz » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 2:06 AM UTC

If Aviary owns any patents in the photo-editing realm, those alone were worth the acquisition to Adobe. Aviary has active partnerships with Yahoo! Mail and others, as their primary built-in photo-editing default utility. The second part of the win for Adobe, is they can now slather the Adobe brand, all over where the Aviary brand is now prominent, in those partnerships. That's what matters to the money folks.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by liquidise » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 3:17 AM UTC

booruguru wrote: post #30

liquidise wrote: post #13

Surprising negativity in here, an observation to consider: HN tends to be biased regarding acquisitions. Some companies, like Google or Apple, are praised for sage decisions and invaluable acqui-hires. Others, like Yahoo and Adobe, get panned for similar moves as trying to eliminate competing products or otherwise flailing capital. As i see it, Adobe identified a group of devs uniquely qualified to bring domain knowl…

> Others, like Yahoo and Adobe, get panned for similar moves as trying to eliminate competing products or otherwise flailing capital. Yahoo destroys everything it touches, except Flick (which could have been Instagram before there was Instagram...but settled on just being good enough to stay alive). Adobe makes a lot of bloated, expensive products of questionable value. It's not a horrible company, but nobody would b…

Let's be clear: a mobile photo editing app is in not a Photoshop competitor. Adobe products are created for professionals. They are not bloated, they are filled with tons of features that save artists time. Case in point: watch a photoshop keynote and see the crowd reactions.

As for yahoo, you have done well to demonstrate my point concisely.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by CGudapati » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 5:18 AM UTC

dharma1 wrote: post #38

nice. I think it's just a question of time until someone makes a web based Photoshop killer again though. Wonder how much of Adobe's revenue is based on Photoshop (or inclusion of Photoshop in CC)

I think a web based killer is very far away in the time line. I recently was trying to make a huge gird in Photoshop and my i7+10gbRAM computer was unable to handle it. I think very simple stuff like annotating and cropping/red-eye fix can be done but I think a web based photo editor will fail when huge performance is required.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 6:00 AM UTC

liquidise wrote: post #13

Surprising negativity in here, an observation to consider: HN tends to be biased regarding acquisitions. Some companies, like Google or Apple, are praised for sage decisions and invaluable acqui-hires. Others, like Yahoo and Adobe, get panned for similar moves as trying to eliminate competing products or otherwise flailing capital. As i see it, Adobe identified a group of devs uniquely qualified to bring domain knowl…

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Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 6:09 AM UTC

liquidise wrote: post #13

Surprising negativity in here, an observation to consider: HN tends to be biased regarding acquisitions. Some companies, like Google or Apple, are praised for sage decisions and invaluable acqui-hires. Others, like Yahoo and Adobe, get panned for similar moves as trying to eliminate competing products or otherwise flailing capital. As i see it, Adobe identified a group of devs uniquely qualified to bring domain knowl…

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Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by aikah » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 6:29 AM UTC

wldcordeiro wrote: post #5

samsolomon wrote: post #2

I have to worry every time Adobe makes an acquisition. Seldom do the products improve.

Flash Professional improved. Typekit improved and I would say Behance has improved. I know it's cool to crap on Adobe but they've gotten a lot better in recent years. EDIT Changed Illustrator to Flash Professional. Forgot which was an acquisition.

Fireworks is dead,dreamweaver almost ... and no Fireworks isnt the same product as Photoshop or Illustrator.As for flash they are removing drawing tools that are "redundant" with Illustrator.So no,everything hasnt been a lot better in recent years...

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by microtonal » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 6:43 AM UTC

hnriot wrote: post #24

mmanfrin wrote: post #20

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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…

come on, that's just crazy, Aviary is no competition for Adobe. There are a million photo editing apps, and Aviary is one of them, but Adobe is the giant gorilla in the game, the go-to software for designers and photographers.

You must not have visited the Adobe forums in recent times. A sizable chunk of Creative Suite developers highly dislikes Creative Cloud (you can only get new versions via a subscription). So, many of them are probably on the lookout for alternatives.

As a longtime Lightroom user, I am happy that the most recent version can still be purchased as a standalone license. But they certainly seem to be steering people to the subscription model there as well.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by microtonal » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 6:46 AM UTC

andrewljohnson wrote: post #11

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.

Pixelmator is the best photoshop replacement IMO.

Acorn is also really nice. Of course, it's more lightweight than Photoshop (in the positive and negative senses).

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by orbifold » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 6:52 AM UTC

ThomPete wrote: post #36

nkozyra wrote: post #29

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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.

I think you possibly have a limited perspective on what people are using photoshop, I'm pretty sure every professional photographer uses it in some way or another, for instance as are print designers.