Adobe no longer licenses Pantone colors to be used freely Photoshop
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Re: Adobe no longer licenses Pantone colors to be used freely Photoshop
#2Photoshop is subscription too now right? So they’re just wanting a cut. It’s almost a funny way to indirectly protest the move to subscription everything.
Re: Adobe no longer licenses Pantone colors to be used freely Photoshop
#3Discussed few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33369951
Alternative free palette: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33387047
Re: Adobe no longer licenses Pantone colors to be used freely Photoshop
#4Photoshop is subscription too now right? So they’re just wanting a cut. It’s almost a funny way to indirectly protest the move to subscription everything.
Yeah, what a great protest. Everyone who is selling lifetime access for a fixed price should do a similar protest and move to subscriptions as well, that would really show them!
Re: Adobe no longer licenses Pantone colors to be used freely Photoshop
#5Photoshop is subscription too now right? So they’re just wanting a cut. It’s almost a funny way to indirectly protest the move to subscription everything.
There are actually two jewels of shitty capitalism in this crown of crappiness: subscription everything meets proprietary standards.
Re: Adobe no longer licenses Pantone colors to be used freely Photoshop
#6Photoshop is subscription too now right? So they’re just wanting a cut. It’s almost a funny way to indirectly protest the move to subscription everything.
And they also have some of the absolute garbage software surrounding it. It's bananas for a company the size of Adobe to have such bad software.
Re: Adobe no longer licenses Pantone colors to be used freely Photoshop
#7I wonder why they don't just charge more for the dyes (or the dye licenses, I think they are not making them themselves). I think it is bizarre that you should need a license to write down in a file "use this-and-that tube of color for printing this shape". If anything, they should be paying Adobe for including their colors.
Maybe this is a possible evolution? Third party ink producers create photoshop add-ins allowing you to specify their specific products - not just standardized colors but actual bottles? I mean you'd loose the benefit of Pantone standardization. But anyway I use the colors brands that my trusted printshop uses. If they tell me ACME ink 1234 is the same as Pantone ABCD then I just would replace that in the document and be done.
(Well to be honest for 99% of things I did spot colors (I think that's the term) are overkill anyway and my printshop guy just told me to use CYMK...)
Re: Adobe no longer licenses Pantone colors to be used freely Photoshop
#8It only affects people who went online and into subscriptions. If you own local Photoshop instalation, you can still open PSD files with no troubles!
Re: Adobe no longer licenses Pantone colors to be used freely Photoshop
#9It's Adobe weaponizing its userbase against one of their business partners to force them to change their business tactics.
Re: Adobe no longer licenses Pantone colors to be used freely Photoshop
#10I wonder why they don't just charge more for the dyes (or the dye licenses, I think they are not making them themselves). I think it is bizarre that you should need a license to write down in a file "use this-and-that tube of color for printing this shape". If anything, they should be paying Adobe for including their colors. Maybe this is a possible evolution? Third party ink producers create photoshop add-ins allowi…
They charge designers $X000 for a book or a set of paint chips with swatches of all the colors, so I assume they are trying to continue that revenue stream in a subscription-based way.