OT: Adobe Photoshop 3D Features to be discontinued..

Roman_K2

Got to sympathize with Butterflyfish and other users and everyone, really, who got lost in various migrations.

I used to like the standard brush and pencil tools in Photoshop 5. In a nutshell you could make it fade quite easily. I'm sure this still works but I prefer the old interface. Like you could make the pencil tool just one pixel in size, and set the fade to 25 pixels say from 100 percent opacity, and you would get a line that was 25 or 26 pixels long that petered out to nothing, nice and smooth.

I don't think Autodesk Sketchbook (say) is anywhere near as simple. The new stuff seems to make you jump through hoops sometimes.

LeatherGryphon

Pixel8ted said:

 

Edit: Double Post...so I'll post on the CS4 upgrade poster comment.

I wish CS4 was still supported. AFAICT, they only support the previous two versions. My CS4 is an upgrade from Elements 6, and since my last HD crash/reinstall, it won't accept won't accept the E6 serial as legit for upgrade. I even copied the serial straight from my Adobe account information. Never trust Adobe. 

Maybe try this: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-serial-number-valid-product.html

My bad on the activation thing...seems those servers do still exist for CS4, CS5, and CS6. Guess I downloaded those installers for no reason. Oh, well I got a badge. I haven't  logged into that site for years then get a notice that I have a Spectator badge. Oh, I feel special now. LOL. Did find out CS3 is DEAD...so glad there was some reason I wanted that CS5 upgrade.

Yeah, CS3 is dead.  Their license server died/corrupted/hacked/went awol/whatever and cause a major foul up.  And actually, for a time, to band-aid over the problem, Adobe made copies of the CS3 level apps of the suite (i.e. Photoshop, Illustrater, Premier, etc). available to people who had licenses but even if you didn't have the license, there was a way to download and activate them.  I forget whether it was built-in or whether there was a master license code published.  I had Photoshop CS3 but had already upgraded to CS5 when the license debacle happened.

MelissaGT

I honestly don't mind paying $10 a month for a subscription, especially when I'm always kept up to date. Like how Photoshop has started to introduce neural filters...those are fun to play with. I could never afford Photoshop when it was a one-time purchase because I never qualified as a student. And then even if you could afford it and wanted to upgrade, you had to pay half-over again. So for me, the $10/mo works. I only wish they weren't planning to ditch those two 3D filters because I use them quite a bit. 

butterflyfish

Pixel8ted said:

 

Edit: Double Post...so I'll post on the CS4 upgrade poster comment.

I wish CS4 was still supported. AFAICT, they only support the previous two versions. My CS4 is an upgrade from Elements 6, and since my last HD crash/reinstall, it won't accept won't accept the E6 serial as legit for upgrade. I even copied the serial straight from my Adobe account information. Never trust Adobe. 

Maybe try this: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-serial-number-valid-product.html

My bad on the activation thing...seems those servers do still exist for CS4, CS5, and CS6. Guess I downloaded those installers for no reason. Oh, well I got a badge. I haven't  logged into that site for years then get a notice that I have a Spectator badge. Oh, I feel special now. LOL. Did find out CS3 is DEAD...so glad there was some reason I wanted that CS5 upgrade.

Thanks. I will see if that helps. 

Taoz

ClipStudio (formerly Manga Studio), which some artists prefer to Photoshop, is on sale now:

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I bought the EX5 version from Smith Micro in 2014, then I checked if there should be any updates last year at clipstudio.net.  No problem, free upgrade to latest version. 

Hurdy3D

Taoz said:

ClipStudio (formerly Manga Studio), which some artists prefer to Photoshop, is on sale now:

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I bought the EX5 version from Smith Micro in 2014, then I checked if there should be any updates last year at clipstudio.net.  No problem, free upgrade to latest version. 

I tested Clip Studio a year ago. But I prefer Affinity Publisher in combination with Designer.