The sad state of Adobe Photoshop

Adobe is desperately trying to squeeze money out of customers by making them believe that their products are spearheading the “AI Revolution”

The truth about the technical state of Photoshop, Adobe as a company and their so called AI is …

Not only the AI revolution is not happening. In fact Adobe is offering a technically outdated product as state of the art and at the same time putting their customers at a disadvantage wherever they can.

Especially that their terms of services basically are allowing Adobe to steal their customers intellectual property for their own purposes has been creating outrage for years.

For their criminal practices, especially harassing’s customers with insane subscription rules making it extremely costly to even cancel a subscription, they are finally sanctioned by the US authorities. Let us hope that they face severe punishment and that top managers of the company will be held liable.

Anyway I bought a subscription to upgrade my old PS 6CS version from 2012 to use their newest Photoshop product with all of the promised new features and AI in particular.

Users who hoped for a plethora of new productivity tools and features, stellar performance gains with their incredibly more powerful hardware will be thoroughly disappointed.

The product is basically still on the technical level of 2014, slow, inaccurate and cumbersome. Honestly the upgrade is not worth it.

Some highlights:

1. Text management is still on the level of PS 3. Barely usable.
2. Their tools can still not create good object maskings … now AI would certainly be helpful here. Alas its nowhere to be found. Instead we are dealing with the same old shit from a decade ago.
3. Patching is still not able to realistically remove blemishes on sightly larger areas without blotching everything.

Finally, the highly praised AI is either hilariously absent from the program or generates laughably bad results. Instead you can use Adobes ridiculous “Pay per Try” model and use Firefly to hope that the programs fake AI randomizes something halfway useful. The results of this are now cluttering their commercial image services making it unusable. Nude photography is excluded even from the “AI” functionality.Its sad that we are sunken so far as to apparently accept such dubious or even criminal business practices in general and particularly from a company who as always created lackluster products but is now openly trying to cheat their customers to an extend that would not have been possible in the past.

I am also honestly disappointed by the many YouTubers who are giving this product good reviews by praising features that do not deliver any real added value but generously leaving out that this product is completely outdated and AI is basically absent.

Fact is … companies like Adobe or Phase One do simply have no idea on how to leverage AI. They are being big mouthed about those thing while they do not even have their age old standards mastered. Their expensive applications are slow and cumbersome and full of bugs they can not fix. Its laughable what those guys are offering here ….