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Never noticed this until a read today.
Marketo is more than just software - when you use it, you get a playbook for digital marketing success.
Not that I'm suggesting Corel should do this. Maybe worth finding a partner that's a "king" in this area.
Alternatives — Always looking for better than Adobe. financesonline.com/.../
I agree, I only use Acrobat Pro 9 anymore and that's because of the Adobe conforming PDF driver and Distiller. I us no Adobe graphics applications any longer and that has been for several years.
This was done using all Adobe alternatives. The image was a 40' quick shot at a Warbler from my front yard. As the bird is hardly 4" high this was stretching the limit of my 70 to 300 lens. The entire shot had to be done in a few seconds so saving it was a job for the software.
The first image a RAW conversion, and was noise reduced in AfterShot Pro 3, resized and color bit converted in Photo-PAINT 2020.
The second image was bounced back and forth between PaintShop Pro 2021 and Photo-PAINT 2020. Additional noise reduction, masking, tone curves and a little painting.
That's not what this is about. This one I got from a job advert where you got a free iPhone and Apple laptop. It was a requirement to have experience in all things Adobe and particularly the above.
This is up there with the "Adobe stock photos" as an expansion of horizontal integration in marketing. It's Adobe as CRM. It's not got nothing to do with bird photos bare that the money to buy out an existing CRM likely came from PS profits.
Likely has about as much life as "display postscript".
I'ts how they have to increase their margins. People aren't seeing the shrinkage, Adobe applications have 2 markets, corporate, that is shrinking and amateur and there they are over priced.
So they try all kinds of crap while they ha very the money to do so. At 3 of my architectural clients just this year, they have reduced their Adobe use, one as much as 60%. Through the virtual office they found they really were over buying.
USE NOTHING Adobe! Take no offers! Do nothing that even remotely generates interest in them. It works for me. I showed examples of no Adobe imaging, all over the world there are examples of no Adobe work that competes with all their product lines
Now we see AUTOMATED BS, learn to be a useless POS!
In my opinion we should watch the action, where Apple and Adobe go wages FALL!
I would say that less than 1% of the market in advertising here use something not Adobe and mostly Macs at that. Corel got the sign industry with "free fonts" early on. That's because signwiters needed many fonts for a few words. Adobe in 1993 were charging $230 for a font set (4). Unaffordable when you needed a font for just a few words.
I doesn't just impact Corel, it impacts all other non Adobe software, no matter how good or what the price point.
Which is why I've been saying that Corel need to be part of some industry marketing to lift the consumer expectation of all products that are not Adobe. It doesn't impact me because I was "educated" by clients that built computers early on. PCs being used for graphics (with or without Adobe) were "saved" by kids that were into PC gaming entering the industry. They were the non Mac influences.
Adobe won't get the professional video market! Those dudes are much more computer/hardware aware. They are used to being brand neutral and many have long histories with Blackmagic Design from the days where BD (an Australian company) sold the little boxes that connected things that were incompatible with each other. That space is shared by a far bigger range of vendors like Sony, JVC, Canon, Red etc. They needed to get the maximum quality from camera to finished product and because of rendering times horsepower and not wankerism was king.
Adobe now rents fonts and limits how many you can use based on what you pay, so many Adobe users can't even send their fonts along with jobs anymore.
One of my clients was maxed out on fonts and had to edit a logo file for my use. She had to uninstall 5 fonts that she was using, restart the application, install 5 fonts restart the application, edit the file and give it to me. Then repeat the process to get back to work. Adobe says this works on the fly, BS! I'm a *** I just make the clients pay to buy the fonts.
In my area advertising is in its death throws. Most are B to B web work you'll see MACS but mostly Adobe on the PC. The dying remnants of agency's are 1 or 2 people MAC shops and there are hundreds of them. They use old MACS many with CS versions of Adobe, most are hoping to make it to retirement with bankruptcy.
NONE are my clients, I expect to be paid promptly.