r/FuckAdobe

This pop up is driving me absolutely mad. Every time it pops up, THERE'S NO WAY TO EXIT OUT. I have to force quit the pop up every time, and it crashes any adobe product I have open. Eventually, adobe will boot me out of all my apps, and FORCE ME to change my password to continue using the products I've purchased. I've cycled through so many passwords, I can't remember what they are anymore. This is making me feel like a criminal for using my own, very expensive, purchase.

Is there any way to disable this message?? Security or setting changes? At the very least, this pop up should direct me immediately to account management, and show me what devices are "on". I'm more than happy to turn one "off" and continue working.

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a recent experience our team had with Adobe as a cautionary for any businesses or freelancers whose livelihoods depend on uninterrupted access to Creative Cloud.

Today, our company's Creative Cloud Pro subscription was abruptly canceled for the second time in 8 days. The reason given by Adobe was "Fraudulent activity detected on your Adobe Account," despite the fact that we purchased this legally using our official company email and a legitimate corporate card.

The last cancellation happened just a few hours ago (Order Number: AE05600400025CAE). When I reached out to Adobe Customer Care to resolve what is clearly a false positive in their automated detection system, the response was incredibly disappointing:

• No temporary access: They refused to grant temporary or provisional access for even 2 days so we could finish our current client work, despite us offering to provide any verification data needed.
• No immediate answers: The agent informed us that the account is under investigation, and we will have to wait 3 to 4 business days for an email update.
• The "solution": The only workaround offered by support was to create an entirely new email address and purchase a brand-new subscription. For a business, constantly migrating accounts and risking the same card triggering another automatic ban isn't a viable solution.

This unexpected downtime is pushing back our entire business campaign schedule and costing us money.

If your business relies heavily on a single ecosystem, please let this be a reminder to have a backup plan. We are currently looking into migrating our workflows over to DaVinci Resolve and other alternatives, as we simply cannot afford to have our tools locked behind an automated system with a multi-day resolution turnaround.

Has anyone else encountered this specific "fraudulent activity" error on a legitimate business account? If so, were you able to get it resolved sooner?

I used to pay £9.99 for Photoshop and lightroom but in January they upped it to £14.99. I asked customer service why it was upping by 50% and if I could just cancel instead. They said they'd give me 3 months free so I can "cancel in my own time". Great I guess. Might as well take advantage. 5 months pass and I realise I never cancelled so I just tried to and I'm being charged over £50 cancellation fee. Turns out they didn't just change the price, they discontinued the package I used to pay for and auto signed me up for a yearly-billed-monthly package instead. To be fair, the customer service guy was reasonable and cancelled it for me while waiving the fee but I'm absolutely astonished they're allowed to just put of the blue and for no reason just cancel the thing you agreed to and change it to something else with different terms. I'll never go back.

So ive been using wetransfer since it first began, used to chat regularly with the team suggestions and comments. Now today i get a message - we see a lot of logins to your account so we've moved you to a team plan. Ok whatever, but i didnt use wetransfer this year more thank maybe 2 clips and only between me and my business partner. I go to ehcek i now have a minumum 10 user account and in in a week it will renew at the new prioce of $1900.

Suffice to say in a world with a million ways of sharing files i cancelled. At which point it offered me 50% off. But no, you dont get to pull crap like this and retain my custom.

Anyway folks, keep an eye on your wetransfer accounts as theyre not playing well with others this year.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a tool called Avellio for Adobe InDesign:

https://buy.avellio.app/

The idea came from a frustration I’ve had for a long time: after more than two decades of InDesign, a surprising amount of final typography checking is still manual.

InDesign has Preflight, of course, but Preflight mostly thinks in terms of production issues: missing fonts, overset text, broken links, color spaces, etc.

What it doesn’t really do well is act like a typography QA layer before export.

I’m talking about the boring but important things designers still have to scan for manually:

• widows and orphans
• short last lines
• repeated words
• double spaces
• wrong quotation marks
• bad punctuation spacing
• inconsistent character styles
• risky local overrides
• visual inconsistencies across longer documents

So I built Avellio to automate as much of that final inspection pass as possible.

It scans an InDesign document, detects typography and style issues, and marks them directly inside the layout so you can review the problems visually instead of hunting through paragraphs one by one.

The goal is not to replace designers or proofreaders. It’s to remove the repetitive inspection work that happens at the end of a project, when everyone is tired and mistakes are most expensive.

I honestly think Adobe could have had something like this built into InDesign years ago. Maybe even decades ago. But since it still isn’t really there, I decided to build it myself.

I’d love feedback from people who work with InDesign, editorial design, books, magazines, catalogs, annual reports, or prepress.

What would you expect a serious typography QA tool to catch?

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Do I want to see what's new in Acrobat - no, I want to look at the PDF I am trying to open, go away

Hey guys,

For the last few months, I’ve been working on a side project. It’s a Windows desktop app built for video editors, clippers, and creators.

Honestly, I only built this because my own workflow was driving me crazy. I was so tired of using sketchy, ad-filled websites just to grab source clips, waiting forever on Adobe Media Encoder, and juggling Handbrake just to compress a file. I just wanted one clean app on my PC that handled all of it.

What it actually does: It’s basically an all-in-one hub with four main features:

• The Downloader: Replaces those dodgy websites. You just paste a link, pick your quality (4K, 1080p, 60fps) and format (MP4, MKV, etc.), and it rips it with zero quality loss. No pop-ups, no fake buttons.
• Media Encoder: A lightweight alternative to AME. It remuxes and encodes heavy video files super fast so they’re ready for your timeline.
• Video Compressor: Basically a Handbrake replacement built right in to shrink massive files without ruining the quality.
• "Anti-Compression" for TikTok/Reels: This is the feature I'm most proud of. We all know TikTok and Insta absolutely destroy the quality of desktop uploads, turning crisp 60fps edits to mush. I built a proprietary processing module that forces their algorithms to bypass the heavy compression entirely. You get pristine, true 60fps uploads straight from your desktop browser. It actually works.

I'm looking to team up! The app is fully functional right now. It’s got a super clean dark-mode UI, licensing tiers are set up, and the core engine runs perfectly.

I really want to take this to the next level, but I can't do it all alone. Whether you’re a marketer who knows how to reach the editing/creator community, someone who wants to co-found and help steer the ship, or you just think it's cool and want to beta test it, I’d love to chat.

If you’re interested in getting involved in any way, drop a comment or shoot me a DM. Happy to share some screenshots, talk about the vision, and see if we can work together!

This shit fucking sucks and its the only editing software my job provides. It cant do literally ANYTHING but ruin my shit.

When did Adobe start scamming people? I signed up for a 7 day free trial, cancelled it an hour later because it wasn't what I needed, got a cancellation confirmation, then after 7 days my card got charged for the full subscription. FRAUD. I have called customer service several times, and after following the phone tree to billing issues, they hang up on me.

Hi, asi I said, im trying to subscribe to creative cloud as a student for the first time but doesnt matter what I do, after putting all my data I get hit with "we couldn´t process your payment, please try again, if the issue persist try another method or contact your bank" I already checked and theres nothing wrong with my card or the data, I tried to chat with adobe but they couldnt solve it. What do I ned to do?

Has anyone here switched from Lightroom to Photomator for RAW editing with the Sony A7 IV?

I’m wondering if the RAW processing in Photomator is really that much worse compared to Lightroom, especially for noise reduction, colours, dynamic range, and detail recovery.

I love the simplicity and Apple integration of Photomator, but I keep seeing mixed opinions about its RAW engine.

For real-world photography — travel, lifestyle, landscapes, everyday shooting — is the difference actually noticeable? Or is Lightroom still significantly better for Sony RAW files?

Would love to hear from people who used both.

>PhotoGIMP is a free, community-driven patch that transforms GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) into a layout that feels familiar to Adobe Photoshop users. If you're switching from Photoshop to GIMP and want to feel at home right away, PhotoGIMP is for you.

I subscribed on a 7-day free trial on Adobe Creative Cloud to use Photoshop (Web) on May 9. I forgot to cancel my free trial and just remembered a day later (May 17). How do i cancel my subscription or unlink my GCash account? There are no options to cancel plan on the website. Im only a student so i cant afford the annual but monthly payment nor can i afford the cancellation feeif ever. Fortunately, there is no money on my linked account right now so they havent charged me anything yet, but im worried that they might in the future if I dont cancel this now. Please help me. What can I do in this situation? What is the most effective way here? Is it safe to contact their customer support and is it guaranteed that they will cancel my plan?

Adobe Acrobat has officially become unusable. I am staring at a spinning wheel on a massive legal filing because Adobe decided my PDF editor needs to be an AI experience instead of a functional tool. They hid basic professional features like redaction and page management behind endless new menus just to push a permanent AI sidebar that keeps asking to summarize my brief. I do not need a summary. I need to file this today. The software is so bloated it crashes under the weight of features no one asked for. I am paying a premium subscription for a program that is actively sabotaging my work. Is there a heavy duty alternative that stays local and actually works? Or am I stuck hunting down an old version of Acrobat just to keep my sanity?

Edit: I found the solution guys, simply look for an older version of acrobat, I grabbed an acrobat dc 2024 lifetime subscription key by searching online. If you want to take a look google adobe keypunch if you are interested.

Hey there,

With what Adobe is doing to creators and the price getting higher and higher, I want to move away from it.

However, I have several huge LR catalogues with adjustments. I don't know if I move away from LR. how other programs will able to read it.

Currently, I have all my RAW saved as DNG, so I could save meta data to file so the adjustments are embedded.

For those people who are already moved on, how do you guys repare for files for other programs? Any tips?

Many thanks in advance :D

Hi everyone,
I’m a student in graphic design and I’m currently facing an issue with an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.
I originally subscribed to a personal student plan because my school did not provide Adobe access at the time. It was a discounted annual plan.
Recently, my school activated an official institutional Adobe Creative Cloud license for all students, which fully covers the same software I was paying for personally.
Now I’m in a situation where I have:
an active personal annual Adobe ( I didn’t know it was an annual contract; I only found out later (I thought it was a discounted monthly payment plan for a year),
but it turned out it wasn’t. It was a one-year commitment with no option to cancel without a penalty.)
subscription (paid by me)
an institutional school-provided license (free)
Since I no longer need the personal plan, I tried to cancel it. However, Adobe is asking for an early termination fee (~€60) because it’s an annual contract.
On top of that, the subscription is about to renew automatically in a few days (~€20 charge).
So basically I’m trying to understand:
Is there any realistic chance to get this early termination fee waived in this situation?
Has anyone successfully gotten a cancellation fee removed due to having a school-provided license or overlapping institutional access?
What is the best way to approach Adobe support to maximize the chances of getting an exception approved?
I’m not trying to avoid payment unfairlyI just ended up with a duplicated service due to a change in my school’s licensing situation.
Any advice or experiences would be really appreciated