ADOBE PROGRAMS! I HATE THEM: Unraveling the Knots of Digital Content Innovation

Ever found yourself tangled in the web of Adobe's intricate software suite, or considered a nostalgic return to the simplicity of GarageBand and iMovie? I sure have, and in today's candid chat, I'll be taking you along the bumpy road of my digital content creation journey. It's a tale of grappling with the allure and frustrations of Adobe's offerings, from the initial charm of Photoshop to the ongoing tussle with the Creative Cloud subscription. I even spill the beans on my flirtation with open-source tools like Inkscape and the temptation to swap my trusty Mac for a gaming laptop – a move that could prove revolutionary for my work with Meta PC.

As we peel back the layers of my creative process, I also lay bare the complexities of navigating the social media minefield, sharing my astonishment at how a simple tag or title can skyrocket your reach. And as the clock winds down on our time together, I leave a breadcrumb trail for a discussion point I'm itching to explore next time – so be sure to give me a nudge if I forget! My heartfelt thanks go out to you for joining this session, and remember, your interaction is not just appreciated – it's the fuel that ignites the passion behind each episode. So hit that like button, drop a comment or question, and let's keep this conversation about the twists and turns of digital content creation going.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:18

Adobe systems are driving crazy, dude. I don't, it's getting to be too much. Here we go with another episode, recording another podcast episode so I can practice with my Adobe programs. Let's see how this looks. I changed the lighting a little bit, anyway. Yeah, so this is the objective, jerk, and I'm said jerk, how's everybody doing? I recorded a podcast the other day, basically to practice, to use for audition.

Speaker 1: 1:14

I was having issues and I kept going back to GarageBand, which is so much easier to use, one of the reasons people are like if you go to Mac, why not just use what comes with it? That makes sense. If I was sticking with Mac, I would. Garageband and iMovie is so easy to use, especially for what I'm using it for. I For my podcast and the little videos. It's pretty simple. I'm looking to get rid of my Mac or I'll probably keep it as a family and then get myself a nice gaming laptop, because what I'm looking at for MetapyC and use that because it's just, I don't know. There's some stuff.

Speaker 1: 2:17

Anyway, I'm going to talk about what I'm doing and everything, and I guess this episode is basically going to be about Adobe systems programs. I don't know. So let's see, I got a little bit of. I got the Wikipedia up here. It started in the Garage, like everything else. What year? It's? On? The 80s Stream, more not, if the creek is so named, oh, that's where they. Anyway, so it started in the 80s. So PDF was first. I thought PDF was second. Adobe Premiere oh, they had Premiere back in. That must have been for Anyway. So my first experience with anything Adobe was Photoshop. I worked for a sign company that made vinyl graphics and various things, and they used Photoshop for software or Photoshop software for editing, and that's where I got my first taste of using the program. And then it wasn't until After the army, I think so, probably like way after the army, I'm trying to think. I don't know if I messed around with it in between or not, I can't remember, but so I used. I don't think I did actually. I think I used.

Speaker 1: 3:52

I used Photoshop for a lot like in the late 90s, and then I joined the army 2001, but it was the end of 2001. So my army. So it started in 2002. And then I got out 2007. Can't remember if I did anything regarding it. I did do some Microsoft stuff, but yeah, I think it wasn't until like 2013 actually when I started playing with it again, and it was, I was working for the army but I was doing like marketing for MWR, and that's when I got exposed to Illustrator, which is like Photoshop, but it's vector, you know, doesn't use pixels, which is what Photoshop with pictures and everything.

Speaker 1: 4:44

So so I got ended up using, so I had to learn, illustrator, which is pretty similar to Photoshop but it is a little different. But I learned how to use that pretty good and then so I've been kind of using that. But then, you know, like when I started taking photography, it's like I had to go and take Photoshop again and then I had to kind of relearn and I wonder what it would be. I would love to kind of play around with one of those original like 97, 98 Photoshop programs, because compared to what it is now, it's probably so easy to use. But so that's kind of what I've been, you know, going back and forth, but it's like it costs money and I don't really use it enough to justify paying.

Speaker 1: 5:31

So I, you know, I tried doing open source and free programs which worked great, like I had Inkscape for a while, but that it was like I kept having some issues and it was like kind of pissing me off. So, and then I tried another one I can't remember what it was called, I think I talked about it before, but which I wouldn't. That one worked great, but then they got bought by somebody or something, or they merged with another company and then you had to, and then to use it, you had to basically use something else or, and it was just like what, no, I don't want to, and I hate being forced to use something that I don't want to. You know, if they're like hey, you know, this works pretty good with it, cool, maybe I'll try it, but don't make me to use this to have to incorporate something else, I don't know. So I was just like screw this.

Speaker 1: 6:22

And then I went back to Adobe and, like I said, I've been using audition or audition garage band to record my podcast, and I moved me to make the little videos that I have for rumble on YouTube. Well, like I said, I'm looking to get rid of my Mac or not use my Mac, and so in order to do that, I got to start, you know, finding alternatives. So that's why I started using audition. I use that for the last podcast and I think it sounds pretty good. It's just like. It's almost like too much for what I need it for.

Speaker 1: 7:08

And it's the same thing with with the like premier rush. I've been sitting there dinking with premier. Is that what it's called? Yeah, it's like a video editor which is like a video editor, but it's just like it's. It's not as user friendly as I movie and it's just like I'm constantly trying to. It's just I don't know. It's just it's getting frustrating. I can't, I don't have the tension span to spend one hour trying to figure out one thing. It's like if I can't figure out in a couple of minutes you know what I mean Then it's like okay.

Speaker 1: 7:53

So on these programs, you know there are kind of a few different ways that you can get a certain thing done. I don't know, like a certain if you want to change something or add something or whatever. There are a couple that there's no one way to do almost anything. There's a couple different ways. I'm not talking about keystrokes, but so usually I can find, whether highlighting, right-click or looking the menu. If I can't see what it is I need, then I'm just like, okay, I don't want it. You know what I mean. Yes, I can watch videos and all this kind of crap. But sometimes I'm in the mood to do that and that's fine, but sometimes I'm just not. I didn't have to do that.

Speaker 1: 8:41

With GarageBand or iMovie you can. They're user-friendly enough to where you can play with them a little bit. It may take a little bit, but you'll kind of oh, you know, just like when you're about to give up, all of a sudden something works and you figure, oh cool, then it just kind of I don't know, it's hard to explain, but for me it just works easier. So with Audition, I found a little part that you know, a little article that discussed like the settings and things that you can do on Audition for podcasts, and so it was just like two things to make a difference, and then it sounds pretty good and it's so. Now I got it figured out.

Speaker 1: 9:28

But, like I said, it's this massive program and I'm just using a little part of it and I will never probably use. I mean never say never. But you know, like I don't have to add in sound effects and all these things because I've already created my intros and everything, which I guess I could always change, maybe. So, but the thing is my Buzzsprout, my podcast program, has the intro, like I have it built in to like the website and my outro and all the different things. So all I got to do is just record my audio and then when I upload it it puts it all together for me. So that's why I don't have to have all the different levels and different stuff and create, you know, this, this, this huge undertaking of audio, whatever it's. Just it's pretty simple.

Speaker 1: 10:28

And then what I found while kind of trying to figure out what I want to do is there's a, okay, first of all, adobe. They need to like, organize and classify their crap. They have so many programs that are for video, video editing, and it's not really clear like what's what, and you have audio and you know and they have. They kind of need to have like a. They need to have a couple of different tiers, like they need to have, you know, like maybe like a tick tock not they wouldn't call it tick tock, but you know, for the people that make tick tock videos and make short little videos like that, they have programs for that. I mean most all of them. You know you can use premium rush to make those if you want to, but it's like kind of an overkill, just like my video for my podcast, and and then they have some that are like, okay, a little more in depth, and then you have like the professional ones. So they need to have like the like the beginner, the junior program that has all the little rinky, dinky crap. They need to have like the hobby, which is what I kind of consider myself, and then have the professional you know. And so I got audition and Then, while I was messing with audition, I found a program which is not a program.

Speaker 1: 11:53

It's like it's their website and it's called like Adobe podcast and it's really from. I didn't use it, but from what I can tell it's really user-friendly, straightforward, make a podcast really easy. The thing is it's on a website, so it's like you create it and then you download it. So to me it's like Making it on the website gives the website Access to your podcast. Not that anybody's clamoring for objective jerk, but you know what I mean.

Speaker 1: 12:25

Like it, I don't like, I don't, I Don't like that and I just as much as like I don't like the subscriptions they got. So it's like you know, before you used to, you know you could buy a photoshop, an illustrator. Now I'll spend 80 bucks or something and you could use it as it was and Then get it, and then, and then you know you would get so used to it and know everything about it that If an update came along you could purchase it or you didn't have to. But then by then it's like you know you have it all down pretty good, and then you get the update and then you can learn whatever it is that that's, it's in the update. But now it's like when you pay subscription, it just updates it all the time.

Speaker 1: 13:10

So it's like you know, I remember like doing something. I think it was. It was when I, like I first learned on photoshop to do these HDR photos. You take different, like a bunch of photos of the same picture With different contrasts, and then you put them together emergent. It makes it this the super hyper detailed picture, which is kind of cool and I like, I still like doing it. So I, you know I learned how to do that in like a class I took and so I would do that, and then I knew exactly what was and then all of a sudden it moved to a different, like they would move it to a different whatever.

Speaker 1: 13:48

So it's like you have to sit there and try and find it or relearn. You know what I mean, and it's like that's kind of annoying. That's what I miss about just buying the program and having a program. But see, they don't make as much money, man, when they buy the program like that, because you have a lot of people that just they're good with the old program for what they need. You know, the subscriptions, man. That's where they make their money. It's all about the money that sucks.

Speaker 1: 14:16

But then you also have so there's that's kind of what's going on with me and the podcast and the audio part of it. So now I'm looking at video and they have. They have let's see if I can pull this up here. So they have. I Got the the what do you call it? Creative cloud Open. See, like they have things that we can make like a little video for Instagram or a tick tock or whatever, and that's cool.

Speaker 1: 14:49

What am I looking for? I am looking for oh, here we go, okay, but it's just like it's hard to know. So you click on video. So here's like categories, so here's video. So I have Adobe Express, which is the web, which is kind of Same thing with the podcast. You got Premiere Pro. You got After Effects, character Animator and Media Encoder, which, okay, I mean Character Animator. That's pretty obvious what that is.

Speaker 1: 15:20

But they have so many different things. Can they have their little fancy name, premiere Pro? But then maybe kind of like for beginner video editing? For I mean, premiere Pro is for like the pro, obviously, but I don't know. There's just so much crap, you know, and so it's like I had to sit there and basically, okay, what are all the programs that you can use to edit? And so I'm looking and then I find this, this program called Adobe Premiere Elements. I don't know if this is like.

Speaker 1: 15:57

I think this is like a new program they're working on and they're kind of seeing how it goes, because right now there's no, there's no subscription. So if you want it, you, you buy it. So there's Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements and this actually might be kind of good for me If they would add, if they would add like the podcast thing to this and then buy it in a program. I would do that. See, that kind of that's, I think, better suited for me and what I want to use it for. So I downloaded this program 30 day free trial, we'll see. But again, yeah, you just buy it. But then I'm sure, like, if they sell a lot of it or it gets popular, then they're going to be like oh, if you want, are you going to have a subscription? I hate it, you know the whole subscription for everything. But so that's kind of what I'm doing.

Speaker 1: 17:00

So I'm recording this podcast now to edit in this new program. So I had it, I was going to mess around on premium rush some more, but then I was going through my files and I was clearing out some. You know, because I have a bunch of videos. You know the videos I make. Then I turn around and process for my podcast. So those original videos they're just taking up space, you know. So I was like, okay, I'm going to get through. And plus, I was just trying to organize some images and stuff for the just organizing, you know, my basically my podcast folder, everything I have to do with my podcast, and doing that I deleted the last. I deleted all my original recordings, so all I have is my already processed ones that were made by iMovie or whatever, and so I'm like man, so now I can't even so.

Speaker 1: 18:04

That's why I'm like well, now I got to make another video and it's like, yeah, I can make another short video or whatever this and that, but it's like I want to, kind of I want to set up the intro and do everything for it. So I might as well make another podcast or the video and then kind of go from there so that's. It's basically, you know, 18 minutes worth of me jabbering. That's basically why I'm recording this. So I just, I don't know, kind of it's just annoying though sometimes Photoshop Does anybody else use Photoshop and what do they use? I know a lot of people have some good luck, have some good luck, have some luck with some open source or other programs, but it's like I tried them and it just didn't really kind of work out for me.

Speaker 1: 18:57

So I'm hoping this elements thing I'm going to research this a little bit more. So I'm kind of for me it would be perfect to do the elements along with, like the YouTube, youtube the podcast program, so that Adobe podcasts. If they put that on there, man, that would be sweet and I would buy that, and then I would You20 I most likely cancel my subscription to Creative Cloud because right now I mean, it's not that much really, I guess, but still, you know, I have like access to a lot of things, but then it's like the things I want to, you know, it's like this. It's like you get it and you're like, oh, look at all this crap you got, but then it's like the stuff you really want to use it for it's not there. So, yes, you like they have illustrator and you have in design, which is actually part of my thing create interactive magazines and ebooks.

Speaker 1: 20:03

I don't know what that is. So you got illustrator, you got Photoshop and then now it's like this other express, whatever it is, that's not even showing on here. I don't understand what's going on. There's so much. They just have so much crap. It's almost like so they got beta apps so you can kind of use. There's so many different things pre-release illustrator, test features and fixtures under development.

Speaker 1: 20:32

Yeah, so I mean I mean it's kind of cool because they're always working on, you know, keeping stuff running good, but at the same time, like I said, it's like just when you're used to how something works and they change something, it's kind of annoying and for me for me it's not really conducive for the way my brain works, like I have to learn by doing. I mean I can read and then do it, and then I got to do it a couple of times and then it sinks in and you know that's basically just how it works. I can't watch a video. And they'd be like, oh, okay, and then how many times? You know that's the other thing too that goes along with them with the subscription and updating. It's like you'll watch, which I guess is good for YouTube creators that do this, that create videos on how to use these things, because then they can just make another video. But it's like, or even some instructions, like I actually like to find articles that have the instructions on how to do it, but some of them are like outdated, because it'll be like, okay, go here, go here and click on this and then here, select this, and then you go and do it and it's not there, like where's it at? I can't find it. Where's it? You know what I mean? And it's like because they're always changing it and stuff and updating it. So it's kind of annoying.

Speaker 1: 21:56

It's going to be a horrible, horrible podcast. I don't know who knows. Watch this will be like the most viewed one. It's kind of funny how ones that I think will suck don't and then like ones that do well on bus sprout, don't do well on anything else, but then one will do well on rumble but then suck on YouTube and then vice versa, like one that that got like one one view on rumble or something. It's got something like the most on YouTube.

Speaker 1: 22:31

So I'm like what the crap? I guess it's just probably the, the tags and the hashtags and stuff I put in it, maybe plus a title, I guess I don't know. But and I am check this out I am thinking what time do I got? Oh man, you know what Time's about up. So you know what. I will save this. I want to put a thumb tag, put a pit in it for next time. Remind me, okay, remind me what I was going to talk about. I'll totally forget. Anyway, so that's about it. I appreciate your time. You know, please like and subscribe and all that kind of stuff to support everything, and if you got any questions, please let me know. Appreciate your time. Thank you so much.