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2.04.2008

Adobe to discontinue Stock Photo service

Macworld is reporting today that Adobe will stop selling stock images and illustrations via its Bridge interface as of April 1, 2008.

I had used Adobe Stock Photo off and on since purchasing my CS3 upgrade, and found it a bit slow. As in "slllllloooooooooowwwwww". Especially when you did a search for something returning more than about a dozen images. The server up at Adobe seemed to be going out and taking the photo, developing the film, cropping it, getting it licensed, and uploadingit to my computer each time I clicked the "search" button. I won't be particularly sorry to see it go.

The service relied on a host of other providers, such as Getty Images, or GettyOne, or whatever they have branded themselves as this year. If I bought a ton more stock each year, I might have found the trade-off of speed vs. an all-in-one-place solution acceptable, but for my needs, not so much. While my clients use a bit of stock photography, they also use a bit of assignment photography, especially location work, which I am happy to provide. And for those with tight budgets, the lure of shutterstock.com and istockphoto.com (even if they have relatively crappy images) is hard to resist.

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5.22.2007

Flash Bug: Find/Replace doesn't work with Carriage Returns in the string

There's not much else to report other than what you see in the title of this post: In Flash CS3, trying to Find a string that contains a carriage return returns a negative result. This, obviously, sucks. Especially when you need to modify, say, a hundred or so instances of an ActionScript across a dozen or so files.

I reported this to Adobe a couple of weeks ago, when I first ran across this issue. They confirmed that it was, indeed, a bug, and submitted a bug report on it. So, hopefully, it will get fixed in the next update.

Now if they could just get the documentation not to suck so much, Flash might actually be a decent program....

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4.30.2007

Love those 18-hour workdays!

I am currently getting over my annual spring cold, and therefore it should come as no surprise that I was awake early this morning. 3:30, to be exact. After an hour of flailing around, trying to get back to sleep despite clogged sinuses and a raving headache, I decided to head down to work.

This is one of the many advantages of working from a home office; I was downstairs, drinking coffee and booting up my Mac before most of my east coast clients had even had breakfast. This is a first for me--I pride myself on not using an alarm clock to get up, so being up this early was remarkable.

To my amazement, I accomplished quite a bit. Some stock photo research (using Adobe's Bridge CS3, which isn't all bad), some invoicing and bill paying, some vendor RFQs, and even a little bit of creative work. All before I saw clients' IM avatars showing up as "active". For a while, I thought about the possibilities of working this early every day. But I am not a morning person, unless forced into a sunrise photo shoot or a night shift press check; my body would rebel after a week or so of 5am wakeups (my condolences and awe are due to all of you who actually are up and moving that early as a matter of course, of course). After about six weeks of stumbling around at all hours tending to newborn twins, my body simply stopped responding--I just slept through it all, to the chagrin of my wife.

But today was a nice exception. I got a lot done, and was on my bike for a morning ride by 7:30. The downside came with some catch-up work this evening, which I've just wrapped up (at 10:45pm), and I am only now realizing I sort of, uh, forgot to eat dinner (do you think the two cups of coffee, three cups of espresso, two mochas, and three cups of green tea make up for it?)

And now, it is time to surrender to the bliss of slumber, only to be interrupted by the sound of the newborn hatchlings outside the window, saying good morning to the sun.

Unless, of course, I can't sleep again.

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