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Multiple Sources of Income:We want someone to join us as a scriptwriter, editor, mixer or showrunner, possibly even for co-founder rewards.If you are willing to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link:http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Amazon Recommendations: Think and Grow Rich – A timeless guide to success and wealth-building. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – A powerful fable about self-discovery and pushing limits. Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms – An essential reference for understanding financial jargon.Our Credits:These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FIFTH YEAR!!Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays!Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays!Learn more about Simple Success with John Brandy using our all-in-one access link hereVisit the Simple Success with John Brandy website today!Follow Us Here:https://podseo.comhttps://episodes.fm https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhenAll Little Red Hen Productions:
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Multiple Sources of Income:We want someone to join us as a scriptwriter, editor, mixer or showrunner, possibly even for co-founder rewards.If you are willing to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link:http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Amazon Recommendations: Think and Grow Rich – A timeless guide to success and wealth-building. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – A powerful fable about self-discovery and pushing limits. Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms – An essential reference for understanding financial jargon.Our Credits:These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FIFTH YEAR!!Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays!Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays!Learn more about Simple Success with John Brandy using our all-in-one access link hereVisit the Simple Success with John Brandy website today!Follow Us Here:https://podseo.com https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income:We want someone to join us as a scriptwriter, editor, mixer or showrunner, possibly even for co-founder rewards.If you are willing to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link:http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Amazon Recommendations: Think and Grow Rich – A timeless guide to success and wealth-building. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – A powerful fable about self-discovery and pushing limits. Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms – An essential reference for understanding financial jargon.Our Credits:These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FIFTH YEAR!!Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays!Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays!Learn more about Simple Success with John Brandy using our all-in-one access link hereVisit the Simple Success with John Brandy website today!Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/All Little Red Hen Productions:
In this episode, we break down tax planning strategies for U.S. citizens and green card holders in a way that's clear, practical, and stress-free. Many believe tax planning is only for the wealthy, but that's a huge misconception!Through an engaging and conversational discussion, we explore:
Multiple Sources of Income:We want someone to join us as a scriptwriter, editor, mixer or showrunner, possibly even for co-founder rewards.If you are willing to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Amazon Recommendations:Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century (Think and Grow Rich Series)https://amzn.to/4ihxt4qJonathan Livingston Seagullhttps://amzn.to/3EWGnWLDictionary of Finance and Investment Terms (BARRON'S FINANCE AND INVESTMENT HANDBOOK)https://amzn.to/4keyCvvStillness Is The Keyhttps://amzn.to/41IADclAmazon Basics Neoprene Dumbbell Hand Weightshttps://amzn.to/41wAici Our Credits:These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FIFTH YEAR!!Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays!Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays!Learn more about Simple Success with John Brandy using our all-in-one access link hereVisit the Simple Success with John Brandy website today!Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/All Little Red Hen Productions:
In today's episode, we're diving into the world of business organizations. We'll break down Limited Liability Companies (LLCs)—known for their flexibility and personal asset protection—versus the newer Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), which operate on blockchain technology, offering transparency and collective decision-making.Both structures have unique advantages and potential pitfalls, and choosing the right one can be a game-changer for your financial future. So, whether you're a traditional entrepreneur or a Web3 enthusiast, this episode will help you understand how these models fit into a wealth-building strategy.Key Takeaways:✅ LLCs offer legal protection and operational flexibility.✅ DAOs prioritize transparency and decentralized governance.✅ The right structure depends on your business goals, risk tolerance, and vision.✅ Your business entity can shape your financial success—choose wisely!Questions to Reflect On:Are you looking for more control (LLC) or community-driven decision-making (DAO)?How important is asset protection and legal structure for your business goals?Does blockchain-based transparency and decentralization align with your vision?How does your chosen business model support long-term financial independence?Quote of the Episode:"Your business structure isn't just paperwork—it's a foundation for financial success."Amazon Recommendations:Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century (Think and Grow Rich Series)https://amzn.to/4ihxt4qJonathan Livingston Seagullhttps://amzn.to/3EWGnWLDictionary of Finance and Investment Terms (BARRON'S FINANCE AND INVESTMENT HANDBOOK)https://amzn.to/4keyCvvStillness Is The Keyhttps://amzn.to/41IADclAmazon Basics Neoprene Dumbbell Hand Weightshttps://amzn.to/41wAici Our Credits:These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FIFTH YEAR!!Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays!Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays!Learn more about Simple Success with John Brandy using our all-in-one access link hereVisit the Simple Success with John Brandy website today!Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income Opportunity: We have an opportunity for someone to join us, marketing on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, Pintrest, Threads, Bluesky or others for a nice chunk of the action, possibly even for co-founder rewards. If you are interested enough to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income Opportunity: We have an opportunity for someone to join us, marketing on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, Pintrest, Threads, Bluesky or others for a nice chunk of the action, possibly even for co-founder rewards. If you are interested enough to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income Opportunity: We have an opportunity for someone to join us, marketing on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, Pintrest, Threads, Bluesky or others for a nice chunk of the action, possibly even for co-founder rewards. If you are interested enough to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income Opportunity: We have an opportunity for someone to join us, marketing on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, Pintrest, Threads, Bluesky or others for a nice chunk of the action, possibly even for co-founder rewards. If you are interested enough to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income Opportunity: We have an opportunity for someone to join us, marketing on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, Pintrest, Threads, Bluesky or others for a nice chunk of the action, possibly even for co-founder rewards. If you are interested enough to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income Opportunity: We have an opportunity for someone to join us, marketing on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, Pintrest, Threads, Bluesky or others for a nice chunk of the action, possibly even for co-founder rewards. If you are interested enough to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income Opportunity: We have an opportunity for someone to join us, marketing on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, Pintrest, Threads, Bluesky or others for a nice chunk of the action, possibly even for co-founder rewards. If you are interested enough to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income: We also want someone to join us as a scriptwriter, editor, mixer or showrunner, possibly even for co founder rewards. If you are willing to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income: We also want someone to join us as a scriptwriter, editor, mixer or showrunner, possibly even for co founder rewards. If you are willing to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income: We also want someone to join us as a scriptwriter, editor, mixer or showrunner, possibly even for co founder rewards. If you are willing to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income: We also want someone to join us as a scriptwriter, editor, mixer or showrunner, possibly even for co founder rewards. If you are willing to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income: We also want someone to join us as a scriptwriter, editor, mixer or showrunner, possibly even for co founder rewards. If you are willing to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income: We also want someone to join us as a scriptwriter, editor, mixer or showrunner, possibly even for co founder rewards. If you are willing to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income: We also want someone to join us as a scriptwriter, editor, mixer or showrunner, possibly even for co founder rewards. If you are willing to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Multiple Sources of Income: We also want someone to join us as a scriptwriter, editor, mixer or showrunner, possibly even for co founder rewards. If you are willing to dedicate the time to learn the craft, contact us at this link: http://www.facebook.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions:
Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions: John Brandy Podcasts Simple Success Web: https://www.simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy.com/ A Choice Voice Web: https://www.achoicevoice.com/ Production Credit: Techno King: John C. Brandy. Alter Ego: Doubting Thomas. Fact-Checker: A Small Brown Beef Animal, Really Tiny. Facts Are Important But Are Also Easy. Social Manager: Abraham Lincoln. Media Expert: Augustus Caesar. Psychologist: William James. Sound Designer: Adobe's Creative Suite. Language Consultant: Lea – The French Do Your Own Research Lady. Videographer: Etomon Koshki. Audio Props: Les Paul. Inspiration: Many podcasts and other sources and of course Napoleon Hill. Other Links: iOS Simple Success: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/simple-success-with-john-brandy/id1549566678 Droid Simple Success: https://podcasts.google.com/search/simple%20success%20with%20john%20brandy iOS A Choice Voice: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-choice-voice-with-john-brandy/id1560026051 Droid A Choice Voice: https://podcasts.google.com/search/a%20choice%20voice%20with%20john%20brandy AI Voices & Other Stuff @ Amazon Polly, Google, ACE Studios & Online Tone Generator Finally, you can find us on Podmatch, Matchmaker.FM, Podbooker and Podcast Guests, where we consider guests & guesting on other pods. And really finally, our music and sound effects come from freesound.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simplesuccess/message
Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions: John Brandy Podcasts Simple Success Web: https://www.simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy.com/ A Choice Voice Web: https://www.achoicevoice.com/ Production Credit: Techno King: John C. Brandy. Alter Ego: Doubting Thomas. Fact-Checker: A Small Brown Beef Animal, Really Tiny. Facts Are Important But Are Also Easy. Social Manager: Abraham Lincoln. Media Expert: Augustus Caesar. Psychologist: William James. Sound Designer: Adobe's Creative Suite. Language Consultant: Lea – The French Do Your Own Research Lady. Videographer: Etomon Koshki. Audio Props: Les Paul. Inspiration: Many podcasts and other sources and of course Napoleon Hill. Other Links: iOS Simple Success: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/simple-success-with-john-brandy/id1549566678 Droid Simple Success: https://podcasts.google.com/search/simple%20success%20with%20john%20brandy iOS A Choice Voice: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-choice-voice-with-john-brandy/id1560026051 Droid A Choice Voice: https://podcasts.google.com/search/a%20choice%20voice%20with%20john%20brandy AI Voices & Other Stuff @ Amazon Polly, Google, ACE Studios & Online Tone Generator Finally, you can find us on Podmatch, Matchmaker.FM, Podbooker and Podcast Guests, where we consider guests & guesting on other pods. And really finally, our music and sound effects come from freesound.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simplesuccess/message
Our Credits: These podcasts are productions of Little Red Hen Industries. OUR FOURTH YEAR!! Learn about financial education & personal finance with John Brandy on Simple Success on Mondays! Listen to great speeches with John on A Choice Voice, which comes out on Wednesdays! Follow Us Here: https://www.instagram.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy https://www.pinterest.com/simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy/ https://www.facebook.com/simplesuccess https://www.reddit.com/r/littleredhen/ All Little Red Hen Productions: John Brandy Podcasts Simple Success Web: https://www.simplesuccesswithjohnbrandy.com/ A Choice Voice Web: https://www.achoicevoice.com/ Production Credit: Techno King: John C. Brandy. Alter Ego: Doubting Thomas. Fact-Checker: A Small Brown Beef Animal, Really Tiny. Facts Are Important But Are Also Easy. Social Manager: Abraham Lincoln. Media Expert: Augustus Caesar. Psychologist: William James. Sound Designer: Adobe's Creative Suite. Language Consultant: Lea – The French Do Your Own Research Lady. Videographer: Etomon Koshki. Audio Props: Les Paul. Inspiration: Many podcasts and other sources and of course Napoleon Hill. Other Links: iOS Simple Success: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/simple-success-with-john-brandy/id1549566678 Droid Simple Success: https://podcasts.google.com/search/simple%20success%20with%20john%20brandy iOS A Choice Voice: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-choice-voice-with-john-brandy/id1560026051 Droid A Choice Voice: https://podcasts.google.com/search/a%20choice%20voice%20with%20john%20brandy AI Voices & Other Stuff @ Amazon Polly, Google, ACE Studios & Online Tone Generator Finally, you can find us on Podmatch, Matchmaker.FM, Podbooker and Podcast Guests, where we consider guests & guesting on other pods. And really finally, our music and sound effects come from freesound.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simplesuccess/message
Jennifer Jones-Mitchell, Founder and Creator Coach at Human Driven AI, delves into generative AI. Tools like Midjourney and DALL-E are simplifying the creation of stunning visuals for non-designers in a fraction of the time it would take within Photoshop or Illustrator. However, now that Adobe has integrated AI across its Creative Suite, creating brand-consistent visual content at scale is becoming increasingly easy for marketers and designers alike. Today, Jennifer discusses how to use generative AI for design. Show NotesConnect With: Jennifer Jones-Mitchell: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Jennifer Jones-Mitchell, Founder and Creator Coach at Human Driven AI, delves into generative AI. Tools like Midjourney and DALL-E are simplifying the creation of stunning visuals for non-designers in a fraction of the time it would take within Photoshop or Illustrator. However, now that Adobe has integrated AI across its Creative Suite, creating brand-consistent visual content at scale is becoming increasingly easy for marketers and designers alike. Today, Jennifer discusses how to use generative AI for design. Show NotesConnect With: Jennifer Jones-Mitchell: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In this week's episode, we take a look at whether or not writers should stop writing because of the threat of generative AI programs. This week's coupon is for the audiobook of CLOAK OF ASHES as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook of CLOAK OF ASHES for 75% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code: OCTASHES The coupon code is valid through November 18th, 2023, so if you find yourself wanting to get caught up before CLOAK OF EMBERS comes out soon, why not start with an audiobook? TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 173 of the Pulp Writer show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is October the 27th, 2023 and today we're going to talk about whether or not you should stop writing fiction because of the threat of generative AI. Before we get into that, we will have a Coupon of the Week and an update on my current writing projects. First up, Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon is for the audiobook of Cloak of Ashes, as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audio book of Cloak of Ashes for 75% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code: OCTASHES and again, that is OCTASHES and you can also see that in the show notes. This coupon code is valid through November 18th, 2023. So if you find yourself wanting to get caught up before Cloak of Embers comes out soon, why not start with an audiobook? That does seem thematically appropriate to go from Cloak of Ashes to Cloak of Embers, even though Cloak of Ashes will be book three of the series and Cloak of Embers will be book ten. As you might guess, my current writing project is still Cloak of Embers and as of this recording I'm about 68,000 words into it, though I really want to get to 70,000 by the time I am done working on it for the day. I've had two different 10,000 word days working on this book, which is a very good thing because it's going to be a long one. As I mentioned before, I'm 68,000 words into it and I'm not even at the halfway point of my outline yet and some of the previous chapters are so long, I'm going to have to split them up into smaller chapters. So I am confident in saying that while I don't know exactly how long Cloak of Embers is going to be, I am entirely certain that it's going to be the longest book I will write in 2023. For audiobooks, right now Brad Wills is recording Dragonskull: Wrath of the Warlock, and we are hoping to have that out by December or so. As for what I want to write once Cloak of Embers is done, I have not decided. I knew Cloak of Embers was going to be a long book. I didn't realize how long, so whatever I write next, it depends on how long it takes me to finish Cloak of Embers and how things look at that point in time, but I'm still hoping to have Cloak of Embers out in November, though it does look like there is a good possibility that the book might slip to December. 00:02:26 Main Topic: Should You Stop Creative Work Because of Generative AI? So on to our main topic this week. Should you stop writing or pursuing creative efforts because of generative AI? Without major spoilers, the chief villain of the new Mission Impossible movie from back in May was an evil artificial intelligence. That makes it timely to do another podcast episode about generative AI. I recently saw a long, somewhat maundering social media post arguing that since soon AI would advance to the point that it could spit out a fully completed novel at the press of a button, there was no point in attempting to write any longer. The post's author claimed it was a black pilled post, though my experience the term black pilled is usually Internet shorthand for “I will use my fears as an excuse to avoid action.” I also saw a New York Times article about a father worried about encouraging his son's creative interest because he feared that AI would soon replace all of that. So that leads to the question, should you stop writing fiction because of AI or engaging in any creative pursuit at all? Short answer, no. Get a hold of yourself. Maybe splash some cold water on your face. The longer, more elaborate answer: One, using fear of AI as a reason not to do something is excuse making. In fact, this is a formal logical fallacy known as the nirvana fallacy, which states that if conditions are not perfect or the outcome of an action is not perfect, then it is not worth doing. The usually cited example of this is that people wearing seatbelts can die in traffic accidents, therefore, seatbelts are not worth wearing. The counterpoint to this is that has been well proven that seat belts reduce fatality traffic fatalities and injuries and an improved but imperfect outcome is better than no improvement at all. Writers in general seem to be strongly prone to the nirvana fallacy. You will see many, many, many excuses for why writers do not want to write. Some of those excuses are, of course, perfectly valid, such as an illness, a life crisis like a death in the family, or a car accident, or something of that nature. But quite a few of those excuses boil down to the nirvana fallacy. Conditions are not perfect or the outcome will not be perfect, so therefore it is better not to start at all. Fear of AI is really the latest excuse to slot into the nirvana fallacy. Two: AI is worse than you think it is. It is regrettable that the various image generations and generators and large language models get saddled with the term AI because there's nothing terribly intelligent about them. They're basically fancy autocomplete, whether for pictures or for words. Granted, further refinements in the technology have made it into very super-duper fancy autocomplete, but there's still nothing particularly intelligent about it. AI is also a lot harder to use effectively than many people think. If you want to get a decent result out of an AI, you need to spend a lot of work refining the prompts. People can make some beautiful images in Midjourney, but for every beautiful image that comes out of Midjourney, there's like 40 billion terrible ones. Every really good image you see that was generated with an AI probably took like a 400 word prompt after several hundred iterations. Getting acceptable fiction out of a chatbot is so much work that it's easier simply to write it yourself. Ironically, if you want to fix it out of a chatbot, ask it about something factual. Also, whenever people try to rely on AI to do something important, bad things seem to happen. A nonprofit website devoted to treating eating disorders got rid of its volunteer counselors and replaced them with a chatbot, only for the chatbot to start dispensing bad diet advice. A couple of months ago, some lawyers in New York got in big trouble when they used ChatGPT for legal research, only for it to invent cases that had never happened. To be fair, the lawyer in question apparently failed to double check anything and ChatGPT repeatedly said in its answer it is a large language model and not a lawyer. As an amusing aside, the morning I wrote this paragraph, I got a text from a teacher I know complaining how much he hates ChatGPT. It's incredibly obvious when his students use ChatGPT to do their homework because the answers are so similar. As it turns out, ChatGPT isn't even good at cheating. The point is that whenever there are situations that involve personal or criminal liability, using AI is a very bad idea. Obviously, writing a is a much lower stakes endeavor, but that leads directly to our next point. Number three: you can't see in the future. Just because everyone says AI is the next big thing doesn't mean that it is. The problem with a lot of tech CEOs is that they all want to be Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was unquestionably a major figure in tech history, but he has been mythologized. His keynote presentations were masterpieces of showmanship, which means that people remember his career that way, like Steve Jobs strode onto the stage, dramatically unveiled the transformative next big thing: The iPod, the iPad, the iPhone, changed the world, and made billions of dollars in front of an applauding crowd. To be fair, I typed this paragraph when I wrote it on a MacBook Air. But that overlooks the actual history, which is that Jobs failed at a whole lot of stuff. He got booted from Apple in the 1980s. His subsequent company, Next computer, didn't do all that great. And when Jobs returned to Apple in the late ‘90s, the company was in such dire straits that it needed a deal from Microsoft to stay afloat until the eMac and the iMac came along. The triumphant keynote phase of his career was in many ways his second act as an older, wiser man after a lot of setbacks and a lot of obsessive work went into all the Apple products mentioned above. The iPad and the iPhone in particular went through prototype after prototype and were the work of large and skilled teams of engineers. The trouble with remembering the mythology instead of the actual history behind Steve Jobs is that people tried to copy the mythology without doing the mountains of work that inspired the myth. These tech CEOs all want their products to be the next big thing, but the problem is that the product one, often isn't very good and is less of a product and more of an excuse to extract money from the customer and two, isn't actually all that useful. Like regardless of what one might think about an iPhone or an iPad, it cannot be denied that they are useful devices. I refused to use Apple devices at all in the 2000s because they are so expensive (a criticism that, in my opinion, remains valid), but in the mid 2010s, a combination of job changes (since I'd suddenly become responsible for a lot of Mac computers after a layoff) and just the sheer usefulness of many Apple devices meant that I started using them. I still have an iPod Touch I use when I go running or when I do outdoor work, and since Apple doesn't manufacture iPod Touches anymore, I will be sad when it finally dies. By contrast, a lot of new products aren't that good or that useful. The CEO has forgot that to extract money from the customer, you actually have to provide value in exchange. An iPad is expensive, but it does provide value. NFTs are a good example of this phenomenon of failing to add value for the customer. For a while, all the big brains in social media were convinced that NFTs are going to be the next big thing. The idea was that NFTs would create digital collectibles and artificial scarcity. People talked endlessly about minting their NFTs and how this was going to revolutionize online commerce. But I think it is safe to say that outside of a few niches, NFTs have been soundly rejected by the general public. They don't add value. If you buy, for example, a collectible Boba Fett figure, it is a physical object that you own, and if anyone takes it without your permission, you can charge them with theft. By contrast, if you buy an NFT for a JPEG of Boba Fett artwork, you have an entry on a blockchain and there's nothing to stop people from copying the JPEG of Boba Fett. What's the point of the NFT, then? Even if you don't keep the Boba Fett figure in its packaging and give it to a child as a toy, it still provides value in the form of entertaining the kid. Cryptocurrency was another next big thing for a while. Some people were sure that crypto was going to end central banks and government issued fiat currency. Of course, while there are many legitimate criticisms to be made of central banks and fiat currency, it turns out they do a good job of slowing down a lot of the scams that infested the crypto space. The late, great science fiction author Jerry Pournelle used to say that unregulated capitalism inevitably led to the sale of human flesh in the market, and crypto seems to have proven that unregulated securities trading leads inevitably to FTX and crypto marketplace collapses. The Metaverse is a much more expensive version of this. Mark Zuckerberg, worried about the future of Facebook, decided to pivot to his virtual reality Metaverse. Likely, Mr. Zuckerberg thought that the rise in remote work during the peak of the pandemic would permanently change social dynamics and Facebook, if it acted right now, could be to virtual reality what Microsoft was to the personal computer and Google was to search engines. Facebook changed its names to Meta and burned a lot of money trying to develop the Metaverse. However, this plan had two major flaws. One, while some people preferred the new social arrangements during COVID, a vastly larger majority hated it and wanted things is to go back to normal as soon as possible and two, Meta spent like $15 billion to build the Metaverse, but ended up with the worst version of Second Life that required very expensive virtual reality goggles. Meta ended up wiping out like 2/3 of its company value. So while right now generative AI might be the next big thing, but as the examples above show, this might not last. Number four, public derision. Generative AI could also be following a similar track as NFTs and cryptocurrencies: an initial surge of enthusiasm followed by widespread disdain and mockery and retreat to smaller niche. For a while, several big gaming companies were very excited about NFTs and a smaller number were interested in cryptocurrency. They would roll neatly into the growth of microtransactions which the gaming industry really loves, like you could buy a new skin or avatar for your character, and you'll also get an NFT is saying that you had #359 out of 5000, that kind of thing. Digital collectibles, as mentioned above, except the backlash was immense and people widely mocked every effort by game companies to insert NFTs into their product. It's an act too much of previous extract money efforts like microtransactions and lootboxes. Cryptocurrency likewise experienced an increasing level of public disdain. See how crypto bros have been mocked after the collapse of FTX and other large crypto companies. Generative AI is very popular in some quarters but is beginning to experience a growing level of public disdain as well. One recent example was fantasy author Mark Lawrence's self-publishing contest. An AI designed cover won the competition and the outrage was high enough that Mister Lawrence cancelled the cover competition in future years. To be fair, part of the problem was that the artist lied about using the AI on his application form. The Marvel show Secret Invasion used a bunch of AI generated images for its title sequences, and there was a backlash against that. Various professional organizations have come out against generative AI, and apparently one of the key points in the Hollywood writer's strike and the ongoing actor's strike is restrictions on AI, though one of the sticking points here is less about AI and more about using AI to enable irrational greed. It seems like these studios want to be able to use an individual actor's likeness in AI generation forever without payment. It's too soon to say how it will turn out, but it appears that a significant portion of public opinion is on the side of the actors on this. It probably helps that the CEOs of major media companies invariably managed to come across as cartoon villains. David Zaslav of Warner Discovery seems like he's there just to loot the company as efficiently as possible. And Bob Iger of Disney is currently dealing with all the very expensive mistakes he made during his previous tenure as CEO. So if these guys are excited about AI, why should anyone else think it's a good idea? So it's possible that the public derision against AI might push into niche uses, which would be bad news for the companies that spent billions on it. I've found that people in general are not that upset about using AI to get out of unpleasant tasks like writing cover letters or answering emails, but if they are consuming media for entertainment, then they get very annoyed if AI was used and it's gotten to the point where “it seems like an AI created it” has become an insult in negative reviews of various programs. Number five: synthesis. Despite all that I just said about cryptocurrency and NFTs, generative AI is objectively more useful than NFTs and less likely to use all of the money than crypto, though it might handle on the same low level risk of being sued if you use Midjourney for commercial purposes. I mean, most kids who are cheating on their homework, if they had thought about it a little more, rewritten, ChatGPT's response just a little bit, maybe throw in a couple of typos, they probably would have gotten away with it. To use a less unethical example, imagine you're applying for jobs and you crank out thirty different customized cover letters. You can spend all day sweating over a handcrafted letter that some HR drone will go in set for a second before throwing away, or you can use ChatGPT to generate them. There are lots of tedious documents which no one enjoys writing, but are necessary parts of daily life and something like ChatGPT is ideal for them or for that matter, specialized chat bots, ones are specifically designed to rate marketing copy and nothing else. AI Audio will probably end up at a point where it's simply another feature integrated into e-readers. Hit play and an AI voice will read in an accent of your choice while the human narrated version will be a premium product. I think that generative AI will probably settle into a halfway point between AI will transform everything hype and AI will destroy civilization doomer-ism. That's how these things usually go. A new idea comes along: thesis. A backlash to it arrives: antithesis. After some struggle, they settle into a halfway point: synthesis. Then it becomes just another tool. Photoshop and Adobe offers some evidence for this position. Adobe has been integrating its Firefly generative AI stuff into Photoshop with the generative fill tool. If you know anything about Adobe, you know that they are as corporate and litigious as it gets. The company isn't exactly into taking big, bold swings with its products. They've been incrementally updating Photoshop and the other Creative Suite products forever. So if Adobe feels safe integrating generative AI into its products, it's probably not going anywhere for a while. But here's the important point. On social media, you see a lot of impressive images generated with generative fill in Adobe and Photoshop, but if you try it yourself, 99% of what it generates is not very good. Refinement, iterations, and testing are vital. If AI doesn't go away, I think that's where it's going, providing the raw materials for further refinement and improvement. Six: conclusion. As you might guess from the tone of my podcast episodes on the subject, I don't like generative AI very much, and I don't think it adds very much of value, though this might be just my overall grumpiness. If overreacting legislation came along that crippled AI research, I don't personally think much of value would be lost. No one can see the future, as many examples above demonstrate. But overall, I think generative AI is going to be just another tool and one that will require practice to effectively use, actually will probably require more practice to effectively use than people think. Stopping writing or preventing a child from engaging in creative pursuits is a bit like stopping carpentry because someone invented the electric saw and think about how many people you see every day, who obviously don't think things through at all. Encouraging the child in creative pursuits will definitely serve him or her well later in life, regardless of the actual career. So that's it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.
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The Mogollon culture was an indigenous culture in the Western United States and Mexico that ranged from New Mexico and Arizona to Sonora, Mexico and out to Texas. They flourished from around 200 CE until the Spanish showed up and claimed their lands. The cultures that pre-existed them date back thousands more years, although archaeology has yet to pinpoint exactly how those evolved. Like many early cultures, they farmed and foraged. As they farmed more, their homes become more permanent and around 800 CE they began to create more durable homes that helped protect them from wild swings in the climate. We call those homes adobes today and the people who lived in those peublos and irrigated water, often moving higher into mountains, we call the Peubloans - or Pueblo Peoples. Adobe homes are similar to those found in ancient cultures in what we call Turkey today. It's an independent evolution. Adobe Creek was once called Arroyo de las Yeguas by the monks from Mission Santa Clara and then renamed to San Antonio Creek by a soldier Juan Prado Mesa when the land around it was given to him by the governor of Alto California at the time, Juan Bautista Alvarado. That's the same Alvarado as the street if you live in the area. The creek runs for over 14 miles north from the Black Mountain and through Palo Alto, California. The ranchers built their adobes close to the creeks. American settlers led the Bear Flag Revolt in 1846, and took over the garrison of Sonoma, establishing the California Republic - which covered much of the lands of the Peubloans. There were only 33 of them at first, but after John Fremont (yes, he of whom that street is named after as well) encouraged the Americans, they raised an army of over 100 men and Fremont helped them march on Sutter's fort, now with the flag of the United States, thanks to Joseph Revere of the US Navy (yes, another street in San Francisco bears his name). James Polk had pushed to expand the United States. Manfiest Destiny. Remember The Alamo. Etc. The fort at Monterey fell, the army marched south. Admiral Sloat got involved. They named a street after him. General Castro surrendered - he got a district named after him. Commodore Stockton announced the US had taken all of Calfironia soon after that. Manifest destiny was nearly complete. He's now basically the patron saint of a city, even if few there know who he was. The forts along the El Camino Real that linked the 21 Spanish Missions, a 600-mile road once walked by their proverbial father, Junípero Serra following the Portolá expedition of 1769, fell. Stockton took each, moving into Los Angeles, then San Diego. Practically all of Alto California fell with few shots. This was nothing like the battles for the independence of Texas, like when Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission. Meanwhile, the waters of Adobe Creek continued to flow. The creek was renamed in the 1850s after Mesa built an adobe on the site. Adobe Creek it was. Over the next 100 years, the area evolved into a paradise with groves of trees and then groves of technology companies. The story of one begins a little beyond the borders of California. Utah was initialy explored by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in 1540 and settled by Europeans in search of furs and others who colonized the desert, including those who established the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the Mormons - who settled there in 1847, just after the Bear Flag Revolt. The United States officially settled for the territory in 1848 and Utah became a territory and after a number of map changes wher ethe territory got smaller, was finally made a state in 1896. The University of Utah had been founded all the way back in 1850, though - and re-established in the 1860s. 100 years later, the University of Utah was a hotbed of engineers who pioneered a number of graphical advancements in computing. John Warnock went to grad school there and then went on to co-found Adobe and help bring us PostScript. Historically, PS, or Postscript was a message to be placed at the end of a letter, following the signature of the author. The PostScript language was a language to describe a page of text computationally. It was created by Adobe when Warnock, Doug Brotz, Charles Geschke, Bill Paxton (who worked on the Mother of All Demos with Doug Englebart during the development of Online System, or NLS in the late 70s and then at Xerox PARC), and Ed Taft. Warnock invented the Warnock algorithm while working on his PhD and went to work at Evans & Sutherland with Ivan Sutherland who effectively created the field of computer graphics. Geschke got his PhD at Carnegie Melon in the early 1970s and then went of to Xerox PARC. They worked with Paxton at PARC and before long, these PhDs and mathematicians had worked out the algorithms and then the languages to display images on computers while working on InterPress graphics at Xerox and Gerschke left Xerox and started Adobe. Warnock joined them and they went to market with Interpress as PostScript, which became a foundation for the Apple LaswerWriter to print graphics. Not only that, PostScript could be used to define typefaces programmatically and later to display any old image. Those technologies became the foundation for the desktop publishing industry. Apple released the 1984 Mac and other vendors brought in PostScript to describe graphics in their proprietary fashion and by 1991 they released PostScript Level 2 and then PostScript 3 in 1997. Other vendors made their own or furthered standards in their own ways and Adobe could have faded off into the history books of computing. But Adobe didn't create one product, they created an industry and the company they created to support that young industry created more products in that mission. Steve Jobs tried to buy Adobe before that first Mac as released, for $5,000,000. But Warnock and Geschke had a vision for an industry in mind. They had a lot of ideas but development was fairly capital intensive, as were go to market strategies. So they went public on the NASDAQ in 1986. They expanded their PostScript distribution and sold it to companies like Texas Instruments for their laser printer, and other companies who made IBM-compatible companies. They got up to $16 million in sales that year. Warnock's wife was a graphic designer. This is where we see a diversity of ideas help us think about more than math. He saw how she worked and could see a world where Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad was much more given how far CPUs had come since the TX-0 days at MIT. So Adobe built and released Illustrator in 1987. By 1988 they broke even on sales and it raked in $19 million in revenue. Sales were strong in the universities but PostScript was still the hot product, selling to printer companies, typesetters, and other places were Adobe signed license agreements. At this point, we see where the math, cartesian coordinates, drawn by geometric algorithms put pixels where they should be. But while this was far more efficient than just drawing a dot in a coordinate for larger images, drawing a dot in a pixel location was still the easier technology to understand. They created Adobe Screenline in 1989 and Collectors Edition to create patterns. They listened to graphic designers and built what they heard humans wanted. Photoshop Nearly every graphic designer raves about Adobe Photoshop. That's because Photoshop is the best selling graphics editorial tool that has matured far beyond most other traditional solutions and now has thousands of features that allow users to manipulate images in practically any way they want. Adobe Illustrator was created in 1987 and quickly became the de facto standard in vector-based graphics. Photoshop began life in 1987 as well, when Thomas and John Knoll, wanted to build a simpler tool to create graphics on a computer. Rather than vector graphics they created a raster graphical editor. They made a deal with Barneyscan, a well-known scanner company that managed to distribute over two hundred copies of Photoshop with their scanners and Photoshop became a hit as it was the first editing software people heard about. Vector images are typically generated with Cartesian coordinates based on geometric formulas and so scale out more easily. Raster images are comprised of a grid of dots, or pixels, and can be more realistic. Great products are rewarded with competitions. CorelDRAW was created in 1989 when Michael Bouillon and Pat Beirne built a tool to create vector illustrations. The sales got slim after other competitors entered the market and the Knoll brothers got in touch with Adobe and licensed the product through them. The software was then launched as Adobe Photoshop 1 in 1990. They released Photoshop 2 in 1991. By now they had support for paths, and given that Adobe also made Illustrator, EPS and CMYK rasterization, still a feature in Photoshop. They launched Adobe Photoshop 2.5 in 1993, the first version that could be installed on Windows. This version came with a toolbar for filters and 16-bit channel support. Photoshop 3 came in 1994 and Thomas Knoll created what was probably one of the most important features added, and one that's become a standard in graphical applications since, layers. Now a designer could create a few layers that each had their own elements and hide layers or make layers more transparent. These could separate the subject from the background and led to entire new capabilities, like an almost faux 3 dimensional appearance of graphics.. Then version four in 1996 and this was one of the more widely distributed versions and very stable. They added automation and this was later considered part of becoming a platform - open up a scripting language or subset of a language so others built tools that integrated with or sat on top of those of a product, thus locking people into using products once they automated tasks to increase human efficiency. Adobe Photoshop 5.0 added editable type, or rasterized text. Keep in mind that Adobe owned technology like PostScript and so could bring technology from Illustrator to Photoshop or vice versa, and integrate with other products - like export to PDF by then. They also added a number of undo options, a magnetic lasso, improved color management and it was now a great tool for more advanced designers. Then in 5.5 they added a save for web feature in a sign of the times. They could created vector shapes and continued to improve the user interface. Adobe 5 was also a big jump in complexity. Layers were easy enough to understand, but Photoshop was meant to be a subset of Illustrator features and had become far more than that. So in 2001 they released Photoshop Elements. By now they had a large portfolio of products and Elements was meant to appeal to the original customer base - the ones who were beginners and maybe not professional designers. By now, some people spent 40 or more hours a day in tools like Photoshop and Illustrator. Adobe Today Adobe had released PostScript, Illustrator, and Photoshop. But they have one of the most substantial portfolios of products of any company. They also released Premiere in 1991 to get into video editing. They acquired Aldus Corporation to get into more publishing workflows with PageMaker. They used that acquisition to get into motion graphics with After Effects. They acquired dozens of companies and released their products as well. Adobe also released the PDF format do describe full pages of information (or files that spread across multiple pages) in 1993 and Adobe Acrobat to use those. Acrobat became the de facto standard for page distribution so people didn't have to download fonts to render pages properly. They dabbled in audio editing when they acquired Cool Edit Pro from Syntrillium Software and so now sell Adobe Audition. Adobe's biggest acquisition was Macromedia in 2005. Here, they added a dozen new products to the portfolio, which included Flash, Fireworks, WYSYWIG web editor Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, Flex, and Breeze, which is now called Adobe Connect. By now, they'd also created what we call Creative Suite, which are packages of applications that could be used for given tasks. Creative Suite also signaled a transition into a software as a service, or SaaS mindset. Now customers could pay a monthly fee for a user license rather than buy large software packages each time a new version was released. Adobe had always been a company who made products to create graphics. They expanded into online marketing and web analytics when they bought Omniture in 2009 for $1.8 billion. These products are now normalized into the naming convention used for the rest as Adobe Marketing Cloud. Flash fell by the wayside and so the next wave of acquisitions were for more mobile-oriented products. This began with Day Software and then Nitobi in 2011. And they furthered their Marketing Cloud support with an acquisition of one of the larger competitors when they acquired Marketo in 2018 and acquiring Workfront in 2020. Given how many people started working from home, they also extended their offerings into pure-cloud video tooling with an acquisition of Frame.io in 2021. And here we see a company started by a bunch of true computer sciencists from academia in the early days of the personal computer that has become far more. They could have been rolled into Apple but had a vision of a creative suite of products that could be used to make the world a prettier place. Creative Suite then Creative Cloud shows a move of the same tools into a more online delivery model. Other companies come along to do similar tasks, like infinite digital whiteboard Miro - so they have to innovate to stay marketable. They have to continue to increase sales so they expand into other markets like the most adjacent Marketing Cloud. At 22,500+ employees and with well over $12 billion in revenues, they have a lot of families dependent on maintaining that growth rate. And so the company becomes more than the culmination of their software. They become more than graphic design, web design, video editing, animation, and visual effects. Because in software, if revenues don't grow at a rate greater than 10 percent per year, the company simply isn't outgrowing the size of the market and likely won't be able to justify stock prices at an inflated earnings to price ratio that shows explosive growth. And yet once a company saturates sales in a given market they have shareholders to justify their existence to. Adobe has survived many an economic downturn and boom time with smart, measured growth and is likely to continue doing so for a long time to come.
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247 Affinity - der "günstige" Weg für Bildbearbeitung, Desktop Publishing und VektordesignIch habe vor langer Zeit einige Jahre für Adobe gearbeitet, somit stellte mich die neueste Version von Photoshop oder auch Acrobat nie vor ein Problem. Aber nach dieser Zeit habe ich nicht jede Lizenz weitergepflegt, sodass eines Tages der Tag der Wahrheit kam: bezahlen, Alternative oder einfach lassen. Bezahlen nervt mich als Privatperson, seitdem Adobe Milliarden über teure Abomodelle absaugt. Lassen, klar, kein Ding - aber würde ich das hier schreiben, wenn ich es gelassen hätte? Nur gut, dass gerade vom Liebling Photoshop die "kleine Bruder"-Version wieder ausgegraben wurde und somit bezahlbar blieb. Aber was, wenn ich mein CorelDraw nicht mehr zahlen möchte? Oder ich doch plötzlich wieder mehr Desktop Publishing in mein Leben bringen will - und schon ist der Funktionsumfang von Photoshop Elements zu wenig! Generell gefragt: Geht das für Privat, Verein oder Einzelunternehmer überhaupt zu Kosten, die nicht erst wieder über Monate hinweg verdient werden wollen? Oder nur mit so viel Einschränkung in der jeweiligen Software, dass es auch keinen Spaß macht? Kurz gesagt: Es geht und es muss auch kein Vermögen sein. Das Zauberwort ist Affinity! Affinity Photo - preiswerte Alternative zur Bildbearbeitung, die sich nicht hinter großen Konkurrenten verstecken muss / Bild/Quelle: ibdnhubzs.de Photoshop sagt, so meine Erfahrung, mehr oder weniger jedem etwas. Und, sofern derjenige nicht selbstständiger Designer oder Fotograf ist, geht sofort das - zu Recht! - Wehklagen über das Abo- und Preismodell von Adobe einher. Meine erste Photoshop-Lizenz war für Version 2.5, in der Box von meinem damaligen Scanner. Allerdings kann ich mich noch an Zeiten erinnern, da hat eine "volle", also kein Update oder Upgrade, Photoshop-Lizenz knapp 1.500 Mark gekostet - mit voller Update-Power über die Jahre. Mit den Euros waren es dann später um die 1.200 €. Dann kam die Creative Suite, die mehrere Software-Produkte in eine Box gepackt hat und schon stand mindestens eine Zwei ganz vorn. Und heute? Heute gibt es Abos der sogenannten Creative Cloud. Und hier liegt Photoshop im Abo bei einem monatlichen Preis von 24 €, also unter 300 € pro Jahr - und das immer in neuester Version, mit allen Funktionen. Dafür, dass man immer die aktuelle Version bekommt, hört sich das preislich sicherlich nicht schlecht an. Aber... es kostet eben Monat für Monat, ob man es nun nutzt, benötigt oder eben Geld damit verdient. Und wenn du inzwischen mehr als Photoshop benötigst? Dann steigt der Preis, ein Acrobat obendrauf sind im Monat gut 24 €, und als Designer hast du meist noch InDesign und Illustrator auf der Platte, weitere zweimal 24 €. Also, 4x24 €/Monat, somit knapp 96 € im Monat oder 1.152 € im Jahr. Gut, das bekommst du günstiger, wenn du für etwas über 62 € gleich alles von Adobe aus einem Segment, also Druck oder Video, im Monat abonnierst, dann landest du bei um die 745 € im Jahr. Allerdings sind Abomodelle wie ein Casino: Es gewinnt immer nur die Bank! Entweder bindest du dich für ein Jahr - oder du lässt es. Und dann sind aber auch alle bisher genutzten Lizenzen weg und die zurückbleibenden Daten wertlos, gerade die Adobe-eignen Dateiendungen schreien nach den Software-Werkzeugen der Firma! Somit ergießen sich hin und wieder ein paar Shitstorms auf Adobe, die dieser aber bisher alle überlebt und weiterhin seine Gewinne gesteigert hat und so zahlen seine Kunden auch brav die entsprechenden Lizenzgebühren. Und schon könnte hier Schluss sein - wäre da nicht die Frage nach ebenbürtigen Alternativen. Und ja, die gibt es. Aber meist eine Anwendung von einem Anbieter, somit habt ihr für einen Bild-Layout-PDF-Workflow gut und gerne mal vier Produkte von fünf Anbietern im Einsatz. Und "Workflow" ist auch eher viel manuelle Arbeit, die in den Anfängen viel Mühe kostet und auch den Kauf bzw. Ersatz einer Software, die sich nach Installation doch als unpassend herausstellte. Umso besser, dass es für Photoshop, CorelDraw oder Illustrator und auch InDesign ebenbürtige Lösungen gibt. Aus einer Hand. Mit Sachverstand und hoher Qualität. Und nicht im Abo. Und, ganz frisch, in Version 2 und nun auch mit einem Funktionsumfang, der sich sehen lassen kann. Und preislich sowohl für privat oder eben gewerblich problemlos bezahlbar: Affinity! Bisher, so mein Eindruck, eher noch ein Geheimtipp - aber seit alle drei Anwendungen neu als Version 2 auf den Markt gekommen sind, spülte sich die Nachricht quer durch die Nachrichten-Portale. Und auch die preislichen Black Friday Angebote konnten sich sehen lassen. Aber keine Panik, wenn du das verpasst hast oder jetzt zum ersten Mal hörst: Die drei Produkte zusammen oder nur eines allein kannst du dir problemlos leisten! Schauen wir doch mal rein, von grob nach fein: Affinity Photo, eine Software zur Erstellung oder Retusche von Bildmaterial auf Pixelbasis aller Art. Mit Ebenen, Effekten und alles, was man von einer modernen Bildbearbeitung so erwartet, Kostenpunkt: 85 €, in letzter Zeit gab es immer mal wieder Aktionen, der Tiefstpreis bisher lag, soweit ich es mitbekommen habe, bei knapp unter 50 €. Ich fürchte, die meisten von euch hören hier mit lesen auf und klicken sofort auf die Seite. Aber langsam! Da gibt es noch zwei Produkte mehr! Mit Affinity Designer konnte ich endlich meine etwas ergraute Version von CorelDraw von der Platte fegen: Logos erstellen, Vektorgrafiken bauen und bearbeiten und, wenn es eilt, auch mal einseitige Layouts gestalten, mit Profiwerkzeugen. Besonders schön: Designer ist nicht nur auf Vektorgrafiken limitiert, es gibt auch Erstellungs- und Bearbeitungsmöglichkeiten für Rastergrafiken. Auch hier, im Einzelkauf unter 85 € - oder eben einem aktuellen Sonderangebotspreis, auch hier überwiegend unter 50 €! Affinity Designer mit mitgelieferter Vorlage, damit habe ich mein CorelDraw ersetzt / Bild-/Quelle: ibdnhubzs.de Tja, was fehlt nun noch im Agenturalltag - richtig, Desktop-Publishing. Wie wäre es mit Affinity Publisher? Seitenlayout für Print, Broschüren, Berichte oder Großformatiges. Und, ich glaube, ihr kommt schon darauf: unter 85 € oder nach aktueller Sonderrate. Endlich Schluss mit den endlosen Versuchen, ein vernünftiges Layout mit Word oder auf Umwege in CorelDraw zu zaubern. Kein InDesign mehr nötig, es macht der Publisher von Affinity! / Bild-Quelle: ibdnhubzs.de Und das beste: der Gesamtpreis aller drei zusammen kostet sagenumwobene 200 € (oder nach Aktion weniger)! Aktuelle Version aller drei Produkte: 2.0.3. Und das schönste: die Version zwei ist erst seit ein paar Monaten auf dem Markt. Am besten über die offizielle Webseite kaufen! Und ja, ihr Macianer, die drei Apps gibt es neben macOS ebenfalls käuflich für des Designers iPad. Soweit ich auf der Webseite gesehen habe, den Sinn mal dahingestellt, ist der Publisher 1:1 auf dem iPad verfügbar. Und ja: es handelt sich hierbei um installierbare und Update-berechtigte Versionen, die ihr wirklich einfach so behalten und nutzen könnt! Kein Abo. Keine weiteren versteckten Kosten - von den Erweiterungen, die je Paket optional angeboten werden, wie z.B. Kreativ-Pinsel und Ähnliches abgesehen. Jetzt mal ran an die Details: 1. Photo Ich muss gestehen, auch wenn viel Ähnlichkeit zu anderen Produkten besteht, man muss sich in die Arbeitsweisen und auch die Werkzeuge reinfuchsen. Am deutlichsten, weil ich einfach am meisten tagtäglich damit arbeite, merke ich es selbst heute noch mit Photo. Kleines Beispiel: In Photoshop möchte ich auf die Schnelle aus einem "großen" Bild ein Passfoto meines Gesichts ausschneiden: Freistellungswerkzeug, Maße eingeben (4,5 auf 3,5 cm) und den Rahmen aufziehen und freistellen. Fertig. In Photo habe ich zwar ebenfalls ein Freistellwerkzeug, auch hier kann ich Werte eingeben - allerdings schneidet mir der Rahmen dann fix die Größe des Rahmens aus und nicht die Maße, die ich hinterlegt hatte. Die Möglichkeit, den mit Maßen versehenen Rahmen aufzuziehen und er schneidet und verkleinert in einem konnte ich in Photo bisher nicht so einfach nachbilden. Und Affinity hat sich meiner Meinung nach viel Mühe gegeben, dass wir Photoshop User uns mit den Paletten und auch in Teilen der Menüs sofort zurechtfinden. Was alle drei Anwendungen eint, sind Spezialworkfunktionen, die sogenannten Personas. Folgende Personas sind in Photo: Photo ist die Hauptoberfläche, in der die Musik spielt. Erstellen von Pixelbildern oder Bearbeitung und Retusche von Bild-/Aufnahmen aller Art Liquify kann auf eine Ebene des Bildes angewandt werden und tut genau, was der Titel der Persona sagt: mit einem Pinselschwingen verwische ich wie feuchte Farbe, was auch immer auf der Ebene liegt. Schick! Develop ist für die RAW-Künstler unter euch das Modul, in dem entwickelt und optimiert oder angepasst wird Tone Mapping lässt euch das Bild dank Vorlagen von schwarz-weiß bis detaillierte Farben betonen Export macht erwartungsgemäß, was man erwartet: Ich kann das Bild zerschneiden ("Slice") und dann in einem gängigen Format exportieren. Schön, wenn auch aktuell wohl nicht mehr lange der "neueste" Schrei, direkter Export ins WebP-Format möglich. So genannte "Personas", ich übersetze mir das als "Spezialfunktionen" bieten alle drei in den jeweiligen Anwendungen. Schicke Erweiterung für den Funktionsumfang im täglichen Arbeitsablauf, hier von Photo / Bild-/Quelle: ibdnhubzs.de 2. Designer Aber auch Designer denkt anders als mein bisheriges CorelDraw. Und ja, es kann mehrseitige Layouts, aber per Umweg über die sogenannten Artboards, die ihr beim Anlegen einer neuen Datei unter den Einstellungen für die Papiergröße per Klick hinzufügen könnt. Und auch, wenn ihr noch ein paar CorelDraw-Dateien habt, werdet ihr enttäuscht sein, dass das direkte Öffnen nicht klappt. Wartet also noch mit der Deinstallation von Corel, ihr braucht es wahrscheinlich noch: Die gewünschte Datei, egal ob ein- oder mehrseitig, in Corel öffnen und als PDF3/X-3 exportieren. Diese Datei kann der Designer öffnen - und in den meisten Fällen kann ohne Nacharbeit oder Korrekturen sofort im Designer weitergearbeitet werden. Auch und erst recht bei mehrseitigen Dokumenten. So genannte "Personas", ich übersetze mir das als "Spezialfunktionen" bieten alle drei in den jeweiligen Anwendungen. Schicke Erweiterung für den Funktionsumfang im täglichen Workflow! / Bild-/Quelle: ibdnhubzs.de Originär ist der Designer ein Vektor-basiertes Werkzeug. Allerdings stoßen Vektorgrafiken immer wieder an Grenzen, somit werden "Mischgrafiken" gebraucht, die auch mit Pixeln arbeiten können. Nur so kommt die heutzutage gewöhnte "Realität" auch in kantenscharfe Vektorbilder. Affinity löst dies beim Designer durch eine Pixel Persona, eure Vektorgrafik wird in diese Spezialfunktion übernommen und kann nun mit speziellen Pixel-Ebenen und -Werkzeugen entsprechend überarbeitet oder ergänzt werden. Die dritte Persona ist der bekannte Export-Bereich, ihr habt hier wieder die Möglichkeit, auf alle Dateiformate zurückzugreifen. Aber Vorsicht: es ist kein CAD- oder Architekturwerkzeug, daher bleibt bei den bekannten Bild-Formaten. Was mir fehlt, ist eine Umwandlung in Vektorbilder. Ich brauche das nicht oft, aber wenn ich es benötige, geht es schon um Vorlagen, die man nicht unbedingt händisch nachziehen möchte! Eine passende Funktion versteckt sich nicht in den Menüs, auch in der Pixel-Persona konnte ich nichts finden. Ebenso würde ich mir eine Import-Funktion für bekannte Mitbewerber wünschen. Muss zwar für die "Vektorisierung" CorelDraw ganz hinten auf der Platte halten, aber blöd, dass ich das auch für die Umwandlung der Dateien brauche, wie zuvor beschrieben. Da ich mit Illustrator nie bis gar nicht gearbeitet habe, kann ich hier keine Parallelen ziehen. Was CorelDraw angeht, ist Corel eben ein paar Versionen und Reifungsgrade weiter - allerdings fühle ich mich bei der Oberfläche und den gebotenen Werkzeugen wohler als bei CorelDraw, trotz Jahre der Nutzung. 3. Publisher Wie schon ein paar mal erwähnt, hier kann ich am wenigsten sagen, da ich zuletzt mit Quark XPress auf einem Mac vor über zehn Jahren das letzte Mal echtes und druckbares Desktop Publishing gemacht habe. Ich habe seit 2004 meine Schwerpunkte von Print auf Web verändert, daher keine Entwicklungen bei InDesign oder Quark XPress verfolgt. ...und eine letzte, sogenannte "Personas", ich übersetze mir das als "Spezialfunktionen" bieten alle drei in den jeweiligen Anwendungen. Schicke Erweiterung für den Funktionsumfang im täglichen Workflow, hier von Designer! / Bild-/Quelle: ibdnhubzs.de Ich fange hier mit den Personas an, die Nutzern schnell sehr bekannt vorkommen: In Designer verstecken sich unter den Personas Photo als auch Designer. Somit habe ich die geballte Funktionsvielfalt der kompletten Suite in Designer mit einem Mausklick. Was mich ein wenig geärgert hat, ist die Tatsache, dass die Layouts und die zugrunde liegenden Seitenformatierungen sehr starr sind. Ich fertige hier meine monatlichen Mediadaten. Wenn ich nun die erste Seite in Form ihrer alleinstehenden Titelseite für meine 1. Seite nutze - analog zu letzter Seite, Seite 4 - bekomme ich diese im Druck immer und ausschließlich als A4-Seite gedruckt. Und die letzte auch so. Nur der Doppelbogen wird, wie gewünscht und angelegt, als zwei A5-Blätter auf einem A4-Blatt gedruckt. Das kenne ich von früher komfortabler. Dazu kleine Anekdote: Ihr habt vielleicht im obenstehenden Screenshot schon erkannt, dass ich meine Blog- und Podcast-Mediadaten mit dem Publisher mache. Praktisch und schick, nicht mit der früheren Notlösung "Word-Version" zu vergleichen. Allerdings, obwohl ich 1:1 die November-Final-Version verwendet habe, hatte ich im Druck und auch im PDF auf der linken äußeren Umschlagseite, also Seite 4 von 4, aus dem Nichts eine feine 1-Pixel-Linie. Für mich unerklärlich, erst recht, da sie im Layout am Bildschirm nicht zu finden war. Die Kernbestandteile des Layouts habe ich ohnehin gegen Veränderung geschützt, in erster Linie ersetze ich Zahlen und Fakten jeden Monat. Wo kommt also diese Linie her? Irgendwann spät abends dämmerte es mir: Das ist keine Linie, das gehört zu der Box, die auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite, also Seite 1, ganz am linken Rand steht. Da hatte ich für die Dezember-Version ein wenig gespielt und optimiert - und siehe da, unbemerkt die Box um genau ein Pixel auf die gegenüberliegende Seite "geschoben". Nachdem ich es endlich gefunden hatte, war ich echt begeistert, über die absolute Genauigkeit des Publishers! Dafür bringt der Publisher eine schöne und fast fehlerfreie Import-Funktion von Word-Dokumenten, auch in Hinblick auf Fußnoten. Auch probeweise hat mich die mitgebrachte Inhaltsverzeichniserstellung überzeugt. Dies täuscht aber nicht darüber hinweg, dass die aktuelle Version noch nicht durch Plugins im Funktionsumfang erweitert werden kann. FAZIT: Wer also Bildbearbeitung, Vektorgrafiken und/oder Desktop-Publishing nicht nur vom Marktführer, sondern zu einem soliden Preis und dann ohne Abo haben möchte, aber auch vom Funktionsumfang nicht zurückstecken will, besucht die Affinity-Webseite. Ich habe mittlerweile Photoshop Elements, was mich die letzten Jahre jährlich die Kosten einer neuen Update-Version gekostet hat, komplett vom Rechner entfernt, die alte CorelDraw-Lizenz steht in den nächsten Wochen ebenfalls kurz davor. Ich bin bisher weder in Photo noch einem der beiden anderen Tools, wobei ich die nicht tagtäglich nutze, an Grenzen oder fehlende Funktionen gekommen. Allerdings klappt nicht alles so, wie ich es gewohnt bin bzw. bringt unerwartete Resultate. Klar ist auch, dass ich mich über durchdachte Bezahlversionen, die nichts zu Wünschen übrig lassen, freue. Erst recht zu diesem Preis - und mit Update-Garantie für die aktuelle Version. Schaut euch die drei Softwares mal an, würde mich nicht wundern, wenn die auch morgen plötzlich bei dir auf dem Rechner im Einsatz sind! PodCast abonnieren: | direkt | iTunes | Spotify | Google | amazon | STOLZ PRODUZIERT UND AUFGENOMMEN MIT Ultraschall5 Folge direkt herunterladen
Before I start, let me preface this by saying I am not an expert in AI-Generated Art. These platforms are still in their infancy, and nobody knows what the future holds for them or their effect on the graphic design industry, but I doubt they'll ever replace graphic designers. I've experimented with various platforms, read articles, and watched videos. I've seen both sites of the debate argued. Some people don't see AI-Art as a threat to our industry, while others are all doom and gloom, saying designers should start applying to work at McDonald's as flipping burgers will soon become more lucrative than designing things. I don't see AI-Generated art as a threat to the graphic design industry. And I'll get to why in a bit. However, I'm not so sure about artists and illustrators. If that's your profession, I suggest you pay close attention to how AI-generated art matures, as it will affect those creative people much more than it will designers. As I said, I'm no expert here. And these AI Art Generators are evolving fast. So what I say today may change soon. Who knows? I also haven't tried all the various platforms nor used the ones I have tried to their fullest potential. So some of what I say today may be wrong. If that's the case, if you know something I don't, please reach out to me at feedback@resourcefuldesigner.com. I would love to be educated more on the subject. First, a story. Before I begin my discussion on AI-Generated Artwork, I want to tell you a story that will help put my beliefs into perspective. I entered the three-year Graphic Design program at my local college in 1989. The first two years were spent learning and applying design principles to our projects. We learnt things like design history, colour theory, using grids, layout hierarchy, typography and more. And we were taught the different tools of the trade, most of which are no longer in use and are considered archaic by today's standards. It wasn't until our third year, once we were familiar and comfortable with what being a graphic designer was, that we were granted access to the computer lab. Computers were still new to the industry back then, and very few design agencies used them. When I started working at the print shop after graduation, the first two years of my employment were spent designing everything by hand before I convinced the owner to invest in Macintosh computers. I don't remember what year it was, but during school, a few of my classmates and I made a trip to Toronto for a graphic design trade show. It was the largest show of its kind in Canada and the third largest in North America. All the big names were there, including Adobe, Quark, and Microsoft, to name a few. I remember overhearing a conversation between two design agency owners at a demonstration put on by Adobe. They were talking about the introduction of computers to the design industry. Both were concerned that computers would harm the design industry by minimizing what they considered a particular skill set, that of a graphic designer. To them, computers took the “Art” out of being a “Graphic Artist.” With today's mindset, It's kind of crazy to think that back then, design agency owners thought computers would harm our industry. You can easily argue that computers have made the industry better. Having lived through that period, I can tell you that even though computers didn't harm our industry, they did change it. Drastically, in fact. QuarkXpress, Photoshop and Illustrator replaced the standard tools of the trade, such as wax machines, no-repro blu pencils and Letraset rub-on type. And I know a few designers who left the profession because they couldn't grasp the use of computers. So computers were introduced, the industry evolved, and the graphic design industry persevered. Microsoft Publisher Fast forward a few years, and personal computers are becoming more popular, with Windows-based machines outselling Apple. And Microsoft released a program called Microsoft Publisher that introduced an affordable means for anyone with a computer to “design” their material. Quark and Adobe software costs thousands of dollars which weren't feasible for most people. But Microsoft made Publisher affordable. And what do you think happened? The graphic design industry started to panic. With “design” software now available to the masses, designers would lose their jobs. But you know what? Microsoft Publisher was introduced, and some people changed their thinking about design, yet the graphic design industry persevered. WordPress. Around that same time, an innovation emerged called the World Wide Web. Businesses started embracing the idea of having a website—a way for people to find them over the internet. Computer programmers created the first websites. They were functional but lacked design aesthetics. And graphic designers worldwide took notice and realized an opportunity to apply their skills to something other than paper. Some learned to code, while others embraced WYSIWYG software, allowing them to build websites without coding. A whole new side of the design industry was created. And then WordPress arrived. This new platform allowed people to build websites using pre-built templates called Themes. The arrival of WordPress sent web designers into a panic. If people could build websites using a pre-built template, our design skills would no longer be needed. WordPress was going to kill the web design industry. But you know what? WordPress stuck around, designers evolved and changed their view of the platform, and the graphic design industry persevered. I'd say most web designers these days design using WordPress. 99 Designs. Fast forwards another few years, and 99designs is introduced to the world. For a small fee, clients could submit a design brief to the platform, and multiple designers would compete by submitting their designs and hoping the client chose theirs. The selected designer would win the contest and be paid for their work. The others received nothing. 99Designs was all the talk back then. It was an industry killer. Why would anyone pay hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to a single graphic designer when they could pay a much smaller fee and have multiple designers compete for them? Many designers worldwide tried to offset this intruder by lowering their rates, hoping to lure clients back from the dark side. But you know what? Designers quickly learned that to attract clients, they needed to sell the value and the relationship of working with them, not just the design deliverables. Because the designers on 99Designs didn't care about the client, they only cared about the subsequent contest they could enter. In fact, 99Designs helped weed out the most undesirable clients making it easier for the rest of us to grow. The graphic design industry persevered. Fiverr. Not long after that, Fiverr was launched, putting our industry into another tailspin. Whereas a design from 99Designs might cost $100 or more. Fiverr's claim to fame was that all tasks were only $5. It didn't matter if you need a logo, a poster, a web banner, or a booklet. Everything was $5. How was a graphic designer supposed to compete with that? The design industry was doomed. And yet, 12 years after its launch, Fiverr is still around. However, nowadays, people on the platform are charging much higher than $5, and graphic designers worldwide are still thriving despite the “competition” of Fiverr. The graphic design industry persevered. Adobe Creative Cloud In 2013 Adobe launched Creative Cloud, replacing their Creative Suite platforms. Whether you like the subscription model or not, there's no arguing that Adobe changed the creative landscape when it introduced Creative Cloud. Software that had previously cost thousands of dollars to own was now available at an affordable monthly rate, making programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign, the bread and butter of most people in the design industry, accessible to the masses. Designers were no longer a unique breed with our special tools. Adobe opened the floodgates. Now anyone who wanted to tinker with their programs could do so. This created a whole new breed of graphic designers who lacked formal education. Even kids as early as kindergarten started learning Photoshop. For all our education and skills, being a designer didn't seem as prestigious as it once was. Clients would no longer need our expertise since anyone with a computer could be a “designer.” And the industry started to panic. But you know what? Giving people access to tools doesn't make them an expert. Clients appreciate the years of dedication and knowledge we have when it comes to design. It shows in the work we produce. So even though these tools were available to everyone, the graphic design industry persevered. Canva. A couple of years later, Canva emerged. It was touted as yet another graphic design killer. Canva not only makes it easy to create beautifully designed materials, but you can use it for free if you don't want to pay for their premium offerings. And there's a lot you can do on the free plan. Whenever you see a social media or forum post where someone inquires about hiring a graphic designer, you will find at least one comment suggesting they do it themselves on Canva. Did Canva steal potential clients from designers? Yes, it did. But did it kill our industry? Far from it. I'll argue that Canva made clients appreciate us more. I've had numerous people hire me after dabbling in Canva and realizing their creations lack that professional touch. So even Canva, the closest thing to a design industry killer, hasn't made that much of a dent in our industry. We still persevere. BTW, Canva recently announced their own incorporated AI Art generator. There will always be new design industry killers. It seems like something new comes out every few years, making designers panic. Do these things affect some designers? I'm sure they do. Just like everything else, there will be some people affected. But none of these things have made an impact on our industry. Or at least not in the way the nay-sayers believed they would. You can almost argue that these things have made our industry better. Can you imagine what it would be like if computers were never introduced? Or WordPress? And I'm sure many freelancers couldn't afford thousands of dollars for Adobe's software if they hadn't switched to a subscription model. This mentality dates back to Guttenburg's invention of the printing press. I'm sure caligraphers of the time panicked that this new invention would ruin their industry. But graphic design perseveres. The only people it ruins are those unwilling to evolve with the times. Now back to AI-Generated Art. By this point, you probably know my stance on AI-Generated Art. This innovation may seem like an industry killer. But only if you allow it to affect you. I see Artificial Intelligence as another opportunity for our industry to evolve. It's up to us to embrace these tools as just that, tools. I already see designers putting AI-Generators to good use. Katie, a Resourceful Designer community member, recently shared how she needed an abstract pattern for a background of a design she was creating. Instead of searching for a stock image or making one herself, she turned to AI. She told it what she wanted, and it produced something she could use. Katie also used it as inspiration for an annual report project. She asked it to produce a report cover design using blue and yellow triangles. It gave her a few options that she used as inspiration to create something herself. And these are just a couple of examples. As for creating full designs using AI, I think the technology is still a long way off. And no matter how good it gets, it will never be able to replicate the emotions we designers bring to a project or the empathy we feel towards our clients. I like to meet every client I work with. If I can't meet them face to face, I at least want to get on a video call. I do this because I want to get to know them. I want to see their personality and understand how they act and think. Because these things will help influence my design decisions. No artificial intelligence can do that. At least, as far as I know. And that's why AI will never replace a live graphic designer. And don't forget relationships. How often have I stressed the importance of building relationships with your clients over the years? Not only does it help you understand your clients better, which allows you to design better things for them. But relationships build loyalty. It keeps clients coming back to you, regardless of your price. AI-Generated Art has limitations. At this point. I see too many limitations with AI-generated design to affect us as an industry. Since every piece of generated art is uniquely created, it's tough to replicate should you need to. Say you're working on a marketing campaign and need several images. You ask an AI-Generator to create an illustration of a rocket ship flying through space, and it produces something you like. But now you need a different image of the same rocket ship landing on the moon. And maybe another of it returning to Earth. Every time you enter a prompt in an AI Generator, it creates a unique image, so there's no way to ask it to use the same rocket ship in future creations. The rocket ship will look different in each image. Even the style of art might look different. Plus, these prompts, the instructions you type into the generator telling it what to create, are very subjective. These two prompts “An elderly man is sitting on a park bench feeding pigeons.” “An old man is feeding pigeons in a part while sitting on a bench.” To you and me, they both mean the same thing. But to the AI, they could be vastly different. How does artificial intelligence interpret “elderly man” vs. “old man”? The smallest detail can drastically affect the output. Also, from what I can tell, It's tough, if not impossible, to adjust an image. Say you like the AI-generated photo of a woman sitting on a chair with a cat on her lap. But you decide you want it to be a dog instead. None of the systems I tried would let you make that sort of change. The best I could do was change the word “cat” to “dog” and rerun my prompt, producing a new batch of images with different women and chairs. There was no way I was getting the same woman in the second set of images. Again, maybe this is possible, but I couldn't see it. Conclusion All of this to say. Don't panic. There are people out there leaning on both sides of the fence. Some say our industry is doomed, while others say we have nothing to fear. I'm just one voice. But I don't think we have anything to worry about. And I have the history I just shared with you backing me up. Fiverr, Canva, WordPress, Creative Cloud. These “design industry killers” are now part of my design toolbox. Instead of taking work away from me, they allow me to do better work and do it more efficiently. I see AI-Generated Art as no different. I plan on embracing it and using it in any way I can. And don't forget—no matter what new “things” come out. Clients will always appreciate what a good designer can do for them. You can be that designer.
Back in 2009, as businesses navigated the repercussions of Wall Street's collapse, Razzak Jallow found himself standing at a departure gate with a boarding pass that read simply “SaaS.” To be clear, Jallow had just nabbed a spot on Adobe Inc.'s Creative Suite finance team, and the journey on which he and his colleagues were about to embark was the software company's migration from a perpetual, boxed software model to one based on SaaS subscriptions. While this was a journey that many software companies were starting at the time, few were faced with a new perpetual model whose product line matched the scale and robustness of Adobe's, in which 27 products were clustered under the banner of the developer's “master collection.” “This meant that 27 R&D teams had to ship their product on the same exact day,” recalls Jallow, whose comment seems to expose both the madness as well as the unmatched rigor behind Adobe's legacy model. Still, cracks were visible inside the perpetual world. “We were selling fewer units every single quarter, and meanwhile we were spending more and more on go-to-market initiatives to try to get customers to upgrade,” continues Jallow, who notes that the migration to a subscription business model got into high gear only once Adobe management uniformly agreed that “it was time to do what was right for the customer.” According to Jallow, the customer-centric message began to gain momentum inside the Creative Suite business unit where he had been spending his days modeling revenue predictions to better serve the investment community. Still, a finance leadership challenge remained. At the time, Jallow remembers, Adobe's then-CFO, Mark Garrett, stated: “Our current investors may not like it because they trade us on quarterly revenues and EBITDA – but I'm going to go find us new investors.” Garrett's resolve to find new investors rather than muddy Adobe's customer-focus message further buttressed the company's stance. Says Jallow: “Observing a CFO who saw beyond his own world and understood the products and customers and how the different teams worked together was just really impactful for me. Moments like that just don't come around very often.” –Jack Sweeney
We get the details behind Thunderbird acquiring K-9 Mail, share the best new features of Plasma 5.25, check-in on Ubuntu's RISC-V development status, and discuss Photoshop coming to Linux via the web.
We get the details behind Thunderbird acquiring K-9 Mail, share the best new features of Plasma 5.25, check-in on Ubuntu's RISC-V development status, and discuss Photoshop coming to Linux via the web.
Konstantin & Becky bring to you the latest Nikon news and photography related announcements. Rebecca Danese: https://www.instagram.com/rebecca_danese Konstantin Kochkin: https://www.instagram.com/konstantinkochkin Production: Konstantin Kochkin Contact us at media@graysofwestminster.co.uk Nikon Report 64 Dpreview's Nikon Z9 review: the best camera ever tested https://bit.ly/3v3NWnk https://bit.ly/3xFV8rp Interview: Sports photographer Mark Pain on the new Nikon Z9 https://bit.ly/3sabhRC Nikon Marketing's Accurate Wording https://bit.ly/3KfFTYZ Nikon Z9 camera sensor tested at DxOMark https://bit.ly/3v2bFEo The next batch of Nikon Z9 camera shipments in the US is expected on May 10th https://bit.ly/3MjYCnn The new Really Right Stuff plates for Nikon Z9 are now available for pre-order https://bit.ly/3K3pdn2 Nikon Software updates: Nikon SnapBridge version 2.9.0 released for iOS and Android. iOS: https://apple.co/3Oo9Vge Android: https://bit.ly/37xa5RS Pairing Tool for NX Field has been updated to ver. 1.0.1 https://bit.ly/3JX3AVv 3rd Party News: Trade solidarity with Ukraine (BPI NEWS) https://bit.ly/3vFcLoK LAOWA LENSES LAND IN UK https://bit.ly/3vFcLoK Laowa also announced an update version of 15mm f/4.5R Zero-D Shift lens for Nikon F and Z mounts https://bit.ly/3EBc1Vm Cosina announces $990 Voigtlander APO-LANTHAR 50mm F2 Aspherical lens for Z-mount cameras https://bit.ly/3vwSYYk Voigtlander NOKTON D 23mm f/1.2 Asph lens for Nikon Z-mount is also coming in May. https://bit.ly/3vvW3I5 https://bit.ly/38cjaPO Adobe released an April update for its Creative Suite. https://adobe.ly/3jZH1oK Weekend Read & Watch Dirck Halstead, Photojournalist Who Captured History, Dies at 85 The New York Times https://nyti.ms/3848R0l Dirck Halstead obituary The Times https://bit.ly/3L53MDG Thanks for listening! #nikon #z9 #nikonz9 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grays-of-westminster/message
He was the Lead Designer on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and the Creative Suite in the 90s. Project Lead on Adobe Lightroom in the early 00s. Former Director of Design at Twitter and Yahoo. Early designer and first employee at Figma. Designing digital products since 1990. These days he can be found in Amsterdam and around Europe (or under as @trenti on Twitter), and always happy to discuss any and all things Design. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/latinxswhodesign/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/latinxswhodesign/support
(Season 2) Episode 5 Software as a Service- with an acronym like that, how bad could it really be? Many pieces of software these days require a subscription, or at least, an always-on internet connection. Examples include Adobe's Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, and... your favorite video games? How did this even happen? Better yet, is there anything that you can do? As always, our sources are linked on our website. -- Website: https://techthoughts.gay Instagram: https://instagram.com/techthoughtspodcast/ Opening Music: Another World by BETTOGH
When you think of PDF or Photoshop, you probably think of Adobe. And for good reason, too. Adobe Acrobat and Creative Suite have helped professionals all over the world bring their works to life. Now, you can easily offer that power to your customers. Ingram Micro Sr. Vendor Business Manager Jeff Incorvia joins Keri to discuss… Why Adobe is bringing their two flagship products to the Cloud Marketplace How the Cloud Marketplace has streamlined the Adobe licensing process The sci-fi tech that will be a reality in the future For more information, email adobe-licensing@ingrammicro.com. To join the discussion, follow us on Twitter @IngramTechSol #B2BTechTalk Listen to this episode and more like it by subscribing to B2B Tech Talk on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. Or, tune in on our website.
Each week on "Marketing for Your Future," our hosts talk to experts in the marketing industry. Today, Mike White sat down with LaToya Stirrup from Kiss T Creative Suite.KISS T Creative Suite specializes in project management and creative services to help our clients successfully take their projects from idea to launch.To learn more check out http://www.latoyastirrup.com/.BluHorn Media Planning and Buying Software Is an affordable, easy-to-use tool that advertising agencies, media buyers/planners, and digital media directors and strategists use to plan media, buy media, analyze media, report media, and reconcile programmatic, digital and traditional media buys. BluHorn integrates with Nielson, Comscore, BluHorn Programmatic (powered by Centro), and QuickBooks; saving you time and money. While other tools on the market like MediaForce, GaleForce Digital, Advantage, Strata, and Free Wheel may require contracts, BluHorn remains a cost effective solution with no contract requirements. Enjoy a 14 day risk free trial of BluHorn Media Buying software today at BluHorn.com.
Booray gets an offer he absolutely can refuse, Gary wants to go out to dinner, and the fellas discuss the controversy over Nancy Green, the actress who portrayed Aunt Jemima. In photography news, new information has leaked about the Canon EOS R6, Booray gets the Fuji X100V, Tamron develops a new telephoto lens for Sony, and Adobe drops a HUGE update for its 2020 Creative Suite.This episode is sponsored by Retouchup.com - when you create a new account, list Photobomb as your referral source to get a special discount.Check out Gary's YouTube channel HERE.Check out Booray's YouTube channel HERE.Join the conversation on the Facebook page HERE.
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Adobe kills Creative Suite 6 and announcing another huge giveaway celebrating WPPI 2017 in Las Vegas - all on this weeks episode of The Digital Photography Cafe Show.
This week on the show were discussing the death of Adobe Creative Suite, building a Raspberry Pi retro game console, and how you're embarrassing yourself online. We're also answering your questions about repurposing old Mac computers, the advantages of Dashlane over Lastpass, and how to beat the heat this summer. Looking for the show notes? You can find this episode at http://lifehacker.com/499076454 (after 5:00 PM PT) and all episodes at http://lifehacker.com/theshow (anytime). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
This week The Drill Down team takes a look at the battle for your online distributed data, with new features on cloud storage services from Microsoft, Dropbox, and Google. Then, it's sci-fi billionaires in space!!! as Google's Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, and director James Cameron launch into a new venture to mine asteroids. But first, the headlines... Nokia's down 30% with a $1.7 BN loss, Anonymous launches a social music service, Facebook pays Microsoft $550 M for former AOL patents, Adobe announces Creative Suite 6 (and subscription-based licenses), and Facebook announces its staggering Q1 financials, including details on its Instagram purchase. What We're Playing With Devindra: Republic City Dispatch Andy: Paper by FiftyThree Dwayne: Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android Headlines Nokia's Q1 2012 financials: $9 billion in sales can't stop a $1.7 billion loss Anontune: The New Social Music Platform From Anonymous Facebook Paying Microsoft $550 Million for Former AOL Patents Adobe Officially Unveils CS6 And Its $49/Month All-Inclusive Creative Cloud Subscription Service Facebook's Amended S-1: 901 Million Users, 500M Mobile, Paid $300M Cash + 23M Shares for Instagram Audible Book of the Week Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson Musical Interlude #1 Hot Topic: Cloud Storage Wars Google Drive is here, and you can install it right now SkyDrive Builds Up Syncing, Downsizes Free Space Dropbox adds link file-sharing; Welcome to the Megaupload club Google Drive vs. the competition: pricing plans and perks, compared How far does Google Drive's terms go in 'owning' your files? ‘Prometheus' Viral Campaign Launches with a Trip to the Year 2023 with Guy Pearce New ‘Prometheus' Viral Video Introduces Us To Michael Fassbender's David 8 Musical Interlude #2 Final Word Private company does indeed plan to mine asteroids… and I think they can do it The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Sign up here to be alerted by SMS when the podcast is live! Geeks Of Doom's The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Techmeme editor Lidija Davis.
Launch day for Adobe's Creative Suite 5 is here, and so is my first podcast episode dedicated to the newest version of InDesign. In this episode, I take a look at a number of very cool new features in InDesign CS5. There's a lot more in the new version, but I've focused on some of my favorites, including span/split-column paragraphs, multiple page sizes, simplified transformations, metadata captions, the new Layers panel, and new animation features. This episode is kind of a a long one, but I've included chapter markers so you can quickly jump to the section of the episode you want to see.
Today, Adobe announces the Creative Suite 4 in all of its various iterations (Design Premium, Web Premium, Production Premium, and so on). This updated Creative Suite includes another evolutionary and significant new version of InDesign and, in this episode, I take a look at some (but by no means all) of my favorite new features including Smart Guides, Flash export, and GREP Styles.
Icons and panels and docks...oh my! At long last, the wait is over and the veil of secrecy is lifted. In this first look at InDesign CS3, I give a glimpse of what the new version looks like, because Adobe has given it -- and all of the Creative Suite applications -- a new user interface. Goodbye palettes (technically)...hello panels and docks. Here's a very brief glimpse at what users can expect to see when they finally get InDesign CS3 in their hot little hands.
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