![]() Adobe publicly responded (sort of) in an addendum to the original blog post, social media exploded into discourse, and other Adobe partners and evangelists blogged (and podcasted) in support of the points raised in my letter and subsequent discussions. The only notice Adobe gave about the termination, or “End of Life” (“EOL”), of the Touch Apps was a short post to the Creative Cloud Team’s blog, again, on December 20th, the Friday before Christmas and the last day of work before all of Adobe shut down for its two-week holiday break.Īlmost no one knew about the EOL of the Touch Apps because of the manner of the announcement until yours truly wrote “ An Open Letter to Adobe about the Premature End of Adobe Touch Apps.” That letter broke the news to the general creative community and sparked a critical discussion among Adobe customers, Adobe partners, and internally to Adobe as well. On December 20th Adobe Proto, Adobe Collage, Adobe Debut, and the Android versions of Adobe Ideas and Adobe Kuler (there never was an iOS version of Kuler), were silently removed from the iOS App Store and the Google Play App Store, as well as from the applications list on, the site from which Creative Cloud subscribers learn about and access their Adobe products. The announcement was whispered in a corner after most of us had gone home. If you haven’t heard about it until now, well, that’s no surprise. Over the holidays Adobe quietly killed the majority of mobile creative professional products in its Adobe Touch Apps line. Adobe’s Touch Apps Are Dead? Why Didn’t I Hear About This? It will be interesting to see where Adobe goes from here.Wait. Revel is a start at addressing this hole in their product line. With all of the talent at Adobe and their unquestioned dominance of the photo editing market, why have they not destroyed competitors in this market. This is the question I really can't answer. Why hasn't Adobe crushed Flickr and the other online photo services? But with so much competition, I think the free level needs to offer more monthly uploads if they want to attract new members. I could see them offer a version for free with CC, but still offer it to non-subscribers for $5.99 a month.Ĭonsidering all that Revel can do, I think $5.99 a month isn't bad for premium level pricing. So I'm not sure these consumers are going to be excited to pay more money to Adobe, even if it solves a problem for them.Ĭould Adobe offer Revel as part of the Creative Cloud? Maybe. Subscriptions to Creative Cloud include access to all the apps, free fonts, storage, Behance's pro portfolio site and more. ![]() Especially designers and web developers that use Creative Cloud apps and are serious photographers, but not professionals.īut Adobe has conditioned these users that everything is now in the Creative Cloud. So where does that leave Revel?Īdd metadata, RAW support and an integrated workflow with the Creative Cloud apps and I think there would be a market within the advanced amateur market. I'm not sure how many consumers will pay $5.99 per month when there are less expensive alternatives. Apple offers Photostream and stores the last 1,000 shots you took. Dropbox offers the Camera Upload feature and expands storage the more you use it. There is absolutely a need for this type of service, but is there a market? Especially at the price? Flickr offers a nice iPhone app and a terabyte of storage for free. Backup and sync is a major issue for these consumers. The goal of Revel is to target people (and families) who take pictures with their phones. (All metadata is preserved and visible if you export the file.) And there are no hooks from Lightroom or Photoshop into Revel. You can't see any keywords or metadata that is attached to the file. The current version of Revel only supports JPGs, not RAW files. In it's current form, Revel is not intended for same pro audience as Creative Cloud. More than a few folks online have wondered why Revel isn't included in Creative Cloud, but I think the answer is pretty simple. (The free trial for the first month gives you unlimited uploads.) A Revel membership is not included in a Creative Cloud membership. ![]() If you are going to seriously use Revel, you'll need to pay $5.99/month for the premium level that includes unlimited uploads. The apps and basic service is free and allows you to upload 50 pictures a month. ![]()
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