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I don’t suffer from internet paranoia syndrome. I checked the box and gave them permission to use my images to train AI. If it helps speed up my workflow great!

JQP is my hero. Love your work brother. I was a pro photographer in the fashion field. Share your pain. And saw this coming when you could generate more background or add elements that were never there like a dog. The models all became bad and every client would say they would fix it in photoshop. This has not just started with this latest release. As soon as we moved into the digital era and all the housewives became photographers it was the beginning of the end. You needed no skill anymore to be a photographer. One would just look on the back of the camera to see if they’ve captured an image when previously their whole role would’ve been wrecked and would’ve not discovered their errors until The film came back from the lab. This is the progress. AI will create some of the most amazing images ever seen with only a prompt. Get ready for the entire movie industry to be gutted along with any other photographer who has any skill set. The future no one will have to know a single thing about Photography. Everyone carries a camera in their pocket on their phone already. The reason AI is so incredible. It is because it has been trained on the most amazing images that have ever been made, books that have been written, as well as everything else that could ever be known by humanity and every single language you would find it hard to compete against that . Copyright and ownership is a thing of the past. It is the greatest theft of humanity of all time make no mistake that your images have been used to train the AI in someway or another whether you know it or not it uses this very RUclips video to capture any image it can and all your other videos . Most of all the work that we know of today will be performed by robots using advanced AI. What took days of planning and days of shoot and other days of editing will be condensed into a one minute prompt. Prompts will be corrected until you are satisfied with the result all condensing weeks worth of work into a matter of minutes. Everyone at this point will be a great photographer. People will use their cell phones for the reference of themselves and then create images that never work. It is already happening today. Be clear this is no longer a software issue. A human superstar talent like yourself is now as obsolete as a slide ruler. I own hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of quit equipment that is no longer to make an image. The children have decided that great photography looks too staged and too perfect and prefer something that looks like it was shot with a cell phone to something that was crafted in a studio and well lit . Just think what digital filter has done that makes any girl a model. Adobe is in survival mode along with every other cameraman manufacturer way of Eastman Kodak. The ones that are hardest hit will be the talent that can no longer survive with such an unlevel playing field. When the moms entered the photography business, there was no way to compete for jobs from people who would shoot for free. The same way you will not be able to compete with the AI. My 10-year-old son will be able to produce amazing photo quality images with no photo knowledge whatsoever. All that will matter will be the idea and the shaping of that idea into creating a product that will entertain people for five minutes. The world, as we once knew it within the next five years will have completely vanished. What will be left in its place will no longer depend on one’s talent or years of learning. With infinite supply, the cost of an image will be zero. Creative individuals like ourselves will be able to make images with no work at all. I have had the great fortune to work with many of the top photographers, and what I learned was the only difference between them and any other guy with the camera was the decisions that they made An image is never finished until the artist is completely satisfied. Something new is among us, and it is time to grieve the death of Photography.

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I went over to rawtherapee and Affinity photo 2, and that ones covers all i used Adobe for

Hi Great video. Are you able to share which lights you were using? Profoto but which model please? Obviously ones that freeze water motion.

Adobe are now as corrupt and evil as corporations come. Ok, a good alternative to Lightroom is DxO PhotoLab Elite. I'm using Affinity Photo instead of Photoshop, Affinity Designer instead of Illustrator, Grass Valley Edius instead of Premiere (most of my friends use DaVinci Resolve). There's a lot of good alternatives out there, so ask around and see what works for you.

Thrust/Betrayal is key in commerce. It always have been and will ever be core to civilization. Adobe lean to barbarism no matter how tech.

I don't use PS enough to have an issue changing to something else. My anchor is LR, which houses my decade+ history in catalogs and edits of nearly everything I've photographed, published, sold or shared. I realized recently that I don't actually have finished copies of much of my work, because I publish directly from LR to my website and to my printer, and used to do that to Facebook. I don't have final edited JPGs of the majority of my work I've delivered, except the stuff I sent to media since I had to upload that manually. It's time to work on that and then look for a new catalog system.

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Absolutely awesome shot and breakdown… Ty Sir…

Awesome content and super clear instruction, great BTS. Love this.

Nicely done as usual great weekend to you James ✌️

It’s great !. Sharing your Magic with us

Can you throw out a pro light mod video with a 2 or 3 light set up, PLEASE 🙏🏼

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Thank you for the information you gave us! Hope to see more from you!

I thought it might be fun to not only show the breakdown of this image but to also show where I feel I learned some of the technique that helped me out when I was actually capturing it. Questions or comments drop them below!

eh i dont have a big issue of them scanning for illigal stuff i mean to be honest might be a legal thing for themselves and the whole stock things i dont really care if they want to train my stuff using ai no big deal to me lol

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There are plenty of alternatives to Adobe. I'm not into video, but I can do everything I need with my photography with On1 or DxO. Not only is Adobe using its clients images to training their AI (our future competition), but we are paying them to do it!

With the FJ400 and FJ200 strobes, how do you dial in those for settings? The range of 4-6 is just a guide, right? Will I find a past video on that part of you workflow? Nice video on the basics for camera settings.

Thank you for these great videos! Truly inspiring! May I ask which case you are using for your lights?

On one hand, as a shareholder or a photographer I think they should be putting a lot of resources into AI, it can be incredibly useful, especially for a one person shop to pull off your vision efficiently. I’m sure they will continue to improve their AI capabilities and cash in on them by starting to charge for AI credits on top of subscription costs. It’s mind blowing how they are taking unnecessary steps to do so that brazenly violate their customer trust and rights and the ridiculously poorly thought out marketing materials and messaging to their user base of photographers. It’s mind blowing how a company with that much resources isn’t coming up with a better way to serve both goals. It would be great to see it start to erode their market share to make them re-consider their stance.

Appreciate you bringing this up. The biggest handcuffs for me is just all the work that is placed into a catalog with ratings, tags, edits etc. I switched cataloging systems before to On1 several years ago to save the subscription fee. It had a catalog migration tool and did a decent job at a one way conversion. When I started making more money with photography, the Lightroom improvements like AI masks were productive enough to switch back. That discontinuity really made that change period difficult. Overly verbose request is if you make a video covering alternatives, it would be awesome to include the catalog migration options (both ways). That never really gets covered. That’s more intimidating than re-learning a new tool set.

I have a feeling that AI is not going away. I believe that this AI will follow with all of Adobes competition, may not be in the arena with Adobe yet, but they will use new tech, just to keep up.

Fantastic advice and information 💯

DaVinci Resolve Studio is an excellent video editor. DxO PhotoLab is an excellent replacement for most of what Lr does (except the DAM part), Affinity is an excellent replacement for Ps/Ai/Id. All are one-time purchases, too, not subscriptions. And none of their makers are out to replace US.

Music software companies already put most session musicians out of business except for the very few and so it's now turn for photographers, graphic artists and drivers... Soon, office workers... AI is pure evil.

Thank you!

I've been waiting for years for someone to develop better software than Adobe. I've always hated having to use Adobe. With the workflow I have, it's the only software that allows me to get quickly through the thousands of photos I edit each week. Please, software developers, work on a Lightroom type software that's runs better and allows me to get work done quickly.

Software was never owned by end users, they owned a license to use it.. It's still a license, but its a very nasty license..

Hey man, really appreciate the mention of the Tri-Charge. The coolest part though is that you actually enjoy it in your kit!

It's a good thing these things are been pointed out. It will generate a shift, where photographers and creators will move away from the company that exists because of the customers. New products will come in and replace. Looks at Premiere and Davinci Resolve.

I already canceled my subscription and am desperately looking for alternatives. I know that it is the only alternative to help us have more less abusive alternatives in the future. It's about self-respect.

Best move ever !!!! Im not legally allowed to use adobe due to content I work on, that's not mine to share. Thanks for the video... They are real thugs. MAfia style shakedown to use your tools..

Much ado about nothing

Adobe is absolutely HORRIBLE! We stopped using their products completely when then introduced their stupid, parasitical subscription model. RULE # 1 for all products and services: if you don't hold it outright, you don't own it. NO subscription products ever!

That’s one Capture 1 is for. The alternative.

Luminar Neo. One time payment of $299.

I've been using Affinity for a while as an alternative to InDesign and Illustrator. Frankly, adobe stuff has become a bloatware over the years and Affinity is costing a month's adobe sub - and you keep it forever!

I quit Adobe permanently after 20+ years and am SUPER happy with the Affinity Suite (professional user)

Let me tell you a story. I worked 10+ years as in in-house graphic artist and photographer for a brokerage. Once AI came along, and the broker and minions discovered this I was immediately terminated. They use it for all their marketing and even head shots (yes, they now use AI generated photographs of themselves) and I'm sure in a few years AI will be able to generate photos of houses inside and out which will eliminate the need for a photographer all together. You may say "oh, no they'll want an actual photo of the house", but I say look at the HDR and house photos. The houses pics are already fake. They do not look that good and sharp in real life. The entire RE industry is about fakery and lies. Why stop now, right? Remember "learn to code", it's now "learn to prompt"

If you paid subs you were part of the problem. Once the injected ai it stopped being a creative tool. Ai's end game is and always was surveillance. Ive said it from the start. At this point. If you Photoshop you arent a creative. You're just staying to use ai. Take the lumps and fees and go to another software. Theres nothing that can't be done elsewhere except ai.

VPN, and GenP. Never giving adobe one more red cent.

I keep looking at darktable and rawthrapee every so often. Neither are at the point that I can switch to. Photography is a hobby for me and want to quickly process my images. Spending more time processing them is something that I am willing to do. I have just watched a few newer videos for those apps and still at the point that I could even think of switching to. On1 is looking pretty good and allows me to use certain plug-ins that I use all the time. The use of AI is going way to fair and I think AI is becoming absolute idiot. Wildlife is my main genre of photography and the tools needed to process them is different to portrait and many other subjects. I don't store my data on anybody else's computer.

The writing is on the wall for designers as well. It looks like they are pushing to turn every housewife into a DIY AI designer just ask acrobat for a XXX and boom a XXX. Guess its more profitable o push a couple million Acrobat or firefly programs instead of protecting your core customers (who will most likely buy the products regardless) - What we know for sure - crowd cloud based services have been suoperceded, light-middle weight designers are in trouble, the smaller bread and butter jobs are in jeapardy and without professional training these DIY Ai based custoimers are going to hurt their brands while thinking it looks great... Just last week I had a please just 'fix this up' project...

Alternatives to Adobe products I use for work: for Photoshop there is Affinity, instead of lightroom I use On1, and Davinci instead o Premier. They are also faster on my computer than Adobe products.

Thank you for the excellent video James. I was a professional stock photographer (never with Adobe though) and now am a retired digital painter and graphics person. I've been using Photoshop and Illustrator since 2004, but with the new terms of service (**especially 4.2(?) where it says you are giving them permission to sublicense and use your work), I decided to pull out altogether. Well, let's just say I'm trying. After 3 full days of trying to get them to cancel my subscriptions (I paid annually but waived the remaining time left, which was significant, in return for them cancelling my subscriptions and deleting my Adobe account), I still have an account. Adobe doesn't seem willing to cancel my account like they promised, so now I still have an account, but no programs. They DID cancel my subscriptions to Ps and Ai alright, so if I wanted those back, I'd have to buy them again (not a chance in 'some-place-really-hot'), BUT I see after 4 more days I still have an account. I have the cancellation confirmation emails (it took quite a few emails to get them to do it) and screenshots of all the chats we had (in the first attempt, they kept me in the chat for 1 full hour, then simply abandoned the chat), but that doesn't seem to matter to them. Further, I can't delete my cc from their site and according to them, I still have the pay-as-you-go 'subscription' to Adobe Stock. That's probably why there is no option on my accounts page (in the Privacy section) to delete my Adobe account. I'll be going at them again on Monday, but I will never, ever sign up for another Adobe product again because of this. I simply don't trust them. As for alternatives, please have a good look at Affinity Software (I'd recommend the whole package). Maybe not as fully featured (little to no AI - that's a good thing though, IMO), but it works very well for me and in many ways is far more intuitive and easier to use than Ps. It's coded in a far more modern way. Hope that helps.

If everyone cancelled tomorrow, they would have to listen , do a bud light on them!