Adobe Others
Some other software that is less used, or is very simple.
Adobe Audition
Someone should do a write up here. It's a perfectly fine audio editor with some pretty good frequency based noise removal (noise print).
Plugins
RX 7 PRO (now RX8) - Very good at removing elements of a track. Can be used to make acapellas or instrumentals. Some tracks perform better than others. Can also be used to reduce background noise.
InstantDialogueCleaner _ Does exactly what it says to varying degrees of success.
Adobe Lightroom
I use Lightroom (not classic tho) to store all of my photos and I pay for the 2TB plan as part of my Creative Cloud license (this costs more than the basic). It’s pretty good. I don’t recommend for slightly more complex photo processing (use Lightroom Classic if you want, but really any complexity you can’t achieve in LR, just use Photoshop). You can still use Bridge for bulk processing - though it doesn’t always work the way you think (as is traditional with Bridge).
Like Classic, this better looking Lightroom: You can still copy and paste settings and select which settings you want to copy and paste. Like copy and paste attributes or copy and paste values, etc. Pro-tip: applying those settings to >1 photo simultaneously requires grid view. Bad design.
If you have a ton of photos in your sync’d Lightroom library and desire a local copy, there’s a secret Adobe app called Lightroom Downloader. This will download your entire library to a target folder local to your computer (or an external). Note that:
- Every time you do this, you do the entire library. It doesn’t look for changes or new photos and just backup those for subsequent backups.
- You need to leave it running, without a restart, until it’s done. Quitting and continuing is unlikely to be successful.
Adobe Illustrator
I know Illustrator pretty well. Some dumb gotchas over the years. Here are some of them.
SVGs from AI Vectors Are Ragged
So you’ve got a final logo in Illustrator and every time you export it to SVG, the path is distorted with little spikes? EASY fix. Note the decimal places changed to “3”. Congratulations! Fixed. Source.
