Anyone Else Notice? Creative Cloud Works

Question

The updater has been reliably delivering ever better versions of Photoshop CC, with fairly few update problems.
Bugs are getting fixed - without a whole lot of new ones showing up.  When new ones have shown up, another release fixes them very quickly.
Photoshop CC is faster than ever.
It's more functional than ever.
The above is based not only on what I'm reading here but on experiences I'm hearing from the Photoshop users I know.  I think we're starting to see the good things Adobe has said we'd see when they weren't tied down by the constraints of releasing a major version on a pre-set schedule.
I'm impressed.  Well done, Adobe.
-Noel

Answer 1

So you want to talk about Russell Browns and the Image Processor Pro.  Adobe is pulling People and funding from Photoshop and throwing things over its wall into the Public domain open source. What I see..
Welcome to the Russell Brown Show and this helpful set of scripts, panels, and actions that can assist with several of your design and production tasks. These utilities can be extremely helpful, but they are definitely not perfect. They can occasionally fail and cause some inconveniences.
Most of my scripts will only work with Adobe Photoshop CS5 or CS6. Please note! I will not be able to update any of my scripts, and panels for future versions of Adobe Photoshop. Sorry for this inconvenience, but please take note that I am releasing the source code so others can make adjustments to my script and panels.
The Open Source code is now available for many of my script and panels
Because of new projects and a changing demand for my time, it will be necessary for me to move on to new projects at Adobe. For this reason I will no longer be able to support, or update many of my scripts and panels.
I am releasing the source code for many of my programs and if you are a programmer then you can use this code to modify and change my scripts to meet your needs.
If you are not a programmer then I recommend working with anyone on the list of programmers that I have supplied below.
If none of these techniques have fixed your problems then I highly recommend that you uninstall my scripts and panels from your system.
German Programming Support
Matthias Alph
English Programming Support
Sandra Voelker
Trevor Morris
Michael Hale
Ross Huitt [email protected]
Then there the Adobe scripting forum where Ross Huitt wrote
xbytor2, Sep 19, 2013 3:15 PM   in reply to MSSDedalus Report
As JJMack said, their is a shift in focus at Adobe with respect to PS.
Adobe moved some photo oriented features that were implement in jsx to Bridge several revs ago to a new scripting framework (AUOM). See the Output workspace in Bridge. They may have intended publishing the interface to that framework but it never happened and it was more complicated than it needed to be because you don't have the full PS/JS API available in Bridge. Customers got really upset that Contact Sheet II was no longer supported in PS, so they brought it back in a slightly improved form for CS6. However, there is a slow degradation in the PS/JS implementation. Existing bugs don't get fixed, new ones appear with each rev, and new features are generally not well (or at all) supported in JS.
Scripting a UI is a mess. Each rev is slightly different than the previous one. Automatic layout is such a minefield that I gave up within a rev of  its release. Then they added the Flash/AS mechanism and maybe something else. Then there is the undocumented UI layout that their own scripts use (Latte). And the not-quite-complete HTML stuff in ScriptUI. And no WYSIWYG UI layout tools. My guess long term is that they are leaning towards HTML5 for the JS UI stuff which is fine, but I've tossed in the towel. I'll maintain CSX, xtools, and Image Processor Pro for the foreseeable future but I have no intention of doing any major new projects.
CS6 is still getting ACR updates and bug fixes so I continue to work there in spite of the fact that I have a CC license for a year. I don't want to inadvertently start using features that will lock me into CC and be screwed when my license expires. Also, I sure don't need no steenkeen cloud. I'll probably keep updating Lightroom, however, and may look into scripting some stuff there if there is anything interesting that can be done there now.
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Adobe support is the pits and new and old bugs are driving the best supporters here away.
Gone from Adobe Scripting forum perhaps the best script helper of all time Paul Riggott
Paul Riggott, Jun 10, 2013 1:03 PM 
I for one will dissapear, when CC is released I will no longer subscribe to these forums.
So bye bye to all the friends I've made here.
That was the last append Paul made.....
My view on Photoshop automation Actions, Scripts and Plug-ins
JJMack, Sep 19, 2013 1:34 PM 
Some of Photoshop features are implemented  using Photoshop scripts.  So I feel scripting will be around for some time.  Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has tunnel vision the only thing in his sight is the corporate customer all he can say is the creative cloud is of grate value to the corporate customer.   I feel the the corporate customer is more likely to use script then the photographer.  So you will continue to see more features like Picture Package a photographer's tool striped from Photoshop then a corporate tool like script which Adobe also uses.  Script does seem to have its share of bugs that Adobe doesn't care to fix though. Photoshop is veering away from photography and becoming more a web development tool. ACR is where all the good innovation for photography is happening and it also now a Photoshop filter as well as a plug-in.  If Photoshop elements was not so striped down I would consider using LR and Elements.  As it is now I'm struggling with should I just stick with CS6 and forget about new ACR features  or sign up for Photoshop Photography Program. I'm getting tired of all the new bugs Adobe keeps adding in. Adobe does not fix too many bugs. Microsoft Fixed Windows are they following Adobe down the garden path now we have Windows 8 which does not seem like an update its more a dumb down to work on tablets.
Tablets are great mobile devices they deserve their own OS and apps that work well with limited resources and low power.  Tablets are mobile light devices easily lost and broken. Tablets are not a proper device for robust web servers and cloud storage. They are more a consumer entertainment product like a HDTV. They should be easy to used and be replaced and not be the repository of anything of value.
Powerful PC and workstation deserve no less.  They need a robust OS and Powerful Stable Applications like Web servers, cloud storage, Back up, and development tools.  They need to be able to savegaurd valiable assets.
With Adobe abandoning the photographer more and more. I think the best thing that could happen for Photoshop users is for a company like Google with deep pockets and many talented programmers to buy a program like Photoline from a couple of brothers.  Look at what buying Photoshop from a couple of brothers did for Adobe. Photoline has many Photoshop like features. Photoline started life in the same time-frame as Photoshop. Photoshop however was snatched up by Adobe and Adobe pored money into developing it into what it is today.  A well funded development effort could make Photoline the photographer's standard application with in a few years. For Adobe is now cashing in on its investment. Photoshop direction has shifted toward Corporate Web development and its quality is falling.  Adobe is pulling out personal, function, funding and most of all money. Hopefully a company like Google will see a potential market. Google has Picasa but is windows only. Photoline is PC and Mac. Google also knows quit a bit about the Web development and has a cross platform web browser in Chrome.  Photoline and Chrome in bed together may be a good thing.  Google could address both the Photography and Corporate customers. Google has a budding marketplace, has its own cloud and social offerings. Through in some YouTube, maps, Earth and beyond. Google has a lot to offer