Alexis Van Hurkman on being the Senior Product Manager if Color and working on and releasing New Color Management system

From Alexis Van Hurkman’s blog and his first blog post in years (I had no idea he had joined Adobe). A very interesting read.

With the new baby, I have so little time right now to play with Premiere, but this is something that has been needed for so long, now if only they would come up with a REC.709 Color space that doesn’t have the Quicktime Color Shift (like BlackMagic has done).

Apple Photos managed to combine my father and my wife in people’s and pets, seriously Apple

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I have previously written about the problems with People and Pets and my dogs. It keeps tagging Indiana Bones photos (who is dead) to pictures of Pepper Pawtts over and over again. Super frustrating. It really needs the ability to add deceased and born tags. Or take into account keywords?

Well now I have a new problem that is seriously frustrating. I have been going through People and Pets and getting it all setup with contact info for my closets family and friends. Well as of yesterday it combined my wife and my father.

Now my wife is Kelly Lynn Pancho Walker and my dad is Kelly Deanne Walker. And I had them setup correctly and attached to their individual contacts. And they seriously look nothing alike!

And the best part is going through and telling it that my dad is not my wife doesn’t seem to transfer between devices. Over the past 2 days I have had to do the same thing on my computer, iPad and iPhone, and multiple times on some of the devices. And I keep going back and finding more photos of my dad tagged to my wife!

And unlike old versions of photos where I could tag people myself, now you have to let Photos do it, so I have no way to retag photos of my father as himself! And he doesn’t show up as his own person. WTf!

Apple makes things simpler which is fine until they don’t work! And this new feature is not ready for prime time!

It was inevitable Adobe is charging more for it’s AI features in new Creative Cloud Pro Plan

And yes everyone gets moved to it who has a current subscription, though there is an AI less plan, but it also loses all the cloud based apps. Check it out at Adobe.

If you pay yearly it moves from $54.99 a month $69.99 a month (pre taxes) and month to month moves from $82.49 a month to $105.99 a month.

The vector and generative fill features in Photoshop are unlimited in the new Pro tear but the video generative features come out of your 4000 monthlycredits.

Everyone knew paying for AI would be expensive, but a 21% price increase is a bit much, though at least I finally feel like Premiere is getting some features like color management it has needed for a while (if if they really need to bring back Adobe Color, and it’s ability to correct in lumetri) or just make a better bridge to competitor DaVinci Resolve and it’s much more power color correction software

FXRant on Skeleton Crew VFX

https://fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/04/more-about-our-visual-effects-for.html?m=1

FXRant on the Disney+ show Skeleton Crew’s VFX.

I absolutely loved this show, up there with Goonies for great kids fare, though at least some of my friends hated it. I just don’t get that. I can’t understand why it didn’t do well as I so wanted to see more.

This is peak Star Wars!