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!

Oliver Peter’s digital film on Premiere Pro 2025’s new color management

https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/premiere-pro-2025-color-management/ This is so important because color management is so important so people need to understand the new system before starting a new project. And I know DaVinci is a competitor now since Resolve edits, but wouldn’t settings directly setup to move to resolve for real color correction be great, unless Adobe plans on bringing back Adobe Color!

PVC on Celtic’s new Premiere Pro plugin

https://www.provideocoalition.com/celtx-launches-screenplay-plugin-for-adobe-premiere-pro-to-integrate-your-script-right-in-premiere/ Let’s hope this pushes Final Draft to do the same. I used Cetltx a bit back when it was free but since have used Final Draft which is truly the industry standard.

Appleinsider on Apple and it’s Chinese productions lines

Appleinsider has a great article on Apple and its production pipelines in China., and why Apple will likely never build iPhones in the US. And automation just isn’t there yet. Tesla tried the whole automation route and it really didn’t work. So making automation to make factories would cost a huge amount and likely take a lot of skill the US doesn’t really have. And all the estimations of Apple iPhones costing so much if made here, what about Teslas which are completely assembled here, but almost 100% manufactured in China. How much would that cost to make here? A lot more than an iPhone, but presumably Elon Musk will be given an exemption that Apple will not. And with Trump’s insane 125% on goods coming from China, which is and will harm American companies and boost foreign companies! With iPhones made in China costing as much as $3000 or more and only 10% tariffs on Korean products like Samsung. Meaning Trumps anti China policies will hurt American companies and boost foreign companies. How is that America First? Of course the Tariff’s were meant to bring manufacturing back to the US but have been used instead to make new trade deals, so it was never about bringing manufacturing back here.