Just a friendly warning that Adobe now charges for generative credits if you use any of their text to image/video generating software.
You get so many credits per month as part of your subscription, and currently they are allowing overages, but guessing that will soon stop.
(FYI video is 20 credits per second.)
Itâs probably worth specifically noting that these credit limitations apply to all generative AI features, including those in Firefly and Photoshop, and presumably those in their entire suite of products and those still to come. They seem to have left the door wide open to charge extra for using any AI features they might add to their apps.
You can read about that part here.
The part that bugs me is the term âslow-downâ
Iâm guessing this just means the rendering engines and not the entire piece of software.
Similar to their stock image collection credits, I guess?
In a manner of speaking yes.
I expect to pay for a stock photo outside of the cost of my software.
Not so much when using an effect that is part of Photoshop software that I already pay for.
But I only stumbled onto this this morning when looking at trying a bit of text to video, LOL.
A little bit of a âHey Userâ from Adobe mighta been a bit more polite.
Guess my days of generating images during lunch to see what prompts do are over.
I doubt you only pay for the one you use, LOL. It was more an exercise in how crappy AI can really be, though some results were snort-my-coffee worthy. 
Iâm signed up to Prime Video, and thereâs content on their thatâs still rent/buy.
And I was watching Final Destination 1,2,3,4,5 recently - and the 4th was free- but the next day it was behind a pay-wall⊠so annoying.
I think youâre trying to argue that this is something to be expected of Adobe or any subscription service.
Iâm sure there will be a general announcement when Adobe decides to put their paywall up. At least I would hope so.
There should also be a special menu drop-down called âthese cost more money.â Right now things like generative fill are just simple menu items one would be led to assume are part of the subscription cost.
Well - everyone is doing it - itâs the new thing in town - so you have to pay if you want more.
Thatâs how I see every service is going.
The old bait and switch - bait them in with free stuff - then switch the subscription.
On a side note this happened to me with TV provider Sky.
got me in to subscribe to Sky Cinema, with Paramount Plus free.
Paramount now switched to a paid tier, with Basic being riddled with ads.
Iâm stuck on Basic mode - canât change it, Sky canât change it, and canât contact Paramount to update to the paid ad free version.
So now Iâm stuck with Sky Cinema and Paramount is bricked for me, if I cancel Sky Cinema I get control of my Paramount account - but then I lose all the discounts that came with the deal, because Cinema is part of that deal.
Now Iâm stuck without Paramount, unless I open a new account, which means I lose all my saved/watched/list as well as the rest of the household has to start over.
I have to wait to December to cancel Sky Cinema.
So Iâm just going without Paramount Plus.
I hope I never get addicted to TV enough to need a list to keep track of it all. 
I havenât turned on the actual TV in over 2 years and donât subscribe to online pay-me services to watch on the laptop, except for an occasional livestream concert every other month or so. Youtube keeps reminding me I need to turn on my history so they can âserveâ me âsimilar content you might like.â
Itâs not an addiction, itâs modern survival. If youâre not up to speed on the latest series, youâre basically exiled from water cooler chat. Subscriptions are the new pub itâs where we dissect plot twists, trade theories, and pretend weâre the critics Rotten Tomatoes should hire. Keeping up with House of the Dragon is cheaper than therapy anyway.
The Sky setup is mostly for live sport thatâs where I thrive. Football, tennis, rugby, MMA, boxing, action-packed stuff (not golf or darts, sorry to the quiet sports crowd). My wifeâs into it too, so itâs a shared addiction⊠sorry, lifestyle.
Sky hooked us with all the sports channels, then reeled us in with Sky Cinema for âŹ4.99 a month, bundled with a âfreeâ Paramount+ account â which has now turned into a bit of a hostage situation. Canât upgrade it, canât cancel it without messing up everything else. Genuinely feels like I need a solicitor to untangle it.
Then there was Amazon Prime. Started for the shopping, got lured into The Boys, and now Iâm staying for the chaos. Netflix has Stranger Things, Disney+ is Marvel and movie goldâŠ
Itâs a rich tapestry of must-haves, and once youâre in, leaving feels like abandoning civilisation.
OK yes it sounds like an addiction. But itâs also just trying to have something to talk about that isnât the weather or petrol prices or the Orange States of America (sorry couldnât resist).
Donât even get me started on Podcasts/YouTube etc subscriptions - thatâs another rabbit hole entirely.
So I guess 60 quid a month to Adobe pays for all this and a lot more - so I guess deep down I feel justified in paying for it.
I havenât had cable in well over a decade because the $$$ kept going up and up and up. But now I have so many streaming subscriptions, I might as well have cable!
However, these streaming platforms have shows that cable never had and they are fabulous. I donât watch a lot of âTVâ and I absolutely loathe anything called âReality TVâ. But I love certain genres and I will watch the same series over and over if I fall in love with it. Recently my addiction has been Yellowstone. I watched 1883 first and was completely absorbed. Now Iâm catching up on 1923. 
Yellowstone was brilliant, Beth was incredible ha ha.
Havenât got into the other ones. Psych is leaving Netflix soon, we love that show. And Brooklyn 99 is another favourite.
Along with an Australian one Kath and Kim, you have watch it over and over to find all the jokes, littered through it very well done comedy.
Our water cooler is all about outdoor stuff. Iâm the old fart with the garden that likes to fish. 
I cut cable, and got the $30 Roku device. I pay for Hulu, Disney & Discovery (because I NEED Paranormal Caught on Camera) but the free TV on the Roku channel is the bomb. Every weekend is itâs the Myster Science Theatre 3K channel 24/7.
I would say just one thing : âLETâS GET MORE MONEY GREAT AGAIN !â
I didnât mean to get into a âstreaming matchâ - but was generally just saying how companies lure you in with the âbait & swtichâ tactic.
Our threads always tend to stray after a while.
MST3K is always the correct answer
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