🔗 Adobe and Wordpress launch Google-backed .new shortcuts - 9to5Google

Cool new document creation shortcuts from Wordpress and Adobe, in collaboration with Google. If you are a Google Docs user and didn't already know about document creation shortcuts, they will save you some time. Click to read the entire article below.

Adobe and Wordpress launch Google-backed .new shortcuts - 9to5Google:

Back in 2018, Google introduced web links to quickly open blank Docs, Forms, and Sheets. Over the years, it expanded to most other G Suite services, with Adobe Acrobat and Spark now supporting several .new shortcuts.

Adobe “collaborated” with Google in hopes of providing a “streamlined way to get things done.” It specifically doesn’t want users to be “stuck scouring the web just to get things done.”

I wish I had more of a need for these. I love the idea of typing "new.sheets" into my browser to set up a new spreadsheet, but I am logged into two different Google accounts and the chance that it creates the document in the correct account is 50/50. Kind of defeats the point of the shortcut.

🔗 Affinity Photo for iPad, great Photoshop competitor, is 50 percent off

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I presume this is happening because Photoshop for iPad finally launched this week. Photoshop comes as part of one of Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription plans. My wife and I subscribe to Creative Cloud because she uses Illustrator for design work (Illustrator was recently announced to be coming to the iPad next year).

That being said, I think there is very little reason to use Photoshop over a one time purchase like Affinity unless you are …

a. really familiar with the features and interface of Photoshop

b. depend on sharing PSD files with others in a professional or collaborative environment

Affinity Photo is a great catch. Pick it up if you are looking for a mobile based photo editing tool!