‘I assume you’ll be charging us monthly to read your posts.’
And yet, Adobe keeps making money. Someone’s paying for it and it isn’t non artists…
I guess people want to own the product than paying for a subscription like we used to.
For those that want Photoshop functionality and controls for free:
No idea why that site isn’t more well known.
I guess people prefer having an actual executable program instead of a browser page
And jobs to do lmao if I told someone at work that a file on a deadline had to get picked up in photopea or gimp I would get demolished.
Edit: I am actively trying to get an entire company switched to Affinity. It’s not easy but possible.
had to get picked up
Not sure what you mean. Just deliver the finished product?
Not always an option, unfortunately. By “picked up” I meant if you need to save, close, and eventually someone else picks up the work where you left off. Incredibly common in collaborative settings. I may start a Photoshop file, get to a good point, but then it has to change based on the work someone else is doing. Another person has to open that file and make updates accordingly. If they couldn’t find and edit the file because I told them it was done in Photopea or GIMP, that would mess things up.
Affinity is a viable alternative to Adobe, whereas Photopea and GIMP are more suitable for individual needs (although it’d be kinda cool if a practice set itself up to use those from the ground up).
Adobe’s unpopularity can be traced back to a decision it made over 10 years ago when it shifted from perpetual software licensing to subscription pricing.
I’ve heard people shitting on Adobe since CS3 and I started shitting on them at CS4. Adobe acquiring Flash was such a dark moment for so many creators.
*Macromedia
Yes, you’re right. I initially didn’t see any reason to differentiate, but I remember the existential dread over the future of Dreamweaver, too.
I was just ahead of the curve there. Used Macromedia Dreamweaver at the time to start coding sites. By the time Adobe took it over, I had already progressed to writing HTML in NetBeans. I had it harder with Fireworks, that was brilliant for making visually stunning sites.
Fireworks was awesome at the time.
Yeah the subscription might have been the icing on the cake but their anticompetitive practices have been pissing people off for much longer.
I gotta be honest too, I’d be a lot happier paying Adobe a monthly fee if they seemed more serious about actual updates and bug fixes instead of just jamming more AI ‘features’ down our throats.
There are two bugs in Illustrator alone that have been following me around for years, unfixed.
Proud user of GIMP and DaVinci Resolve. These tools work great, and I really don’t see a reason why I would want to switch to anything else.
Fuck Adobe.
Are you on gimp 3 yet? I just tried it out and I think it’s a landside better than 2! Actually like it. Never was a fan of 2.
Not yet, but I plan on trying it out soon.
I never really understood the hate for GIMP 2. What didn’t you like about it?
Less hate and more super awkward. I learned Photoshop and can do a lot of its functions in my sleep. Many of them are just wildly different in gimp 2 in ways I find very counterintuitive. Shortcut keys are different even in cases I cannot explain the reasoning, etc. In gimp 3, I get a lot less of that. Rather than hitting constant roadblocks where I’m stuck, I just feel slower than when using Photoshop, and that’s a great step forward for me. The UI feels a lot more modern for me in general. You should check it out
I find this funny, since I did a Gimp tutorial back in 2000 (early Gimp 2.x maybe, but maybe still 1.x – I don’t remember that part). I got okay with it.
A friend asked me to do some early photo editing a couple of years later since they’d heard that I was “good at Photoshop”. I pointed out that I was actually “mediocre at Gimp”. I was plunked down at a computer with a (probably pirated) install of Photoshop and asked to touch up some photos.
I hated it. Nothing was where I expected it to be coming from Gimp. If I recall correctly, I closed Photoshop and just downloaded Gimp for Windows.
It sounds like I might hate Gimp 3.
I wouldn’t assume you’ll hate it. It’s still very gimpy
Happy user of Affinity Designer here, so great to not be paying Adobe any more subscription fees, screw them.
The right decision. Affinity platform is getting better and better. Using the beta version now and it is smooth and smart. Never miss Adobe anymore.
Yeah it took me a few moments of learning to get over my old Adobe learned habits, but I’m all accustomed to it now and like it a lot.
Delicious.
I love it.
