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Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky (futurism.com)
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[–] 545 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Some brilliant people invented photoshop

It was a good product but expensive

Some asshole coke head CEO decided to make it more expensive and worse.

Fuck adobe.

GIMP 3 FTW

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  • [–] 203 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    And they bought Macromedia’s suite and destroyed it.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I miss macromedia flash so bad, actionscript for life

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I once built a website preloader that was so large that I made a pre-preloader for it. Good times indeed.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    That's what big tech companies do, they buy small and promissing companies they think that once can become a competitor and then.... destroy it. The young startups just take the money and can retire early.

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  • [–] 130 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    GIMP 3, Krita, Darktable, Inkscape, Kdenlive

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Blender

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    The people editing their images in Blender are the same people who edit their videos in Blender lol.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Has it gotten better with editing? I tried a couple of years ago and just couldn't. It's amazing for the 3d software. If they could make it easier to measure things, I'd use it for CAD too.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I believe i recall there being an update specifically to the video editor within the past year or two, but don’t quote me on that. They have done updates to post processing, the timeline functionality, grease pencil, and i believe some other things that would apply to video editing, so i imagine it would be easier to work with. There are cad and measuring add-ons as well, i believe some free within blender itself.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I bought Davinci, so I'm happy with that, but I'll still check out the Blender version. I can't really complain about it, it does so much and is free.

    As far as CAD goes, they aren't really usable to be fast in CAD. It's super cumbersome. You should be able to move things 1" to the right or left, put things at certain heights and move around the space in an easy way. I haven't found anything that can do that for imperial. Also, the tools for making dimensions is really bad and I don't think there's a way to make a blueprint unless you come up with something yourself. That being said, it's free and it's not their focus. They concentrate on the 3D portions.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I (distantly) knew an indie software developer who was putting up a pretty good Photoshop alternative in 1996: ONE GUY alone in his bedroom was making a decent living selling a Photoshop alternative that he wrote himself. And he wasn't exactly a super-wunderkind coder, just a guy who knew the photo manipulation space well enough to get enough customers to float selling his software for a few years - in direct competition with Photoshop.

    Adobe isn't selling magic dust ground from precious gemstones by thousands of artisans. They had a decent product that they marketed the hell out of and eventually got overly greedy.

    GIMP, Krita, and many others are right up there if you haven't been sucked into the Adobe addiction vortex.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Photopea represent

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Affinity Photo for me!

    I'd prefer FOSS but...GIMP ain't it.

    Have used Photopea in* a bind in the past, it's also pretty good especially the clone GUI.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I moved to Affinity early this year, and it has been amazing!! I was expecting a long adjustment period after decades with Photoshop, but it's so similar that I picked it up super quick!

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Another vote for Affinity. Excellent Adobe alternatives 1-time reasonable price. Such a breath of fresh air after so many subs.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Krita is my graphics app of choice these days. But there are many alternatives that are great (like Gimp and Photopea).

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    I still remember when they bought Macromedia Flash and all my animator friends and I simply couldn't stand Adobe Flash CS3 or whatever it was called. It used more resources, crashed more often and didn't exactly bring anything revolutionary to the table in terms of new functions.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I use Affinity Suite for work. Paid for it once, have it forever. Free updates until new editions, which are discounted if you own an older edition. Buy it for one platform (Windows), that's a license for that edition of any other platform too. AND they regularly go on special, often to 50% off.

    It doesn't have AI content generation, but it does a few things Adobe doesn't - like being able to use Photo and Designer from INSIDE Publisher, seamless like its a single program!

    Affinity Photo (Photoshop), Designer (Illustrator), and Publisher (InDesign). Then Krita for raster illustration. That's all I need as a professional

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I have some artist friends who saw the writing on the wall after Adobe told Apple to fuck off with the iPad and Affinity said hold my beer. One owns her own publishing company and as of a few years ago all new projects were Adobe-free workflows. She still has Adobe but will only use it for older shit that might still need something later. Going forward, she (and therefore her entire operation) are fucking done with Adobe. Another friend learned both so he could adapt to whatever the market has in store for him and since the market sucks for artists he’s going freelance too and has said absolutely no to Adobe.

    Adobe is officially legacy software. Vendor lock in won’t save it as the creatives don’t need industry titans to survive.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Moat of the teams I see hiring designers are still using Adobe, and printshops take .ai files. But most of the solo designers I know use Affinity, and I've heard of one (albeit small) team that has swapped to Affinity for their whole team.

    Affinity was just bought by Canva so idk how it might evolve over time, or if v3 will make compromises I don't agree with. But I got v1 during Covid, loved it, converted to v2 as soon as it was available, still love it. Using all of them on the same file in the same window feels amazing.

    Another downside is that designers rarely make asset packs for Affinity. But I'm pretty sure Affinity is able to import brush pack formats from one of the other big names, just not sure which (likely Adboe's .abr)

    I don't like painting in Photo though, but that might be because I'm so used to Krita, which is designed for illustration in the first place. (They're great, I might donate to them again actually)

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