Whew, no bird/stork character, I can never remember that when I desperately need to

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I personally like how this one in particular seems like a casket rising from the floor

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There are way more affordable options out there, some are free.

• For tablet painting: Krita and free
• For photoshop: I use affinity, but Canvas just bought them. Not sure how they're going to be in the future. Canvas is evil. It's around $125/2 or 3 years or so. I haven't used Gimp in awhile, I might look at them again.
• For Premiere Pro, Audition and After Effects: Buy the studio version of Davinci Resolve, it has all of them. It's a lifetime purchase and cheap if you think of that way. Don't lose your code though.
• For 3D: Blender and free. It keeps getting better and better.

Adobe: "We're here for all our starving artists"

Artist: Buys a Photoshop subscription instead of food

Adobe be like

I can't keep getting this whiplash where I lose all faith in humanity and then humanity goes and does something awesome and hilarious like this.

For those on Bluesky, this is a perfect example of why Bluesky will enshittify since this kind of brutal honesty towards rich people and large corporations won't be tolerated on a coporate social network that is working to turn as big of a profit as possible.

This period of people being able to clown on powerful corporations like this will quickly come to an end as soon as investors put the pressure on Bluesky to return a profit.

Where you been man? That's practically Ra's day job, it's not the 90s anymore

I found an open source replacement for Lightroom that finally worked (others I tried crashed loading my raws). While testing it, my subscription renewed (I can take criticism that I should have known and cancelled before renewal, but..) I then tried cancelling right after, but Adobe only gives a grace period on first purchase, not renewals. If subscription automatically charges, that money is gone.

I'd love if the Affinity suite was available for Linux. That's the only thing I miss from Windows/macOS.

I cast Curse of Unicode!

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That's nearly every company making image generation AI right now. Stealing from creators is all the rage, and I've yet to see a reasonable defense of this by AI users.

They also force you into a year long subscription but they pose it as month to month. Then when you try to cancel they force you to pay 50% of the remaining balance for the year. Fuck adobe.

Why justify when you can switch to other apps? Even with pirating you're still supporting them and their stranglehold on the creative industry. Fuck em proper.