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.

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.

They could crack down more on pirated Photoshop, but they don't want to.

The money is in the commercials licensing, and people who can't afford Creative Cloud pirating it and learning it is good for them when they need software for work later.

I'm a massive fan of FOSS. For my GIS work, I use QGIS over ESRI. For 3D modeling, I use Blender. For streaming video, I use OBS. Many FOSS solutions are extremely polished, and even for those that are clunky, they can be made to do what you need with a little work.

But when it comes to photo editing, the reality is Adobe's overpriced market leaders also happen to be far and away the best products. It's not even close. Photoshop and Lightroom are untouched by the competition, paid or free. They're simply excellent products that provide functionality that isn't replicated elsewhere.

I don't think it's incompetence, exactly. If you're not going to pay for Photoshop (Lightroom, Audition, etc...), Adobe would rather you use a pirated Photoshop as opposed to learning something else. Because even a pirated version helps them keep their stranglehold on the market.

It's the same reason Microsoft doesn't really crack down on pirated versions of Windows.

I've been legally using their shit for two decades. It's a fucking nightmare. I have to use their app to login in conjunction to my pc because they restrict us to TWO machines at a time. I have 4 I regularly use, so it's just a huge hassle.

I block their connections now to avoid this, and again, I PAY THEM, and I'm just ONE PERSON. Every person in charge at this company is a clown.

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.

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.