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Wow. Thor really is an asshole.
This message brought to you by an open-source animator. Krita, Blender, and OpenToonz for all.
B-b-b-but he used to work for Blizzard dontcha know!
He was the first second-generation Blizzard employee, get it right smh
What is the context? (Im out of the loop)
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I've been pirating Photoshop since I was about 12. I ended up moving to Krita when Photoshop decided to stop detecting my pen after I eventually updated to Win11, and I'm glad I did.
My husband even offered to get me an Abobe subscription so I can keep using something I'm familiar with without jumping through hoops to pirate it, but I absolutely refuse to pay a subscription for a programme I should be able to buy outright, and I'd rather just change to something else altogether.
I don't know why every fucking thing has to be a subscription with a shitass company attached to it that keeps fucking over customers.
Subscriptions make constant, monthly passive income. It looks better to investors when you have constant income versus surges whenever you release a product.
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A few years ago, I subscribed to Adobe for about 2 weeks. But my conscience wouldn't let me, I had to cancel the sub and get a refund.
Deep down, it's like I knew something was wrong. And that was before I got introduced to Adobe memes.
Turns out Inkscape/GIMP/Shotcut are good enough for my needs. The Affinity suite is pretty good too though. I hope it gets supported on Linux eventually.
- Krita for painting
- Davinci Resolve for editing. You can also buy the suite for a one time payment.
Yeah, I know. I've never used Krita, but I do have the paid version of Davinci Resolve. But it can be tricky to make it work on Linux, I only use it when I need complex editing. Shotcut is simpler to use and more straight forward.
I use Krita!
I'm an open-source artist. All the tools and software I have ever used to make my art are FLOSS. It's my deeply held personal belief that the ability to create art should be as free as pencil and paper, and I want my work to be living proof of that ideal.
I've used Krita, Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, and other tools exclusively for over a decade. I never could afford Adobe's shit, and I realized pretty quickly that nearly anything Photoshop can do, a bit of savvy and some extra time in Gimp and Krita can do equally well. My only complaint is that they can't support Photoshop's brush file formats. Which is absolutely a dealbreaker for most committed artists I know, because your brushes make or break your workflow and even your entire art style. So switching isn't for everyone, and that's fine.
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Proton and Pirate Software gloating over the "downfall" of another...misery loves company I guess.
Adobe, Proton and Pirate Software - could we have one account that's not completely terrible?
As a someone who been using either GIMP or pirated CS6 since 2012, havent been keeping hand on an Adobe pulse. What did they do this time? I know about subscription over the one time purchase thing. But what happened recently?
They're calling it quits on their animation software, and a lot of people who used it in their workflow are very upset.
I see. Just checked a vid of some YouTube animation artist. They just gave Adobe animate 1 month before removing it from suite. Woah... Even Flash had few years to live after a discontinuation announcement.
I read somewhere that Star Trek Lower Decks and like, Bluey, and other big players used it too.
Like, if Star Trek is using your product, maybe keep it around?
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Sometimes I look at the Unity Game Engine's stock history after that one "destroy all indie gaming" plan, and I remember companies are volatile organizations at the consumers' mercy.
Early 2010s I asked the company I worked for to approve some free game engines to be installed. The legal department returned a big no with pages of why Unity should not be allowed in the premises. We proceeded with Unreal, Blender and eventually Godot as tools any employee could install.
Unity was bad back them, it is just that people did not read the agreements and tech sheet. Their new leadership just made that more apparent.
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Abode: "We should charge money to rotate a PDF. No not the image itself, just rotate view. Gotta make that a paid feature."
If you find yourself in this situation, I recommend using PDFGear as a free solution.
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This is so nice. What happened that made it fall?
Edit: looked for the stock prices, and the chart at a monthly scale and up doesn't look exciting at all
Pirate Software talking at all kills me inside, maybe Adobe too.
Maybe because they announced they were killing the Adobe Animate? That's the only thing ive heard but I'm not in-the-know.
That’s definitely what the image is referring to. They’ve already walked it back from “completely removing the ability to use or access the software with basically no notice” to “maintenance mode, no updates”
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One of the perks I had when I worked at a print shop was that they gave you a CS6 license, if you asked for it.
I don’t even mess with Adobe anymore. PhotoPea covers my needs almost completely. But then again, I don’t really do much in PhotoPea but mess around, making silly things.
Adobe is utter garbage. I hate that they have the market cornered. Their monthly subscription model is infuriating.
Please and thank you!
I have to use Adobe Cloud at my current job and I hate it with a passion beyond words. It hangs constantly for a minute or more, Adobe have "lost" my credentials a few times making a majority of my job impossible to do for days while they fix it, it constantly nags me to use its AI, Adobe Links thinks it is the mid 90's since uploading anything takes forever, and the web interface makes me contemplate murder.
What alternative do we have ? Affinity was bought by canva years ago.
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Adobe's CEO Shantanu Narayen is both selfish and short-sighted. Their weak leadership only compounds their problems.
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OOTL - what did they do this time?
Apparently, they gave amateur cartoon animators 1 month to save their works before they will remove Adobe Animate off Adobe Suite. Adobe Flash would give them 3 years, and software would just change slightly. But this time it is not the same.
I'm suing adobe for making me a failed artist.
I loved the Affinity stuff. Had completely replaced Adobe with Affinity before they got bought up and killed off.
Affinity photo isn't dead, they released the suite for free, but did unfortunately inject AI into it, which thankfully you can ignore if you don't pay for it.
However, as with all proprietary products owned by investment corporations, it's currently at the 'capture the market' phase, after which it will enshittify, putting us in the same situation we are with adobe now. The only long-term solution is to adopt and donate to open-source alternatives, like Krita, Scribus, Inkscape, and Kdenlive.
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