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Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky (futurism.com)
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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 113 points 5 days ago (5 children)

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 76 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Honestly nah, there are lots of other good options. Support the devs and people fueling real creativity rather than staying in Adobe's ecosystem, paid or not.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly nah, there are lots of other good options.

Unfortunately as someone who uses Adobe programs for work, the FLOSS alternatives are just not there yet :/ (especially considering how seamlessly Adobe programs work together)

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

My partner is a graphic designer and although she undeniably had some growing pains switching away from Adobe, she hasn't looked back.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 days ago

I use Affinity these days. Although it being purchased by Canva has me very worried.

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Exactly this.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

On macOS I found that getting Photoshop to stay cracked was a hassle. This didn't make me buy Photoshop, it just made me use something else.

[–] podperson@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago

I dumped Adobe completely several years ago, and found that Pixelmator has been an excellent Photoshop replacement. It even now does vector images - used to use an app called Graphic for that (for an Illustrator replacement), but should now be able to do all of that from Pixelmator.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I used Adobe CS3 on the Mac for a very long time, because I may have had the activation key for my college's site license...

That never gave me any trouble. But using other keys or cracks, a real pain in the ass.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago

I had a legit copy of CS6 for my windows computer, then switched to Mac and was unable to get a copy for it so I kept my windows laptop around for graphic design.

It died and now I use Affinity on my Mac and iPad.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Had me at the first 1/10th.

[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Any Lightroom classic alternative?

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In the theme of above lightroom classic (cracked)

Otherwise not really. You're looking at digiKam for the library management side and either RawTherapee or Darktable for editing.

[–] Exec@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago

I just couldn't get used to how the UI of Darktable works. Rawtherapee is somewhat nice, usable at least. I'll check out digikam, I do have a problem with organisation.

[–] yopyop@feddit.nl 2 points 5 days ago

Rawtherapee or darktable for example.