Adobe: trying to connect creators (no not you, you’re too poor to buy our license)
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.
Real :3… I use krita for my art ^^ GIMP for photo editing (which I don’t do a lot of), kdenlive for video, and… blender for 3d stuff
I love Procreate and Affinity Designer as Photoshop replacements! No subscription. I’m not sure what platforms they run on, though. I just use em on my iPad Pro (and Procreate Pocket on my phone)
Krita is our version of Procreate.
Nice, I will check it out!
Photopea is a great option for light photo editing! It’s free website with a decent layout
I love Affinity but didn’t know Canvas got ahold of them. Shoot.
Not good news, but I mispoke, it’s Canva:
https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity/
They were the evil ones I was thinking of though.
why is canva evil, exactly? i use it sometimes /honest question
They’re fast enshitifiers, they’ll buy great products and make them subscription or way worse. An example of a way worse way is Unsplash, where they would offer free products and you could buy some of the photos. The ones you have to purchase used to be at the top or bottom, like PixaBay does. But now they’re mixed in and random. I don’t use it anymore. They ruin everything to the point where if I see they’re involved, I don’t use the product. I know it’ll turn bad soon. I’ve bought from Pixabay occasionally. They might enshitify too, but so far they’ve been great.
yeah, in that sense i don’t trust them either. they may not be openly evil but it’s a matter of time before this becomes more obvious. i feel this way about discord also (it annoys me sometimes but it’s still usable, but i know this won’t last long). let’s hope people come up with a better alternative soon
i only found out about open source culture this year as i was looking into the fediverse (i don’t know much about tech) and it has given me a lotta hope 🤗
The fediverse isn’t perfect, but it’s the best we’ve got. There are a ton of lists going around with replacemet software, most are free or have free versions.
For those not on Bluesky, Adobe got bullied so hard by basically every artist the site from this post that they straight up left. They were ratio’d out of existence. It’s hilarious.
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.
Adobe be like
Putting this here for easy copy/paste later
𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀮 𓀯 𓀰 𓀱 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁌 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆
𓀾 | 𓀾 𓀕
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𓀾 𓀾 | 𓀾 𓁀𓀿 𓁀
I personally like how this one in particular seems like a casket rising from the floor
𓀢 𓀣
clap clap
I heard adobe steal artist’s works to train their ai
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.
Look you aren’t going to stop this bad thing going on, so why not just support the bad thing going on and stop complaining? Personally I have made a lot of money off this bad thing so I am struggling to see what is bad about it? Your numerous examples about this bad thing hurting other people and the earth don’t work on me since I have spent a long time listening to white guys explain to me how to completely destroy my capacity for empathy for other human beings and now I am functionally a sociopath.
Besides anyways, all art is stealing so what is wrong with condescendingly shitting on artists and art in general as an idea by drowning spaces that used to be public squares full of vibrant human art with crappy cynical slop generated by a computer?
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.
I fucking hate Adobe so much. One curse is not enough! More curses!
I cast Curse of Unicode!
⸸̸̢͔͙̞͕̆͒͋̓̊ঔৣ☬༒Ƕ≛꧅឵᳆⊰⊱⍟ꙮ∰⫘⫷⫸꩜꯭̦̩̩̩ꙴ̔͛ͤ̀̋̎ͬ͢͏̩̞̰̜̝͚̗̀͟͜ͅ҉̛̙̖̦̘̖̹̜̱̯̙̲̬꧂ꩉ╰⃝࿃╯ꫂྂᡃ⳽≠⍻ⓨ☠≭〠⊆⤙⟅⟆̴̞̞̤̤̝̝̦̦̏͛̎̄͜͡҉҉⛧⸎྿⧯⊗๖ۣۜζஔ
I cast 𓂸
Whats the range on that thing
20 centimeters, give or take
Remember folks, it is ALWAYS morally and ethically justified to pirate Adobe software. They’re a garbage, predatory company that needs to crash and burn.
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.
What has Adobe done to fuel my creativity? 25 years of copyright protection on their apps. And in all of that time, I have never paid to use a legit version of their most current app. Why? Because their DRM is overengineered and full of weaknesses that can easily be exploited by even the most novice user. Their paranoia combined with their incompetence has saved me tens of thousands of dollars over the decades.
Thanks Adobe!
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.
It’s also the same reason Microsoft pushed to get Windows in grade schools - even paying for the computers in some cases.
what is becoming almost as good as adobe these days but easier to use?
Premiere --> Davinci Resolve (Openshot or Kdenlive for FOSS)
Illustrator --> Affinity (Inkscape for FOSS)
Photoshop --> Affinity Photo (GIMP w/ PhotoGIMP & Resynthasizer for FOSS)
Whatever Adobe has for painting --> Krita (FOSS)
Acrobat --> Literally anything else. Even firefox the browser lets you edit pdf. Please don’t pay a subscription model for “pdf editor” in 2025.
I can’t believe Acrobat still exists. Like I had to explain to someone that Acrobat and WinRAR are pretty much obsolete.
Connect my balls to your forehead, Adobe.
Y… you want them to headbutt you in the balls? 🥺
Valuable cultural artefact (not joking)
Its not an Artifact type card tho 🤓 (joking)
