So what are the best options now? Been away from the photography hobby for a long time. Looking for something to process my Fujifilm raw files and making small repairs to my family history photos.
Comment on Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
It won’t stop until creatives stop paying.
There are alternative tools available, but the number of people I have seen not want to learn a new UI is high. Adobe knows this, so they continue to raise prices.
alehel@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
jodanlime@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
darktable.org Darktable is like Adobe Lightroom but open source, and I honestly think it’s better at this point.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m not sure “like lightroom” is true. It has an entirely different paradigm to editing, with modules and such instead of a single state
WarlordSdocy@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I mean it’s not just not wanting to learn a new UI. It’s that a company uses Adobe as it’s standard so if you don’t have experience with it they won’t hire you. And if you try to come in using a different tool they’re just gonna end up forcing you to use Adobe.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Is it the case that most creatives cancel their subs when they get that job? Does the job have a site license (assuming Adobe even allows site licenses)?
pup_atlas@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Yes, creative jobs near universally provide licenses to creative cloud. Aside from companies not hiring people without that experience, the amount of saved assets and templates, along with the deep integration between apps makes the prospect of a full “migration” a ridiculously expensive prospect.
The value in these assets is not just in video files or pictures you can easily migrate to another app. It’s the complex scripts and templates that allow creatives to make custom branded content on the fly. Like a lower third that adjusts styling depending on the name you put in, and auto resizes to fit the text, etc.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Is it just me, or does that sound like a monopoly?
Do any creatives attempt to create assets for another platform?
I’m really not blaming creatives on this one. Obviously they need to make money. But this seems like a clear case of advantage being taken against one skillset by virtue of monopoly.
I’d say it seems like the key issue affecting creatives, if AI didn’t exist.
As an outsider: how did we get to a point where every creator is limited to one box?
wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I wanted to ask why don’t they let you pick your own tools and mid sentence I realized it must be because you won’t be able to share work with colleagues due to compatibility issues with files.
Which means it’s bigger than the company you work for, but the same for anyone you might want to collaborate with.
There must be some open file standard for creative stuff.
Am I correct assuming that?
WarlordSdocy@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I mean it’s not just file format problems as well. It’s also the fact that generally you’ll need a professional license for whatever software you’re using since you’re not using it for personal use and it’s probably cheaper and easier to buy a ton of licenses from one company then splitting it between different companies based on what people want. There’s also the fact that especially for bigger companies they’ll have custom tools and templates already made that work in that software. Some of that is file format for things like templates but any custom scripts or tools would probably have to be rewritten to support other types of creative tools. Plus at the end of the day it’s just easier if all of your employees are using the same tools so they can collaborate easier and ask for help on things easier.
AkashicOwl@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How many users are actually working in a company that uses Adobe? Aren’t most users just casual, or even if they make money of art, working solo? (So, no need to conforme to an industry standard)
I might be totally wrong tho
WarlordSdocy@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if at this point with the prices they charge, most of Adobe’s users are either working somewhere that has it, or are students who want to work professionally with it, or are people in between jobs who need to keep up skills in it for when they can go back to work. Most anyone I talk to who isn’t doing things professionally and doesn’t plan to go professional will use something like Gimp instead of Photoshop if cost is an issue.
Outside of this though there’s also just the fact that it being the industry standard does tend to cause non-professionals to use it too. Whether it be because they view it as better then the alternatives, or they want to get experience in case they ever want to use it professionally, or they just haven’t heard of anything else and the tutorials they were able to find for what they wanted to do used Adobe products.
Either way though I bet that the majority of the money Adobe makes is from companies buying tons of pro licenses rather than from individual people using it.