Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky
Submitted 11 months ago by ButtonMcLemming@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://futurism.com/adobe-bullied-bluesky
Submitted 11 months ago by ButtonMcLemming@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://futurism.com/adobe-bullied-bluesky
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 11 months ago
Some brilliant people invented photoshop
It was a good product but expensive
Some asshole coke head CEO decided to make it more expensive and worse.
Fuck adobe.
GIMP 3 FTW
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 11 months ago
Big GIMP fan. That being said, Adobe needs to start promoting some of their actually good stuff, like their investment in the open C2PA spec for proving content authenticity, vs constant AI crap that is the exact opposite.
Manticore@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
I use Affinity Suite for work. Paid for it once, have it forever. Free updates until new editions, which are discounted if you 9wn an older edition.
It doesn’t have AI content generation, but it does a few things Adobe doesn’t - like being able to use Photo and Designer from INSIDE Publisher, seamless like its a single program!
Affinity Photo for Photos hope, Designer for Illustrator, and Publisher for InDesign. That’s all I need as a professional
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I have some artist friends who saw the writing on the wall after Adobe told Apple to fuck off with the iPad and Affinity said hold my beer. One owns her own publishing company as if a few years ago all new projects were Adobe-free workflows. She still has Adobe but will only use it for older shit that might still need something later. Going forward, she (and therefore her entire operation) are fucking done with Adobe. Another friend learned both so he could adapt to whatever the market has in store for him and since the market sucks for artists he’s going freelance too and has said absolutely no to Adobe.
Adobe is officially legacy software. Vendor lock in won’t save it as the creatives don’t need industry titans to survive.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ok, so I’ve tried gimp in the past, but had a hard time with it. Honestly, my Photoshop skills are mostly self taught (and not all that impressive), but that’s the interface I know. How similar to Photoshop can one make the interface in gimp these days? Because that’s probably my biggest hurdle.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Check out PhotoGimp
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 11 months ago
Gimp is a little steeper learning curve but if you already know photoshop it’s not that bad.
The tricky thing is knowing what to do when you get stuck. Luckily they wrote a manual that assumes you’re only reading the manual because you got stuck and you’re so frustrated you’re actually reading the manual.
Gimp3 just launched and it’s really nice.
And free.
Gigasser@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bluesky has a lot of artists. Posting this video here: youtu.be/I4mdMMu-3fc
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I still remember when they bought Macromedia Flash and all my animator friends and I simply couldn’t stand Adobe Flash CS3 or whatever it was called. It used more resources, crashed more often and didn’t exactly bring anything revolutionary to the table in terms of new functions.
MangoCats@feddit.it 11 months ago
I (distantly) knew an indie software developer who was putting up a pretty good Photoshop alternative in 1996: ONE GUY alone in his bedroom was making a decent living selling a Photoshop alternative that he wrote himself. And he wasn’t exactly a super-wunderkind coder, just a guy who knew the photo manipulation space well enough to get enough customers to float selling his software for a few years - in direct competition with Photoshop.
Adobe isn’t selling magic dust ground from precious gemstones by thousands of artisans. They had a decent product that they marketed the hell out of and eventually got overly greedy.
GIMP, Krita, and many others are right up there if you haven’t been sucked into the Adobe addiction vortex.
Scrollone@feddit.it 11 months ago
I use GIMP, but you can’t compare it to Photoshop. GIMP has a horrible GUI and it has very strange design choices.
The Affinity suite is comparable to Photoshop, but it’s a paid product.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 11 months ago
Krita is awesome with a drawing pad
And I’m not like even good at doing anything
jackalope@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Gimp sucks. Krita is way better.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 11 months ago
They have different purposes.
rustyfish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I feel like I should have switched to GIMP a decade ago.
Roopappy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The best time to switch was 10 years ago. The second best time to switch is right now.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Photopea represent
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Krita is my graphics app of choice these days. But there are many alternatives that are great (like Gimp and Photopea).
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Affinity Photo for me!
I’d prefer GOSS but…GIMP ain’t it.
Have used Photopea is a bind in the past, it’s also pretty good especially the clone GUI.
commander@lemmy.world 11 months ago
GIMP 3, Krita, Darktable, Inkscape, Kdenlive
kazerniel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
if you poke around graphic design as a hobby, these might be fine, but not for professional use from what I’ve read :/
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Photopea, Shotcut
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Blender
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
So the real question is whether Photoshop might ever have become successful, if Adobe hadn’t bought it.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 11 months ago
It sure is.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
And they bought Macromedia’s suite and destroyed it.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And they bought Cool Edit and destroyed it.
Xerxos@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
And they bought Paintshop pro and destroyed it
Wimster@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
That’s what big tech companies do, they buy small and promissing companies they think that once can become a competitor and then… destroy it. The young startups just take the money and can retire early.
shyguyblue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
RIP Fireworks…
lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I miss macromedia flash so bad, actionscript for life
rotkehle@feddit.org 11 months ago