Creative Cloud Pro arrives with more AI, higher prices, and a familiar feeling of déjà vu
Forgetting the options of “leave” and “pirate”
Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade
Submitted 10 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/20/adobe_price_hikes/
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Taleya@aussie.zone 10 months ago
msage@programming.dev 10 months ago
Don’t pirate their software, it still helps them keep up the monopoly.
MetaStatistical@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
With GIMP 3 and DaVinci Resolve 20 out there, this seems like a very bad idea.
Something something slips through your fingers something.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Affinity is an excellent replacement for Photoshop, Illustrator, and Publisher. Gimp is a dumpster fire, both as software and a FOSS project.
UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Affinity is an excellent replacement for Photoshop, Illustrator, and Publisher.
I may have to finally make the switch. I’ve been using photoshop/illustrator for over 20 years now though…
It’s gonna be damn hard to make the switch…
killabeezio@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah, I tried Gimp. Hated it. One of the biggest issues with Gimp, besides features, is the workflow. If you are trying to get Photoshop users to move over, then it needs to at least have a similar workflow. It’s completely different though. You are learning an entirely new tool with new shortcuts. No one has time for this.
Look at vscode or neovim. Most devs use one of 5 editors these days. Vscode and neovim being the most popular. If you want to compete with these tools, they need to have a similar workflow and feel to what people are used to. Otherwise, no one will use it.
I’ll use photopea over gimp any day for this reason.
okamiueru@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeh. No fault of course in of itself tho. Gimp developers have tried to make something, but it just hasn’t materialised in the same way as Blender. Kudos for trying.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
[deleted]Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
Name a few features in Photoshop that cant be done in GIMP?
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
GIMP still kind of sucks
DaVinci Resolve is on part with PS tho
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
They are the industry standard so they can do anything
MetaStatistical@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Didn’t stop me from switching to Linux for my entire workflow. Industry standard is just a phrase. It doesn’t truly mean anything when viable and real alternatives exist.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
No alternative for after effects, is there?
MetaStatistical@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I don’t mess with it enough, but DaVinci Resolve’s Fusion is rather powerful.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ill leave this here: GenP
Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
At this point we know the users are in fault
LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Is it just the AI bullshit that’s being price-locked, because i dont give a fuck about those
the_q@lemm.ee 10 months ago
This is why “industry standard” is such a stupid concept. Adobe knows they have a stranglehold on creative professionals.
abdominable@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It’s the ‘professionals’ fault, they got locked into that shit years ago because it’s what they learned in school and they don’t want to learn anything else even though there are alternatives.
I’m just happy when they don’t imsist on an overpriced Mac just to use Adobe.
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Most probably didn’t learn in school - they learned because they pirated the software. This used to be a boon for Adobe as by mostly ignoring piracy they were training the workforce in private. Somewhere along the lines Adobe got greedy and will eventually pay the price as they won’t own the landscape forever. Software like Blender is already allowing people to not buy the poison that is After effects in some cases.
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I wouldn’t say its their fault tho.
Professional will use software that suitable for their workflow. I’ve seen professionals changing their main software if there was better alternative.
For example, there are wave of professional that are moving from Adobe to Affinity. Illustrator and comic artist are moving from Photoshop to Clip Studio Paint or Procreate. Some video editor will instantly change their software to Davinci Resolve.
Most of the time, they can’t change their software because their client requires file compability, such as Photoshop-native PSD. Sure, other software can open/edit PSD, but they might not fully support all PSD format specification.
That’s why people on open source community focused on open format and open workflow instead. Inkscape use SVG. Krita use ORA. And so on.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I stick with the overpriced Mac and ditched Adobe when I was in charge of the design department. The hardware lasts and the trackpad is unrivaled and Pixelmator and the Affinity apps are good enough.
thesmokingman@programming.dev 10 months ago
I really hate it when people blame consumers for problems instead of producers. Let’s go ahead and examine your hypothesis.
- someone wants to learn how to be a designer
- they spend time and money being taught Adobe products in a bootcamp or school
- since they aren’t defined by their job, they do literally anything else in their free time rather than bringing school home with them
- occasionally they see other stuff like Affinity or GIMP but the interface is radically different from what they’re learning or an important feature requires more time to figure out than they can budget
- they get a job that requires Adobe
- years later, when they have purchasing authority, they’re told they need to cut costs and decide maybe researching is a good idea
- the first results for Adobe alternatives are just a bunch of Lemmy threads calling them lazy
Can you point out where in this process our hypothetical user should have done something different? And more importantly why it’s this person’s fault they’ve been vendor-locked their whole career? Note that a critical assumption I’m making here is that not everyone is a power user because, unsurprisingly, not everyone is a power user.
almost1337@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I don’t know how much I can blame the non-tech-savvy professionals on their selection of software, especially when the alternatives aren’t broadly known or understood.
corroded@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ll pay for good software. Developers deserve a decent wage, too. I’ll pay a lot for really good software. I’ll buy new versions of the tools I use often.
What I will never ever do is subscribe to software, no matter how good it is. Software is not a service and should not ever be sold as such.
Lightor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think there are some reasonable SaaS models out there, but end user tools shouldn’t be one.
JuanPeece@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yeah imo it definitely depends on what the tool is. If there’s a bunch of data processing/aggregation that’s being handled by said service, it makes sense that there would be a recurring cost. API licensing ain’t cheap. (However I’m super biased, as I write software for an app using a SaaS yearly subscription model)
st3ph3n@midwest.social 10 months ago
Glad I ditched them a couple of months ago.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
- Creative Club software subscription
- Create tiers to segment what people are receptive to being squeezed in order to maintain all features
- Add a premium currency in addition to the subscription for AI features
- Make tiers of premium currency that can be used for some features but not others…
Did an AI make this pricing strategy with the aim to double and triple dip on their customers as much as possible?
Oggyb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Only in North America… for now. 🌎