It's fucking sad that pirated copies of software are infinitely better than the actual products. I'd rather have Russian hackers keking at my memes than Adobe trying to thought-police me.
If you don’t want to fly the pirate flag and support honest developers, there are some decent low-cost alternatives available, such as Affinity Photo ($35, Win + Mac) or Pixelmator Pro ($50, Mac only). Also Photopea is a decent web-based alternative if you don’t mind ads.
I’ve been using Pixelmator for a while and it does everything I need while being far less bloated and significantly easier to use than Adobe’s stuff. Despite only charging a one-time payment, they keep pushing out regular updates and actually useful AI features like automatic subject detection.
It's fucking sad that pirated copies of software are infinitely better than the actual products. I'd rather have Russian hackers keking at my memes than Adobe trying to thought-police me.
If you don’t want to fly the pirate flag and support honest developers, there are some decent low-cost alternatives available, such as Affinity Photo ($35, Win + Mac) or Pixelmator Pro ($50, Mac only). Also Photopea is a decent web-based alternative if you don’t mind ads.
I’ve been using Pixelmator for a while and it does everything I need while being far less bloated and significantly easier to use than Adobe’s stuff. Despite only charging a one-time payment, they keep pushing out regular updates and actually useful AI features like automatic subject detection.
Most likely they probably want to get all this usage data to train an LLM, but the content moderation is a great bonus
Made sure to get a copy of CS5 as soon as Creative Cloud became a thing.
https://x.com/daithijc/status/1799108213448818792
https://x.com/ahmed_serougi/status/1799125824211239354
Vote with your wallet
Besides their crazy pay setup to even use their products, now I don't even own what I make with it?
Who would ever use this or not pirate copies that aren't connected to their head office servers.
Just use GIMP, does everything most people need, is free and open source.
https://www.gimp.org/
Photopea is a decent alternative if you don’t mind ads. It’s surprisingly capable for a web app, pretty much Photoshop from about 10 years ago.