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You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by gogopuppygogo »

tomc1985 wrote: post #243
gogopuppygogo wrote: post #240

I found this week that Adobe Fireworks CS6 no longer activates with a Creative Cloud subscription. I’ve been a Creative Cloud customer since launch but now have to crack my copy of Adobe Fireworks CS6 to use it. Horrific thought for me since I hate using hacks to run software (who the hell really knows what is in there) but I can’t find another way to use it legally (no one has a copy for sale second hand). I’d switc…

Just curious, what is Fireworks used in?

Web development for me. It’s the most logical layer based editor I have ever used.

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by agumonkey »

eli wrote: post #11
beachy wrote: post #7

"The aging activation servers for those apps had to be retired." Cry me a river - Adobe can't afford to keep an old server running? At least be honest about the motivation.

Release a patch to remove the check and you don’t need to worry about it.

anybody ever tried to reverse the protocol and shim the server ?

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Post by qwerty456127 »

benjojo12 wrote: post #267
qwerty456127 wrote: post #264

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> For CS2, they offered Activation-free replacement installers and generic serial numbers on their support page. This is the only reasonable way it should be done with old software. > This resulted in a bunch of press about it being a omg completely free Creative Suite Just write it in bold - something like "it's not free, you are only eligible if you have purchased a license". Whoever wants to pirate will pirate any…

Flash is still used in animation and other bits, despite its web presence disappearing

Is there a reliable way to view flash files without a browser then? I'm concerned about loosing the ability to occasionally view some flash (games etc) after Chrome removes Flash support this december. And people (I have quite a number of friends who do) already have to use old Windows systems with Internet Explorer to use the Flash app to apply to the US DV lottery (Chrome just offers to save it instead of running it).

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Post by richrichardsson »

cheeze wrote: post #104
egonschiele wrote: post #77

In the last month I've returned two pieces of Adobe software and canceled a yearly subscription. I've been seeing ads for the AI features in photoshop all over twitter this week. It's pretty clear what their business strategy is -- just keep working on the tech and assume people will buy their software because it's the only one with the hot tech thing. It's ironic that for a company that caters to designers, artists…

As someone who has used both quite a bit, IMO Procreate is nice, and very good for certain things, but not even close to Photoshop. If I can't run it on a desktop computer, big fat meh.

> If I can't run it on a desktop computer, big fat meh.

This is where Apple Silicon and the convergence of macOS and iPadOS sounds useful. Still not convinced it makes up for the losses though.

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Post by diarrhea »

porker wrote: post #254
prox wrote: post #191

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I switched to Affinity completely, and I also slowly see some people in the industry change. And for video, DaVinci Resolve. There might be cases were you’re tied to CS, but the bulk of the work can be done in these apps.

What about a replacement for Adobe Acrobat Pro on (Windows)? That is the one app that keeps me having a Creative Cloud subscription. In a business setting I find it essential.

That, and Adobe Lightroom. I tried to switch and had a mixture of Darktable, RawTherapee, RapidPhotoDownloader and digiKam running. It was unpleasant and years behind Lightroom, unfortunately. Even more unfortunate is that I have a stand-alone license for Lightroom 5, but my camera is too new for it (no support for its RAWs).

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Post by wiredfool »

underwater wrote: post #176
maxerickson wrote: post #157

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$600 a year isn't particularly expensive (that's for Creative Cloud). Roughly $0.30 an hour vs whatever wage is being paid to click the buttons. It's not cheap , but it's not something businesses are going to balk at either. They are showing healthy growth in revenue: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ADBE/financials?p=ADBE So apparently lots of their users are not concerned about their change to the pricing model and…

It's cheap for professional use, but it's very expensive for amateurs and occasional users. I was using Lightroom to manage my catalogue of photos. I'd open up Photoshop and Lightroom maybe a dozen times a year. It was nice to have them available but they were effectively costing me $20 each use. When Adobe products were an upfront payment I could choose to buy a product and keep it through multiple release cycles, w…

That's me.

I bought Lightroom 3 times (1/3/5?) and used it a bunch, but not professionally. I've got tons of old images in it, from that era, I open it a couple of times a year to find stuff. I've moved on, I don't do DSLR/RAW images anymore.

This version doesn't run on Catalina, and the only upgrade that would keep the develop settings is O(10)/mo. So I'm looking for something that can do the cataloging, and something that can do the processing should I ever do that again.

I have 0 hope that anything will take the develop settings in lightroom and use/improve them, but that would be perfect. (I've got one image in particular that's just at the edge of acceptable quality on LR3 that got dramatically better on LR5)

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Post by Reason077 »

kazinator wrote: post #257
vr46 wrote: post #248

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I have officially given up on Adobe after 28 years, too. Even with the new features in Potatochop/Lightroom on image protection. I can't run my old software, or I can't obtain my old software, and CC is just a shitshow of processes permanently running and sucking up battery power. DaVinci Resolve is amazing. I'm becoming better and better with GIMP. CaptureOne is crappier to use but has much better output. Lightroom…

Google Chrome is giving up on Adobe Flash. Says it will be unsupported after Dec 2020.

Even Adobe's own Flash updater is begging you to uninstall it now days.

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Post by uxcolumbo »

daniellarusso wrote: post #92

I have been using Pixelmator Pro as a Photoshop substitute on OS X. I have been pretty happy with it, but I would be happy with Photoshop 7. What alternatives exist for ‘After Effects’, though?

Try Davinci Resolve

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/fus...

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