Adobe consolidates. Where is the Blender equivalent for Photoshop? I don't think GIMP is the answer, but it seems like Photoshop is ripe for an open source competitor in the category. I just don't know of any realistic candidates.
Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
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#13This is a blatant effort at maintaining a monopoly.
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#14good purchase.
Good for Figma founders, they'll make a lot of money, bad for Figma users and design authoring tool in general suffering from the lack of competition in the space for the last 25 years. I've seen what happened to Macromedia products after Adobe bought them.
Yeah, over the last five years illustrator has added no useful new features (at least for my use cases) and XD has wandered around with no clear direction. Meanwhile Figma has been a rocketship of features that massively improve workflows. I’m worried they’ll sink into the Adobe pit of complacent mediocrity if they’re bought out.
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#15Adobe consolidates. Where is the Blender equivalent for Photoshop? I don't think GIMP is the answer, but it seems like Photoshop is ripe for an open source competitor in the category. I just don't know of any realistic candidates.
For image manipulation is, nonen omen, GIMP.
For drawing I would say Krita.
Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#16Adobe consolidates. Where is the Blender equivalent for Photoshop? I don't think GIMP is the answer, but it seems like Photoshop is ripe for an open source competitor in the category. I just don't know of any realistic candidates.
This is an irrelevant comment.
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#17Adobe's statement: https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe/intent-to-acquire-20220915...
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#18If true, congratulations for Figma founders, and a bad day for designers that were looking for a way to escape from Adobe.
I don’t think that in the long term this will give Figma as an ecosystem any benefit — unless Adobe will keep it separate from the main Creative Cloud.
This reminds me of the Trello acquisition.
As a loyal Figma user I’m pretty sceptical of the future. Hope to be wrong.
UPDATE: Looks like it is indeed true… https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2022/Adobe-to-Acqui...
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#19This is a blatant effort at maintaining a monopoly.
Yeah, as a Figma and Adobe consumer this feels like an intentional effort to limit my choice and enable Adobe creative cloud to continue to be more-or-less the only realistic option for design work.
I’m perennially frustrated that I live in an era with nearly-dead antitrust.
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#20This is a blatant effort at maintaining a monopoly.
Adobe will be facing an existential crisis trying to maintain this monopoly vs AI generated content, AI augmented content generation tools and cheap image and layout apps.