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Does this only relate to things you put into their cloud, or does Photoshop now upload your offline files to Adobe servers as well? By the way, it's always morally correct to pirate Adobe software for personal use. Which also allows you to fully firewall it because it no longer needs to talk to the activation server.
Adobe Photoshop was one of the tools that helped me earn money professionally during my school and college days, so I had a nostalgic relationship with it. Then, I had a good relationship with Adobe in various ways for a long time in the 2000s. I stopped using such tools long back, but I wanted to keep one handy to remind me of the old days. I found Serif's Affinity[1] to be a good alternative so far. I've been a cus…
Unless you want, e.g., a destructive crop[0] which they have been not adding for at least 4 years and counting. Since my graphic work generally involves cropping, that kinda rules out Pixelmator Pro for me and forces me back into the Adobe Tax Hole.
[0] There are undoubtedly many other deficiencies but this one really irks me.
Does this only relate to things you put into their cloud, or does Photoshop now upload your offline files to Adobe servers as well? By the way, it's always morally correct to pirate Adobe software for personal use. Which also allows you to fully firewall it because it no longer needs to talk to the activation server.
By pirating, you mean running modified binaries from unknown sources? Morals aside, how is that safe, secure, or even convenient?
Unexpectedly fantastic news! My wife makes extensive use of the adobe PDF editing tools, which is has been a major blocker for getting her onto linux. What is a good replacement that works on windows and linux? Non-free is fine.
I replaced photoshop with photopea a while ago. I only use it for light work, but it’s the lowest friction alternative I’ve tried that runs on Linux. https://www.photopea.com/
Does this only relate to things you put into their cloud, or does Photoshop now upload your offline files to Adobe servers as well? By the way, it's always morally correct to pirate Adobe software for personal use. Which also allows you to fully firewall it because it no longer needs to talk to the activation server.
By pirating, you mean running modified binaries from unknown sources? Morals aside, how is that safe, secure, or even convenient?
Does this only relate to things you put into their cloud, or does Photoshop now upload your offline files to Adobe servers as well? By the way, it's always morally correct to pirate Adobe software for personal use. Which also allows you to fully firewall it because it no longer needs to talk to the activation server.
By pirating, you mean running modified binaries from unknown sources? Morals aside, how is that safe, secure, or even convenient?
I replaced photoshop with photopea a while ago. I only use it for light work, but it’s the lowest friction alternative I’ve tried that runs on Linux. https://www.photopea.com/
No need to wait for Photoshop to load and it works on any computer with a browser.
Does this only relate to things you put into their cloud, or does Photoshop now upload your offline files to Adobe servers as well? By the way, it's always morally correct to pirate Adobe software for personal use. Which also allows you to fully firewall it because it no longer needs to talk to the activation server.
By pirating, you mean running modified binaries from unknown sources? Morals aside, how is that safe, secure, or even convenient?