Lol!
"Solely for the purposes of operating or improving the Services and Software...we can access and use your data, even for marketing our Software or services."
The gall of these people...
Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
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Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#62Unexpectedly 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 can't answer windows/linux, but I use pdfexpert.com for mac and it's great. It was a one time $100 charge when I bought it several years ago, and it gets updated regularly.
Thanks, but I'm more likely to use Windows or even TempleOS over MacOS.
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#63Unexpectedly 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.
PDF was not created to be edited, but as a final output format ready to be printed as-is.
OTOH, XournalPP has basic editing tools. So does LibreOffice.
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#64Does 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?
> or even convenient
Back before Steam, when I bought a game on disc I downloaded the no-cd crack before opening the box to install it...
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#65I still can't draw a circle in gimp :(
Krita! https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/tools/ellipse.htm...
> Use this tool to paint an ellipse. The currently selected brush is used for drawing the ellipse outline. Click and hold the left mouse button to indicate one corner of the ‘bounding rectangle’ of the ellipse, then move your mouse to the opposite corner. Krita will show a preview of the ellipse using a thin line. Release the button to draw the ellipse.
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been doing it all my life. I've literally never paid for a software license, I don't know any better. In general, I usually download from reputable sources. Haven't had any problems so far.
> Haven't had any problems so far. That you know of. For all you know you could be infected and part of a botnet. Viruses don't open a big popup saying "haha you've been hacked!". This line of thinking is extremely common and absolutely nonsensical. The point of a virus is to remain undetected.
:) reputable torrent sources usually have a comment section and viruses are found and the torrent nuked faster than you get around to downloading the stuff...
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#67A large swathe of professionals campaigned on behalf of Adobe when they switched from perpetual to subscription licensing. They willingly turned over control and this is merely the consequences of that willingness, which Adobe will continue to take advantage of. I don't see this leading to any changes, just pointing it out.
Wouldn't surprise me if they got 90-100% discounts for a few years in exchange for saying it's a good thing.
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#68If you're still using Adobe's products, stop. Better late than never. Adobe had some great products. Then they over charged for them. Then they required a "cloud" subscription. There are alternatives. Support one of the startups or open source projects that are competing with them. Don't give Adobe another cent.
I went a very long time not using Adobe's products but I hit a wall when I went to do some motion-based projects. What's the After Effects alternative?
Not one-to-one (node vs layer metaphor) but Fusion is stupid powerful and free within Davinci Resolve.
It’s an incredible piece of software that, in addition to being best in class color correction, has fully replaced Adobe in my professional video workflow (Premiere, AE, AME, etc)
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/fus...
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#69If you're still using Adobe's products, stop. Better late than never. Adobe had some great products. Then they over charged for them. Then they required a "cloud" subscription. There are alternatives. Support one of the startups or open source projects that are competing with them. Don't give Adobe another cent.
I wouldn’t even look at startups if there is a viable open source alternative. Most startups are just looking to get a big enough user base to get bought by the big players.
Exactly, any startup will just be on a different place of the enshitification curve.
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#70I remember a number of years ago getting a cheap 1-year Lightroom susbscription as part of a promo. Got it installed, loaded up a few photos. Then went back to the directory to load the photos in a different program for comparison. The photos were deleted from my hard drive! They were loaded into Lightroom's cloud service, and without my knowledge or permission (and I was using the just-installed defaults) it had del…
Ah, the new Lightroom CC! I was a happy, delighted, enthusiastic Lightroom user from the moment it originally came out and threw Aperture into the bin where it belongs. Lightroom was fast, brilliant to use, a fabulous wrapper around ACR and managed all the photo files perfectly. It was, to me, as perfect a piece of consumer software that has ever existed. The moment CC turned up, not only was it a cut-down version in…
Agreed. This is I think the single biggest contributor to my now fairly radical approach to software. Unless the app is at least source available, I will only use it if I really need it. One of the most valuable things about open source to me now is simply that nobody can take it away. Sure maintainers can disappear, but (aside from accreted cruft/bitrot) I can keep using whatever version as long as I have hardware to run it on.
I dedicated four hours to learning GIMP a few years ago, and many times now I've been so glad I did. There are a ton of books and courses out there for people looking to do the same. Kdenlive is another one I'm super glad I took the time to learn.