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An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by pier25 »

I've been using Photoshop since CS1 (was a Corel user before that).

Photoshop and Illustrator CS6 were the last good versions. Very snappy and with probably 99% of the features I use today. Everything slowly degraded when they moved to the subscription model which I've been paying since 2013.

Apple Silicon support was really bad for a couple of years (tons of GPU issues in Illustrator) but I will admit it's better now.

The worst offender is Creative Cloud. I remember their Sync crap couldn't even be removed from Finder at one point. Even today whenever you use an Adobe app a dozen processes will spawn in your computer and remain there even if you disallow any background stuff in macOS.

Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by PaulHoule »

donatj wrote: post #48

My biggest complaint about Photoshop is that every time CPUs have gotten faster, it's gotten slower. I've used it since the mid 1990s recreationally, early 2000s professionally. Every time I get a major CPU upgrade, it will be fast for a while, but with updates become slow again. This pattern has repeated over and over again. Most recently when I moved to Apple Silicon from an Intel Mac, I was excited how quickly eve…

It’s better than a lot of modern software. One reason I stick with it is I have a hobby of printing smaller formats like 4x6 cards and Photoshop and Epson Print Layout are the only programs that I have 100% control of all the printer and color management settings and exactly where the image winds up on the printer (e.g. managing the mechanical uncertainty). I don’t send work out to people who have better printers because I don’t trust them to get it right.

Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by medwards666 »

throw0101d wrote: post #32
dtagames wrote: post #7

Affinity, mentioned in the article, was acquired by Canva and had its entire UI redone to work just like Photoshop. It's also entirely free with no gotchas.

> It's also entirely free with no gotchas. How is this sustainable for a for-profit entity? How do they pay the bills/developers?

Presumably though Canva subscriptions?

Shame it's only Mac/Windows compatible. I'd kill for a Linux build.

Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by alistairSH »

giwook wrote: post #23

There have been some good alternatives mentioned in the comments here, like Affinity or Photopea. Does anyone happen to know if there is a similarly good alternative to Lightroom?

I've been happy with Photomator (now owned by Apple).

It's Apple-only, with versions for iOS/iPadOS and Mac. It integrates seamlessly with the Apple photo library.

It's only "gotcha" (which I don't find to be a problem) is it leverages Apple processing where possible (ie the Apple RAW engine). That doesn't bother me, but if you're a pro-level photog and need some special sauce for your RAW workflow, it might not work.

Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by [deleted] »

frollogaston wrote: post #6
InsideOutSanta wrote: post #5

After ~30 years of Photoshop, I now use Acorn for things where pixel-perfect editing matters and Affinity for everything else. I miss absolutely nothing.

I did an insane amount of pixel-perfect editing in Acorn 1.0 free trial when I was a kid in 2007, always with the shareware banner blocking part of the canvas

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Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by janfoeh »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #5

After ~30 years of Photoshop, I now use Acorn for things where pixel-perfect editing matters and Affinity for everything else. I miss absolutely nothing.

Acorn is one of the very, very few remaining pieces of software where the update notification popping up makes me go "Oh nice, what's this then?" instead of filling me with existential dread.

I hardly do anything graphics-related these days, but I still buy each and every new full version, just because it has become so damn rare to see good software that isn't paternalistic to outright adversarial towards its own users.

Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by sghiassy »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #13
pauldoerwald wrote: post #12

Remarkably, they didn't even need vibe coding to drive their software into the toilet. Their decline started long before AI started writing code for us.

Pretty clear marketing killed PS when they went to a subscription model.

I despise their subscription model, but I bet it’s minting them tons of money.

Individuals leaving them (including myself to Affinity) is a drop in the ocean to them

Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by bombcar »

pier25 wrote: post #51

I've been using Photoshop since CS1 (was a Corel user before that). Photoshop and Illustrator CS6 were the last good versions. Very snappy and with probably 99% of the features I use today. Everything slowly degraded when they moved to the subscription model which I've been paying since 2013. Apple Silicon support was really bad for a couple of years (tons of GPU issues in Illustrator) but I will admit it's better no…

All the various "cloud" apps suck in various ways (one drive, I've a pitchfork for you; Box Drive, you're maybe the best behaved of a horrible lot) - but Creative Cloud was always the worst.

Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by 1313ed01 »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #21
harvie wrote: post #11

GIMP. How do you feel about it? i know people were sometimes quite critical, it has different workflow than PS, but it seems it gets the job done.

World would be in a better place if GIMP hadn't ever existed, the existence of GIMP is part of why we don't have an actual viable alternative. Constant claims of "good enough", 20+ years to implement adjustment layers after dismissing their value for many years a team that doesn't really care at all about it. If GIMP had never existed maybe the Blender team or someone else who actually has passion for the problem wou…

Krita, not GIMP, has been the FOSS flagship 2D bitmap editor for many years, the way Blender is for 3D. Can't remember when I last used GIMP for anything.
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