An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

Post by lossyalgo » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 4:33 PM UTC

philistine wrote: post #79

anonymars wrote: post #43

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Adobe and everyone else. Many of those complaints resonated with me outside of Photoshop But as I've said in the past, I think there is a relationship between subscriptions and quality: with a subscription model, feedback signals become decoupled. In the past, if the new version isn't good enough, people won't buy it. Now the calculus is changed to whether the product has become bad enough to un subscribe Potentially…

That’s why I love the Nova.app model. You pay for a year of releases, but if you unsubscribe you keep the latest version when your subscription was active. It’s the best/worst of both worlds!

Post by lossyalgo » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 4:38 PM UTC

stronglikedan wrote: post #68

3form wrote: post #63

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I don't know what's worse: that they did that, or that the operating system allowed them to do that. On both macOS and Windows according to my understanding that should require admin rights, normally, not to mention the degree to which Apple made macOS immutable (I'm not familiar with the details, to be honest).

It does require admin rights on Win and will pop up the little admin confirmation message on each edit. I'm dubious of the claim that it was written to unnoticed. I use PS daily and I know it hasn't modified my hosts file, because I have, often, and would have noticed (that, and the obvious admin confirmation dialog).

Post by thunderfork » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC

NietTim wrote: post #27

> It turned out that my subscription, which had been going since 2013, was on an “Annual Paid Monthly” plan. Even though I was getting billed monthly, I couldn’t actually cancel any time I wanted. I've been wondering for a while what happens if you just block the transactions on your credit card. (Can't test it myself because I'm not an adobe customer and never will be)

Post by hbn » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

Pseudomanifold wrote: post #26

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?

Darktable ( https://www.darktable.org/ ) has become very good and continues to be my go-to solution for digital photography.

Post by Chu4eeno » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 6:11 PM UTC

freedomben wrote: post #62

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #21

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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…

> 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. Wow, that's a wild statement. I think you might be right. Though GIMP was responsible for GTK, which is now a critical part of most linux systems. I wonder where we'd be if not for GTK? Qt everywhere maybe?