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My recipe for dealing with "cranky" proprietary software like this: Step 1. Buy CC subscription and install what you need. Step 2. Look for a good patch/crack that makes everything work ofline, and that still allows you to update. Step 3. Make peace with the risk of having installed some possible malware on your machine with the patch/crack (ie. do the sensible thing of doing you shopping and ebanking on the other de…
That is what VM's are for.....
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> risk of having installed some possible malware Are you talking about the Creative Cloud drm or the crack?
You don't need a crack for CC, just to block Adobe's activation servers in your hosts after installing. (AFAIK)
You still code that can either crack the software or act is a server for it.
My recipe for dealing with "cranky" proprietary software like this: Step 1. Buy CC subscription and install what you need. Step 2. Look for a good patch/crack that makes everything work ofline, and that still allows you to update. Step 3. Make peace with the risk of having installed some possible malware on your machine with the patch/crack (ie. do the sensible thing of doing you shopping and ebanking on the other de…
What happens when these "cloud" companies go out of business?
You're pretty much SOL if you can't find a replacement quick.
Don't ever rely on "cloud" software for critical infrastructure unless you own that cloud.
Everybody get CS6 and delay upgrading as long as you can.
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Too bad GIMP is such a crappy alternative.
Pixelmator is a much better solution if you're on a Mac. Not free though...
I'd think, though, that the Pixelmator devs could port it to Linux quite easily, as most of the code already works with OpenGL/OpenCL/etc. so they'd only have to port the Cocoa-based UI to QT.
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It's mostly a question of storage. Here's a great tool for getting a feel: http://tools.geofabrik.de/calc/#type=geofabrik_standard&bbox... Z=18 is rarely used, so for Z You could try vector data which would be smaller, but then you have to display it, which can be computationally expensive if you want it to look pretty, and you'd lose the snappiness you're seeking.
You've just told us a good-sized city fits in about 1/200th of my phone's storage. I'll take a dozen. Actually, you could fit the entirety of the state of Washington in I'm not seeing a problem.
Well, most people don't want to lose even 20% of their phone's storage in a single app, much less 50%.
And that's just for those satisfied to only have info for one state. What about people regularly travelling between 1-2 states?
That said, I question the OP storage math. At least with vector information, I know that something like Navigon's GPS/map app, can store the whole of US (including the smallest of towns and cities) in around 1GB.
Does anyone have access to GIMP download statistics for the past ~10 days? Edit: Answering my own question... Not the main repository, but it's something. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20...
Too bad GIMP is such a crappy alternative.
99% of the time, I just need to crop an image to a certain size. GIMP is actually much better than photoshop for this particular exact task. Nice UI for resizing the selection box in place. Other simple tweaks - brightness/contrast etc - are handled perfectly competently.
It certainly isn't a drop-in replacement for the sort of magic 'proper' photoshoppers do. But for a semi-competent web-monkey like me, it suffices perfectly well on those occasions when imagemagick is too blunt an instrument.
Vector to bitmap conversion sucks, though. Seriously, if IM can do this without pixellating everything to buggery, why not GIMP?
The money was not an issue, what was an issue is that I think that tools should not be shoehorned against all logic into a pay-to-play model, they should just work. Imagine your c compiler or your editor failing to work because some third party service is down. To me that is not an option.
I hope Adobe learns their lesson and re-instates the licensing model they used in the past and gets rid of their 'Creative Cloud' nonsense asap.
And if they don't then I hope some competitor will realize this is a huge opportunity and will jump into the gap opened up here.
Adobe is good, but they can be beaten, especially if they shoot themselves in the foot (repeatedly).
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If you're one of those, I highly recommend Pixelmator - download at pixelmator.com. My choice for a really simple, easy image editor is Acorn from Flying Meat Software - http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/ . It's like Apple's Numbers compared to Microsoft's Excel - there are things that the most sophisticated couple of percent of users will miss, but for most people it's a great alternative. Adobe can't die quick enough to…
I second this: Pixelmator is great. But most heavy Photoshop users won't leave Photoshop unless dragged away. It's all they know. Sure they'll kick, scream, bitch. But suggest something like Pixelmator you get excuses like "But Pixelmator doesn't have [insert obscure filter that they've only used once in their life]". In the end, they'll still stay on Adobe's CC.
We don't just crop, resize and apply some blur.
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One would hope that you're correct. And in the very long run you will be. But IMO not anytime soon. True, Quark was unable to "change their stripes" and crashed and burned. Contempt for customers (and also contempt for their own US-based developers) came from the top. However, programs like Photoshop are the result of thousands of man-hours of development. Perhaps even thousands of man-years! It's difficult to compet…
This is a classic innovator's dilemma. The competitor won't compete evenly with Adobe, they will start with an under served market. Adobe will scoff at them even being a threat. Sure, Adobe could stop being pricks any time, but that won't maximize profits, so they won't. Eventually, the competitor's product will become good enough, and the stampede away from Adobe will begin. And it may not be one company. It may be…
To prevent that is what patents are for.
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On the topic of reasonable alternative tools, Sketch[1] has started to gain a tremendous amount of traction within a short amount of time within the web design community. [1]: http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch
As a Sketch user myself I still recognize downside for some is that it isn't cross platform. There are still a lot of people that have to use creative tools on Windows for one reason or another. Data exchange is also a big deal. Sketch does make an excellent alternative to Illustrator for my purposes. I'd argue that alternatives to Photoshop and After Effects are the killer apps needed for getting most people out of…
http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke-product-family/nuk...
Unfortunately, it's a wee bit more expensive. But I wonder if we'll see a price drop soon...