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.
An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
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Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
#12Remarkably, 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.
Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
#13Remarkably, 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.
Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
#14One hallmark of poor quality software is the existence of a separate cleanup tool in case the uninstall doesn't work
Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
#15Yeah, Adobe's annual paid monthly plan that auto-renews and locks you in is pure evil.
Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
#16Affinity, 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.
I paid for the entire Affinity suite in one shot, was worried when Canva took over, but glad to say everything's working together just fine.
Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
#17Remarkably, 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.
A subscription model isn't needed to kill software. I think Adobe just stopped caring about product quality. They stopped asking "why do people love Photoshop" and instead just chased quarterly numbers.
Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
#18Affinity, 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.
Not only this, but it's like Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign all mixed up into one super-app. This beats Adobe's cross-app functionality by miles.
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#19This software is rotting, was trying to edit frames of a gif this week and the previews are just broken in the timeline on Mac, literally had to boot up my PC, sign in which required restarting photoshop 3 times it just straight up closed itself each part of the process (once to sign out, once to sign in and once to actually use it signed in). Luckily the timeline still works on Windows but completely broken on MacOS so if you're Mac only you can no longer use Photoshop to remove frames from a gif and who knows what other software you should use instead for that thanks to Photoshop monoculture.
Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
#20Yeah, Adobe's annual paid monthly plan that auto-renews and locks you in is pure evil.
you can get out of the lock in by switching your plan then theres a two week window you can cancel without a fee.
Not that you should have to do that, I'm just letting you know that you can so they don't get a fee from you.