Some brilliant people invented photoshop
It was a good product but expensive
Some asshole coke head CEO decided to make it more expensive and worse.
Fuck adobe.
GIMP 3 FTW
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
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And they bought Macromedia’s suite and destroyed it.
I miss macromedia flash so bad, actionscript for life
I once built a website preloader that was so large that I made a pre-preloader for it. Good times indeed.
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GIMP 3, Krita, Darktable, Inkscape, Kdenlive
if you poke around graphic design as a hobby, these might be fine, but not for professional use from what I've read :/
e.g. apparently Inkscape still can't really do CMYK
Blender
The people editing their images in Blender are the same people who edit their videos in Blender lol.
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I (distantly) knew an indie software developer who was putting up a pretty good Photoshop alternative in 1996: ONE GUY alone in his bedroom was making a decent living selling a Photoshop alternative that he wrote himself. And he wasn't exactly a super-wunderkind coder, just a guy who knew the photo manipulation space well enough to get enough customers to float selling his software for a few years - in direct competition with Photoshop.
Adobe isn't selling magic dust ground from precious gemstones by thousands of artisans. They had a decent product that they marketed the hell out of and eventually got overly greedy.
GIMP, Krita, and many others are right up there if you haven't been sucked into the Adobe addiction vortex.
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We should all be bullying companies more.. Less bullying people and more bullying companies and orgs!!
Yes people make up a company blah blah blah.. Don't care. Just don't bully the people working there.
And billionaires, especially the Nazis variety.
I quite enjoyed Elon getting bullied over POE2 stream.
Oh Nazis deserve to just be punched (nonstop).
You heard the time Elon was told to go back to Africa. That was hilarious.
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A top reply was posted on another lemmy community:
https://lemmy.world/post/27989752
I can't see any screenshots from the article, all require a bluesky account. At least on twitter you could see images without login before the takeover. I'm alright if a for profit websites hides "their" content behind a login wall, it's their choice, but how lazy is this "journalism" where they don't copy the images, they just link to the original tweets or whatever they called on bluesky.
That's weird. The bluesky links in the article work fine for me, and I don't have a bluesky account.
Ahh hang on, this one doesn't work but all the rest do
https://bsky.app/profile/megzavala.bsky.social/post/3lmdz2tu6xk2x
Ahh here we go: it's a user made setting not a bluesky one
"Sign-in Required This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. This label was applied by the author."
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TBH it's better journalism to include the link, but they could do both.
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adobe will charge you $20 a month to read their skeets then charge a $100 cancellation fee if you want to stop following them.
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Honestly nah, there are lots of other good options. Support the devs and people fueling real creativity rather than staying in Adobe's ecosystem, paid or not.
Honestly nah, there are lots of other good options.
Unfortunately as someone who uses Adobe programs for work, the FLOSS alternatives are just not there yet :/ (especially considering how seamlessly Adobe programs work together)
My partner is a graphic designer and although she undeniably had some growing pains switching away from Adobe, she hasn't looked back.
Thanks, that's interesting to hear! Can I ask what sort of graphic design she does?
My work primarily involves CMYK publications made in InDesign, using graphics made in Illustrator and Photoshop. So inter-operability and compatibility with professional CMYK printing are key for my needs.
She also worked with Photoshop and Illustrator. She does many things. Freelance design work for people, as well advertising design for her work. She also does design for our website and ttrpg hobbies.
Thanks, glad to hear the alternatives work for her! Does she use FLOSS ones (Inkscape, Scribus, GIMP, Krita, etc.) or Affinity's programs?
Affinity primarily.
Makes sense! I hope it won't get enshittified now that Canva bought them.
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i like how i didn't even know they were on bsky because they're already added to the The Great AI/NFT/CRYPTO Cull blocklist.
great, cant view it because it wants me to log in...
It's not "it" that wants you to log in, the devs created the site to be entirely public. but users demanded an option to hide their profiles from logged out users. Any hidden posts are because the user explicitly set the flag in their own settings
The api endpoints are still public btw. Third party clients can see these profiles just fine :| not a fan of that decision tbh
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Same thing happened with Proton.
proton did it to themselves by embracing the us and their fascist leader.
And the CEO just did it again, because apparently it wasn’t enough backlash the first time.
Oh lord, what now ?
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These days, bullying is used for good.
Greatjob Bluesky, One less Adobe monopoly
I know Curse of Ra will get old if it isn't already for some, but it's my favorite stupid meme currently.
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im still rockin a cs6 version. works fine on w11ltsc. fuck the cloud and fuck ai.
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