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WhataburgerSr ,

After their fallout with Pantone, I was done.

I immediately switched to Affinity and haven’t looked back. Yes, there is a learning curve and you will have to spend a few hours Googling how to do the same thing but it’s easily been able to do the same thing that I was doing before.

The ONLY two features I miss from InDesign is GREP and scripts. Other than that, FUCK ADOBE.

jeffhykin ,

Hey chatGPT, what would Blackbeard have to say about Adobe licensing?

Adobe, be drivin’ me to madness with their confusin’ schemes. Ye need a map just to make sense of it all! They be chargin’ a king’s ransom for their software, and what do ye get in return? Aye, a license that’s as flimsy as a ship’s riggin’ in a storm.

It’s a never-endin’ voyage through their terms and conditions, and I can’t fathom their logic. It be like navigatin’ the high seas with a broken compass. They be restrictin’ the use of their software, demandin’ we pay a ransom every month, and heaven forbid ye want to use it on multiple devices! They’ll make ye walk the plank for that.

And don’t get me started on their audits, me heartie. They be sendin’ their parrots to check if ye be usin’ their software properly, threatenin’ to keelhaul ye if they find a single violation. It be daylight robbery, I tell ye!

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    tsz OP ,

    Our last bill was about 28k, and we don’t get to use SAML for that price.

    HeavyDogFeet ,
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    While I often have to use Adobe stuff in my line of work (its unfortunately the industry standard) I made the decision a couple of years back that Adobe software isn’t allowed to touch my personal devices. On the Mac, Creative Cloud is essentially malware. I use Affinity to replace photoshop and illustrator, while Apple Photos has been enough for me so far to replace Lightroom.

    mrcleanup ,

    This is exactly why I have been running the same Adobe software for the last, what, 15 years now? Whatever the last one was before they changed to a subscription model, that’s the one I have.

    AtmaJnana ,

    CS6, I think. I’m on the same one, anyway.

    RGB3x3 ,

    I literally just wanted to esign a document the other day, and in order to get the functionality I wanted ONE TIME, I had to create an account, give them my credit card info for a free trial, let Acrobat Reader download all the other functionality I didn’t need, which took 10 minutes. The program crashed, buttons didn’t work, it didn’t save the first time.

    I fucking hate Adobe.

    What’s a good PDF editor that does e-signatures that I don’t have to pay a long-term subscription for? Foxit is nice, but requires a subscription.

    rollerbang ,

    I’ve been using exactly Foxit for many years just for digital signing, without subscription. Currently on Mac.

    hystericallymad ,

    Also deployed FoxIt for the past 2 years. Super simple to deploy with Intune and authenticate with 365 credentials.

    kerr ,

    Anyone got a good Illustrator replacement for SVG and vector creation?

    ArmokGoB ,

    Affinity Designer 2

    Grant_M ,
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    Inkscape is pretty great now. Lots of improvement in the last couple of years.

    aliteral ,

    Fuck’em!

    9715698 ,

    Is it possible to pay for an Adobe sub, and install only the so you want without any background update service?

    I wanted to install bridge, and it installed a management app. I find it not to trying at startup, but it still runs an update service regardless.

    I don’t understand how Adobe gets away with such invasive software.

    aliteral ,

    They have money, and with it comes power. Also, main Adobe users seem to not care about shady bussiness practices because they “need” Adobe’s products.

    dangblingus ,

    GIMP, Da Vinci Resolve, Blender

    deaf_fish ,

    Inkscape, krita

    snugglesthefalse ,

    Yeah these are way better than gimp

    dylanTheDeveloper ,
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    And if your like me and need Substance you can buy a perpetual licence on Steam

    merthyr1831 ,

    GIMP is painfully behind the times that I only use it out of sympathy for FOSS. I even prefer Photopea despite half the working area wasted on ads and browser UI.

    Maybe that’ll change one day.

    minyakcurry ,

    Every single time Adobe is mentioned, everyone rushes to mention GIMP. I’m convinced 90% of them have never even opened GIMP before.

    PP_BOY_ , (edited )
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    Because ten years ago GIMP was a good alternative to whatever version of Photoshop was out at the time. So those people ditched PS and used GIMP. But now Adobe has pumped tons of features into PS that the GIMP crowd doesn’t even know about, so they still think the two are still comparable.

    I still use GIMP exclusively but I’d be lying if I said watching others use Photoshop didn’t make me jealous.

    deaf_fish ,

    This makes me sad. I usually only use GIMP for programmer art. I didn’t realize it was falling behind 😞

    merthyr1831 ,

    If it works for you that’s great! it’s sadly just not the photoshop contender it used to be 😮‍💨

    Surp ,
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    Paint.net I like still!

    spyd4r ,

    All I want is Lightroom classic for photo organization and I have to subscribe. Like come on.

    mlg ,
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    Not saying its a 1:1 alternative, but I used darktable a few times to do this and for post processing.

    I am definitely not a photographer or graphics expert by any means, but I used it on recommendation of someone who is and was also complaining about Adobe lol.

    I really don’t know if it lacks anything compared to lightroom, but all the fancy switches and bars and stuff looked pretty cool and too advanced for me to understand,

    TryingToEscapeTarkov ,

    It’s always ethical to pirate from Adobe.

    merthyr1831 ,

    Or use Monkrus to get pre-cracked versions 😎

    snugglesthefalse ,

    Monkrus does some good Adobe stuff, never had any problems with them

    neonred ,

    A friend of mine is about to be interested in digital photography and is soon going to commit on a photo finishing suite. She already attended some courses and - of course - the mayority of those had users of and applications from Adobe, usually Lightroom and Co.

    I know Adobe is scum (fuck Adobe), she knows Adobe is “bad”. I think I could steer her into free and/or open source or one-time-pay software but for this I have to have an alternative that is a viable substitute, especially to Lightroom.

    As for alternatives I know of Darktable, Capture One, Affinity Photo and RawTherapee.

    Any more recommendations? Or an opinion on these or other products?

    Thanks for your help!

    CletusVanDamme ,

    Capture One fan here. Good software buy they are also pushing towards subscriptions although you still have the option to buy and get support for one year as well. Affinity Photo is similar to Photoshop and had a great price, but has less tutorials out there.

    Sauciflord ,
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    Yeah same. And capture one don’t work on Linux too.

    pikmeir ,

    I like Darkroom and use it exclusively. Cons are it’s slow as beans, even on my decent machine. Pros are it has a ton of features. Another con is no AI tools built in, and it has a steeper learning curve because it doesn’t have the automatic adjustment tools Lightroom does. You can get a better result but it takes work.

    BURN ,

    Darktable is the closest, but it’s still missing a ton of features that are basic in Lightroom.

    Lightroom and Photoshop are unfortunately good products with shitty licensing.

    MSids ,

    Just curious, what are the biggest features that you feel Darktable lacks? I use it occasionally but haven’t noticed any huge gaps from LR.

    BURN ,

    Lots of the AI related stuff is a big draw for current Lightroom. There’s also a lack of Adobe colors, which aren’t a need unless you’re printing a lot

    Full disclosure It’s been a bit since I’ve used it, but I may try to import the ~800gb photo library I have into it again and give it another shot

    MSids ,

    Version 4 has been a decent upgrade. I still have some gripes with the overall behavior and interface, but it’s very capable software.

    With the exception of AI Denoise the AI stuff is of little interest to me. I got in on the Kickstarter for Abode and am hoping that will be a suitable paid alternative.

    KammicRelief ,

    I use and love Affinity. Back on v1 I used RawTherapee to do the initial conversion, then AP for the “photoshop part”… but in v2 the raw conversion in AP is pretty good, so I just use that for my whole workflow.

    calypsopub ,

    Still using Photoshop 2003. It does what I need.

    ricdeh ,
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    GIMP

    Elliott ,

    I’ve been able to steer 2 companies and my own business to adobe alternatives. Fuck, paying rent on software.

    NerdyApex ,

    What software do you recommend?

    joel_feila ,
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    Krita is a Foss alternative to photo shop.

    jimbo ,

    I usually figure out what it is that my users are trying to accomplish, which is usually something absolutely insane to buy Photoshop for, like resizing or adding text to pictures, and steer them toward some basic app like Paint.NET.

    alienanimals ,

    The CEO of Adobe (Shantanu Narayen) is a greedy bastard.

    nephs ,

    He’s just a tool, though. The problem is capitalism, and in this instance, the expectation of intinite growth.

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