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Adobe's decision to eliminate perpetual licensing for its Elements software has stirred controversy among consumers(www.techradar.com)

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OR3X@lemm.ee
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Adobe does anti-consumer shit. More at 11.

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aesthelete@lemmy.world
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If history is any guide they’ll moan and complain, 2% of them will not buy the subscription, and then the other 98% will bend over and take it up the ass.

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frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world
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It’s okay. I’m using Krita. $0

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fnrir@lemmy.world
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This is a friendly reminder to support FOSS developers and maintainers.

https://kde.org/donate/

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frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world
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Will do.

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umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml
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Yay, more subscriptions.

👌Adobe, I am sticking to my Affinity Photo 1.

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huginn@feddit.it
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Affinity is great

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TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world
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I was able to use that trick to cancel my Adobe sub without a cancellation fee and then bought Affinity Photo 2 right after. I’ve integrated it fully into my workflow now and won’t ever look back.

Fuck Adobe and fuck their stranglehold on creative industries.

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FireWire400@lemmy.world
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Elements were always just so much inferior to the full versions that you’re better off using free alternatives anyway

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randompasta@lemmy.today
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I’ve seen an old list of Adobe alternatives, but do you know of a recent one? I prim use Divinci Resolve over Premiere for video but have less familiarity with others. I find Gimp a bit hard to use. Mostly the controls don’t feel natural for some reason.

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ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org
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look up “make GIMP feel like Photoshop” or something similar. iirc it’s a quick install that rearranges GIMP to be much more intuitive for people who came up on adobe.

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randompasta@lemmy.today
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Nice!

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Pennomi@lemmy.world
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I dunno if this changes any of the UX paradigms, but I heard GIMP is about to release a huge major version.

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frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world
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If you’re using a drawing tablet, Krita is free.

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andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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photopea for photoshop, darktable for lightroom, inkskape for illustrator

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PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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I’ve switched from Premiere to Kdenlive and I find that it works fantastically. It’s more clunky a bit but the features are all there.

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FireWire400@lemmy.world
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I tried Resolve but couldn’t really get on with it, doesn’t help that it can’t handle H264 & H265 encoded video in the free version… I’m really growing tired of using Vegas Pro 16

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