Adobe's decision to eliminate perpetual licensing for its Elements software has stirred controversy among consumers
Adobe's decision to eliminate perpetual licensing for its Elements software has stirred controversy among consumers
It’s okay. I’m using Krita. $0
This is a friendly reminder to support FOSS developers and maintainers.
Will do.
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.
Yay, more subscriptions.
👌Adobe, I am sticking to my Affinity Photo 1.
Affinity is great
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.
Elements were always just so much inferior to the full versions that you're better off using free alternatives anyway
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.
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.
I dunno if this changes any of the UX paradigms, but I heard GIMP is about to release a huge major version.
If you’re using a drawing tablet, Krita is free.
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.
photopea for photoshop, darktable for lightroom, inkskape for illustrator
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
I'd add that they often have steep sales, and Black Friday is coming, but also while affinity is an underdog their formats are just as closed source if not more so than Adobe
there is only one or two features i miss in the affinity suite; but been working with it exclusively for the past 3 months (after owning it for years), and i'm never looking back.
although their refusal to support linux and the linux work-arounds being incredibly spotty has made me consider just giving up and moving onto gimp etc. i have tried to replace photoshop with gimp in the past but it's just too inconvenient to do "the same things" so i always give up half way through the learning process.
i really wish affinity would try to at least offer a hand to the linux community; it's somewhat upsetting that they have rejected any and all linux efforts.
I was kinda hoping the Canva buyout would change things on that front :/
Normies take it without bothering to ask for lube