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But then you still have Adobe your PC which does nasty things to your PC, high seas or not.
Find FOSS alternatives like Gimp + Photoshop plugin (PhotoGimp), Krita, Inkscape.
Therr is no reason to be using Adobe in the 0-20 years, and definitely not in 2026.
This is how we do it: https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives#animate
Let’s be realistic. None of the FOSS alternatives come even close to Photoshop. Gimp has never been a good piece of software. Not to mention, if you’re doing commercial work, you need the original software to reliably work with clients and others.
I’m curious what features Adobe has that FOSS is missing
I learned the foss equivalents so that I don’t need to.
Adobe wants you to pirate their products so you learn how to use them instead of the alternatives.
Sure… I can. But why would I want to? The open source options are better in almost every use case. Adobe hasn’t had a compelling product for my use cases in decades.
Giving Adobe the middle finger isn’t worth putting up with their malware.
it’s been a while since Adobe moved from standalone projects to what they call “content supply chain” they have no interest in competing at individual product level. if you only need photoshop, there are tons of better alternatives. they only become irreplaceable if you are in the enterprise level and need things like collaboration, project management, cloud storage, auditing, governance, etc (ie. creative cloud + workfront + their AEM DAM offering).
I do consulting in Adobe products and every year their products are shittier but they still are indispensible due to inertia and integrated ecosystem
I mostly agree. The only Adobe product I miss is After Effects. I haven’t found anything that scratches that itch.
I use Blender (and others), but it’s not ideal for 2.5D effects.
I don’t know. With the exception of a single feature, I’ve found photoshop better to use than GIMP. The one feature exception is GIMP’s wonderful “color to alpha” feature, and I always keep a gimp install around just for it.
Photoshop just seems easier to use, and more robust? With nicer effects, better filters, etc etc? At least for the features I tend to use. I’m not a professional by any means, but I tweak and composite and blend images a fair bit for my various hobbies (mostly ttrpgs).
Gimp is shit, from what I’ve heard krita is the Photoshop alternative, although I’ve used neither (big time mspainter here)
Never heard of krita, I’ll have to check it out.
It’s mostly for drawing.
I’ve used all three products and I prefer Gimp. My wife prefers Krita. It’s great to have choices.
Usually because the thing I’m editing was originally made with them…
This looks like an advertisement for adobe.
But then you have to use Adobe products
Nintendo as well.
I went from buying so much Nintendo stuff to 100% piracy after my third Switch broke, I lost all my saves because they force it on internal memory and encrypt that then sue the guy who wrote code to let you back it up locally, and then I found out most of my games played better on Yuzu (and now Eden) than they did on the actual hardware.
If only there were portable devices it could run on. Even if they were way more expensive than the Switch since not being subsidized by the games. The existing options for portable gaming all suck. I like having the Switch in bed and on planes.
Ummm… Steam Deck.
