Adobe's CEO Shantanu Narayen is both selfish and short-sighted. Their weak leadership only compounds their problems.
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I loved the Affinity stuff. Had completely replaced Adobe with Affinity before they got bought up and killed off.
Affinity photo isn't dead, they released the suite for free, but did unfortunately inject AI into it, which thankfully you can ignore if you don't pay for it.
However, as with all proprietary products owned by investment corporations, it's currently at the 'capture the market' phase, after which it will enshittify, putting us in the same situation we are with adobe now. The only long-term solution is to adopt and donate to open-source alternatives, like Krita, Scribus, Inkscape, and Kdenlive.
I've been pirating Photoshop since I was about 12. I ended up moving to Krita when Photoshop decided to stop detecting my pen after I eventually updated to Win11, and I'm glad I did.
My husband even offered to get me an Abobe subscription so I can keep using something I'm familiar with without jumping through hoops to pirate it, but I absolutely refuse to pay a subscription for a programme I should be able to buy outright, and I'd rather just change to something else altogether.
I don't know why every fucking thing has to be a subscription with a shitass company attached to it that keeps fucking over customers.
Abode: "We should charge money to rotate a PDF. No not the image itself, just rotate view. Gotta make that a paid feature."
If you find yourself in this situation, I recommend using PDFGear as a free solution.
Every time I get to make a pdf from PowerPoint. "One free pdf per month". Gee thanks adobe
As a someone who been using either GIMP or pirated CS6 since 2012, havent been keeping hand on an Adobe pulse. What did they do this time? I know about subscription over the one time purchase thing. But what happened recently?
They're calling it quits on their animation software, and a lot of people who used it in their workflow are very upset.
I see. Just checked a vid of some YouTube animation artist. They just gave Adobe animate 1 month before removing it from suite. Woah... Even Flash had few years to live after a discontinuation announcement.
Not just YouTube animators. Professional production companies making scripted televised cartoons use Animate.
It's the animation equivalent of ending Photoshop or Premiere suddenly.
I read somewhere that Star Trek Lower Decks and like, Bluey, and other big players used it too.
Like, if Star Trek is using your product, maybe keep it around?
I believe hbomberguy's next video is all about Adobe.
yes. the first hour preview on Patreon is pretty good already. I think 4 hours is the current estimation.
What alternative do we have ? Affinity was bought by canva years ago.
Krita for painting/drawing/animating, Gimp for Photoshop stuff, scribus for desktop publishing, and Kdenlive for video editing.
For pro it's not an option. Ui not the same. You can't use them like you do with adobe. Workflow should be seamless.
I have tried. Nope. Not today. I hope tomorrow. Only if devs try to work together.
Affinity is now offered for free by Canva
Free until ...
I mean, it was a one time payment of like $50 and still worth it. Its free now because they offer some AI tools as a subscription option now.
Adobe is utter garbage. I hate that they have the market cornered. Their monthly subscription model is infuriating.
OOTL - what did they do this time?
Apparently, they gave amateur cartoon animators 1 month to save their works before they will remove Adobe Animate off Adobe Suite. Adobe Flash would give them 3 years, and software would just change slightly. But this time it is not the same.
Is there an alternative to Adobe for PDFs? I know Microsoft prints to PDF, but I need to be able to combine pdfs or rotate documents when I've scanned them upside down.
I like Okular but I don't do nearly as much PDF based tasks as some.
I use "PDF Studio" (https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/) and it's great, no problems at all.
Sadly I have to keep one Windows machine with Acrobat installed because the tax authorities here use hideous Cthulhu-like many-tentacled "Dynamic Forms" documents that automatically transform into XML (ugh) and only work in Adobe/Windows. But other than tax returns, I only use PDF Studio.
Been using Sterling PDF for times when I need to edit a PDF https://docs.stirlingpdf.com/Installation/Windows%20Installation
For just viewing or similar edits like rotating I use Okular, it works fine https://okular.kde.org/download/
If you are a LaTeX user, you can actually do this with LaTeX pdfpackages.
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