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
Adobe ends its long-standing perpetual licensing model
Adobe does anti-consumer shit. More at 11.
Normies take it without mothering to asknfkr lube
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.
It’s okay. I’m using Krita. $0
This is a friendly reminder to support FOSS developers and maintainers.
Will do.
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.
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.
photopea for photoshop, darktable for lightroom, inkskape for illustrator
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.
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
Use Affinity Publisher, Photo, and Designer instead. Looks like it's USD $165 for a universal license at the moment. Very few of the more exclusive features Adobe provides are worth the cost of doing business with them. The only thing I missed at first is Photoshop's timeline, but apps like Krita or Aseprite (if pixel art is your jam) have that covered.
Edit to add: one great feature of Affinity is that, if you have Publisher and at least one of the other apps, Publisher will unify the workflows of the others into the same screen. In other words, you can switch between Publisher, Designer, and Photo without minimizing or opening the other apps individually.
Art and design, regardless of medium, need not be gatekept by corporate goons to stuff greedy pockets.
To anyone promoting Affinity, they've sold out to Canva, a Venture Capital fueled mega corp looking for a public offering. Enchittification is inevitable.
Please look for FOSS alternatives instead.
Affinity tools are still good. Until they're enshittified, still a good deal.
Do you have any recommendations?
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.