Thread 515002996

>hey buy our photoshop CS6 suite. You'll have photoshop for life!
>lol we cancelled your lifetime photoshop license, please pay a $50 monthly subscription to use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
aka pajeetification.

>>515002996 (OP)
Exactly what happened to me. Bought cs6 thinking i’d be good for 5-10 years. Then they transitioned to their subscription model that nobody likes.

>Not cracking it
Sucks to suck. That's how you buy it.

>>515002996 (OP)
>>515003176
Having never bought the program and only ever had the monthly for the whole suite, I love it. I get a ton of use out of it and the ad revenue I get from my content more than pays for it.

>>515002996 (OP)
When software becomes unsupported, it needs to be mandated to become open source.
>>515003131
fpbp

>>515003366
>I'm happy to subscribe to software
lol

>>515002996 (OP)
Now do Google, Microsoft and Apple.
(hint: theyre all scams / monopolies / lazy af intellectually, and China, let us hope, shall make them competitive again? Eventually. after Trump realignment?)

>>515002996 (OP)
All I use is Adobe Pro, since I'm an actual professional and not a purple haired creative fag. That said, Adobe Pro is total bloatware shit. 99.9% of the time you just need it to merge documents together, but they guard that simple task with their lives as they shove 1,000 other functions in your face, then have a pop-up on every page about 'you can use AI!'

>>515003559
It's Acrobat Pro you dumb fuck. If you're going to argue with Adobe-tards, you better know what it's called for fucks sake. You sound like you'd be better of using Google products on a Chromebook.

>>515002996 (OP)
Adobe acrobat is like $70 a month… for something that is just a basic program…. Windows was like $40 for life back in the day. Their software offers no real value, except for photoshop and premiere are alright. Still overpriced shit
If you sign up for adobe and you cancel it they will charge you a hidden cancellation fee which is like 120 bucks or something too. I had to call them to waive it, total hassle .

>>515002996 (OP)
I don't understand how they are able to charge so much for their products

>>515002996 (OP)
>>515003176

Smells like bullshit. Why cant you use it anymore?

I still have my CS6 license and I still use Photoshop, Premier Pro, Fireworks, Illustrator and Indesign to access and change older clients stuff. I just use it on Linux under Proton / Wine now

Obviously I dont use any Adobe products for new projects but anyone who bought creative suite before it became subscription can still use tg=hat

I have used Adobe since the 90s and I've paid 0 (zero) dollars to use it. I guess I'm the scammer.

>>515003830
>You sound like you'd be better of using Google products

Google doesn't have a PDF manager, they just have a PDF viewer built into Chrome that they try to shill constantly, but you can't use it to combine files.

Combining PDF files is something they perfected technologically in like 1998, but in 2025 it's still a premium feature you have to pay for.

>>515003366
Good Goy

>>515004029
Pirating is nigger behavior

>>515002996 (OP)
Lol they dont even give us free photoshop on public torrent sites, but will give you an old version from like 2007. Shits so fucking gay, they control what products are free on that thing. Like yeah dude im gonna pay money to draw a picture or something, cheap fuckers. They only give us free tv and games because it brainwashes us.

>>515004083
With some companies? Nah. But by all means slave away for them, enable them.

>>515003998
You have Streamline running on that bitch too? Vector Magic is better.

>>515003830
I just checked and you're right lol. I'm not OP, but I also just called it Adobe Pro.

>>515004247
Well, at least you learned something today.

But ya, Acrobat is a seriously bloated POS software with endless bugs and updates.

All this Adobe stuff is endless betaware. Same with all subscriptions regardless of vendor. Just software vectors to get owned (not real vectors as in Illustrator).

The part that really pisses me off is getting ads inside the software you're paying for. And even at an OS level with Winblows.

changed to gimp many yearp8jx0s ago, never looked back

>>515005077
You can install CS6 perfectly fine under WINE too in case you need to dabble with the darkside. You'll need a shower after because you'll feel dirty.

>>515005255
i am a windows user. using linux only for server programs with no windows version like nextcloud or pihole. i could use a cracked photoshop aswell, in fact i even have one on my drive but i prefer gimp

>>515002996 (OP)
You can pay for Photoshop?

AI is better than photoshop. They are toast.

>>515004051
>Combining PDF files is something they perfected technologically in like 1998
use this https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/download-master-pdf-editor-4-for-linux.html

For an amateur, I don't see how GIMP isnt sufficient. I used Inkscape recently to redact a PDF also. Fuck adobe

>>515005077
>yearp8jx0s

>this nigga paid for adobe
lol lmao what a retard
learn to warez

>>515005447
definitely

>>515004083
all the big companies are run/owned by jews so piracy is antisemitic and thats why i love to pirate

>>515005375
Sounds good to me.

For quick touch ups, clones, removals etc I use FastStone Image Viewer LOL, it's way faster (and smaller) than it takes Adobe Photoshop to load. It just doesn't have layers. It's actually pretty awesome what you can do with Image Viewer and it's free for not commercial use.

Found out Faststone is Alberta, CAN based too. Small world.

>>515004083
Okay kike

>>515002996 (OP)
Damn, I know they are subscription based but I didn't know they fucked over the people who bought it. I fucking hate subscription models. I hope there is a genocide of them soon.

>>515005529
years ago*
i am an old man with a fat finger and entered the captcha into the textfield as the captchasolver-automatism my son installed no longer works...

>>515002996 (OP)
GenP is free LOL dont be a retard and pay kikes

>>515003366
goodest goy winner

>>515002996 (OP)
so pirate CS4 then, photoshop hasn't changed much in like 20 years

>>515004083
It is a righteous act in current year

>>515005785
Yeah because it costs a lot to produce stuff so the best way was to lease the product. This system lets us cheat, and get the product way sooner than we otherwise would have. And lots of the people dont get paid lol, because they die before the lease pays off. So they basically just did all the work for a fraction of what it earned. And even with this type of theivery occurring, shits still pretty fucking poor.

>>515005748
i use default "Microsoft Picture And Fax Viewer", have irfan view for special cases
what advantages does FastStone Image Viewer offer ?
>Found out Faststone is Alberta, CAN based too. Small world.
yeah, indeed. found out recently a large software hosting company is based in a small city a grew up, lol

>>515004083
show nose

>>515002996 (OP)
I have a modest collection of pdfs

>>515006031
The poor publicly traded megacorps

>>515002996 (OP)
adobe are spyware motherfuckers

Legit expert here I’ve been doing this shit since the 90s

For the vast majority of users open source programs like shotcut blender gimp etc are far superior all things considered. Back in the day photoshop maya etc were the only games in town and it was expected that people just pirate them. Over the past 25-30 years open source programs have improved greatly and pirating has become increasingly more difficult and dangerous.

Anyone that says blender gimp etc are far worse than the paid programs is a shitty retard artist. A great artist can easily switch between packages with minimal issues. Like an expert f1 racer could easily become an expert nascar racer very quickly. If you think you are a pro f1 racer but would be terrible as a nascar driver it means you are a shitty Asian woman driver not a real pro.

I highly suggest any hobbiest or low level professional switch to open source. It cuts down on major legal and logistical headaches.

>>515006126
I've used Irfan Viewer too before. It's useful also. There isn't much Image Viewer can do that Irfan can't do it is just ease of use on how to do it that I prefer Image Viewer. I also like the actual image viewing part of the program. It reminds me of using old school versions of ACDSee. Just customizing the preview to be on the right side of the viewer and your thumbnails on the left and the file tree on the far left. Basically it's just geek level ease of use. Stuff that takes way too long to do in Photoshop.

For serious stuff though and pretty much all text I use Photoshop or illustrator. Also I pretty much am addicted to the Astute plugins for Illustrator. They're subscription based too which is lame but pirated versions exist too if you know your way around the web.

I remember they charged my girlfriend autorenewal for her university account bound license after she finished uni, she then cancelled it and they tried to charge an additional >100$ for cancelling. Had to gather papers from uni to prove to them she never subscribed personally. Truly a nigger company, anti pirating shills can get fucked. Name one software subscription today which isn't a scam though

>>515006882
I'd second Shotcut for video editing. It's a very capable program. Blender can do serious video editing too. But Shotcut is way easier.

>>515006931
They are not a scam if you work for ILM or blizzard and need a fine tuned highly professional program to fit into a pipeline. If you are making 50k a year as an independent artist then they usually make little sense unless you need to directly send your work and files to people working in a larger pipeline.

Also I’ve never seen a genuinely highly skilled female artist. They all do shitty illustration work. The female brain is not designed for high pressure elite levels of art creation that requires you to keep up with bleeding edge technological developments. Your gf is not going to be able to talk for hours about her feelings about the new unreal engine release she is going to say “I drew doggy”

>>515007204
thats cool i like photoshop its better than the latest one, is there any programs that are just as good but less expensive

>>515007204
Kdenlive is the king at the minute when it comes to opensource video editing. Ive been playing with the new version 25.x and its good enough for me to move away from Davinci Resolve

>>515007204
If you are running a small or medium YouTube channel or whatever it’s probably the best option until you have enough revenue that spending thousands a year is meaningless.

What are all of you people using Photoshop for professionally? I just have Adobe Acrobat Pro at work and only use it to open PDFs. Never do any editing of them. It’s a scam how much they charge.

>>515007446
I’ve never said open source programs are just as good. They aren’t, they are just as good for the vast majority of users. If you are editing the next 300 million dollar marvel film on shotcut you deserve to be fired and blacklisted from the industry for your reckless and idiotic behavior.

>>515007542
They have free AI generator to make any real image into AI

If you want to drive 150mph just put some gas in your car and go vroom vroom. If you are competing for a nascar or f1 championship you put the literal rocket fuel in your car that is expertly balanced and manufactured for the needs of elite performance and is 20-1000 dollars a gallon vs 3.

>>515007662
stop talking to a jeet

>>515007380
No company should reserve the right to overcharge you for cancelling a subscription early, especially a software subscription. If you're working for the big boys they'll. I'm sorry to hear you've never seen a highly skilled female, it might have something to do with where you live. Feel free to tongue my anus with your cancellation invoice kike

>>515007973
if you're working for the big boys they'll cover your suite fees*

>>515007542
I havent used photoshop professionally for over a decade. We use Krita for bitmap editing now

We used the Adobe suite for creating training manuals and videos for corporate clients but we have long since moved onto mostly open source free alternatives

Why do you have Acrobat Pro if you are not editing PDFs? Why not just use the free Adobe Acrobat reader of one of the many free alternatives

>>515002996 (OP)
I did buy an old ass license of lightroom that i can still use, but the subscription update is really so much better with AI selection/masking tools. My fujifilm RAWs demosaic way better now too. That being said I’d rather pay $250 or something with a year or two years of updates than $20 month and get raped forever

>>515007973
There are tons of women that create wonderful illustrations. There are literally zero women that work with Houdini as particle effects artists on big budget Hollywood films. Sorry if you have a different opinion it’s just objectively wrong. Photoshop is not a scam it’s just not designed for hobbiest level females.

Oh no tires are 50k a year more

Oh well

Beep beep where’s my check

>>515002996 (OP)
Who the fuck buys photoshop

>>515008200
Ah, yes, the greatest artists are the ones making money producing hollywood propaganda. What's the work-life balance like at Eglin?

>>515008779
Go draw a doggy for Mrs. McGillicuddy and get the fuck out of my face boy

>>515008942
Did I strike a chord? Won't your bonuses get cut with unproductive posts such as this one? Must feel twice as bad being that money defines a persons value according to your shabbos brain

>>515009155
Boy

>>515006570
You don't have a collection of anything.
>DIGITAL BOOKSHELF
LOL

>>515002996 (OP)
Dude, the crack is literally open source, never pay for this shit

Who's gonna know if you pass around a usb with pirated software around your business
Do they just show up at your doors with audits checking for your enterprise loicense

Are people in this thread actual professional designers? Sounds like a fun job, but it seems extremely hard to land even in the face of low wages. I don’t know any art students who had successful careers.

I’m not hating. I’m actually jealous of the creative type of lifestyle. I just read contracts all day.

>>515002996 (OP)
And they still continue to make loads of money.

>>515002996 (OP)
You fags need to learn how to pirate kike software instead of handing out your hard earned shekels.

>>515010292
Because most art students dont understand that the commercial art industry on the higher levels is one of the most cutthroat viciously competitive industries in existence. No one creates aaa commercial art without selling their soul.