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    [–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 162 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    The answer is very much "Don't run Photoshop"

    (Fuck Adobe. There, I said it)

    [–] Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de 82 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    "It is always ethical to pirate adobe"

    [–] grue@lemmy.world 68 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

    It's never unethical to pirate Adobe, but it's always more ethical to use Free Software instead and deny Adobe the mindshare.

    [–] Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

    It's far more ethical to make the company lose money

    Minimum amount for photoshop is 22$/month

    Pirate photoshop

    Delete it

    Pirate again

    Repeat 30 times

    Adobe looses 660$

    If everyone does this adobe will loose so much

    [–] kautau@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

    Investors hate this one glitch!

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago

    They don't care as they have a massive profit margin. What matters more is the market share. You got to break the standard way of thinking industry wide.

    [–] Rinox@feddit.it 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

    That's not at all how piracy works. They don't lose any money by me not buying their product, the money was never theirs to lose. They can earn money if I buy it, but if I don't, then nothing changed. It's not like every company is entitled to my money.

    Pirating or using Gimp or Krita instead, has the exact same effect on them, ie me not buying their product.

    [–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

    You must be fun at parties.

    [–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

    Lol I've been using cs5 until yesterday. V24 now

    [–] x4740N@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Gimp is behind on features and ui optimisation and krita is art focused

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Voice of reason

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

    I never understood that argument. Do or do not.

    [–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago
    [–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
    [–] Anivia@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Sadly there is no alternative that is even remotely as capable

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
    [–] 474D@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Well the obvious answer would be all the professional Photoshop capable things man, we can love Linux and still admit there's areas for growth

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

    True but I think most people don't use every feature

    [–] Anivia@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    If you want to edit photos then Affinity is passable, and GIMP is a joke.

    If all you want to do is draw, then Krita is a very capable alternative to Photoshop, but being good at only a specific subset of Photoshop capabilites doesn't turn it into a replacement for it

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

    I make my memes in gimp and it works for me.

    1000004944

    [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

    Depends what you want to do to photos. It just adjustments without trickery, darktable is fantastic.

    [–] Ketchup@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah, it’s kind of true. I’ve tried a bunch of Lightroom and Photoshop alternatives. Pixelmator and Photomator for iOS and macOS are my absolute favorites. I wish I could get around Affinity software better, but I can do 95% of what I need in Pixelmator. And I love some of the select tools. Bonus: Davinci Resolve is a big switch for Premiere users— but worth it, and even CapCut’s free features can help with the basics.

    [–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

    Gimp has been just fine.

    [–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Fuck I'd love an actual equivalent alternative on Windows too. GIMP, while great in the past, is nowhere near modern Photoshop, it's closer to modern Paint, which is just sad.

    There's a ton of people and businesses that hate Adobe, the lack of real alternatives is fascinating.

    [–] variants@possumpat.io 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Krita, rawtherapee, dark table, digikam, affinity. Just depends what you are trying to do. If you're used to photoshop there's nothing exactly the same and it will take effort to move but I think it's worth it, I'm still on the journey of learning as a hobbyist and have mostly been using dark table for photo editing

    [–] BURN@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

    Darktable is fine as a hobbyist, but it doesn’t fully replace Lightroom when you get into semi-professional and professional workloads.

    I need to give it another try, but my 12TB raw file library is so unwieldy to manage that I haven’t tried importing it all there. Plus the AI generative removal and Denoising is pretty important to a lot of my workflows.