First, I am not a fanboy nor a disser. For many years I have been using Adobe Photoshot, PageMaker and Lightroom ever since it came out of the beta phase. yes, I have enjoyed Photoshopping my pictures, taking whrinkles out of people's face, correcting this and that. Ligghtroom changed it all, it is just so much easir.
Still there are things where you have to go and hit the pixel and other than Photoshop, there has not been anything else.
Try GIMP. You cannot even see the original photo or what's wrong with it. How in the world could you edit something you cannot see? Try Enem...Elements. No, don't. You'll get very upset because the culture is not yours. It is an Alienware, A very strange piece of software. Then you have Apple's Photos which is nice but has nothing to offer on pixel level editing.
Then there is this thing Affinity Photos that just moved from alpha phase to a commercial software.
for the pretty unbelievable price of 50 euros you get most of the Photoshop CS4-5 capabilities that you actually use. The download is light. Unlike with Adobe, the client might sometimes have a point. Is there anything more frustrating in the world of customer care than the outsourced slaves that Adobe has employed somewhere in the isles of Pacific Ocean?
Now, I downloaded this Affinity Photos today from Apple store. I hate Apple store. No choice.
And strangely, for this ridiculous price, I am actually able to do most of the stuff that I'd have to get the CS/CC product line for 12 times more.
Is this ridiculous or what? What is happening in Adobe? Don't they see the times are a'changing?
So...my old CS3 does not install on 'El Capitan'. No torrent hacks seem to penetrate the iron Curtain of Adobe's defences. What I say is 'goodbye, Lenin, goodbye Putin and goodbye Photoshop'.
It is a philosophical question. I know that the Adobe products are superior. I know they have to protect their turf.
But I have absolutely no way of getting a legal version of Photoshop where I live. Adobe gives no CC service here, Amazon does not ship here (not even Amazon.fr), the guys on eBay won't send things here...of course I could use my nephew who lives in Texas to hunt me a CD with a code...
This has become a question of principle now.
These people talk about free enterprise and capitalism and free market and all that crap while they are not practising what they preach at all. Let the other follow the principles, we follow the easy monopole money.
Welcome, Serif and thank you. You are a breeze of fresh air in the Putino-Syndicalist ambience of modern cybertrade. What ever clitches there are, I won't tell anybody. Whenever I find something smart, I'll tell the world about it.
And I will enjoy working on something that is not Adobe, just for the sake of my own love of personal freedom.
What happened with Adobe, really? Was it captured by aliens?
Still there are things where you have to go and hit the pixel and other than Photoshop, there has not been anything else.
Try GIMP. You cannot even see the original photo or what's wrong with it. How in the world could you edit something you cannot see? Try Enem...Elements. No, don't. You'll get very upset because the culture is not yours. It is an Alienware, A very strange piece of software. Then you have Apple's Photos which is nice but has nothing to offer on pixel level editing.
Then there is this thing Affinity Photos that just moved from alpha phase to a commercial software.
for the pretty unbelievable price of 50 euros you get most of the Photoshop CS4-5 capabilities that you actually use. The download is light. Unlike with Adobe, the client might sometimes have a point. Is there anything more frustrating in the world of customer care than the outsourced slaves that Adobe has employed somewhere in the isles of Pacific Ocean?
Now, I downloaded this Affinity Photos today from Apple store. I hate Apple store. No choice.
And strangely, for this ridiculous price, I am actually able to do most of the stuff that I'd have to get the CS/CC product line for 12 times more.
Is this ridiculous or what? What is happening in Adobe? Don't they see the times are a'changing?
So...my old CS3 does not install on 'El Capitan'. No torrent hacks seem to penetrate the iron Curtain of Adobe's defences. What I say is 'goodbye, Lenin, goodbye Putin and goodbye Photoshop'.
It is a philosophical question. I know that the Adobe products are superior. I know they have to protect their turf.
But I have absolutely no way of getting a legal version of Photoshop where I live. Adobe gives no CC service here, Amazon does not ship here (not even Amazon.fr), the guys on eBay won't send things here...of course I could use my nephew who lives in Texas to hunt me a CD with a code...
This has become a question of principle now.
These people talk about free enterprise and capitalism and free market and all that crap while they are not practising what they preach at all. Let the other follow the principles, we follow the easy monopole money.
Welcome, Serif and thank you. You are a breeze of fresh air in the Putino-Syndicalist ambience of modern cybertrade. What ever clitches there are, I won't tell anybody. Whenever I find something smart, I'll tell the world about it.
And I will enjoy working on something that is not Adobe, just for the sake of my own love of personal freedom.
What happened with Adobe, really? Was it captured by aliens?