Adobe Creative Curse

For those not on Bluesky, Adobe got bullied so hard by basically every artist the site from this post that they straight up left. They were ratio'd out of existence. It's hilarious.
- Adobe be like
- I can't keep getting this whiplash where I lose all faith in humanity and then humanity goes and does something awesome and hilarious like this.
  For those on Bluesky, this is a perfect example of why Bluesky will enshittify since this kind of brutal honesty towards rich people and large corporations won't be tolerated on a coporate social network that is working to turn as big of a profit as possible.
  This period of people being able to clown on powerful corporations like this will quickly come to an end as soon as investors put the pressure on Bluesky to return a profit.
  
  You're probably correct, but the possibility of federation does provide a safety valve. Any step in the wrong direction taken by BlueSky only makes it more likely someone will set up a new node.
  BlackSky is heading full speed that way. A lot of users would like their own space regardless. The money doesn't line up right now, but being able to port our information out means that that switch will flip sometime soon.
- Is there a link for the crater of whatever's left of that thread?
  
  The post is deleted, but someone i follow posted a video of them scrolling through it while it was up and it was glorious. Couldn't find that vid, but i found this one instead. Gonna have to pause it to read.

Putting this here for easy copy/paste later
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- 𓀾 | 𓀾 𓀕
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  𓀾 𓀾 | 𓀾 𓁀
- 𓀿 𓁀
  I personally like how this one in particular seems like a casket rising from the floor
  𓀢 𓀣
  clap clap
- Whew, no bird/stork character, I can never remember that when I desperately need to

Adobe: trying to connect creators (no not you, you're too poor to buy our license)
- There are way more affordable options out there, some are free.
  For tablet painting: Krita and free
  For photoshop: I use affinity, but Canvas just bought them. Not sure how they're going to be in the future. Canvas is evil. It's around $125/2 or 3 years or so. I haven't used Gimp in awhile, I might look at them again.
  For Premiere Pro, Audition and After Effects: Buy the studio version of Davinci Resolve, it has all of them. It's a lifetime purchase and cheap if you think of that way. Don't lose your code though.
  For 3D: Blender and free. It keeps getting better and better.
  
  Photopea is a great option for light photo editing! It's free website with a decent layout
  
  Real :3.. I use krita for my art ^ GIMP for photo editing (which I don't do a lot of), kdenlive for video, and.. blender for 3d stuff
  
  I love Procreate and Affinity Designer as Photoshop replacements! No subscription. I’m not sure what platforms they run on, though. I just use em on my iPad Pro (and Procreate Pocket on my phone)
  
  I love Affinity but didn’t know Canvas got ahold of them. Shoot.
  
  Armor Paint for Substance Painter
  Material Maker for Substance Designer
  
  I'm not a professional, but I've been using Gimp 3, and it works great for my purposes (mostly making memes and weird net art, tbh).
  Also Blender is S tier. So good. I even use it to make sprite sheets using 3D models as base.
  
  Fuck, affinity got bought? God damn it, that sucks.
  
  didn't gimp just roll out a major update? I've been using paint.net for a while, but i'm curious how the the new is
  
  Still haven't found a good replacement for InDesign and let me tell you how much I'm hankering to move on
- Adobe: "We're here for all our starving artists"
  Artist: Buys a Photoshop subscription instead of food

- Where you been man? That's practically Ra's day job, it's not the 90s anymore

- Valuable cultural artefact (not joking)
  
  Its not an Artifact type card tho 🤓 (joking)
- Wonderful

It warms my heart to see all the Adobe hate and people switching to other things more and more. And I say that as a professional designer who has to pay my adobe tax every year to stay employed. Every person I see switch increases the chance I'll get to kick them to the curb someday myself.
- I found an open source replacement for Lightroom that finally worked (others I tried crashed loading my raws). While testing it, my subscription renewed (I can take criticism that I should have known and cancelled before renewal, but..) I then tried cancelling right after, but Adobe only gives a grace period on first purchase, not renewals. If subscription automatically charges, that money is gone.
  
  They've gotten a lot of heat for that over the years. I can't believe it's even legal honestly.
  
  nonono, go back there is a way. you have to battle through their FAQ, and then their AI assistant, when you finally arrive at the point of talking to a human being then they might be able to just undo that for you, i don't know if there's a deadline for giving back money after you've been charged, but if it was a day or two ago i'm sure it's not too late
  it worked for me with adobe and netflix, they barely even asked why aside from what is required of them "why r u leaving i need it for a survey" type of thing. it's a sleazy move to hide that you can get your money back, they try to squeeze just a little bit more out of you, but you if embrace your inner Karen there's a chance!
  
  What is the FOSS replacement that you chose?
  
  Which one do you use? Lightroom is the only adobe product that I still use.
- I'd love if the Affinity suite was available for Linux. That's the only thing I miss from Windows/macOS.
  
  I use it on Linux with wine but I don’t know how stable it would be with large images/worse hardware
  https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/182758-affinity-suite-v2-on-linux-wine/

I fucking hate Adobe so much. One curse is not enough! More curses!
- I cast Curse of Unicode!
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  I cast 𓂸

I heard adobe steal artist's works to train their ai
- That's nearly every company making image generation AI right now. Stealing from creators is all the rage, and I've yet to see a reasonable defense of this by AI users.
  
  Look you aren't going to stop this bad thing going on, so why not just support the bad thing going on and stop complaining? Personally I have made a lot of money off this bad thing so I am struggling to see what is bad about it? Your numerous examples about this bad thing hurting other people and the earth don't work on me since I have spent a long time listening to white guys explain to me how to completely destroy my capacity for empathy for other human beings and now I am functionally a sociopath.
  Besides anyways, all art is stealing so what is wrong with condescendingly shitting on artists and art in general as an idea by drowning spaces that used to be public squares full of vibrant human art with crappy cynical slop generated by a computer?
- They also force you into a year long subscription but they pose it as month to month. Then when you try to cancel they force you to pay 50% of the remaining balance for the year. Fuck adobe.
  
  Ha, you seemingly did the same oopsie as me, lol. Got a 6 month membership for half price on black Friday. Redeemed ist and suddenly had 2 subscriptions, because they were not compatible. Had to pay a month extra for cancelling my yearly subscription. Never again. :D

What has Adobe done to fuel my creativity? 25 years of copyright protection on their apps. And in all of that time, I have never paid to use a legit version of their most current app. Why? Because their DRM is overengineered and full of weaknesses that can easily be exploited by even the most novice user. Their paranoia combined with their incompetence has saved me tens of thousands of dollars over the decades.
Thanks Adobe!
- They could crack down more on pirated Photoshop, but they don't want to.
  The money is in the commercials licensing, and people who can't afford Creative Cloud pirating it and learning it is good for them when they need software for work later.
  I'm a massive fan of FOSS. For my GIS work, I use QGIS over ESRI. For 3D modeling, I use Blender. For streaming video, I use OBS. Many FOSS solutions are extremely polished, and even for those that are clunky, they can be made to do what you need with a little work.
  But when it comes to photo editing, the reality is Adobe's overpriced market leaders also happen to be far and away the best products. It's not even close. Photoshop and Lightroom are untouched by the competition, paid or free. They're simply excellent products that provide functionality that isn't replicated elsewhere.
- I don't think it's incompetence, exactly. If you're not going to pay for Photoshop (Lightroom, Audition, etc...), Adobe would rather you use a pirated Photoshop as opposed to learning something else. Because even a pirated version helps them keep their stranglehold on the market.
  It's the same reason Microsoft doesn't really crack down on pirated versions of Windows.
  
  It's also the same reason Microsoft pushed to get Windows in grade schools - even paying for the computers in some cases.
- I've been legally using their shit for two decades. It's a fucking nightmare. I have to use their app to login in conjunction to my pc because they restrict us to TWO machines at a time. I have 4 I regularly use, so it's just a huge hassle.
  I block their connections now to avoid this, and again, I PAY THEM, and I'm just ONE PERSON. Every person in charge at this company is a clown.
- I need to learn this superpower. I have tried alternates but I can't really afford the slow down that comes with the learning curve, but I'm also unemployed and broke now...
  
  Their superpower is piracy, not using alternatives.
  
  r/piracy has a megathread with an easy tutorial on how to make that work, it's honestly so easy it made me feel dumb for ever paying for adobe. you just have to run like one app, and then make your firewall block all outgoing connections for each of the .exes, the only app that doesn't work despite that is lightroom BUT lightroom classic is fully functional and the same if not better, so no loss there

Remember folks, it is ALWAYS morally and ethically justified to pirate Adobe software. They're a garbage, predatory company that needs to crash and burn.
- Why justify when you can switch to other apps? Even with pirating you're still supporting them and their stranglehold on the creative industry. Fuck em proper.

𓂺𓂺𓂺𓂺𓂺
- In case you can't see it

Connect my balls to your forehead, Adobe.
- Y.. you want them to headbutt you in the balls? 🥺

What is curse of RA?
- An old meme
- 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀮 𓀯 𓀰 𓀱 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁌 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆

How I broke up with Adobe: https://youtu.be/lm51xZHZI6g
- Oh dang, he even gave Windows the boot.

Great beast of the sky, please hear my cry. Transform thyself from orb of light and bring me victory in this fight. Envelop the desert with your glow and cast your rage upon my foe. Unlock your powers from deep within so that together we may win. Appear in this Shadow Game as I call your name, Winged Dragon of Ra!

what is becoming almost as good as adobe these days but easier to use?
- For drawing: Krita.
- Premiere --> Davinci Resolve (Openshot or Kdenlive for FOSS)
  Illustrator --> Affinity (Inkscape for FOSS)
  Photoshop --> Affinity Photo (GIMP w/ PhotoGIMP & Resynthasizer for FOSS)
  Whatever Adobe has for painting --> Krita (FOSS)
  
  Acrobat --> Literally anything else. Even firefox the browser lets you edit pdf. Please don't pay a subscription model for "pdf editor" in 2025.
- Depends on the app. There are different ones that offer an alternative to Adobe's version but no one big suite that contains them all. We should all be thankful for that.
- Affinity.

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