Just cancelled my Adobe sub. Even if I was comfortable with how they use my data (and I am most assuredly fucking not) I'm also uncomfortable with them helping themselves to the NDA'd projects I do for clients. I trialed Affinity Photo and it meets 98% of my needs and is on sale 50% off right now. Bite my ass, Adobe.
And your clients are ok getting these files? Speaking for the studios Iāve worked out, our clients wouldnāt stick around if we didnāt give them industry standard files (psds, etc.).
What upsets me the most is everyone let me build a monopoly that has been strangleholding the design industry for like 2 decades.
For the kind of work I have been doing I have not needed to hand over any psd files. Photoshop is(was) only a small step in my workflow and the main thing I get hired for is 3D modelling services. Regardless, I still work with NDA'd content and Adobe's terms are invasive as hell.
This guy is a fucking hero for calling out these companies' bullshit practices like that. I don't really care if there's some misstep about the open source thing. The content that I've seen from him is still good in my opinion.
I get where you're coming from, however I reckon he's doing a huge public service in this regard, imagine someone just happens to click on one of his vids and learns how scummy corpos are.
That's why I believe he should continue with these callouts, but yeah I'd like to see more actual repair stuff in future.
You don't have to save your files to Adobe cloud, if that's what you mean.
It does check for a valid license occasionally, but I've used Photoshop when my internet was out without any problems in the past.
I fucking love Louis, knows his shit, isn't afraid to call shitfuckery out for what it is.
I genuinely can't recall a video of his I've watched that hasn't been informative, entertaining or both.
My opinion if him continues to climb, however, as instructed, if he ever uses adobe premiere for a video and I find out about it, it's an unsub from me.
I don't say I trust him, don't even know him. Having said that, his videos are mostly well evidenced, and it is still super fun to see him blasting these companies.
Yeah he got so much publicity with his little NY shop hating on Apple. Which is amusing because those people Apple turned away were what made him. Not citing with Apple but Iāve never trusted this dude. Most of his āpioneeringā in freedoms and rights all serve his own interests and heās always grandstanding to bolster his popularity.