Daily reminder that there are free and open-source alternatives to Photoshop and the likes which should do most of the things you need it to.
I know Photoshop has a few features people can’t live without for work reasons or what not so these aren’t replacements for everyone, but if you’re just doing some light digital art or image editing as a hobby or as something to pass time, these should be a good enough replacement given that you’re alright with learning a new piece of software.
God i hate GIMP’s UI. Luckily Photopea exists now and has I think every Photoshop feature. Noteably the incredibly necessary (for me) pen tool is there.
Krita is good to know about though for when I need to do charachter sketches for my artist partner to turn legot.
Latest beta of GIMP has incredible UI.
Stable release probably around Q2 2024.
I got used to GIMP in school since me and my friend would fuck around with it so much and we didn’t know about pirating photoshop or whatever. I feel like I have so much control but I’m sure every editing software feels like that when you grasp the basics. The only things I struggle with is how many options you think would be in blur or animation or whatever are hidden deep within menu trees you wouldn’t think to look
Also, Darktable for any of my fellow photographers.
Kolourpaint is pretty good if you just want something quick like mspaint
Generating 1 billion PDF files of random characters and opening them all in Adobe Reader, as a bit
Someone should find the API this uses to phone home and send gigabytes of garbage to it lol
Use Disney characters so the shit the AI generates will result in lawsuits.
Software piracy is always ethical
I could imagine Adobe releasing a pirated version of Adobe Creative Suite softwares that have this setting always on regardless of opt-out
That’s why I also firewall my pirated copy of photoshop.
Pirate that shit.
I refuse to subscribe to a software to some corpo dev team that would pull this shit.
Imagine not just pirating adobe products lol
Alternately, leave it enabled and use Nightshade/Glaze to poison all your images.
I’ve known about this for a while so I’ve had mine off since i heard about it last year.
also they added AI widget makers to Illustrator and possibly photoshop. It sucks
Their “AI” shit is just their “Smart” tools rebranded and it annoys me. Like, the Smart Clone was a cool tool, and their Content Aware stuff was fun, but calling it AI is annoying.
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Some dude at adobe looking at my pregnant Sonic fan art:
I should probably not keep drafts of my writing in Google Docs, huh?
Nope
Google does the exact same shit
