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.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
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And your clients are ok getting these files? Speaking for the studios Iโve worked out, our clients wouldnโt stick around if we didnโt 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.
Ya no argument there. Adobe is way out of bounds. We have largely moved to Figma but that was like pulling teeth as every was using Ps and Ai when I joined. Ai for wireframes had me tossing at night not gonna lie!
I remember when figma was about to be bought out by adobe, thankfully the deal got terminated for anti monopology reasons
Yeah thank the heavens the deal was squashed. It was a bold move even for Adobe.
You can export files as PSD and tiff with affinity, so it should work with clients
The PSDs it spits out lose a lot of editing capabilities and have limited functionality. TIFF is destructive our clients would shit if we gave them tiffs.
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.
Fuck Adobe.
Lemme guess, he doesn't agree with Adobe like the rest of the internet?
I cannot confirm nor deny.
I do love the term "Rufiee E.U.L.A."
Because honestly that's mostly what they are.
Started watching him repair boards back in the day, enjoyed him going after companies to start with, and it's just become exhausting now
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.
Can you not use Adobe offline?
No. They check validation constantly with their daemon and while you can technically loop it back using hacks, no studio is doing that.
Wooooow...
They are considered malware at this point. The telemetry they collect the fact that your machine has to run a slew of daemons and that they are binding it all behind your mandatory Adobe account that has all your financial details, kinda shows how users rights are in the dark ages digitally speaking.
CS6
Sorry my forehead typed that.
Not feasible in a work environment. Photopea works just fine if you simply need CS6 level Ps. Just need a browser.
Web browser based tools that should be native is detrimental to performance and privacy of your projects.
Nope. Creative Cloud requires internet access for DRM.
No idea, I haven't used anything form that company in about 7 years.
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.
Probably not
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I ignore his video and make a shitty joke about wishing he would use his right to repair to fix his channel.
He's doing gods work. I love his wit and I can't believe he's single handedly fighting for right to repair.
For once the username actually reflects the intelligence of a user.
Designers if youre in a pinch, photopea.com is free.
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.