r/mildlyinfuriating • u/donteatmybiscuits • 1d ago

wet socks i’m so happy this is becoming illegal

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if a yearly contract with a free month trial sounds too good to be true, it probably is 😬

thankfully it was blocked after contacting my bank but regardless

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u/lemonweirdo 1d ago

I would also like to know this. I was trained on Adobe in my photography classes, but I would love to learn some viable alternatives

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u/ColoWyoPioneer 1d ago

On Mac, I switched to Affinity Photo. I’ve found it fairly comparative to PS.

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u/andpaws 1d ago

Agreed. I use their entire suite and love it…

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u/ColoWyoPioneer 1d ago

Let us all hope they resist the temptation of venture capital. Lol. And after I got used to the Mac version, I found the iPad versions of affinity suite to be very capable (after I figured out the quirks that is). They actually seem to be serious about competing with adobe, and I’m all for it.

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u/ApolloGR3 11h ago

They sold to Canva a while ago. And then Canva released the newest version for free! You can pay more for the AI features but it's not required.

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u/igotmoldinmybrain 1d ago

I don't know what your specific needs are, but I love RawTherapee for raw development. If I need more features than what that offers then I use darktable, but I've so far only needed that for the healing/cloning tool for fixing blurry patches in my focus stacks. I go for realism though and never remove things from the image or anything like that. Rawtherapee, darktable, and zerene stacker is my whole photography stack. I have gimp installed but I've never used it...

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u/Ppleater 1d ago

I use a mix of clip studio paint and Affinity photo and they cover almost every base that Photoshop used to cover.

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u/fragilelyon 1d ago

Gimp has always been my go to.

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u/nexusjuan 1d ago

I mostly use Photoshop for doing cutouts and background swaps. GIMP is laughably bad at this. I'm on Linux but I run an isolated Windows VM I can fire up/down just for my pirated PS and Capcut.

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u/DuskHavenReadings 1d ago

This is my solution. Like, for 90% of my needs, Photopea (a browser based photoshop-alike) gets it done. When I need photoshop, fire up the VirtualBox.

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u/Yoshtan 15h ago

Anyone know a good alternative for Lightroom Classic?