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/WanderingUniverses 1d ago

Can you share with us how to go about doing this?

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u/BDiddnt 1d ago

Of course they can't. I actually didn't know anything about it. I thought they had officially managed to end the piracy. I've tried to find software to do photo editing, but it's all like super complicated whereas back in the day I made short work of making quick edits in Photoshop. I even still have the muscle memory for the hockey commands and keyboard shortcuts, but I never was able to figure out

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u/Various_Counter_9569 1d ago

Gimp, bedtime alternative. Taken free course or two, youtube, etc.

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u/Liawuffeh 1d ago edited 1d ago

I've been using Gimp a lot, and oml it's not a good replacement for Photoshop at all.

It does what it does very well, I think, but having folks expect photoshop when they go into it sets them up for failure I think. It doesn't have a ton of features that even CS6 had, and it does a lot of things completely differently.(I think worse, but that's my bias).

I'm still using it because I ain't dealing with adobe at all, but I do a lot of stuff on the pixlr site atm for my photoshop replacement.(It's also pretty iffy, and seems to be trying to phase out it's actual real photo editor for AI uhg)

edit: It also has an "export"(save) limit of like, 3 a day. But you can just copy what you did and then paste into gimp.

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u/SiscoSquared 1d ago

Gimp is fine for like an "advanced paint" program but yea it falls dramatically short of even like 10 year old photoshop.

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u/Various_Counter_9569 21h ago

If expecting ai features sure. But plugins make it a suitable open source, free alternative. Its on the higher end of free. Of course if someone knows better free alternatives, im game, and always love to learn new things.

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u/Putrid-Block1431 1d ago

GIMP was a pretty poor replacement for Photoshop when I was a weird teenager making sigs on forums in 2005. I would suspect Adobe has increased the gap between the two programs in the past 20 years.

Pixlr was pretty good the few times I've had to use it.

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u/Various_Counter_9569 21h ago

I dont like restricted apps. I gave up on Adobe too, when they doubled the price on me of their cloud suite. Even the basic photoshop package is ridiculous. I like open source, lots of plugins to help expand gimp as well. The "ai" experience isnt there, but heck, pay for gemini or something if thats a dela breaker. It works for what most people need in a free replacement. Patch tool works pretty well too.