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Has anyone used Photoshop lately? Holy shit it's terrible. (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just tried the 7 day free trial of Photoshop and deleted it like 10 minutes later because it was so awful. Here are some highlights:

AI, so much AI.
Advertising, so much advertising.
Why yes we steal your data.
$40 a month for the cheapest option.
"If you cancel your subscription you will no longer be able to use Photoshop. No, there is no way to own the product outright.
Why yes we will include a bunch of programs and cloud services that you don't want and will never use. No, there is no plan that is just Photoshop.
Sign in to your Adobe account to uninstall.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Literally all my college professors struggle with Adobe's PDF reader since it bombards you with pop-ups and terrible UI design. It's depressing to watch.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I had to download Acrobat in order to use a proprietary feature a couple months ago. The process to start a free trial, download the creative suite installer, run the installer, open the suite, find Acrobat, download Acrobat, figure out how where the proprietary tool was, figure out how to use the tool, and finally, uninstall it all — it took me like 30 minutes. And I consider myself good with computer.

Adobe is beyond bad. It’s a farce

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

NAPS2 can do a lot of what Acrobat does, and it's cross-platform and open-source. And unusually for cross-platform open-source, it has a really great interface. It's easy to teach.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I will check this out, thanks!