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I miss making artwork (thelemmy.club)

Photoshop it's pretty damn expensive nowadays so I had to cancel my subscription a year and half ago due to specific circumstances I was in. For as much as I like to lie to myself about it, nothing gets close to how good it is. Photopea is kinda good but 20 layers in and the whole machine starts begging for mercy, gimp plain sucks, tried few open source/selfhostable alternatives and nothing takes the cake.

Anyone know of any valid alternative? I may need to start giving my money back to Adobe after all.

All images were made by myself, from the ground up, using various pixabay/envato elements images, there's a layer by layer video of the first one, some layers are grouped so it feels like an image is being dumped in, I just made it a while back to explain the process to somebody and it's still on my channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQWMuSFkTOQ

There's also similar videos on my instagram page fccview it's not very active, no need for follows, just giving as much info as possible to understand the process ♥️

Hope you like them :)

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[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

can't you find an old Photoshop cd from when we could buy software instead of subscribing?

an older PS may not be the latest thing but it still works fine

[-] fccview@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Annoyingly, after.. uhm... "buying" an old version of photoshop I learned the hard way that my mac only allows 64bit applications and any old photoshop version is 32bit. HOW SAD is that? :/

I'm unfortunately back to the drawing board lol

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

that 32/64bit wall :/

I've never tried this but a search gives

The easiest method is this (but keep in mind that it costs money): Buy a copy of Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion if you don't already own one. These prorgrams are designed mostly for running Windows on a Mac, but you can also use them to create a virtual machine that runs macOS in a window on your Mac desktop. Parallels is easiest to use, but VMware Fusion isn't far behind.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-run-32-bit-apps-in-macos-catalina

[-] fccview@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I'd be happy with anything above cs2 to be honest with you. Don't need any of the fancy AI stuff, auto subject cut would be a plus, but I can live without and use pen tool like good old days.

That is not a bad should, I just assumed they wouldn't work but actually you make a lot of sense wise person on the internet!

I'll scour eBay and sail a little and see what I can find ♥️

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago
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