Piracy is my best friend and can be yours too, welcome aboard matey!
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Download an abandonware version or the last released non-cloud version.
Use a VPN before downloading via bittorrent.
Thank you, you rock 
This reddit guide has some other options: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenP/wiki/patchmethods/
Once again, thanks!
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Here is a direct download page, no torrenting required. Adobe Photoshop 2025 with a DRM crack. You may need to disable microsoft defender temporarily to run the crack and/or undo protection actions like quarantining the crack exe file.
I've never downloaded from this site before, but it was linked from the reddit piracy megathread so it's probably legit.
This reddit guide has some other options: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenP/wiki/patchmethods/
if anything goes wrong in the future you will probably just need to update the hosts.txt file, there's a github that keeps it current
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Krita is good. I have no idea if it's an appropriate replacement for all or most of Photoshop's use cases, but it's been a pretty damn good replacement for frozen-in-development-hell-for-a-quarter-century-and-desperately-needs-a-new-name Gimp.
I have gimp, but as someone that is used to paint.NET I find it so difficult to use.
paint .NET is the undisputed goat of intuitive meme editing software
I know there's a Linux editing software that copied paint.net right down to the same exact UI, but I'm blanking on the name. And it's not Krita/Gimp. I remember it was something else.
Pinta
Completely free, usable in browser, no download necessary
I love Photopea but is there a way to run it in your machine without using the browser?
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.
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
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.
I will check this out, thanks!
its wild how much companies are going out of their way to make a better experience than actually paying them lol
Also I just noticed that if you go to their website the way they market Photoshop is so depressing. Not a single thing aimed at artists, it's all catered towards businesses.
“For your BUSINESS! FOR YOUR BUSINESS!”
That’s honestly something I noticed too. So many services simply assume you’re a business owner. There is nothing left that’s by working class, for working class.
It’s disgusting that Adobe knows it’s a Monopoly and then decides “nah, we’re a luxury product now! No poors allowed!”
On top it all, the only reason Photoshop is famous is because of artists. They pay them back by ignoring them as a customer base as shilling the same AI that steals from artists.
Marx has to have a vocabularly term for this, porky really does sell people back their own services.
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The only reason social media makes money is because of the content artists share, youtube videos made, things like that. Yeah, you can monetize it but there's still a lot of enshittification that happens regardless
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A more blatant example should be the housing crisis, especially in cities. The reason San Francisco rent is so high is because of the people of San Francisco, who have made such a place so valuable by their labor, amenities, culture, and also not being as racist as Texas. They're literally getting punished for their "services" being so valuable.
create something totally new
- demonstrates with crappy looking ai picture
My high school digital media class taught us how to use the GNU Image Manipulation Program. I fell in love with it and have used it while vehemently not using PS.
Me, every time I reboot into Windows for InDesign.
I've been sticking to http://photopea.com/ which does everything I need it to do. It is also usable on phone, which makes it great for quick memes
Inkscape for free illustrator
I'm still using a weird pirated 2015.5 version of photoshop. I've used the modern versions for professional stuff and genuinely the only thing the 2015.5 version is missing is the mirror function. All other improvements have been incremental.
gimp has done everything I've needed it to for many years. Now that I have a pen tablet, Krita is growing on me
I am cursed to use adobe products for my work as a teacher. I have to suffer through the new AI bullshit, AND Photoshop 7, which came out in 2003. I didn't learn photoshop until about 2013.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to find teaching supplements for PS7 in 2025?
meanwhile my gf bought Pixelmator Pro on sale for a one-time $20 license and that software kicks complete ass. it's so good.
mac only? boo
i use a very old copy i took from school years ago
I use it at work from time to time to create door badges for coworkers. This morning I used it and had to click out of 3 AI prompt prompts just so I can do the 1 fucking thing I went there to do.
2. Advertising, so much advertising.
They stick in ads into the app? I had no idea. That would drive me insane. Does anybody have an example? Google was - no surprise - total garbage. It only gave me ads made with Photoshop.
Sort of, more that they constantly ask you if you want to upgrade for more Adobe products
I was imagining a Spotify-like situation like this car ad...
Ugh, I can totally see them jumpscaring you with annoying commercials every couple minutes as you’re working on a project as a way to squeeze blood from a stone.
I have a legit license for the last non-cloud version that you could own outright (CS6) and they've made it such a pain that I find it easier to outright pirate it despite having the physical disks
I have not pirates a copy of it in years. Does it have more features than gimp?
Gump is sadly a real clunker to use
Yeah it can really double or triple (or more) the time you spend on a workflow because it's not great. Not a fan of how hard it is to do something like select in motion hair (including strays) and change the color of it in gimp. PS is really in another league for intermediate or advanced image editing and manipulation.
I've only ever used PS against my will in a photography class in college.
It seems like they even made pirating it harder. I torrented a copy of cs6 and it still didn't work.
Just use paint . net
My partner is a professional photographer and is pretty much locked into the Adobe ecosystem. It's fucking shit. Its the slowest buggiest piece of shit software I've ever seen. The PC runs like absolute shite because of all the bloatware that comes with Adobe creative suite.
I opened the latest illustrator and it is the first time that it buffered for a good 1 minute. My previous pirated version never had that problem
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