Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen is both selfish and short-sighted. Their weak leadership only compounds their problems.
That’s the modern CEO template
I’ve been pirating Photoshop since I was about 12. I ended up moving to Krita when Photoshop decided to stop detecting my pen after I eventually updated to Win11, and I’m glad I did.
My husband even offered to get me an Abobe subscription so I can keep using something I’m familiar with without jumping through hoops to pirate it, but I absolutely refuse to pay a subscription for a programme I should be able to buy outright, and I’d rather just change to something else altogether.
I don’t know why every fucking thing has to be a subscription with a shitass company attached to it that keeps fucking over customers.
Subscriptions make constant, monthly passive income. It looks better to investors when you have constant income versus surges whenever you release a product.
I loved the Affinity stuff. Had completely replaced Adobe with Affinity before they got bought up and killed off.
Affinity photo isn’t dead, they released the suite for free, but did unfortunately inject AI into it, which thankfully you can ignore if you don’t pay for it.
However, as with all proprietary products owned by investment corporations, it’s currently at the ‘capture the market’ phase, after which it will enshittify, putting us in the same situation we are with adobe now. The only long-term solution is to adopt and donate to open-source alternatives, like Krita, Scribus, Inkscape, and Kdenlive.
Seriously: quick AI summary since I didn’t want to write this all up:
Godot operates on a non-profit, open-source model, supported by donations and corporate sponsorship through the Godot Foundation, rather than a traditional profit-driven software company. It is completely free and open-source under the MIT license, meaning no royalties, seat fees, or revenue cuts are taken from developers.
And Godot is rapidly gaining marketshare, at the cost of Unity:
And Valve’s success with the Deck seems like it might be a catalyst for Linux going mainstream.
And Europe is making a lot of moves towards digital sovereignty, too.
All signs point to us entering a golden age for open software.
It will be interesting to see how the AI bubble bursting, destroying trillions of dollars of fake tech company paper wealth, affects this transition. I expect it will accelerate the decline of Big Tech.
Abode: “We should charge money to rotate a PDF. No not the image itself, just rotate view. Gotta make that a paid feature.”
If you find yourself in this situation, I recommend using PDFGear as a free solution.
Every time I get to make a pdf from PowerPoint. “One free pdf per month”. Gee thanks adobe
As a someone who been using either GIMP or pirated CS6 since 2012, havent been keeping hand on an Adobe pulse. What did they do this time? I know about subscription over the one time purchase thing. But what happened recently?
They’re calling it quits on their animation software, and a lot of people who used it in their workflow are very upset.
I see. Just checked a vid of some YouTube animation artist. They just gave Adobe animate 1 month before removing it from suite. Woah… Even Flash had few years to live after a discontinuation announcement.
I read somewhere that Star Trek Lower Decks and like, Bluey, and other big players used it too.
Like, if Star Trek is using your product, maybe keep it around?
Not just YouTube animators. Professional production companies making scripted televised cartoons use Animate.
It’s the animation equivalent of ending Photoshop or Premiere suddenly.
I believe hbomberguy’s next video is all about Adobe.
yes. the first hour preview on Patreon is pretty good already. I think 4 hours is the current estimation.
What alternative do we have ? Affinity was bought by canva years ago.
Krita for painting/drawing/animating, Gimp for Photoshop stuff, scribus for desktop publishing, and Kdenlive for video editing.
For pro it’s not an option. Ui not the same. You can’t use them like you do with adobe. Workflow should be seamless.
I have tried. Nope. Not today. I hope tomorrow. Only if devs try to work together.
The pros who changed over from FCP may be interested to hear that. As with anyone who did 3D animation who had to change the workflow they used. You do allude to the incredible lock-in that Adobe’s de facto monopoly has generated, though.
There’s PhotoGIMP to make the transition easier, and Krita I believe has the option to switch to Photoshop keyboard shortcuts, but if your criteria to switch is an exact 1:1 clone, then I believe you’ll be stuck with Adobe forever. As with any program switch, a little learning is necessary, and there’s many excellent tutorials available on youtube to make that switch easier.
Only if devs try to work together.
Consider donating to them! The devs of open-source programs are often trying to replicate what billion dollar corporations are doing with a budget a thousandth of the size.
Affinity is now offered for free by Canva
Free until …
I mean, it was a one time payment of like $50 and still worth it. Its free now because they offer some AI tools as a subscription option now.
I just wish there was a Linux version.
Adobe is utter garbage. I hate that they have the market cornered. Their monthly subscription model is infuriating.
OOTL - what did they do this time?
Apparently, they gave amateur cartoon animators 1 month to save their works before they will remove Adobe Animate off Adobe Suite. Adobe Flash would give them 3 years, and software would just change slightly. But this time it is not the same.
Sometimes I look at the Unity Game Engine’s stock history after that one “take a cut from anything” thing, and I remember companies are volatile organizations at the consumers’ mercy.
Early 2010s I asked the company I worked for to approve some free game engines to be installed. The legal department returned a big no with pages of why Unity should not be allowed in the premises. We proceeded with Unreal, Blender and eventually Godot as tools any employee could install.
Unity was bad back them, it is just that people did not read the agreements and tech sheet. Their new leadership just made that more apparent.
Did they fully backtrack out of that one?
Is there an alternative to Adobe for PDFs? I know Microsoft prints to PDF, but I need to be able to combine pdfs or rotate documents when I’ve scanned them upside down.
PDF Arranger is very basic and simple, but it does rotating, cropping, combining etc. And it’s open source.
I like Okular but I don’t do nearly as much PDF based tasks as some.
I use “PDF Studio” (https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/) and it’s great, no problems at all.
Sadly I have to keep one Windows machine with Acrobat installed because the tax authorities here use hideous Cthulhu-like many-tentacled “Dynamic Forms” documents that automatically transform into XML (ugh) and only work in Adobe/Windows. But other than tax returns, I only use PDF Studio.
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Been using Sterling PDF for times when I need to edit a PDF https://docs.stirlingpdf.com/Installation/Windows Installation
For just viewing or similar edits like rotating I use Okular, it works fine https://okular.kde.org/download/
If you are a LaTeX user, you can actually do this with LaTeX pdfpackages.
I’ve started using https://bentopdf.com/ seems to have all of those features
You could use ilovepdf ? It’s available as a web app for free without an account
I love ilovepdf. I use it a lot.
Need something more local. Don’t want to accidentally waive attorney-client privilege by using an online utility.
Might be worth giving https://bentopdf.com/ a try. I’ve just started using it . Seems ok. You can spin up your own locally (I haven’t done this yet) or I believe you can also edit PDFs locally in a browser.
You could try PDFsam Basic. As the name suggests it provides some basic functions, especially the ones you described. Sam stands for split and merge.
I’ll check it out.
Proton and Pirate Software gloating over the “downfall” of another…misery loves company I guess.
Adobe, Proton and Pirate Software - could we have one account that’s not completely terrible?
Why is Proton terrible?
CEO is maga who made statements on protons official accounts lobbying against Democrats because their corporate interests are bad for big tech and they (corporate Democrats ) all need to be thrown out, so MAGA is their stance.
They backpedaled hard and pretended it was a mistake. Their reasoning that Democrats are bad for big tech is because none of them showed up to their lobbying event for “anti-trust” laws, but JD Vance did.
No??? The CEO of Proton only stated that he liked the pick for Attorney General at the DoJ by the White House I believe, since the person had a track record fighting Big Tech. They have never taken any political side and clarified that they do not endorse any political party. They have not and never donated to any political party or praised Trump in any other sense. You’re insane if you think that already qualifies as MAGA.
Uh, no, that’s not what I’m referring to. They made comments on reddit and I think other platforms. They deleted them after pushback.
CEO is maga
Oh, JFC, can we stop with this bullshit already?
“CEO is maga” is the equivalent of going: “Lulzagna wants to force everybody on the planet to only eat lasagna and nothing else, because he tweeted ‘I like lasagna’ once”.
Context:
Trump was still in his “I hate social media because social media won’t force users to praise me” phase. He appointed a person known to be very pro-consumer and very anti big-tech to an important job at the DOJ. Democrat accounts defaulted to “whatever Trump does is bad” and started shitting on the pick. Proton CEO wrote:
Great pick by @realDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.
Which is all literally just stating facts. The only opinion here is that the pick is good - which, from the standpoint of a company that supports privacy and consumers - makes sense.
That’s not what I’m referring to. You seen ignorant to their other comments.
Then please provide details or links or something, because as someone who’s trying to figure out what’s going on here, you’re doing more arguing than explaining.
He made a statement praising trump for his security pick. To me he was just pandering to trump so they aren’t on trumps radar about encrypted software.
They couldn’t give less of a shit about Trump or his radar - they’re based in Switzerland.
He literally only said that someone who is famous for being anti big-tech, and pro consumer is a good pick, because Proton are anti big-tech, and pro consumer.
How this grew to all this nonsense people write these days is a fucking mystery to me…
Even if his cabinet pick is anti big-tech and pro consumer, the administration couldn’t be further from that (super buds with Palantir and their fix for health care is… A trump website)
The comment was made in a year before Trump 2.0, at which point they weren’t best buds with big tech, quite the opposite, because Trump was at the tail end of throwing a hissy fit against big tech.
Oh I do recall him mucking about with Google and Apple and Meta, but with how fickle that man is, that’s hardly a point for anti big-tech
If they want to business in the USA hey have to pander to the panzshitter
First of all, that doesn’t matter to us, from the EU.
Secondly, read this.
Read it before, seem normal. It mentions info about who contacts the user, and elsewhere something about IP and logs. But if there business operating model is true they have no keys they can decrypt with. If they do them proton is no different tjam google
The CEO made “questionable” comments regarding the Trump administration. IMHO, the comments on it are way overblown, and are half way reasonable considering he’s a CEO whose only job is to make the company money.
it’s a honeypot that is just going to hand your emails over to whoever asks, there is no secure 3rd party email service. you want secure emails you have to self-host and encrypt
Supposedly they don’t have the keys though. They could start logging on behalf of a government warrant, but I’m not sure past email would be accessible. Its not even accessible to me if I reset my password
For what i know only the subject is not protected.
Wow. Thor really is an asshole.
This message brought to you by an open-source animator. Krita, Blender, and OpenToonz for all.
I was gonna say, how in the fuck has this idiot sociopath not learned his lesson yet?
B-b-b-but he used to work for Blizzard dontcha know!
He was the first second-generation Blizzard employee, get it right smh
What is the context? (Im out of the loop)
PirateSoftware is an extreme narcissist who was previously cancelled for having too huge an ego. He’s a real asshole.
I have a job and responsibilities. Can someone give me the TLDR on this almost-three-hour video?
He lies a bunch and pretends to be an authority. His lies are shown, and he instead doubles down. He can’t admit his faults.
Phew, okay, I’ll watch that a bit later.
And what does he have to do with Adobe stock falling?
He’s a professional “”“influencer”“”. He just needs to stay relevant, at any cost (except if the topic is about suspicious sticky substances on the room, video fit more details)
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Is he not implying that Adobe are shooting themselves in the foot (dropping their share price) by stopping development of an animation tool that lots of people use?
oh lmao, I’m an idiot. I forgot how to read twitter threads lol
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Jesus is sad when you use slurs. They affect everyone in the group, not just the one person you’re insulting.
OpenToonz is nothing in comparensing to adobe animate
If it’s good enough for Studio Ghibli and Futurama, it’s good enough for me.
A few years ago, I subscribed to Adobe for about 2 weeks. But my conscience wouldn’t let me, I had to cancel the sub and get a refund.
Deep down, it’s like I knew something was wrong. And that was before I got introduced to Adobe memes.
Turns out Inkscape/GIMP/Shotcut are good enough for my needs. The Affinity suite is pretty good too though. I hope it gets supported on Linux eventually.
- Krita for painting
- Davinci Resolve for editing. You can also buy the suite for a one time payment.
Yeah, I know. I’ve never used Krita, but I do have the paid version of Davinci Resolve. But it can be tricky to make it work on Linux, I only use it when I need complex editing. Shotcut is simpler to use and more straight forward.
Shotcut
Huh… I recently needed to do a super short edit of a clip and people were recommending Kdenlive. Have you used it? To me it felt super complicated (I literally needed something like ClipChamp from Windows), but now I’m wondering if Shortcut might be the better choice.
I tried Kdenlive, but was overwhelmed when the moment I opened it. So I went back to Shotcut. Here’s what I do:
- Simple basic editing = Shotcut
- More complex editing = Davinci Resolve
Honestly I use Krita for photo work now, too. Especially with the AI plugins for retouching.
I use Krita!
I’m an open-source artist. All the tools and software I have ever used to make my art are FLOSS. It’s my deeply held personal belief that the ability to create art should be as free as pencil and paper, and I want my work to be living proof of that ideal.
I’ve used Krita, Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, and other tools exclusively for over a decade. I never could afford Adobe’s shit, and I realized pretty quickly that nearly anything Photoshop can do, a bit of savvy and some extra time in Gimp and Krita can do equally well. My only complaint is that they can’t support Photoshop’s brush file formats. Which is absolutely a dealbreaker for most committed artists I know, because your brushes make or break your workflow and even your entire art style. So switching isn’t for everyone, and that’s fine.
Look into davincibox! It’s a script (?) that uses distrobox to install davinci seamlessly. It’s great and worked perfectly for me even with an amd gpu
I’d need to try it. I recently tried the “Universal Davinci Resolve Installer” script and it didn’t work. I’m currently using Maple Linux which is debian based.
Distrobox basically just runs a vm to mess around with, so the script just sets up the vm for you. Fmu, as long as distrobox works for your distro, it should just work
I’ve never heard of shotcut, that looks interesting.
Huh, a couple of days ago I was googling all over the place for something like this and it didn’t come up. I didn’t think my google-fu was that weak. Definitely going to try this out now.
It’s not your fault. Search engines results have objectively gotten worse compared to years ago. Shotcut was the probably the first thing I found when I searched for something like it in like 2016.
Same, I looked high and low for an alternative. The blender editing program is still a bit clunky.
I just gave it a spin and it was everything I was looking for, this is fantastic. Funny how these things can slip through searches and then just pop out of nowhere from an unexpected discussion thread like this.
NobaraOS has a preconfigured Davinci Resolve installer in their welcome app fwiw
That’s good to know! I used POP_OS for many years that seems quite similar. I don’t think they has a Davinci installer, but you can have nvidia and GPU drivers preconfigured.
