Adobe was sued today in another class action about its subscription practices. Plaintiffs claim Adobe intentionally lied to consumers and charged them expensive early termination fees.

storage.courtlistener.com /recap/gov.uscourts.cand.453984/gov.uscourts.cand.453984.1.0.pdf

It's not enough to be angry. You have to fight back.

I'm proud to give $1 every month to Inkscape and Gimp.

Imagine if only 1% of users did that.

Just 1% of people giving $1 a month can change the world.

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shalafi @lemmy.world 1mo ago
https://www.photopea.com/
Free Photoshop, same controls and all.
- Dr. Moose @lemmy.world 1mo ago
  Free but not open source and could be taken away at any point. Gimp is a much safer bet.
Deathray5 @lemmynsfw.com 1mo ago
How on earth are their cancellation fees. Don't you pay before each "season"?
- Amju Wolf @pawb.social 1mo ago
  They sell you a yearly subscription but with monthly payments, then require you to finish paying for the whole year if you cancel early. It is a bit discounted from the actual monthly plan and selected by default.
  And they have shitty UX that doesn't make this blatantly obvious, hence all the people who have issues with this.
  
  arararagi @ani.social 1mo ago
  It's definitely not a shitty UX, it's dark patterns, deliberate made to confuse.
ian @feddit.uk 1mo ago
I've had my feature requests added to both Inkscape and Gimp. I doubt if Adobe devs will ever listen to you.
For my photography, I could get results in Gimp equal or sometimes better than Photoshop. But now Gimp 3 adds productivity features to make it fast too. And using it with DigiKam and RawTherapee means a top notch workflow too.
- Gonzako @lemmy.world 1mo ago
  What features if I may be informed?
  
  ian @feddit.uk 1mo ago
  In Gimp it was the enhancement to the command search. It needs to find a command when you type a slash. Before it would only execute the command. Now it tells you where it is. So you don't need to search every time. In Inkscape there have been several. Most recently it was to reduce the width of the Text panel by moving some elements. As the Text panel is very wide. A full overhaul is due soon.
- seralth @lemmy.world 1mo ago
  haloduder @thelemmy.club
  1mo ago
  I love the name.
  "Bring out the GIMP."
aesthelete @lemmy.world 1mo ago
This is what happens when software companies adopt the business model of LA Fitness.
mirisgaiss @lemmy.world 1mo ago
moved over to gimp lately, just a ton of reassigning shortcuts and it works about the same as PS...
inkscape though, some files I deal with have half a bajillion vectors and it just can NOT handle it (unless I want to wait 20s every time I move something). would really like to get off adobe but, gonna have to keep illustrator for now...
- Dr. Moose @lemmy.world 1mo ago
  You shouldn't be using vector graphics if you have bajillion of vectors either way. I have giant sheets of inkscape documents with thousands of shapes that work well, the issues arise when people blindly convert raster to vector and try to use that vomit as vector graphics.
  
  mirisgaiss @lemmy.world 1mo ago
  let me know when you can convince nemetschek to make vectorworks output PDFs in any other way... considering they're unfortunately leaning hard into AI bullshit in their software I doubt that's getting addressed anytime soon
- Spaz @lemmy.world 1mo ago
  GenP
Pat_Riot @lemmy.today 1mo ago
I use GIMP a little bit. How do you donate?
- cmnybo @discuss.tchncs.de 1mo ago
  There is a donate link on their website.
glowie @infosec.pub 1mo ago
And this is why I registered once with a disposable debit card. Fuck you, Adobe.
Phoenixz @lemmy.ca 1mo ago
Adobe id in the list of companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and more. The world would be an actual better place I'd they'd just disappear
Victoriathecompact @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago
Is there an alternative to PS that uses actions?
- sugar_in_your_tea @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago
  GIMP has scripting support, but you shouldn't expect to just import a Photoshop action and expect it to work, you'd probably need to tweak it.

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