• babybus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      121·
      10 hours ago

      Don’t be ridiculous, mac users have neat and tidy usb hubs. iPhone users on the other hand…

  • JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org
    159·
    17 hours ago

    I’ve never had any trouble running adobe software on Linux.

    I’ve also never tried, but still the statement is technically correct.

  • tiramichu@lemm.ee
    1421·
    20 hours ago

    The answer is very much “Don’t run Photoshop”

    (Fuck Adobe. There, I said it)

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        531·
        17 hours ago

        It’s never unethical to pirate Adobe, but it’s always more ethical to use Free Software instead and deny Adobe the mindshare.

        • Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de
          371·
          17 hours ago

          It’s far more ethical to make the company lose money

          Minimum amount for photoshop is 22$/month

          Pirate photoshop

          Delete it

          Pirate again

          Repeat 30 times

          Adobe looses 660$

          If everyone does this adobe will loose so much

          • Rinox@feddit.it
            42·
            8 hours ago

            That’s not at all how piracy works. They don’t lose any money by me not buying their product, the money was never theirs to lose. They can earn money if I buy it, but if I don’t, then nothing changed. It’s not like every company is entitled to my money.

            Pirating or using Gimp or Krita instead, has the exact same effect on them, ie me not buying their product.

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
            111·
            16 hours ago

            They don’t care as they have a massive profit margin. What matters more is the market share. You got to break the standard way of thinking industry wide.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      17 hours ago

      Fuck I’d love an actual equivalent alternative on Windows too. GIMP, while great in the past, is nowhere near modern Photoshop, it’s closer to modern Paint, which is just sad.

      There’s a ton of people and businesses that hate Adobe, the lack of real alternatives is fascinating.

      • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
        10·
        15 hours ago

        Krita, rawtherapee, dark table, digikam, affinity. Just depends what you are trying to do. If you’re used to photoshop there’s nothing exactly the same and it will take effort to move but I think it’s worth it, I’m still on the journey of learning as a hobbyist and have mostly been using dark table for photo editing

        • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
          2·
          13 hours ago

          All we need to do is build a similar setup and then find a guitar and a CRT and see what happens

          Edit: actually, I’ve got a guitar and a CRT and maybe half of the pieces there. The big thing I’m concerned about is destroying the CRT. I have no idea how sensitive CRTs are or how much power is coming from a guitar.

          • HonkyTonkWoman@lemm.ee
            1·
            7 hours ago

            I have no idea if it would work, but I do have a spare CRT monitor if you blow yours up.

            Maybe look into a direct box? I had to use one when recording to change the ohms between the instrument & the usb interface in the tower.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    73·
    19 hours ago

    I was taking to my sister, who is an artist, about setting up Linux and warned them about poor Adobe support. Their response was “⭐ 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀 𝒶𝒹𝑜𝒷𝑒 ⭐” due to their AI shenanigans and high costs.

    So thanks modern Adobe for making it easier for people to switch to Linux.

  • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    17 hours ago

    Photoshop cs2 is free to download and probably works well on wine as its old as hell.

    Edit: Correction. You used to o be able to download cs2 from adobe website. This is no longer the case.

    GIMP has always been able to do what I needed more or less. Its got a learning curve and sometimes I still dont 100% how something works but for basic photo editing, meme making, and converting photos to different file types (why is .webp not universally supported yet?) Its pretty good.

    When theres a problem doing something in GIMP it always felt like the issue was my own understanding of the toolset conbined with not-great documentation being given. I never felt like I encountered the limits of the program itself.

    I’m sure if you are a professional graphics person who needs advanced tools theres things only PS can provide and its user interface is probably more friendly. But for me, the average joe schmo, GIMP gets the job done 95% of the time with little to no headache.

    • folkrav@lemmy.ca
      8·
      17 hours ago

      Some people do overestimate how much of the software they’re actually using, and how far back some features go. I learned the little PS I know using a 7.0 license my father bought, I used it for years doing 2D graphics and web “design”, and still basically still have the same workflow with minor differences to avoid destructive changes.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      hardware dongles were the worst. god forbid you wanted to run 3ds and lightwave on the same box, sentinel didn’t like other dongles goddamnit