#FUCK ADOBE

[yaoiconnoisseur]

via twitter

[asaltyarchon]

Adobe alternatives updated for 2024 (08 June 2024). Original tweet source here.

[piplupcola]

HEADS UP ARTISTS

The Web Development website Wix decided to join Adobe in the dark side & change their Terms and conditions to "grant [them] a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license" to use your portfolio for AI.

This does not only affect artists using this website to make their portfolios and demo reels, but online shop owners, commission pages, art galleries, game development websites and much more.

If you work in the film art or game industry and you have work under NDA or demo reels with your past works from existing film and games. EVEN IF IT'S HIDDEN, PRIVATED OR IN YOUR DRAFTS, they have all the right to steal your work and guess what? You're probably gonna get in trouble instead of wix for having them on your website.

I've used wix for 10 years but fuck them. It's time to jump ship to another website. Please make sure to remove ALL traces of your work from their site and spread the word.

[hooxiedev]

Here's a recent assignment I did for uni. I had to learn how to use Illustrator by doing a vector portrait. This isn't my usual style by any means, but it was a fun experiment!

I watch Doctor Who casually with my friends, and I really enjoyed Tennant's run on the show. Since I had to draw a celebrity for the assignment, I figured, why not draw him? :)

[3/5/24]

[juliasesame]

Adobe...

Fuck adobe. Genuinely fuck adobe. This is morally reprehensible. I hope Shantanu Narayen goes straight to hell. This is not the behaviour of a creative software. This is the behaviour of a fucking Trojan virus.

[leidensygdom]

(Ignore the discount)

So uh, I found out that for some reason, Adobe costs about 60$ a month on the US, but about 75$ a month on Europe (Spain). I had been kinda profiting of a much reduced price 'til now of 20$ with one student discount, but I got notified they'd be suddenly charging me 75 dollars (67€) a month so i quickly unsuscribed

I'd love to know why they're charging $15 more per month for a digital product they do not have to ship or anything just because I'm in Europe, but it's not like I care. The fact I keep getting the most invasive attempts for it to sell me AI isn't helping.

Showcasing here: the first thing I saw upon entering adobe's page (about generating ai prompts), a picture of the software they offer (guess which one is the ai one!, and a random section in my profile giving me freebie credits to generate ai images with, which I can later buy more of to do more ai generation. I know they're desperate to justify why they've thrown their entire userbase under the bus for the latest fad but I genuinely their higher ups starve.

[guardianspirits13]

you’ll never guess which program i made this in

[tagedeszorns]

Adobe's increasing enshittification forced me to clean up my WiP-folder (in this case: They'll kill their cloud services that came with a subscription next week. In case you haven't noticed - they are rather subtle about it. I found it while looking for the reason why my cloud-folder wasn't synchronizing any more. Well, surprise, I guess!).

And I found stuff I didn't even remember starting! I mean, look at the guys!

I need to finish all of them! And so many others I found!

[bacony-cakes]

i fucking hate adobe's ai-generated stock images of every possible subject.

on the left are real images from wikimedia, on the right are adobe's fake images that were shat out by a computer.

zhangye danxia:

caño cristales:

delicate arch:

pamukkale:

lake hillier:

they're lying! oh, it pisses me right off!!!

fuck stock image companies.

[sixseisliu]

Can we put the Adobe CEO at the top of the list now?

[iveraines]

before vs after uninstalling the adobe suite

[ultra-art-blog]

🍋🍋🍋

[aylameridiandrawsstuff]

So adobe is over.

I bought Clip Studio Paint yesterday for 50 bucks and I own that shit now. No more subscriptions!

learning new keyboard shortcuts is a pain but legitimately I think CS paint is more suited to my needs as an artist!

[commiepinkofag]

capitalism

[siffrin-enthusiast]

i just want to remind everyone that photopea is free. its in your browser. its photoshop but free. i've been using it for a while and it works exactly the same. it costs zero dollars. dont give adobe your hard earned money

[getvalentined]

One of my favorite things is finding out what software/device someone uses for their artwork and (if they're not using Procreate) being like "Have you tried CSP?" then linking them to get the trial version to see if it works for them.

Within a day they're like "Well. I'm using this forever now."

This has happened five times and it's always a great experience. I'm not exaggerating when I say that this program has literally changed my life, allowing my art to improve in spite of my physical condition continuing to degrade over the years. If you're not an iPad baby with Procreate and you want a program that is actually designed for artists, look into Clip Studio Paint—not Photosh○p.

The standard version of CSP for laptop/desktop is around $55 USD at a stretch (and it's $22 USD right now because there's a sale) for a perpetual license that is yours forever; you can get a subscription to get early access to new CSP features as they're implemented, and it's $10.99 per year for the standard version on top of the perpetual license—if you cancel the sub, you lose access to features outside the base version for which you purchased a perpetual license, but you get to keep that base program. Even the mobile version of CSP, which is on a subscription in order to stay up to date with mobile OS updates and maintain compatibility, is under $30 for a year when purchased direct from CELSYS.

The cheapest sub option for Photosh○p is currently $14.99 per month, Ad○be will charge you for six months upfront if you cancel, and you lose access to the program entirely (even though you just paid for six months) until you re-up the sub.

I'm not even gonna go into performance differences here. Just...trust me on this. If you're going to spend money on a digital art program, try CSP and see if it works for you. If it doesn't, that's fine! But you don't lose anything on a free trial, y'know?

And, before anyone tries to sweep in with some trash argument about CELSYS being in support of gen·A·I, there was an experimental gen·A·I feature that they announced a couple years ago and then immediately rolled back when the community raised objections. At the time, gen·A·I was not yet a particularly hot-button topic in Japan, where the company is based, and the implementation they had in mind was intended to assist in drafting, composition, and postprocessing, not the creation of full pieces. Rather than insisting that they were right and it wasn't their fault if people wound up using it unethically, CELSYS scrapped all plans to implement the feature and made a public apology for their negligence and lack of education on the issue. They have since even banned gen·A·I work from their asset marketplace.

Meanwhile, Ad○be uses gen·A·I slop images on their social media, their advertisements, their corporate literature, their webpage, and on Photosh○p's launcher.

If you're a digital artist, try CSP. It's $22 USD for the next two days, less than $60 even when it's not on sale, and once you have it, it's yours forever.