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adzm ◴[] No.43654878[source]
Adobe is the one major company trying to be ethical with its AI training data and no one seems to even care. The AI features in Photoshop are the best around in my experience and come in handy constantly for all sorts of touchup work.

Anyway I don't really think they deserve a lot of the hate they get, but I do hope this encourages development of viable alternatives to their products. Photoshop is still pretty much peerless. Illustrator has a ton of competitors catching up. After Effects and Premiere for video editing are getting overtaken by Davinci Resolve -- though for motion graphics it is still hard to beat After Effects. Though I do love that Adobe simply uses JavaScript for its expression and scripting language.

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nonchalantsui ◴[] No.43655747[source]
For their pricing and subscription practices alone, they deserve far more backlash than they get.
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fxtentacle ◴[] No.43659101[source]
I would describe my business relationship with Adobe as:

"hostage"

They annually harass me with licensing checks and questionnaires because they really hate you if you run Photoshop inside a VM (my daily driver is Linux), although it is explicitly allowed. Luckily, I don't need the Adobe software that often. But they hold a lot of important old company documents hostage in their proprietary file formats. So I can't cancel the subscription, no matter how much I'd like to.

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1. sureIy ◴[] No.43661036[source]
> proprietary file formats

Gimp can't handle them?

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2. mamonoleechi ◴[] No.43661757[source]
If not, Affinity Photo or Photopea will probably do the job.
3. fxtentacle ◴[] No.43662557[source]
For InDesign magazines with embedded images, for example, I'm not aware of any compatible 3rd party software
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4. mandmandam ◴[] No.43663065[source]
Here are some options which might help [0] (Bias: I love Affinity Publisher and despise Adobe).

0 - https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/225143-wha...

5. jwitthuhn ◴[] No.43666681[source]
It sort of can but all non-adobe software I know of, even commercial stuff like Affinity Photo, has spotty support for some PSD features.

Basically any given PSD will certainly load correctly in photoshop, but you're rolling the dice if you want to load it into anything else. More so if you are using more modern features.