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1092 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 14:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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__rito__ ◴[26 Aug 25 17:02 UTC] No.45029314[source]▶
I am glad that I never decided to become a photoshop pro. I always contemplated about it, seemed attractive for a while, but glad that I decided against it. RIP r/photoshopbattles.

It was in the endless list of new shiny 'skills' that feels good to have. Now I can use nano-banana instead. Other models will soon follow, I am sure.

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ctippett ◴[26 Aug 25 17:24 UTC] No.45029623[source]▶
Interesting take. I'm a programmer, but learned Photoshop in the early 2000s and had a blast making and editing images for fun. Sure, the generative models today can do a far better job than anything I could come up with, but that doesn't detract from the experience and skills I picked up over the years.

If anything, knowing Photoshop (I use Affinity Designer/Photo these days) is actually incredibly useful to finesse the output produced by AI. No regrets.

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1. __rito__ ◴[27 Aug 25 17:30 UTC] No.45042488[source]▶
> learned Photoshop in the early 2000s and had a blast making and editing images for fun

> "had a blast"

One can have blasts in many things nowadays. Like playing Factorio, writing functional code for recreational problem solving, playing Chess, making SBC/Microprocessor projects for fun, doing Math for fun, and so on...

Photoshop just couldn’t compete with the existing blasts in my life, and I felt a little bad for not learning it. But that teeny, tiny bad feeling has been wiped away by nano-banana.