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The Other Way To Fight Software Rental (hackaday.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"The art and design communities, in particular, are feeling the pinch from Adobe Suite going towards a rental model, and now the artist and perennial thorn in the side of anyone who seeks to own a colour, [Stuart Semple] is doing something about it. He’s launching a competing suite called provocatively, Abode, which will follow an affordable paid-for licence model."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/culturehustle/abode-a-suite-of-world-class-design-and-photography-tools

The Abode project seems overly optimistic in terms of scope, cost and timing to me but then I've never been involved in software development. Still, alternatives to the big names are always nice.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t work in graphics professionally, but there’s nothing I need to do that can’t be handled by Skribus and Gimp.

WRT rented software, that while model gives me the heebie jeebies. I don’t trust anything to be around forever, so I definitely want my own copy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know about Skribus but I do know Gimp isn't comparable to photoshop for the professionals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a learning curve, granted. The photographers I know who use Gimp prefer it. YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't doubt that those that choose to use it prefer it. What I see time and again is someone will try it, find it missing features they want/need and revert back. I encourage the use of GIMP and other FOSS where I can. It's just not a one to one drop in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed that it's not a drop-in replacement. I get that professionals don't often have time to learn new software and prefer to stick with what they know. But if they have the time and motivation, they can save some money as well as supporting FOSS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As far as photography goes, I've never needed anything like Photoshop or Gimp, I do fine with just Darktable and DigiKam (YMMV).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My personal preference is Seashore for Mac, but I haven't used macOS in a few years (not entirely by choice but because my uni is largely Windows based and it became too much to keep up with how to integrate into the ecosystem).