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I just wish somebody would make a replacement that made everybody want to switch away from Photoshop and all the other Adobe products and onto the replacement,

by fredsir 10y ago

I just wish somebody would make a replacement that made everybody want to switch away from Photoshop and all the other Adobe products and onto the replacement, and be satisfied with it. Adobe is too comfortable. They have no reason to fix their software which is basically some of the worst software I have tried to use professionally. It's so bad that the reason I don't use Lightroom and Photoshop is not because of the subscription based pricing of Adobe CC, but because that even though Lightroom and Photoshop is more powerful than say Pixelmator, Gimp, Inkscape, Sketch, (Apple) Photos, Affinity Photos, and what have we, the rest of the software - and by that I mean the windows, the buttons, the settings, basically the UI and UX - everything except for the actual algorithms that alters your photos/videos/graphics - is awful. Complete shit. Oh, and don't get me started on the the Adobe update thing that sits and runs in the background of your Mac constantly which you have to install Photoshop and the rest of the family through. Until a real contender threatens Adobe, they won't do anything about it because right now they can ship complete bullshit that runs on both Mac and Windows and make a lot of money doing that terrible job, which satisfies them because they can keep more money themself instead of on people that could make their products better. Please, Adobe, make your software great again, and make it run on all the platforms. Right now it's utter crap. Fix it!

tomelders 10y ago
I've switched to pixelmator and affinity designer and I havent looked back.
- fredsir 10y ago
  I use Pixelmator, Sketch and Photos. It works well for me. What I hear from graphics designers and photographers though is that they are not powerful enough, and to get them to switch requires more powerful features. Until the alternatives to Adobe products satisfies the professionals, Adobe will not have any reason to wipe up their crapware and instead release quality software, unfortunately.
AnthonBerg 10y ago
Actually Adobe's algorithms are substandard as well. For example, rezising algorithms are few and naive. Also, last I checked the higher bit depths don't work as well as 8bpc - only a limited subset of operations work. Almost the entirety of it is fool's gold.
- fredsir 10y ago
  That might be true. I dunno. Its just what I have understood from professionals that won't switch. If that is neither the case, well then I don't know why they are still hanging around. Might be UI and shortcuts familiarity, I guess.
  - AnthonBerg 10y ago
    It's complicated and interesting. Familiarity yes; Also I guess that people don't know that they can expect better. And maybe also that it is a whole workflow.

by fredsir 10y ago

tomelders 10y ago

I've switched to pixelmator and affinity designer and I havent looked back.

fredsir 10y ago
I use Pixelmator, Sketch and Photos. It works well for me. What I hear from graphics designers and photographers though is that they are not powerful enough, and to get them to switch requires more powerful features. Until the alternatives to Adobe products satisfies the professionals, Adobe will not have any reason to wipe up their crapware and instead release quality software, unfortunately.

AnthonBerg 10y ago

Actually Adobe's algorithms are substandard as well. For example, rezising algorithms are few and naive. Also, last I checked the higher bit depths don't work as well as 8bpc - only a limited subset of operations work. Almost the entirety of it is fool's gold.

fredsir 10y ago
That might be true. I dunno. Its just what I have understood from professionals that won't switch. If that is neither the case, well then I don't know why they are still hanging around. Might be UI and shortcuts familiarity, I guess.
- AnthonBerg 10y ago
  It's complicated and interesting. Familiarity yes; Also I guess that people don't know that they can expect better. And maybe also that it is a whole workflow.