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Photoshop has a lot of engineering/product work going into making it better. Unless the price of it were totally absurd, it's always going to be a worthwhile ex
by bpicolo 9y ago
Photoshop has a lot of engineering/product work going into making it better. Unless the price of it were totally absurd, it's always going to be a worthwhile expense if it's the most efficient piece of software to use, because software is typically much cheaper than labor. "Good enough" isn't the goal in this regard.
In this case, Photoshop will continue to dominate (unless they get lazy/give up) because they have recurring cash to reinvest.
- sanbor 9y agoProbably many people would be happy just using an open source version of Photoshopp 6 an they would be ok missing some of the features released in the last 10 years (like painting 3D surfaces or automatically fill a region of the picture that you delete). Sometimes companies forcing you to update your software to get your money it's not a good thing (Windows 10?). With open source there is always the chance of forking as what happened with OpenOffice and LibreOffice. The issue of having to pay to get access to your tool it's a big issue. For big companies having to pay for 100 workstations yearly the monetary incentive is big. Once many people is aware that in the long term it's a better deal to put their money into software libre projects, maybe different companies could compite to get your money.
- keenerd 9y ago> they would be ok missing some of the features released in the last 10 years (like painting 3D surfaces or automatically fill a region of the picture that you delete) Content aware fill was in Gimp before Photoshop. It was an open-source PhD project.
- wolco 9y agoPhotoshop version 2 was given away for free on the adobe site a year or so ago. It works great and does most things fine.