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Why Do People Not Prefer Adobe Anymore?

27 days ago 71.6M views 0 shares

So good people get a dignified burial, bad people get a dignified burial, but the genius who decided to turn Adobe's perfectly fine one-time purchase software into a soul-draining monthly subscription? That person gets YEETED INTO THE OCEAN. And honestly? Justice has been served. Remember when you could just... buy Photoshop? Like a normal product? For money? Once? Those were simpler times. Now you're basically renting pixels at $54.99/month until the heat death of the universe. Want to edit one photo? That'll be a 12-month commitment, bestie. It's like a gym membership except instead of not going to the gym, you're just hemorrhaging money for software you use twice a year to remove your ex from vacation photos. The entire creative industry collectively groaned when Adobe Creative Cloud became mandatory. Now we're all out here learning GIMP, Affinity, and whatever free alternatives exist just to avoid selling our kidneys for layer masks.

Please Edit My Photo

Windows Gamedev

2 months ago 2.1M views 0 shares

Someone walks into r/PhotoshopRequest asking for "the video game texture" to be inserted into their photo. OP responds with a helpful Windows file path that's so deeply nested it looks like they're giving coordinates to Narnia. The path goes through Steam, PAYDAY 2 mods, face retextures, and ends with an .xcf file (GIMP format, not even a standard image). The cherry on top? The wizard-tier responder politely explains they'll need to convert it to PNG first because "we don't have that file locally in our systems." Sir, this is a Photoshop subreddit, not your IT department's network share.

Guys It's Official… Lilypad Runs Mac OS…

MacOS Apple Python Programming

2 months ago 28.6M views 0 shares

Guys It's Official… Lilypad Runs Mac OS…

Someone photoshopped a terminal window onto a kid's toy tablet from Toy Story and I'm honestly impressed by the commitment. The frog-shaped tablet is showing what looks like Python code with GPS tracking functions, because apparently even children's toys need to implement geolocation APIs now. The real joke here is that this Fisher-Price looking device has better terminal access than half the locked-down corporate machines I've worked on. Plus, if you squint hard enough, that macOS menu bar at the top really sells it. Nothing says "professional development environment" quite like a bright green amphibian chassis with googly eyes. I guarantee this toy has fewer kernel panics than my actual MacBook Pro.

Photoshop

AI

4 months ago 1.8M views 0 shares

Pour one out for Photoshop. For decades, it was the gold standard verb for image manipulation. "That's so Photoshopped" was the battle cry of skeptics everywhere. Now? We've collectively decided that AI is the new scapegoat for every suspiciously perfect image. Doesn't matter if someone actually used Photoshop, GIMP, or MS Paint with a prayer—if it looks fake, it's AI. The irony? Half the time it probably is still Photoshop, just with AI features baked in. But hey, why use three syllables when two will do? RIP to a real one. You had a good run, buddy.

People Saying That Never Even Tried. The Best Photoshop Alternative For Linux Is Krita

Linux

5 months ago 329.9K views 0 shares

The classic Linux software holy war strikes again. Someone suggests Krita as a Photoshop alternative, and immediately gets hit with the "actually, Krita is for digital painting/drawing only" crowd. The counterargument? "Krita is better than GIMP and more intuitive!" Then comes the reality check: Krita literally markets itself as a digital painting application, not a photo editor. But here's the kicker – the person defending Krita probably hasn't even tried using it for photo editing themselves, they're just parroting what they've read online. The meme nails the frustration of Linux software recommendations. Someone asks for a Photoshop alternative, gets Krita recommended, then gets lectured about how they're using it wrong when they point out it's designed for illustration. It's like recommending a hammer when someone needs a screwdriver because "hammers are better quality and more ergonomic than screwdrivers." Sure buddy, but can it edit RAW photos and do layer masking for product photography? The answer is: technically yes, but you're gonna have a bad time.

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This Is Jehan Pages, The Top Developer Behind Gimp, A Free Open Source Photo Editor. Adobe Executives Hate Jehan. Because Of His Hard Work, Adobe Lost Millions Of Dollars

Linux Programming

8 months ago 560.7K views 7 shares

This Is Jehan Pages, The Top Developer Behind Gimp, A Free Open Source Photo Editor. Adobe Executives Hate Jehan. Because Of His Hard Work, Adobe Lost Millions Of Dollars

Behold the absolute MENACE to Adobe's subscription empire! Here stands Jehan Pages, the legendary developer who dared to make professional-grade photo editing accessible to mere mortals without requiring a monthly blood sacrifice to the Creative Cloud gods. While Adobe executives are out there charging $54.99/month for Photoshop, Jehan's over here maintaining GIMP like "what if people could just... edit photos... for FREE?" The audacity! The betrayal! The absolute CHAOS this man has unleashed upon Adobe's quarterly earnings reports! Sure, GIMP's UI might look like it time-traveled from 2003 and the learning curve is steeper than Mount Everest, but you know what? It costs exactly zero dollars and zero cents. That's the sound of Adobe's CFO crying into their expensive latte. Real talk: Open source heroes like Jehan are the reason we still have choices in software. Mad respect to everyone who contributes to FOSS projects while giant corporations are trying to subscription-ify literally everything we touch.

Next Gen Consoles Be Like

Hardware Gamedev Programming

10 months ago 466.6K views 1 shares

Gaming companies: "Our new console does 8K gaming!" Developers opening Photoshop: "No." Marketing promises vs technical reality - the eternal struggle of hardware capabilities versus what software can actually deliver. The Photoshop logo in the corner is the silent admission that those fancy screenshots were, in fact, enhanced.

Computers In 1969 Vs Now

Hardware Programming Windows

1 year ago 434.2K views 4 shares

NASA sent humans to the actual moon using computers with 4KB of RAM—roughly the size of a modern email signature. Meanwhile, your beast of a machine with an RTX card and 16GB of RAM crashes because you dared to open a second Chrome tab while Photoshop was running. The digital equivalent of a Ferrari that stalls when you turn on the radio. Progress?

The Divine Right Of Piracy

Webdev Frontend Programming

1 year ago 355.6K views 0 shares

Ah, the subscription model. Adobe's prices are so high they've single-handedly funded more piracy than a Caribbean rum festival. When your monthly Photoshop fee costs more than your car payment, suddenly that torrent site doesn't seem so sketchy. The best DRM protection Adobe ever created was making their software too expensive for anyone to afford legitimately. Fun fact: Adobe's subscription model was actually designed by the same person who invented printer ink pricing - Satan.

The Sacred PSD Rant

Programming Debugging Frontend Webdev

1 year ago 313.2K views 0 shares

The legendary PSD rant—a sacred text among developers who've battled Adobe's Photoshop format. This poor soul's descent into madness is documented with surgical precision, from comparing PSD to a format so bad it would insult JPEG to fantasizing about launching specs into the sun. The comment escalates from professional frustration to cosmic vengeance with the eloquence of someone who's clearly spent too many nights debugging inconsistent byte alignments. It's basically the developer equivalent of a villain origin story.

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