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Sat, 07 Dec 2024 05:41:19 -0800

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I'm ditching Adobe Creative Cloud after 10 years with it, and 30+ years with
Adobe

I'm so sick of the cancellation process. Had to sit through a three-hour
support chat with three different reps yesterday just to cancel my Creative
Cloud seats. All in, I was paying $300/mo. for the software that I barely used
because I changed over to Linux in 2023. I've paid thousands of dollars over
the last 10 years and thousands more buying physical boxes of software from
Adobe since 1991 when I started using Photoshop. It turns out that my
experience canceling is typical:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/06/ftc-takes-action-against-adobe-executives-hiding-fees-preventing-consumers-easily-cancelling

There are so many great alternative apps on Linux that it's not even funny:

1. Photoshop -> GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). GIMP has essentially
all of the features of Photoshop and is an easy transition.
2. InDesign -> Viva Designer. This is an amazing product that reads InDesign
files and has the responsiveness of QuarkXPress from the '90s (excellent).
3. Illustrator -> InkScape. Vector drawing program.
4. Lightroom -> RawTherapee. Processes Canon RAW files wonderfully.
5. Premiere -> DaVinci Resolve. Amazing product, with GPU acceleration and
delivery encoding that's better than Adobe Media Encoder. Also reads RED cinema
footage, which was the key for me.

Those are my main Adobe apps that I use. I use Photoshop and InDesign the most,
so it's great having those great alternatives. DaVinci Resolve is unbelievably
great and destroys Premiere and Media Encoder with customization and options,
though it's harder to get used to than Premiere.

#Hobbies #News #Technology

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:06:00 -0800

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