- 4 days
What are you talking about? I love opening a pdf in Acrobat and having to wait for it to update and getting ads for bullshit inside the app once I accidentally close the pdf but not the app or something.
It’s hilarious how any webbrowser at all is a better PDF viewer.
2 daysAdobe fixed that with edge. It uses their engine now. You can’t escape them.
A guy went to adobe.com and told the truth. This is what happened to his organs.
- signofzeta@lemmygrad.mlEnglish4 days
OP is presenting to Adobe.com with an inability to combine two PDFs and a lack of subscription fatigue.
- 4 days
I worked as a graphics designer / DTP specialist more than 20 years ago. Back then Adobe products were really good. Photoshop was already a monopoly but there were different products for vector graphics and publishing (InDesign was a new contender back then), I tried them and went back to Adobe. It’s sad reading how they were able to enshitificate all their products so utterly and completely during that time.
Cathartic to read. So much potential and goodwill squandered to make the buggiest nonsense whose sole job it is to render text and graphics. Is morbidly funny to see how our collective 8 billion minds haven’t figured out this one thing, built an open source protocol, and moved on. The mind virus, because there is one just not the one that’s oft referenced, is allowing rent seeking monopolies to do a shit job repackaging and enshitiffying basic digital infrastructure. These ideas are so self evident.
We could have moved on to the next item in the list of solvable problems. But more likely than not Adobe will kick this dead horse for another half century as we all watch. The extraction model is at odds with humanity’s needs. May the realization of this be our eventual salvation.
- 4 days
Just a reminder even PewDiePie stopped using Adobe products after 15 years of daily usage. He switched to GIMP, but that is not my main point. I found it interesting how he gets even charged for cancelling the service! Look, I’m not a PewDiePie fan and usually don’t watch his videos. But this one was pretty fun. The video with timestamp at the segment I was talking about: https://youtu.be/pVI_smLgTY0?t=329
- comrademiao@piefed.socialEnglish4 days
In his most recent video he complains that switching to GIMP was too difficult
- 4 days
I love Foss projects and I try to be as positive as I can be. There are several programs that while having a learning curve are actually usable, but gimp is so user hostile its insane.
How in the ever living fuck does it not have a god damn circle tool. Why the fuck can’t I rotate selections in real time, I need to precalculate the angle and pray it’s correct.
And those are just 2 things I encountered while trying to make a shitty image of pinkie pie as Dante Alighieri 2 days ago. I can’t imagine having to actually learn it to replace Photoshop for work.
And it’s so intentionally shitty, inkscape has a UX that’s at least 10 times better, 1000 times since they actually let you draw a god damn circle ffs.
- 3 days
Instead of separate dedicated shape tools, in gimp you use the appropriate shape of Selection tool to create the shape(s), then you either add the fill and/or border of the style you want, or use ‘Stroke selection’ to choose from various draw/paint tools/styles. So for a circle you use the Ellipse Selection tool.
You can use any of the transformation tools, including Rotate, on the selection vs the image contents --you choose the tool option for which thing you want it to apply to. You can drag or enter a specific number.
(this is just information for anyone who wants to know how to do the things you mentioned. I’m not interested in talking about how good or shitty the programs are or comparing them)
Why would I draw a circle in a photo editing suite?
Maybe you need something different?
- 4 days
It’s actually a valid thing to need. If nothing else, circular masks are much easier to do when you don’t have to go and search for a png of a circle for a task that should’ve been over by the time you hit enter in the search bar. I understand GIMP is made with entirely volunteer work, and people shouldn’t be hostile towards anything FOSS unless given good reason, but there are very good reasons people cannot switch to GIMP.
- 3 days
To make a circular mask in gimp, use the circle select tool, then fill your selection.
- pemptago@lemmy.mlEnglish4 days
If you want to do ANYTHING creative in a digital medium in 2026, you’ll be forced to pay them a monthly fee.
This is giving Adobe too much credit. They suck, for sure, and are monopolistic and have set the industry back, but if people want to do creative things, there are manageable options outside of Adobe. Especially if you focus on alternative software for a particular niche (photography, illustration, compositing, etc).
- 3 days
This, I’ve never understood the learned helplessness of some people. The 12,000 employee international company I work for doesn’t pay for any Adobe products. You can just use literally any other product or open source alternative, I promise you there are multiple good ones with extremely well supported professional workflows used by millions of people every day, for every conceivable Adobe product. You can learn a new workflow I believe in you, it will take like three months to get used to.
They recently announced ‘by the way we’re deleting Animator forever’ and seemed genuinely surprised by the overwhelming backlash. That alone is reason to say, nope, you don’t own the software anymore. You just threatened an entire global industry, out of nowhere, for no gain. A civilized society would levy fines just for the fakeout.
