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For their pricing and subscription practices alone, they deserve far more backlash than they get.

fxtentacle 1y ago
I would describe my business relationship with Adobe as: "hostage" They annually harass me with licensing checks and questionnaires because they really hate you if you run Photoshop inside a VM (my daily driver is Linux), although it is explicitly allowed. Luckily, I don't need the Adobe software that often. But they hold a lot of important old company documents hostage in their proprietary file formats. So I can't cancel the subscription, no matter how much I'd like to.
- sureIy 1y ago
  > proprietary file formats Gimp can't handle them?
  - fxtentacle 1y ago
    For InDesign magazines with embedded images, for example, I'm not aware of any compatible 3rd party software
    - mandmandam 1y ago
      Here are some options which might help [0] (Bias: I love Affinity Publisher and despise Adobe). 0 - https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/225143-what-does-everyone-else-do-that-has-switched-from-indesign-to-publisher-do/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/225143-wha...
  - mamonoleechi 1y ago
    If not, Affinity Photo or Photopea will probably do the job.
  - jwitthuhn 1y ago
    It sort of can but all non-adobe software I know of, even commercial stuff like Affinity Photo, has spotty support for some PSD features. Basically any given PSD will certainly load correctly in photoshop, but you're rolling the dice if you want to load it into anything else. More so if you are using more modern features.
- xeonmc 1y ago
  Have you seen the recently posted video "For Profit (Creative) Software"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4mdMMu-3fc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4mdMMu-3fc
Lammy 1y ago
I am so happy that my Win32 CS3 Master Collection still works fully-offline and will continue to do so for as long as I care to keep using it :)
- dylan604 1y ago
  Does it work on modern hardware running modern OS? Specifically, wondering if this was a Mac version. I could see WinX versions still running, but the Mac arch has changed significantly: 32bit -> 64bit, mactel -> AppleSI
  - cosmic_cheese 1y ago
    I haven’t tried so I can’t say for sure but my hunch is that you’d have better luck running old CS versions on modern Macs with WINE, which can run 32-bit x86 Windows binaries on ARM just fine (via Rosetta). Performance is obviously going to take a hit though. Depending on the machines in question one would probably get better results from a current gen x86 box running that same Windows version of CS1/CS2/CS3 running through WINE (or of course Windows 11, but then you’re stuck with Windows 11).
  - Lammy 1y ago
    I have the offline CS3 Mac version too, but it's 32-bit Intel so you can't run it on anything after Catalina. The Win32 version works fine on Windows 10.

I would describe my business relationship with Adobe as: "hostage" They annually harass me with licensing checks and questionnaires because they really hate you if you run Photoshop inside a VM (my daily driver is Linux), although it is explicitly allowed. Luckily, I don't need the Adobe software that often. But they hold a lot of important old company documents hostage in their proprietary file formats. So I can't cancel the subscription, no matter how much I'd like to.

sureIy 1y ago
> proprietary file formats Gimp can't handle them?
- fxtentacle 1y ago
  For InDesign magazines with embedded images, for example, I'm not aware of any compatible 3rd party software
  - mandmandam 1y ago
    Here are some options which might help [0] (Bias: I love Affinity Publisher and despise Adobe). 0 - https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/225143-what-does-everyone-else-do-that-has-switched-from-indesign-to-publisher-do/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/225143-wha...
- mamonoleechi 1y ago
  If not, Affinity Photo or Photopea will probably do the job.
- jwitthuhn 1y ago
  It sort of can but all non-adobe software I know of, even commercial stuff like Affinity Photo, has spotty support for some PSD features. Basically any given PSD will certainly load correctly in photoshop, but you're rolling the dice if you want to load it into anything else. More so if you are using more modern features.
xeonmc 1y ago
Have you seen the recently posted video "For Profit (Creative) Software"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4mdMMu-3fc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4mdMMu-3fc

Lammy 1y ago

I am so happy that my Win32 CS3 Master Collection still works fully-offline and will continue to do so for as long as I care to keep using it :)

dylan604 1y ago
Does it work on modern hardware running modern OS? Specifically, wondering if this was a Mac version. I could see WinX versions still running, but the Mac arch has changed significantly: 32bit -> 64bit, mactel -> AppleSI
- cosmic_cheese 1y ago
  I haven’t tried so I can’t say for sure but my hunch is that you’d have better luck running old CS versions on modern Macs with WINE, which can run 32-bit x86 Windows binaries on ARM just fine (via Rosetta). Performance is obviously going to take a hit though. Depending on the machines in question one would probably get better results from a current gen x86 box running that same Windows version of CS1/CS2/CS3 running through WINE (or of course Windows 11, but then you’re stuck with Windows 11).
- Lammy 1y ago
  I have the offline CS3 Mac version too, but it's 32-bit Intel so you can't run it on anything after Catalina. The Win32 version works fine on Windows 10.