Submitted 4 months ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxMCm941WA
Even though there are already a couple of other threads about this Schweinerei, there wasn’t a good place to insert this into the discussion, and for those unfamiliar, this video’s a good starting point.
Adobe and Microsoft Office will continue to fleece their customers. The customers will cry but they won’t do a single thing. Expect this to continue for the next 20 years.
And then?
All artwork will be deligated to AI. Photoshop discontinued. New “CS Suite For AI Agents” released. Works only with voice prompt and eye gaze.
We’ll probably all be converted into Soylent green 20 years from now.
Big Schweinerei.
It’s not a word I often trot out; usually, “clusterfuck” suffices. The level of malice here instead of incompetence is enough to make Hanlon grow a beard, so here we have 'ne echte Schweinerei.
People who still use old versions of Adobe are still doing them a favour: you’re still in their cage. Your mind still only knows how to use their software. Learn something else and free yourself.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
What is it that makes Adobe so sort after? It seems that most people just use the basic tools.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Brand loyalty and also dependency of the tools due to existing projects and files. People invested into a system with huge money and efforts won’t switch easily to something new and unknown, starting from scratch.
M500@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Linus tech tips did a video about this where he had his team use other tools. Essentially he was like, it would end up costing him more or the same as it would take his team longer to do the same stuff and relearn.
It might have been a shortsighted video, but you can look it up if you want to.
hedge@beehaw.org 4 months ago
As far as InDesign alternatives go, do people know about VivaDesigner or even LaTeX for that matter?
Sina@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Photoshop has unmatched tools to get work done 15 to 30 times faster than Gimp. This does not apply to everything of course and in some niche stuff Gimp’s even faster. However what I use Photoshop for, such as removing unwanted distractions like trash cans, trash, overhead electric cables and such Gimp is like 30 years behind. It’s not realistic that someone would spend many minutes just selecting hair outline in Gimp.
Ultimately developing these tools has cost evil Adobe many millions of dollars. 1-3 extremely talented and enthusiastic programmers cannot compete with this. Then again in the near future we will either not need Photoshop anymore, or open source projects like Gimp or a more open minded fork could use Ai generated code to develop similar automated tools.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
When I was at university, the student union had a small fund for creative projects that weren’t related to your degree. Many of the people who applied for cameras also included Adobe licenses on their funding application, because many of them were new to film or photography so they defaulted to what is “industry standard”, because that’s what the majority of online tutorials are available for.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 months ago
The word you’re looking for is “sought”.