Adobe was sued today in another class action about its subscription practices. Plaintiffs claim Adobe intentionally lied to consumers and charged them expensive early termination fees. (storage.courtlistener.com)
from Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 12:33
https://lemmy.world/post/33993580

It’s not enough to be angry. You have to fight back.

I’m proud to give $1 every month to Inkscape and Gimp.

Imagine if only 1% of users did that.

Just 1% of people giving $1 a month can change the world.

#technology

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Pat_Riot@lemmy.today on 05 Aug 18:11 next collapse

I use GIMP a little bit. How do you donate?

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de on 05 Aug 20:24 collapse

There is a donate link on their website.

mirisgaiss@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 18:34 next collapse

moved over to gimp lately, just a ton of reassigning shortcuts and it works about the same as PS…

inkscape though, some files I deal with have half a bajillion vectors and it just can NOT handle it (unless I want to wait 20s every time I move something). would really like to get off adobe but, gonna have to keep illustrator for now…

StopSpazzing@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 19:50 next collapse

GenP

drmoose@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 03:57 collapse

You shouldn’t be using vector graphics if you have bajillion of vectors either way. I have giant sheets of inkscape documents with thousands of shapes that work well, the issues arise when people blindly convert raster to vector and try to use that vomit as vector graphics.

mirisgaiss@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 22:57 collapse

let me know when you can convince nemetschek to make vectorworks output PDFs in any other way… considering they’re unfortunately leaning hard into AI bullshit in their software I doubt that’s getting addressed anytime soon

Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com on 05 Aug 19:45 next collapse

How on earth are their cancellation fees. Don’t you pay before each “season”?

amju_wolf@pawb.social on 06 Aug 14:46 collapse

They sell you a yearly subscription but with monthly payments, then require you to finish paying for the whole year if you cancel early. It is a bit discounted from the actual monthly plan and selected by default.

And they have shitty UX that doesn’t make this blatantly obvious, hence all the people who have issues with this.

arararagi@ani.social on 06 Aug 14:56 collapse

It’s definitely not a shitty UX, it’s dark patterns, deliberate made to confuse.

amju_wolf@pawb.social on 06 Aug 14:58 collapse

TBF I looked at it recently-ish and it isn’t that bad. The shitty part is that it’s the default and a bit non-typical, but it’s still a fairly normal “select from these 3 options with the most profitable for us selected by default”.

shalafi@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 20:07 next collapse

www.photopea.com

Free Photoshop, same controls and all.

drmoose@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 03:55 collapse

Free but not open source and could be taken away at any point. Gimp is a much safer bet.

glowie@infosec.pub on 06 Aug 02:53 next collapse

And this is why I registered once with a disposable debit card. Fuck you, Adobe.

ian@feddit.uk on 06 Aug 04:30 next collapse

I’ve had my feature requests added to both Inkscape and Gimp. I doubt if Adobe devs will ever listen to you.
For my photography, I could get results in Gimp equal or sometimes better than Photoshop. But now Gimp 3 adds productivity features to make it fast too. And using it with DigiKam and RawTherapee means a top notch workflow too.

[deleted] on 06 Aug 14:36 next collapse

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haloduder@thelemmy.club on 06 Aug 17:04 collapse

I love the name.

“Bring out the GIMP.”

Gonzako@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 14:49 collapse

What features if I may be informed?

ian@feddit.uk on 07 Aug 19:33 collapse

In Gimp it was the enhancement to the command search. It needs to find a command when you type a slash. Before it would only execute the command. Now it tells you where it is. So you don’t need to search every time. In Inkscape there have been several. Most recently it was to reduce the width of the Text panel by moving some elements. As the Text panel is very wide. A full overhaul is due soon.

aesthelete@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 14:48 next collapse

This is what happens when software companies adopt the business model of LA Fitness.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 06 Aug 15:05 next collapse

Adobe id in the list of companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and more. The world would be an actual better place I’d they’d just disappear

Victoriathecompact@sh.itjust.works on 06 Aug 17:49 collapse

Is there an alternative to PS that uses actions?

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 06 Aug 23:17 collapse

GIMP has scripting support, but you shouldn’t expect to just import a Photoshop action and expect it to work, you’d probably need to tweak it.