Creative Cloud Pro arrives with more AI, higher prices, and a familiar feeling of déjà vu
This is why “industry standard” is such a stupid concept. Adobe knows they have a stranglehold on creative professionals.
It’s the ‘professionals’ fault, they got locked into that shit years ago because it’s what they learned in school and they don’t want to learn anything else even though there are alternatives.
I’m just happy when they don’t imsist on an overpriced Mac just to use Adobe.
I wouldn’t say its their fault tho.
Professional will use software that suitable for their workflow. I’ve seen professionals changing their main software if there was better alternative.
For example, there are wave of professional that are moving from Adobe to Affinity. Illustrator and comic artist are moving from Photoshop to Clip Studio Paint or Procreate. Some video editor will instantly change their software to Davinci Resolve.
Most of the time, they can’t change their software because their client requires file compability, such as Photoshop-native PSD. Sure, other software can open/edit PSD, but they might not fully support all PSD format specification.
That’s why people on open source community focused on open format and open workflow instead. Inkscape use SVG. Krita use ORA. And so on.
I really hate it when people blame consumers for problems instead of producers. Let’s go ahead and examine your hypothesis.
- someone wants to learn how to be a designer
- they spend time and money being taught Adobe products in a bootcamp or school
- since they aren’t defined by their job, they do literally anything else in their free time rather than bringing school home with them
- occasionally they see other stuff like Affinity or GIMP but the interface is radically different from what they’re learning or an important feature requires more time to figure out than they can budget
- they get a job that requires Adobe
- years later, when they have purchasing authority, they’re told they need to cut costs and decide maybe researching is a good idea
- the first results for Adobe alternatives are just a bunch of Lemmy threads calling them lazy
Can you point out where in this process our hypothetical user should have done something different? And more importantly why it’s this person’s fault they’ve been vendor-locked their whole career? Note that a critical assumption I’m making here is that not everyone is a power user because, unsurprisingly, not everyone is a power user.
I don’t know how much I can blame the non-tech-savvy professionals on their selection of software, especially when the alternatives aren’t broadly known or understood.
With GIMP 3 and DaVinci Resolve 20 out there, this seems like a very bad idea.
Something something slips through your fingers.
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Name a few features in Photoshop that cant be done in GIMP?
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Eh it’s reasonable to think you had some specific opinions, but you only have one point that Photoshop has something gimp doesn’t.
You seem dismissive and not unbiased when you are so general about things.
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Deception? I asked what you thought GIMP was missing and then you went and made huge assumptions about me. That’s on you. I only replied the way I did because of what you said. Next time maybe just answer a question instead of insulting someone for even asking. Or don’t answer it. That’s fine, too.
They are the industry standard so they can do anything
Didn’t stop me from switching to Linux for my entire workflow. Industry standard is just a phrase. It doesn’t truly mean anything when viable and real alternatives exist.
I don’t think that’s true, at least for companies.
Industry standard or even company standard means you need a very critical reason to switch because doing so is very costly in ways that don’t really affect an individual or a small team.
This is why large corps often still use decades old software that may be terrible by that point, but impossible to move away from.This is why large corps often still use decades old software that may be terrible by that point, but impossible to move away from.
And sometimes those large corps slowly die off because of those decisions. Technology moves so fast that you can’t afford to be a dinosaur using 20 year old software.
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- Creative Club software subscription
- Create tiers to segment what people are receptive to being squeezed in order to maintain all features
- Add a premium currency in addition to the subscription for AI features
- Make tiers of premium currency that can be used for some features but not others…
Did an AI make this pricing strategy with the aim to double and triple dip on their customers as much as possible?
Glad I ditched them a couple of months ago.
At this point we know the users are in fault
