I've found Adobe products to have interactive performance poor enough to be considered 'unusable' for even small workflows on a GBP1500 Haswell MBA - the only other piece of software that's has the same level of latency is Eclipse.
Wow, I see Rami had his cancellation fee waived! I had to fork out another $75 for cancellation and wasn't even allowed to use the product for the remainder of the period.
Adobe? Never again.
Using Inkscape now for Illustrator replacement. Mixed results.
> Luckily I decided to do this exactly a year after I started the account, because apparently the terms that I signed up for stipulate that if I cancel before that, I’ll be charged a service fee
There's no cancel fee after 1yr+ membership. To be fair you have the option when you sign up to either go for a year's contract or a month-by-month. The latter as you might expect costs a bit more
This is typical of the tech industry, making it hard to cancel an account so you are forced to stay a customer and return. I think AOL used to do that, and had to pay to cancel your account.
I know Gimp is always referenced as the "alternative" to Photoshop but I think it still suffers from a lot of usability issues. I've found Krita to be a much better replacement: https://krita.org/
>"This is nothing more than a big player strong-arming its user base and milking it for money. Adobe, not cool."
I hope that nobody is actually surprised by this. I mean, the second Adobe announced that it was moving to a cloud service, this is the thought I had, and I'm no prophet.
Because this is basically the same kind of crap you have to deal with for just about every subscription, in every medium.
Everyone where I work is using Sketch now. No, seriously -- Adobe should be very worried. People who have used ACS for years are jumping ship by the dozens.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 34.0 ms ] threadThanks god for Sketch.
Adobe? Never again.
Using Inkscape now for Illustrator replacement. Mixed results.
There's no cancel fee after 1yr+ membership. To be fair you have the option when you sign up to either go for a year's contract or a month-by-month. The latter as you might expect costs a bit more
Bloatware is nothing new either.
Instead of Photoshop some people would rather use Gimp: http://www.gimp.org/
It's both remarkable and a shame to see how far the suite has come since the days of Photoshop 1.07 on my old Apple.
Regardless, I'll stand by Rami for the decade it'll take for competing software to mature.
I hope that nobody is actually surprised by this. I mean, the second Adobe announced that it was moving to a cloud service, this is the thought I had, and I'm no prophet.
Because this is basically the same kind of crap you have to deal with for just about every subscription, in every medium.
Do you have their site?