Does Adobe Really Think We’re That Stupid? (I Want You to Know What I Know)

Adobe: Copying our data is theft. Copying your data is great.

There will be courses taught in business schools for decades about how Adobe pissed away so much of their customers good will.

Clip Studio Paint was going to add AI but the community said no, and the listened. I’m happy supporting a company that values what it’s users want.

I talked to a friend of mine that bought Photoshop CS5 or so. We were trying to figure out what actually changed, aside of "AI" in Photoshop in the time since then, and came to conclusion: Nothing. Hell; they were even proud of introducing watermark removal tool. Watermark. Removal. Tool. For artists! You know! Arrrrr tists?

Just wanna take a moment to remind everyone BLENDER is the best thing that ever happened to Artists of our age.

Years ago I happened to be at a gaming industry conference where an Adobe representative excitedly announced that their software was switching to a subscription model. I have never been in a room that dead silent since. The sense of betrayal was palpable.

I taught Photoshop and InDesign for many years. When they switched to a subscription model, I (and my customers) left Adobe in favor of the Affinity suite - and I never looked back.

It always amazes me how unintelligent and disgraceful CEOs of HUGE companies are, they somehow always manage to make some of the worst decisions possible. Ubisoft, EA, Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI, Discord, Twitter/X, Google, I could go on and on.

I live for the PROCESS of making my art...not the final result. The PROCESS heals me, guides me, elevates me.... it's literally where my mental health finds it's confortable, warm and cozy place.

Good luck for Adobe to convince Disney and Warner that all their visual development ideas for their next movies can be used to fed their AI without paying them

I'm in fashion and I've used Adobe since school. I liked the ai in Photoshop at first, it was awesome to remove the background on my product photos so quickly, but honestly, I think I only liked it because Photoshop's selection tool was garbage in the first place. I don't consider my product photos to be art so much as a neccessary chore though. For everything else I used Adobe for I didn't need or use the ai features. Because you're right; I don't want ai designing clothes for me, creating patterns for me, drawing for me, or even making sewing patterns for me. I changed to Affinity and I'm so happy to have done so. A monthly subscription to 3D pattern making apps is $10 less than Adobe and that just seems silly to me. I've found so far that Affinity can do everything I need so far.

Also the adobe subscription cancellation fees are insane for the annual “plans” It’s so messed up that they charge you extra if you cancel earlier and it’s not even explained well in their website. You’re basically stuck with their plans for an entire year even if you want to cancel. I think they are getting sued for this.

Think I'm gonna 'scrape' an older version of photoshop from the internet to train my biological LLM

Shoutout to Krita for destroying Photoshop when it comes to features, and being completely free! 👏

My son recently finished art college and I bought him the Affinity suite now his free access to Adobe is gone. He's loving it!!

Fingers crossed that Affinity gets to shine more nowadays

I am so over AI. I have zero use for it. I don't need it for my photos and I don't need it to sort my files.

no adobe doesnt think we are stupid, they just know that we are non violent.

As an illustrator who has used photoshop since before Adobe introduced layers in version 3.0 I totally concur with everything said in this video. From the cost, to the brush engine and key features which haven’t changed in decades. None of the feature requests I’ve made over the years have ever come to fruition (apart from rotate canvas😆) and Adobe’s push to implement AI without making a strong stance to protect their own user base is a historic mistake, greed over empathy. Which even some Adobe employees are airing concerns. Great video👍🏼

I switched to Clip Studio years ago, never looked back. Clip studio has 3d poseable models, webcam to pose your hand to a 3d model, tons of brushes, blendable colors, and it literally can do everything photoshop can do for digital art, but better. I'm done with Adobe.