It’s been a distressing trend over the last decade, that of taking commercial software from a paid-for licence model and moving into the cloud and onto a rental model. In out line, we’v…

“The art and design communities, in particular, are feeling the pinch from Adobe Suite going towards a rental model, and now the artist and perennial thorn in the side of anyone who seeks to own a colour, [Stuart Semple] is doing something about it. He’s launching a competing suite called provocatively, Abode, which will follow an affordable paid-for licence model.”

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/culturehustle/abode-a-suite-of-world-class-design-and-photography-tools

The Abode project seems overly optimistic in terms of scope, cost and timing to me but then I’ve never been involved in software development. Still, alternatives to the big names are always nice.

  • CaptObvious@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I don’t work in graphics professionally, but there’s nothing I need to do that can’t be handled by Skribus and Gimp.

    WRT rented software, that while model gives me the heebie jeebies. I don’t trust anything to be around forever, so I definitely want my own copy.

      • CaptObvious@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        There’s a learning curve, granted. The photographers I know who use Gimp prefer it. YMMV. <shrug>

        • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          As far as photography goes, I’ve never needed anything like Photoshop or Gimp, I do fine with just Darktable and DigiKam (YMMV).

          • CaptObvious@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            My personal preference is Seashore for Mac, but I haven’t used macOS in a few years (not entirely by choice but because my uni is largely Windows based and it became too much to keep up with how to integrate into the ecosystem).

        • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I don’t doubt that those that choose to use it prefer it. What I see time and again is someone will try it, find it missing features they want/need and revert back. I encourage the use of GIMP and other FOSS where I can. It’s just not a one to one drop in.

          • CaptObvious@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Agreed that it’s not a drop-in replacement. I get that professionals don’t often have time to learn new software and prefer to stick with what they know. But if they have the time and motivation, they can save some money as well as supporting FOSS.