While #Adobe is doing an absolute stupid with their new licensing terms, and (now Canva-owned) #Affinity slashes prices by half in a "flash sale", I am once again asking people to consider supporting #FLOSS tools instead.
Yes, they are far from perfect.
But with a small fraction of what these closed source vendors are raking in, these tools could be made immeasurably better.
And they won't end up bought up and enshittified, as experience with past attempts at doing that to FLOSS tools shows.
This is a friendly warning and reminder that if you had started looking on ways to move away from #Microsoft and/or #Adobe for their latest shenanigans, do NOT stop now. Make the effort to move away NOW if at all possible even if they pretend to have backtracked. Because WHEN (not IF, but WHEN) they'll pull the same shit again, it will be HARDER, not EASIER, to get out of their prison.
»Adobe will Zugriff auf Inhalte von Photoshop-Usern:
Der Konzern hat seine Nutzungsbedingungen aktualisiert. Wer zustimmt, gibt dem Unternehmen das Recht, auf seine Daten zuzugreifen.«
Ich empfehle und nutze schon länger @krita, @GIMP, @inkscape, @Blender und/oder @penpot aber ich bin ja kein Grafikprofi. Abgesehen davon wird selten zugegeben, dass die Fixierung auf einen Hersteller nicht unbedingt professionell ist.
I don’t understand the outrage over #adobe’s EULA. The new terms are basic boilerplate. Anyone hosting content on the web has the same terms in their EULA.
Am I missing something? Or is this just another hoopla over nothing?
The tricky thing about being a company that I don't trust is that even when you try to clarify something you need to be aware that specificity can sound suss.
"Adobe does not train Firefly Gen AI models on customer content."
The way this is worded does not say your content is not used in training AI models, just that it's - SPECIFICALLY - not used to train "Firefly Gen AI models."
#Adobe used images from #Midjourney to train its “ethical” #AI. Now, it’s using Ansel Adams’ name and artistic style to in its tools. Adobe’s position against using unlicensed works to train LLMs was never one of principle. Rather, it already had access to copyrighted works, so “ethical” was a means to exclude competition while concurrently violating the principle anyway. https://mastodon.social/@verge/112552260437207900
You know what would be nice? Knowing that if you can read/place/open one image file format in one #adobe Creative Cloud product, you will be able to work with it in another Adobe Creative Cloud program as well.
Une question technique pour les geeks.
Je bosse entre autres sous unix/#linux depuis 1986. Mais je suis pas admin system. J'ai a plusieurs reprises installé en #dualboot sur mon pc (win10/ubuntu) mais à chaque fois à terme, lors de mise à jour de windows, le double boot disparait ou foire lamentablement.
Est-ce toujours le cas avec #win11?
Y-a t'il une solution plus robuste? J'ai malheureusement besoin de windows à cause #adobe#ZBrush...
Vos conseils sont les bienvenus.
I mean, how was the Blender community able to create an industry-level software beloved by both enthusiasts and professionals and supported by the big players? Meanwhile the #Photoshop users, despite being ripped-off and spat on daily by #Adobe, won't touch GIMP with a ten meter pole and it squarely remains the weapon of choice only for occasional users?
I take my 13yo #podcast episodes, some of which we recorded over Skype and sound pretty janky, run them through #LogicPro’s #StemSplitter, isolate the voices and process them through the #Adobe#EnhanceSpeech tool, then re-integrate it replacing the original voices and it actually sounds pretty good.
AI tools have their place (just probably not as information repositories.)
(Needless to say, I don’t have the original master recordings anymore.)
Vogelgesang von rechts wie links. Ein leises, laues Lüftchen mit wunderbar natürlichem Duft.
Und dazu eine malerische Aussicht.
Mehr braucht es wirklich nicht.
I'm actively telling my students to NOT use #Adobe products and to look for other options. It's way too expensive for what it is and its subscription-based. I like #Affinity - although I will watch closely and see what Canva does to it... I hope they keep the non-subscription #design
Dear fediverse, what is an adequate freeware (even better, if #openSource) replacement for #Adobe#Photoshop for #Windows? Current needs: take a painting made by hand, make it a vector graphics image and do some other stuff with it. Sorry for being so vague, I'm totally blind, it's for my wife who is not on fediverse (yet). Thank you so much! #Help