Adobe Photoshop

“Adobe created a tenuous pricing scheme that disincentivized competition, locked in users, and made most customers resentful.”

“Photoshop is one of only two applications I know of that gives me the maximum control possible over prints I make on my inkjet”

“they only want to make you pay $20 a month, for an app which hasn't substantially changed in any useful way since the early 2000s”

“marketing and market manipulation by encouraging piracy by young people and student so they develop habits with the software then force companies to buy the subscription”

“Not really rooting for Adobe here, dislike their subscription models just as anybody else, but I think you'll have to recognize that they kept it running and never stopped.”

“The only thing that keeps me with them is that Photoshop has no real alternative that's equally powerful.”

“Fort all of Adobe's faults, Photoshop and other offerings are products , with support timelines, features added etc.”

“Treating Photoshop's interface as the destination squanders the opportunity to rethink how people create images.”

“I used to pay for Photoshop and I was very happy until they started with the subscription business.”

“I wish major software like office and adobe (photoshop) didn't come with mandatory subscriptions, cloud integration, and AI.”

“as somebody who views Adobe products as borderline spyware and STILL rocks Adobe Photoshop CS6”

“They created and continue to maintain their software, which is, as you said, still considered the gold standard.”

“A life without smart objects is terrible in photo editing as an example, at least once you've seen the upsides.”

“Photoshop has a lot of bad things going for it, but it's still the only software that does what it does”

“If you think GIMP and Krita (especially Krita) can replace Photoshop in workplace I'm 100% sure you don't know what professionals pay Photoshop for”

“I thought that going to a subscription model would give them the resources/motivation they needed to improve things regularly”

“You also can't stick to the older version, so the choice is can you afford to do your job without any Photoshop or are you stuck.”

“Photoshop and Epson Print Layout are the only programs that I have 100% control of all the printer and color management settings”

“This software is rotting, was trying to edit frames of a gif this week and the previews are just broken in the timeline on Mac”

“I've gotten incredible value out of my purchase since I've used it so long and the cost has amortized over decades.”

“Photoshop has lots of amazing features and in sure is better in a technical comparison to Gimp in many ways.”

“Photoshop does a lot of advanced editing well, but that's a feature many professionals don't really need.”

“The underlying engine which gives support for layers and smart objects is in itself such an amazing piece of tech”

“these dialogs that don't contain much more than a bunch of text fields and buttons are just halfway done and then shipped”

“Clearly broken and unfinished modals such as those in the blog post don't require much more than a couple of devs to fix”

“This feels particularly egregious because of our unspoken assumption that Adobe, of all companies, should have "excellence in design" somewhere on its list of core guiding principles”

“It seems hard to believe that the people who make Photoshop do not use Photoshop to the degree necessary to notice these regressions.”

“a perfectly fine commercial desktop application converted to cloud application with a single purpose - increased profit for Adobe”

“But students really got shafted. You used to get 80-90% student discounts, and could keep using the same version for years.”

“I can’t think of a time where I’ve been unable to achieve my color goals in still photography with PS’s or Lightroom’s tools.”

“Photoshop is awesome but expensive (if you can look past how invasive it is for your machine)”

“Photoshop doesn't quite do that, which on the one hand makes it hard for beginners to get a good look, but also leaves some space for those who want to go deeper”

“Photoshop users complain (or did when I followed it closely) all of the time when Adobe broke their automations via AppleScript. They kept buying it.”

“not that I agree with everything in the app, but just to design all the interactions properly in photoshop would take hundreds of hours”

“It is still a pretty popular and useful piece of software even if your circle doesn't use it.”

“much software from around the time of the millennium is still incredibly useful. I use Photoshop 6.0 for all my image manipulation tasks.”

“It’s kind of remarkable what you can still do with it and how freeing it is to have singular focus in an app.”

“Photoshop solved this long time ago - it saves both text and its rendering, so the text can always be rendered.”

“Dozens of image tools (relighting, compositing, angle adjustment) that all felt fast, magical, and approachable as a beginner.”

“A version of photoshop you buy for 300 and don't buy again denies Adobe access to revenue you would be making over time.”