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.

    • UnhappyCamper@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The only alternatives I’m ever told about is Gimp (which sucks, I don’t care what anyone says) or Krita, which while a good program, is not the same. I also think you have to pay for Krita on Windows, but its free on Linux for some reason.

      What else is out there?

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Definately overly optimistic.

    Personally, I switched to Affinity’s suite of apps. Theyre affordable and competitive, feature wise. Yeah it cant do some of the fancy AI stuff, but its plenty enough for what I need it for.

  • Nexz@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I mean, there’s already the Affinity suite which kinda comes close to the features of Adobe’s suite. Paid for a lifetime license, never had to look back. I do some software development on the side, and can attest that this is a really big undertaking that should not be taken lightly. More competition is always better, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

  • gamer@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    People use Adobe because it’s what they know and they don’t want to learn something else. There are already alternatives to Adobe products, probably better than whatever these people will be able to make with that budget.

    Also, that “provocative” name is only going to provoke Adobe’s lawyers to send and cease-and-desist lol

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Also, that “provocative” name is only going to provoke Adobe’s lawyers to send and cease-and-desist lol

      Yeah, there’s no way this makes it off the ground with that name or those logos. It’s clearly designed specifically to be confusable with Adobe which is the most blatant and easily enforceable form of trademark violation out there.