>>108108689

public heard about paid acrobat readers

>>108108689
Nothing? Everything is overvalued so expect a massive correction after the market shits itself

>>108108689
Obviously their software becomes less in demand as AI capabilities improve. Why would you need photoshop when most frontier LLM's nowadays can just edit images based on a prompt?

>>108108788
The irony is that they tried to shoehorn all sorts of ML crap into their products since early days, but it does nothing to change the fact that a web site does it better and for free now.

>>108108689
AI image creation
AI image editing
AI video creation
AI video editing

>>108108689
HAHAHAHA
God I love to see shit companies finally crashing and burning for their scummy behavior.

>>108108689
There's a ton of none techies using adobe for their bussines and lively hood, they won't adopt a new technology easily at all so no matter the shit adobe does as long as there is no nice polished with fuck tons of tutorials alternative, adobe will be making a bang

>>108109206
Not to forget that people love electric vehicles, specifically chink EVs where the door handles are tied to the electricals meaning in a car crash your door handles might stop working, locking you in. And if a cell was damaged and started burning, it will start a chain reaction with the end result of them burning alive locked in. And ppl still love their chink EVs. Adobe is not going anywhere

>>108108689
Competition finally caught up and it's cheaper and in many cases free. Also many people are editing with AI now instead of manually so there's even less of a need for things like Photoshop.

>>108108689
I bought Premiere Pro CS6 and Photoshop PS6 back in the days and it was the best purchase I've ever made in my life. Not only they have a perpetual license but they work in both Windows (any version) and Linux. Why would I want to upgrade (I'm not a professional designer though)?

I wanted to test something with Adobe Acrobat Pro so I submitted a request for licence and installed som Adobe cloud shit that literally needed to be installed before I could use Acrobat Pro.

The thing was just some insane bloat abomination that kept spiking my CPU use and it was a bitch to fucking remove. Holy fucking shit never again

>>108108689
CapCut

>>108109340
i had a similar experience on my work laptop. i can't even remember how i got the piece of niggershit to install acrobat pro. i think it just did it automatically after a few days of doing nothing, with apparently no buttons i could click to invoke the upgrade.

>>108108689
They had a model that worked. People could just buy a license, use the software and if they wanted to upgrade and get the new version they could.

But they decided to be greedy and try to force people into a subscription service. Even though there is absolutely no benefit whatsoever for you to have a subscription for something like image editing software. The software itself has only gotten more bloated over time.

But what has also put a dent in their company is that the AI content generation is getting pretty good now. I don't just mean you type a prompt to modify or create an image. But the tools are like the best of both worlds (e.g. you can select a region of an image or an object and tell it to change it). This saves you a lot of time than if you were using the existing tools where you have to cut things out yourself, make layers, etc. There are also now decent pipelines, where you can do things that are similar to those visual shaders or scripting languages and it's all just giving the AI high level instructions and chaining things together. And the software (like ComfyUI) is entirely free and you can run it on a consumer graphics card (still no need for cloud subscriptions).

I think more and more normies are starting to catch on to that. And regardless of whether they're technical enough to run their own AI setup or just paying for some SaaS, it means they're not bothering to use Adobe.

But look it serves them right. They didn't have to be greedy with the licensing. They could have properly integrated some of this new AI generation tools into their existing software (not just tacked it on) and let the users run everything locally on their own GPU.

>>108108689
Enjeetification

>>108109317
Do you have a guide or some tips to get CS6 applications working under Linux? I tried getting my CS6 MC running in Linux several years ago but had a lot of issues with things not working right. Most important are PS, Illustrator and Audition. It's pretty much the only thing I keep a Windows PC for.

>>108108689
Virtually all of these tech companies are riding on past reputation, the question is just when will it all fall down.

>>108109496
I managed to get it worked by messing around with winetricks, I can't remember the exact sequence.

However there's this project that should work fine https://github.com/Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux. The download link for the program is dead but this user suggests a workaround by downloading an archived portable version: https://github.com/Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux/issues/218#issuecomment-3016102045

>>108109442
>ComfyUI
this is just another saas grifter company forcing you into a subscription. tired of mentioning this grifty product. support other uis that are open source instead

>>108108689
Every investor is too busy pumping money into AI instead of every other thing. Bitcoin had been tanking since too.

>>108108689
AI is going to destroy the people who buy Adobe software and by extension Adobe.

>>108108788
Photoshopping an image can get you what you want. "AI" will just shart out some slop.

>>108112491
Slop is sufficient, no need for quality work if everything else is also slop. Being faster always beats being better in a capitalist society.

>>108108689
this is the result of OSS socialism. free software destroys jobs and leaves programmers out of work.

>>108108689
Haven't used Photoshop for anything since AI made it so much easier

They're discontinuing Animate, which a lot of companies actually use.

>>108108788
Good point. I feel like I haven't heard the "this pic is shopped" in years. These days it's "this picture is AI". Bad days ahead for Adobe.

Normies don't use Adobe anymore, they use Canva, CapCut, ChatGPT.

And the pros are jumping ship too.
Davinci Resolve is good and free.
Affinity is now free too.
GIMP 2 finally released and finally supports non destructive effects.

Everyone is tired of their shitty business model.

>>108113030
>Normies don't use Adobe anymore
They never did. People edited photos in paint or in their phone gallery.

>>108111995
Every company claims to support opensource until the money starts coming in.

>>108108689
Normies just prompt AI if they want a meme, no need to pay adobe a monthly sub just to edit some pics

I find it fascinating how the "AI will kill SAAS" narrative popped up everywhere seemingly overnight and now the markets are freaking out. I'm sure people have been saying this for years as it's an obvious consequence if you believe LLM's advertised capabilities, but I swear I woke up one morning a week or two ago and suddenly everyone was regurgitating this narrative.

>>108113230
>They never did. People edited photos in paint or in their phone gallery.
Everyone sued to use it, but they just pirated it. You appear to have hit the nail on the head though: "People edited photos...in their phone gallery". Normies now use their phone as their primary computing device, and no one gives a shit about Adobe there. Adobe is thoroughly a desktop software.