Fed up of paying for Adobe?

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Just come across this which some might find very interesting especially if you want to save some money.

These guys have created a set of apps that replicate the Adobe suit using AI. The only downside is that they don’t (apparently) recognise native adobe formats. That said really impressive.

I only use the photography bundle from adobe so the sub isn’t that much so I’m not really in the market for moving but might be worth a try?

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools — ArtCraft

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Thanks for sharing @MarcL
I am a Lightroom user since the first version. This ones look impressive, I will try it out.

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I’m to invested in LR with a massive catalog of images and would be way to much hassle to even think about moving to anything else (I should really but haven’t got the time to do it)

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I was investigating doing the same to other apps I like to use often…

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I’m sure you have enough credits left to clone Elements:-)

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Hahahahahaha - wouldn’t attempt it…. :slight_smile:

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You haven’t got enough credits on your mega account!

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I did do a safari extension last night - took longer to test - code review - paperwork - screenshots… the programming took much less time….

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I have used the Affinity suite for several years, Photo, Designer (vector), and Publisher (page layout). They were acquired by Canva last year. All in all, a very capable suite.

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Yep got Affinity for vectors but seldom need it to be fair.

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Read an article about the adobe copy - he said it would be a few months of development to gain parity with adobe

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I read this same article. While it’s an ambitious project, a lot of users were reporting a lot of issues and things that didn’t work. Also the developer walked back his statements that it would gain full parity with Adobe’s products in a month. Seems they overhyped it just a tad.

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I have just finished configuring the server for Claude control, including PhotoCraft in bridge mode using an additional script. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

In short: you need a Claude Pro subscription and have to access the claude_desktop_config.json configuration file; also, to launch the apps, I have to use my LightCraft Claude.command, VectorCraft Claude.command, and PhotoCraft Claude.command files (it’s inconvenient, but it’s the solution I’ve found for now).

I have already run tests on project files with all the apps, and I must say the results are good. Even handling RAW photos for basic edits can be done simply by speaking to the computer.

nice!

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Impressive work…

still using topaz labs and many ai systems along with Pixelmator and affinity….

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it take 5 minutes for the setup, I’ve tried out a few complex requests, both in the image editing module and the vector module (which is the one that matters most to me), and it has always executed everything I asked correctly.

Examples of what I asked Claude to do in Affinity Studio (vector) via MCP:

  1. Scale down the selected object, move it to the top-left corner, then duplicate it 20 times, calculating the exact size needed to fit all copies on the current page (it built a 3×7 grid).
  2. Find every red vector element and recolor it yellow, with Claude picking the shade.
  3. Ungroup all objects and regroup them by color, keeping the existing stacking order as consistent as possible.
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Thanks for sharing Michelangelo @MultiThemes. I will try it, hopefully I finally can replace Photoshop with it.

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Sorry about my English.

I’m reading more and more about AI, AI, AI. And then there’s the “Fed up with paying for Adobe” sentiment. I can understand why having to pay triggers a reaction. Why Adobe? Why not RealSoftware? Or others, of course… With this AI, aren’t you worried that before long, all the interesting software will be copied, and ultimately, there won’t be any original creation left?
Just a thought—please don’t shoot me down—but I’m worried about where all this is heading…

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I run a content studio and many people of the years are very frustrated by what Adobe has done and continues to do. Their business practices have been criticised for a long time.

Fed up with Adobe…is a headline for the post…
Other software companies treat their customers way better, produce way better software and are generally better businesses. Adobe don’t really innovate anymore they lock you into a subscription and when yu try and get out of it they make it as difficult as possible.

I only use PS & LR and not that much now anyway. I’ve never touched their video products because frankly they are not that good, they crash all the time.

I personally like the way things are going with AI its allowing companies like Realmac produce something like Elements and give the users tools and abilities that many would never of thought of having just 6 months ago. The speed of innovation especially here is very welcomed. If Adobe shared a fraction of ethics and understanding that Realmac had then the world of software would be a better place.

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I use Affinity and for me it has been a massive learning curve. I can see the benefit of bypassing that learning curve and just giving AI the prompts above to plug into Affinity to get those same results. The next step seems obvious to me and that is to use AI to simply bypass Affinity, Adobe, Elements or any other app you can think of, and give you what you ask for.

I too wonder where this is all heading.

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Hopefully we are headed to a good place with AI - been very very happy with the results…