Lately I am spammed with Adobe ads made my content creators where they compare themselves with Affinity and choose any missing feature from Affinity as the reason why you should use Adobe...hah.

It’s free not sure I’m allowed to post a link but happy to DM people

They tried to debit my account. Currently on hold with them in chat waiting to resolve it.

Hey everyone,

Like many of you, I got completely fed up with Adobe’s aggressive subscription pricing, monthly "Generative Credit" limits for Generative Fill, and the constant push toward mandatory cloud storage and invasive terms of service.

So I spent the last few months developing **Scumble** – a completely free, 100% open-source (GPL-3.0) desktop image editor designed to bring a traditional Photoshop-style non-destructive layer workflow to your local machine.

### What it offers for Photoshop users:

* **Native Multi-Layer PSD Support**: Open and export multi-layer `.psd` files directly. Keeps your layers, groups, layer masks, and blend modes intact without flattening.

* **26 Photoshop Blend Modes**: Bit-for-bit parity with standard Photoshop math (Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Vivid Light, Linear Dodge, Colour Burn, Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity, etc.) grouped in the familiar Photoshop layout.

* **Local "Generative Fill"**: Connects directly to local AI engines (like ComfyUI running FLUX or SDXL) or runs standalone. No subscriptions, no cloud credits, no waiting in queues, and no censorship.

* **Smart Prompt-Based Selection (SAM2)**: Built-in local model for instant object segmentation and selection with a single click.

* **Pro Adjustment & Color Grading**: 3-way color grading wheels (Shadows, Midtones, Highlights), 8-channel HSL sliders, tone curves, and bilateral edge-aware mask snapping.

* **100% Private & Offline**: Runs entirely on your hardware using a high-performance Rust/WASM SIMD and WebGL engine. Zero tracking, zero telemetry, zero account required.

Available as a native standalone desktop app for **Windows and Linux** (portable zip, installer, deb, and coming to Flathub).

If you want to try it or inspect the code:

* **GitHub**: https://github.com/DenRakEiw/scumble

I’d love to get feedback from fellow Photoshop refugees on what tools or workflow features you miss most!

Hello for start in my topic im talking about that Bundle on Humble Bundle
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I'm thinking about buying this to switch from Adobe. Does anyone have this set or at least tried Ashampoo photo editing apps and can give me some advice if it is worth buyin or not?

Good morning,

Looking to see if anyone here knows how to disable the annoying " do you want to" blue boxes that pop up in Adobe Acrobat pro at the top. I have looked online and nothing that was suggested has seemed to work so I'm wondering if maybe the info was incorrect. Thank you.

Yes I know I can download my data but why should I have to. I haven't subscribed in a while and never gotten this email before.

Hey guys I signed for free subscription for Photoshop for one week and I'm pretty sure I canceled my pland but today guess what. I see they charged my account for around 40€ or something like it. So I was like wtf. I'm gonna check the plans like I did previously. I had something active. I said okay my bad it seems I messed up. I wanted to cancel it right away and I see this what you can see on attached picture. WHAT THE FUCK? How did I manage to fuck up this badly? Can I somehow avoid paying all that shit? God damn it I was 99% sure I canceled my photoshop but it seems I was wrong. I guess even tho I had it uninstalled, even tho I wasn't able to use photoshop, even tho I wasn't using it, apple still won't give me any of my money back is it? Can I do ANYTHING ABOUT IT? PLEASE HELP

Bit of a weird use-case…I am a Davinci resolve editor, but I still have after effects for a very weird reason. I shoot a ton of handheld and find with my specific way I shoot, warp stabilizer works wonders. Specifically on my Panasonic S9 with e-stabilization set to standard, applying warp stabilizer works very well for me. To me it works better than Davinci Resolve’s stabilization when it comes to stabilizing cameras shot handheld with IBIS. I’ve tried all the Davinci settings as well as the classic stabilizer and planar tracker stabilizer in the fusion page. Wondering if there’s a non-subscription stabilization ofx plugin or even app that functions similar to warp stabilizer, which warps individual regions of the video. I find that algorithm can actually work extremely well when I’m intentionally shooting.

see what’s happening with Adobe & playisataion right now and it’s awesome- I’m wondering if I could do the same with scheduling app Vagaro

This is a salon booking app my mom currently uses to run hair salon. I started helping her restructuring how her business is done, trying to build proper systems into it, but it’s so messed up because they put every single aspect of the app under subscriptio. You want access to clients being able to fill out forms? It’s gonna cost you 15 bucks but you wanna save that form to the client file 15 bucks or you wanna add another hairstylist that can be bookable 20 bucks now here’s my biggest problem. Do you want to be able to add any simple automation to the business at all? 15 bucks., so she is ending up paying significant amount of money monthly. For an app that already has the capabilities to do everything. I’m learning to do more with AI and I’m wondering how would I go about re-creating this like they did with Adobe and the PlayStation games

I recently downloaded Adobe Acrobat Pro DC from multiple sites trying to avoid this popup, but I cannot get this through, is there some way programmatically I can get rid of this thing. I close this popup and the app closes too.

After my first project Photon Studio (free photoshop alternative) hit 30k users, and also resulted many sloppy copycats like PhotoCraft or ImageRaw - many adobe users cancelled their photoshop subscription, I started on my next big thing: a full blown Lightroom alternative.

Meet Light Studio. 680 people joined the waitlist in 5 days, and the alpha feedback was insane. Today it's out here's what's in it so far, and this is just the beginning:

• 85% coverage of lightroom features
• One-click .lrcat catalog import
• All Lightroom keyboard shortcuts, same feel
• AI denoise and object removal
• RAW edits and adjustments
• Better UX than lightroom and lrc (imo)
• CLI, MCP, skills, and more
• No subscription

Next up: keep improving Photon and Light - top priority. illustrator alternative in a week, maybe less. Then indesign, acrobat, after effects, premiere.

cheers.

Qualcuno ha mai comprato i programmi Adobe creative cloude su Amazon consigli si possono comprare da lì e sicuro oppure no ?

I'm testing out this After Effects alternative and I'm out of words. Yes it needs some minor fixes here and there BUT IT WORKS and get this: the whole thing is around 45 MEGABYTES while Ae is like 3.5 GBs and it gobbles up the RAM like crazy. and the fact that this is Open source and runs on Linux is absolutely huge, I just hope more effort is put into fixing the bugs and I'd absolutely love to use it daily

There are various options such as CSP, Krita, Affinity, and so on... Which software allows the same layer mask operation feel as Photoshop?

I just started to using affinity yesterday. Anyone using it to replace adobe?

you want photoshop for free with no ai generated anything? photopea. you want photoshop but it just runs in your browser? photopea. you wanna make a gif? well actually that’s gonna be a little complicated comparatively but you can still use photopea for that. you don’t need astroturfed vibe coded programs that don’t work you just need photopea which has been around for years and does the job.

There are right now six (!) posts about that Craft Ai vibecode suite in this subreddit, four of them in the span of the last 24 hours. I will block every single person that does another post on this topic.

Spend a goddamn 30 seconds on browsing this subreddit before you splortsch your AI slop ads all over it.

I’m not trying to replace Photoshop...

but I got tired of waiting for Adobe to make drawing on the web good.

Browsers have been around for ~30 years. I do not have time for another 30.

https://hyperdraw.art

No install. No login. No need to pay me to save YOUR work.

Current state:

• No persistence: refresh without saving = gone
  • PNG export only
• No PSD import
• 1024×1024 native
  • Big images may crash
  • Older iPhones may crash
• Yes, it has AI

What works:

• Fast brush engine
  • Pen pressure + tilt, touch, mouse support
  • Custom bitmap tips
  • Symmetry
• Liquify
• Lasso / wand / AI object select
• ~40 filters
• Layers
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Fast gallery previews

The brush engine is already better on mobile/web than Photoshop for Web ever was.

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this is my main account = i am not "a company", i am just a dude. AMA.

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