Adobe has issued new wording to explain how users’ content will be treated, after a backlash earlier this month from artists who believed their work will be used to train AI.
  • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    6 months ago

    I know some artists don’t mind it, but I just can’t hear the word “creatives” as anything other than silicon valley speak for the source of the content they sell. It feels dehumanizing.

    Particularly in this case, it’s Adobe, so you can just call them artists, designers, photographers, etc.

    Or, ya know, just users.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    45·
    6 months ago

    Stallman was right

    I wonder what state FOSS replacements for Adobe software would be in if a significant percentage of Adobe users used their subscription money to donate to FOSS replacements instead.

    • realharo@lemm.eeEnglish
      32·
      6 months ago

      The ironic thing is that if it weren’t for free software, the entire AI industry would likely be a decade behind where it is today, if not more.

          • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
            8·
            6 months ago

            The entire industry is held up by the collective imaginations of rich people pretending that FOSS hasn’t won.

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
        3·
        6 months ago

        There’s a very significant open-source AI industry, too. Krita’s got a great Stable Diffusion plugin that lets you generate and inpaint right in the editor, using entirely local models.

  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    6 months ago

    Because they will. They literally will.

    Adobe is one of the most awful, insidious, evil corporations in the software space and they have done absolutely nothing to claw back even a tiny shred of good faith.

  • Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zipEnglish
    18·
    6 months ago

    Never ever trust a corporation. In case of Adobe, they don’t give a shit about your creative work. That’s not what they are in business for. They are in business to increase revenue and reduce expense, by any means necessary. Just like all corporations. Their customers are but a product for them that they can manipulate how they see fit. Capitalism demands profit over people. Never trust a corporation.

  • Hupf@feddit.deEnglish
    16·
    6 months ago

    Is this one of those “yeah, we legally gave ourselves permission but trust us we won’t use it” cases that also commonly happens in politics?

  • 555@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    6 months ago

    Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher

    Sorry, no linux versions.

    • MrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      Wish I could switch to Affinity, Publisher just isn’t quite there yet in a print production environment.

      • thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        How so? Genuinely curious what’s missing as someone who tried it on a job, and loved it.

        I just sent a job to print yesterday and the printer didn’t bat an eye.

        Are we talking specific types of printing? Like booklets or runs with specific imposition needs or something else?

        I think ultimately it will depend on what one needs printed. It would easily meet most common printing requirements as far as I can tell.

        • MrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          You guessed it with booklets or anything long format really.

          As a 20+ year Adobe user, I tried switching about a year ago. Seems like the only way to give it proper go, was to dive in head first and force myself to exclusively use Affinity. Of course there’s a bit of a (frustrating) learning curve but overall it went pretty smooth. I genuinely thought I was going to make it work.

          That was until I had to setup a 40 page catalog. Ran into various minor issues, but not insurmountable. IIRC the main issue that ultimately made me go back to InDesign was the handling of support assets and glitches as the catalog got more “heavy” with stuff.

          I think I would have stuck with Affinity if I could go back and forth between Publisher/InDesign, but I couldn’t take what I started with and finish in the other app.

          • thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            Thanks for the reply. Makes sense. I haven’t had any jobs recently that would push us there.

            CC is also priced low enough we can sign back up for a month if we need it.

            One feature set of CC I’ll miss is the libraries functionality working across all the apps. Someone on the team needs a client asset in any app ? (AE/ID/PS/AI) There it is.

    • neo@lemy.lolEnglish
      22·
      6 months ago

      I would be so happy if there was a Linux version!

            • rndll@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              6 months ago

              It is, but the interface is actually much closer to Photoshop CS. For basic editing, I’d work with Krita rather than GIMP any day.

  • z00s@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    6 months ago

    Does anyone else find the term “creatives” to be so damn condescending? It’d be like calling executives, “Admins” or “powerpointers”

  • thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    I tried Affinity Publisher 2 the other day and it convinced me to pull the plug on Adobe and switch on the Affinity suite. Everything was straightforward and far more intuitive than InDesign ever was (which itself was far better than Quark Xpress before it).

    I bought the Affinity Suite, exported all my Creative Cloud libraries (they’re just zip files with a different extension), copied all my Creative Cloud files to our self-hosted Nextcloud and off we went.

    I promptly cancelled creative cloud. As I’ve said before, I’ll miss generative fill in photoshop - it was very good.

    It’ll also take a while to figure out / learn Fusion as a replacement for AE but having spent a lot of time with Shake in the past, it’ll be fine.

  • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    Oh that reminds me… I’ve bought the affinity suite some days ago and forgot to install. They have a massive price reduction at the moment to fish in Adobe’s muddy waters for disgruntled customers.