paulaj71267751 wrote:
>Photoshop is a tool for professionals,
I write and illustrate children's books which I self publish. Is that not professional?
>and they need its continuing development, and tools that streamline their workflow. To have access to that for just $10 a month is astonishing, and I can't understand how anyone can have issue with.
I'm not sure what you are talking about here. I never said anything about paying $10 per month. I just want to find a software that does the same things my old version of Photoshop does that comes in a BOX and that I don't have to pay for by the month in the cloud.
That's ok. Per my previous post with the links for alternatives I'll look into those and buy one of them.
For my own work I completely switched from Adobe products to alternatives (I do still have to use Adobe products in classes I teach, though). I had been a loyal user since Photoshop v3! I refuse to become a digital serf in Adobe's Digital Serfdom. I like owning my tools. If you are on Windows, try a combination of Photoline with Krita. Photoline is as powerful as Photoshop in regards to image editing (in some ways actually more flexible), and only costs $65. The newest version is coming out this week, and even introduces true vector patterns, among other things. Unlike Photoshop Photoline supports real pages, and true full vector support. It offers a better workflow in many ways, in my opinion, and is a perfect replacement for Photoshop. PhotoLine: Image Processing & Design Software I prefer to work in Photoline now, compared to Photoshop. The layer stack is much more refined - for example, layer masks behave like regular layers (even adjustment layers and layer effects can be applied to layer masks!), a layer opacity of -200 up to +200 is possible, and layers can be virtually cloned and update in real time. It loads PSD files with support for Photoshop smart objects (even Illustrator smart objects can be edited in Photoline!) Photoline also supports standard Photoshop plugins, loads Photoshop brush libraries and gradients, and so on, and so forth. Two things are missing in Photoline: 3d and video/animation. I use other alternatives, such as Anime Studio, Davinci Resolve, and Fusion. Krita's latest betas introduces animation as well. One of the best things of Photoline is that it can be hooked up to almost any external applications that can handle either bitmap or vector image data: send your layer to Krita, edit in Krita, and send it back. The result updates automatically in Photoline. Also works with Inkscape. I use Gimp as a plugin now! 🙂 The Photoline developers have been stunningly receptive for improvement and feature requests. Bugs are literally squashed within two~three weeks when a new beta version is released. Since you are doing illustrations, I urge you to download and try the open source Krita as well. The paint options are far ahead of Photoshop currently, and it is amazing it is freely available to any digital artist. I switched to Krita a year ago for digital painting/drawing, and have not looked back to other illustration/drawing applications (well, I still do use ClipStudio alongside Krita - another one you may want to look into: CLIP STUDIO PAINT | CLIP STUDIO.NET ). https://krita.org/ The latest alpha of Krita for Windows can be downloaded here: https://krita.org/item/krita-2-9-11-and-the-second-3-0-alpha-build/ David Revoy uses Krita for his online open source comic "Pepper & Carrot". His Krita brush collections are great. David Revoy - illustrator, concept-artist Hope this helps a bit. It can be a difficult transition moving away from Adobe products which you have become accustomed to throughout the years, but I know more and more users who have done so now. More and more, students of mine prefer to use alternatives nowadays. I am happier now with my workflow than I was when I still used Adobe software three years ago.
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