• fartsparkles@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 days ago

    Fuck sake. We get a decent Adobe competitor without AI and subscriptions and it gets immediately enshittified with AI and subscriptions.

      • inlandempire@jlai.lu
        2·
        7 days ago

        It is free, but you need a Canvas account, and only the ai features are behind their subscription

          • fartsparkles@lemmy.world
            2·
            7 days ago

            I’m just mad because I bought a license given it was a one-time purchase with updates for that version (like the good old days) and the developers weren’t chasing AI integration (even discussed they didn’t want to add generative AI).

            Now I’m not sure I want to trust investing time in the product if they could start doing more Adobe-like behaviors. If only FOSS apps could close the gaps faster.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
      2·
      7 days ago

      Only in that it’s free for now. But how many features will start disappearing behind a paywall with each update, or how many ads or subtle limitations will be introduced? In the end it may effectively become a subscription, which is exactly where we all thought they would go with this.

  • jlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    7 days ago

    Not sure if this is a smart move. On one hand it’s cool to not have to switch between programs for typography, photo editing and vector work and there are programs that do a lot of things reasonably well (Blender). On the other hand I think the “do one thing well” maxime is pretty a smart way to not have bloated software that tries to do everything and fails at everything which is the danger here.

    • Fedo ¶@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      6 days ago

      Publisher was already there, and after using it I started to find the distinction between designer, photo and publisher quite pointless and weird, since each software integrates capabilities from the other ones seamlessly, in a way in which often there’s no point in choosing an app instead of the others