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1. praet · 1791164712 · focus · HN ↗

   Adobe's moat is so small, so it's a matter of time until someone frustrated with their pricing would rather just rebuild the entire Creative Suite. I have also rebuilt the features from Photoshop I want using Rust recently (primarily because the company I work for started blocking Photopea, but I digress...) and it's been a great to work with. I can imagine the same would hold true for Lightroom, Illustrator, and Indesign.

   Overall, looks like a cool project. Looking forward to the *Craft repos on github gaining traction

   1. alightsoul · 1791167075 · focus · HN ↗

      I am sure adobe has known about this, so they pivoted to web aka cloud Saas for businesses a few years ago
   2. tonyedgecombe · 1791179347 · focus · HN ↗

      Adobe’s problem isn’t that we replace their tools with AI created tools. It’s that we replace the use of their tools with the use of AI.

      1. VerifiedReports · 1791183684 · focus · HN ↗

         Yep. You've jumped right to the end of this story.

         I think the same thing about the endless proliferation of Web-dev frameworks. Why bother? Just have AI write it in native JS or WebAssembly and be done with it.

   3. Hobadee · 1791179457 · focus · HN ↗

      > someone frustrated with their pricing

      What about their service?

      1. VerifiedReports · 1791183889 · focus · HN ↗

         Yep. I was on a long plane trip and settled in to do a bunch of work in InDesign, only to have the POS try to re-validate my subscription at that moment, without even a one-day workaround to no Internet connection.

         But then I remembered that the flight had free Internet. So I log in... only to have these morons try to TEXT my phone a 2FA code. On the plane.

         After I got back I checked with our IT department and found that our Adobe licenses are paid up for TWO YEARS.

         Despicable.

   4. ioma8 · 1791181026 · focus · HN ↗

      Same. I hate paying Creative Suite, so during few hours I vibecoded Photoshop clone for myself in rust, with only the features I am using. Have been using it for the last 9 months, no problem. Super fast start, full PSD support, layers, texts etc.

      1. techpression · 1791182229 · focus · HN ↗

         ”Etc” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I’m sure it works great for you, but something simple as “layers” is for me smart objects with plugin support and Camera Raw integration.

         Photoshop has a lot of bad things going for it, but it’s still the only software that does what it does, and I’ve tried all the competitors that have popped up over the years.

   5. bergen · 1791182307 · focus · HN ↗

      Adobes moat is being the industry standard, and the wealth of documentation and tutorials and features like integrating with industry standards (printers, cameras, exotic formats). I can't imagine every company going through the hassle to have people relearn their complete stack when hiring new people because the have the n-th possible "adobe replacement" software.

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