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I hadn’t used my CS6 for years but recently needed Premiere Pro. I hauled out the discs, installed it using an external optical drive, and searched old Outlook PST files for the serial number. It installed on my Win 11 laptop, and it activated when I typed in the serial number.
Long live CS6! Adobe won’t get any more money from me.
I did get lucky when I bought it, though. I ordered and paid for CS5.5 Education version, so that was about AUD$450 instead of AUD$2200, and what turned up was CS5.5, a free licenced copy of CS4 “to help with 32-bit to 64-bit transition” and a download code for CS6, as I’d ordered 5.5 after 6 had been announced. I ended up with licenced copies of CS4, CS5.5, and CS6 for AUD$450
Krita seems like a good free open-source altherative.
For illustration work at least. Photoshop is not the best for illustrations either, almost all illustration-focused apps easily blow it out of the water.
Hell, I was still using PS6 on Win10 until I finally switched to Mint a few months ago. I had to reinstall it repeatedly but it still worked.
I too still have the cracked installers for CS5 and CS6 but… I switched to Gimp and Krita a very long time ago.
I remember doing an animation internship on the pilot of a TV show most here have heard of (Not gonna dox myself) and CS5 was definitely available at the time, but the studio was still using Flash MX because that was the last version available that Adobe hadn’t fuckin wrecked.
Sup fellow film person (stunts here). I believe it. When creatives find something that works they tend to stick with it.
I’m an artist, and I have that version too, running it under qemu/Win10 (it won’t run on Wine), under my Debian-Testing main OS. However, I have actually moved to Gimp 3 recently for all my work. I use it to make collages ( https://www.instagram.com/eugenia_loli ) and edit my scanned watercolor paintings: https://pixelfed.social/EugeniaLoli The only problem is that Gimp can’t read my old PSDs that have adjustment layers correctly, so I load them first either on that old Photoshop, or online on Photopea, and then export them as TIFFs, to load them back to Gimp. For my newer work, I just use Gimp all the way.
Your work is really good! I particularly enjoyed the person in the bath tub with the ankle monitor and the mice sharing a clothesline between their plant houses.
Loli
Uhh
It’s my real name :D
That makes sense. These days I am wary of clicking links with “loli” in them especially when they are posted on tech related places. I liked the desert horsey.
I was expecting different art with that username
I can’t believe they haven’t released an “update” that breaks it.
Let me know when we can download cars. For a friend.
gimp and krita up in this bitch
I mean, if you buy software and expect 0 updates afterwards I guess that’s fair
There often were updates and they were free…
I mean honestly, the old model was kind of dope. You pay a fairly high price for the software. Updates for that version are free. When they come out with enough new features to release a new milestone version you got to choose whether you upgrade to the milestone or stay on your existing version. True critical security patches were released for At least the last couple of versions.
But you get to decide when the futures warrant you buying again. You got to choose with your wallet and the companies had to deal with that.
If they would have put a bunch of crap in about having the rights to AI scrape all of your content in the old version people would have just said fuck it I’m not upgrading it. But as it stands, if you don’t like it you have to not use the software at all.
If you buy software at a version point, (vs the subscription model), why would you expect an update for it? Particularly for free? You chose to buy at a frozen point.
That model always had the tacit agreement that the company releases early, and the users accept that they are part of a large testing base with one or two major updates to come. Further to this, continued support in the early life drives more sales. There’s a spectrum of users from bleeding edge to 4 versions behind. Some will hold out and never upgrade if key bugs remain, so updates make business sense. Software of this complexity has to be this way to strike a balance to move new features forward.
Because it’s beneficial for the software company’s reputation. People are more likely to buy the software when they know that it’s not going to get a permanently unpatched zero-day the moment the next version comes out.
In this day and age people expect security and operational patches. It’s hard work maintaining software, even if it is feature complete.
I’m still using CS3. It’s the only software on my pc at this point that doesn’t have dark mode. I also found out recently that it should run perfectly on Linux using wine, so I intend to try that soon.
One of us! One of us!
I think Photoshop CS5 is still a better product than Gimp will ever be. I think this person needs to upgrade to Affinity. While it’s still available to buy, that is.
But since I can easily install Gimp on my linux system it is clearly superior to any proprietary windows exclusive software. I’m so glad I never even bothered with Photoshop in the first place.
I’m happy with affinity. Pity it doesn’t run on limux
Apparently there’s a tutorial to make a thing in docker that actually does run it. It’s a whole-ass process though and my friend who uses Linux for most stuff was working on it a while back. Damn shame it’s not a thing, out of the box.
Do you know what this is called or have any links? I’m not finding anything that seems like what you’re describing.
Mac users should take a look at Pixelmator if you’re doing like work and Affinity if you’re doing studio-grade work.
Pixelmator feels like something Apple developed to be a part of the iWork suite, and the Affinity apps are literally Adobe apps with sane price points.
(Pixelmator was recently purchased by Apple so its future is uncertain, but the original software is still for sale as it was before the buyout for the time being.)
I missed that news. So photomator is probably dead and going to be folded into photos.app.
Newer versions of Krita now come with G’mic built in, which add so many incredible tools, including a content aware fill that works incredibly well.
Shoot, krita has content aware now? Other than non-destructive editing/layer styles that’s one of the big things keeping me on PS.
It doesn’t even need to be amazing, it just needs to be good enough. I think the weirdest thing about krita for me was how you type text in a dialog box instead of on the canvas.
AFAIK, krita has had non-destructive editing for a while now (while gimp just got it with the 3.0 release).
The text tool is a pain point still, though thankfully a new from the ground up text tool over 6 years in the making is soon to be released for Krita this year, likely making it the most capable open-source option.
Adding text effects, like colored outlines, on Krita is painful, you essentially have to type
<xml>stuff without a decent preview of how it looks
GenP. You’re welcome.
I’ve always been a fan of getpaint.net - it’s like… idk, half-way between microsoft paint and photoshop, but you can install plugins to add functionality that the vanilla version doesn’t offer.
Until you cross into advanced manipulation or outright image creation, Paint.Net can do almost everything you want from it. Tbh the only feature I miss is the plethora of user guides and tutorials that are Photoshop specific, or said another way; I don’t miss their software, I miss the community
