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Re:Time Till Open Source Alternative by sircastor on Saturday August 27, 2022 @10:51PM (#32625334)
We have a legit PS install on my wife’s machine and it’s preventing us from making a move to another computer for her. She’s a casual/non-professional user. She knows the app and how to use it. We aren’t interested in renting the app… basically we’re holding out on that machine, but sooner or later it’s going to become a security risk in our network.
Re:Time Till Open Source Alternative by piperswe on Saturday August 27, 2022 @10:56PM (#32625358)
At some point it might be worth looking into Affinity Photo, it's a $55 (one-time, with free updates) cross-platform photo manipulation program with surprising feature parity with Photoshop.
Re:Time Till Open Source Alternative by Lammy on Sunday August 28, 2022 @12:54AM (#32625882)
This is why I still use Photoshop CS3. It's the newest version Adobe have released as an activation-free offline installer, and it does everything I need and then some.
Re:Time Till Open Source Alternative by eru on Saturday August 27, 2022 @11:02PM (#32625387)
Couldn't you run it in a VM?
Re:Time Till Open Source Alternative by nine_k on Saturday August 27, 2022 @11:29PM (#32625506)
Likely not, because the installation is linked to the Windows or macOS installation.

In the case of Windows, the machine can be eventually upgraded, one part at a time, into something more powerful.