“Adobe. Listen up,” Brannan writes. “You have some great stuff, but increasingly, your sweet suites are bloated, crash happy, expensive, and sometimes don’t behave like a good Mac app citizen.”
Brannan wonders, “Are there alternatives to Photoshop for those who cannot afford the upgrade cost in real world dollars, let alone the assortment of Dummies and Idiots books, and multiple, back-to-back semesters in a University new media course?”
Full article, in which Brannan covers GraphicConverter, Pixelmator, and lazy ingrate Adobe’s own Photoshop Elements, here.
Note to advertisers: (including those who advertise via third-party ad networks and become, in effect, our advertisers): Your Flash-based ads are no longer reaching the most well-heeled customers online: 50+ million iPhone owners. They’re also not hitting brand new iPad users or 35+ million iPod touch users. If you care about reaching people with discretionary income, you might want to consider dumping your flash-based ads and moving to a more open format that people with money and the will to spend it can actually see.
Help kill Adobe’s Flash:
• Ask MarketWatch to offer HTML5 video via the customer support web form here.
• Ask CNBC to offer HTML5 video via the customer support web form here.
• Contact Hulu and ask them to offer HTML5 video via email:
• Ask ESPN360 to offer HTML5 video instead Flash via their feedback page here.
• Join YouTube’s HTML5 beta here.
• On Vimeo, click the “Switch to HTML5 player” link below any video.
By the way, do not buy Adobe’s Photoshop Elements until you have tried Pixelmator’s free 30-day trial. We use Pixelmator daily.
Quark is unacceptable. Been there, tried it, used it, will never go back.
shareware = garbage for non power users.
Don’t call adobe fans whiners until you can take the word “virtually” out of your weak arguments for what shareware can do vs. Adobe Suite.
Can “virtually” do the same thing as this. Guess what morons – virtually aint the same as “can do exactly”.
Give me a break.
Would you please say ‘Help Kill Adobes’ flv format. I’ll admit I’ve never liked the flv format. But Flash isn’t some bloated video editing program. Its a vector animation tool more than anything. What are the alternatives (besides Toon Boom Studio) that do what Flash does.
Oh and Adobe isn’t just Photoshop. Photo editing applications are everywhere. Where’s the alternative for Illustrator