Just tried the 7 day free trial of Photoshop and deleted it like 10 minutes later because it was so awful. Here are some highlights:
- AI, so much AI.
- Advertising, so much advertising.
- Why yes we steal your data.
- $40 a month for the cheapest option.
- "If you cancel your subscription you will no longer be able to use Photoshop. No, there is no way to own the product outright.
- Why yes we will include a bunch of programs and cloud services that you don’t want and will never use. No, there is no plan that is just Photoshop.
- Sign in to your Adobe account to uninstall.
Piracy is my best friend and can be yours too, welcome aboard matey!
Completely free, usable in browser, no download necessary
Krita is good. I have no idea if it’s an appropriate replacement for all or most of Photoshop’s use cases, but it’s been a pretty damn good replacement for frozen-in-development-hell-for-a-quarter-century-and-desperately-needs-a-new-name Gimp.
I have gimp, but as someone that is used to paint.NET I find it so difficult to use.
I know there’s a Linux editing software that copied paint.net right down to the same exact UI, but I’m blanking on the name. And it’s not Krita/Gimp. I remember it was something else.
Download an abandonware version or the last released non-cloud version.
Use a VPN before downloading via bittorrent.
This reddit guide has some other options: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenP/wiki/patchmethods/
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Here is a direct download page, no torrenting required. Adobe Photoshop 2025 with a DRM crack. You may need to disable microsoft defender temporarily to run the crack and/or undo protection actions like quarantining the crack exe file.
I’ve never downloaded from this site before, but it was linked from the reddit piracy megathread so it’s probably legit.
https://soft98.ir/software/pic-tools/3153-دانلـود-نرم-افــزار-فـتـوشـاپ.html
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its wild how much companies are going out of their way to make a better experience than actually paying them lol
