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:

  1. AI, so much AI.
  2. Advertising, so much advertising.
  3. Why yes we steal your data.
  4. $40 a month for the cheapest option.
  5. "If you cancel your subscription you will no longer be able to use Photoshop. No, there is no way to own the product outright.
  6. 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.
  7. Sign in to your Adobe account to uninstall.

Download an abandonware version or the last released non-cloud version.

Use a VPN before downloading via bittorrent.

https://rentry.co/megathread

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Thank you, you rock

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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

This reddit guide has some other options: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenP/wiki/patchmethods/

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if anything goes wrong in the future you will probably just need to update the hosts.txt file, there’s a github that keeps it current

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This reddit guide has some other options: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenP/wiki/patchmethods/

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Once again, thanks!

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I have a legit license for the last non-cloud version that you could own outright (CS6) and they’ve made it such a pain that I find it easier to outright pirate it despite having the physical disks

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2. Advertising, so much advertising.

They stick in ads into the app? I had no idea. That would drive me insane. Does anybody have an example? Google was - no surprise - total garbage. It only gave me ads made with Photoshop.

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Sort of, more that they constantly ask you if you want to upgrade for more Adobe products

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I was imagining a Spotify-like situation like this car ad…

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Ugh, I can totally see them jumpscaring you with annoying commercials every couple minutes as you’re working on a project as a way to squeeze blood from a stone.

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I’ve been sticking to http://photopea.com/ which does everything I need it to do. It is also usable on phone, which makes it great for quick memes

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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.

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I have gimp, but as someone that is used to paint.NET I find it so difficult to use.

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paint .NET is the undisputed goat of intuitive meme editing software

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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.

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Pinta

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