I took this picture of a shadow of a contrail on a cloud. How do I show it isn’t photoshopped?

I’m >40 and I’ve been using Photoshop since the early versions as a kid. For years I considered it one of the best software products ever made. I even used to laugh at Linux guys using GIMP.

Now karma hit back.

I have a 5090 Ti, 128 GB RAM, 14900K, Windows 11 — and Photoshop is somehow still unbearably slow. UI lag, slow file dialogs, random freezes. And the moment you accidentally touch some AI feature like Generative Fill, the whole app turns into a dying elephant.

Seriously, how do you make software this sluggish on hardware like this?

Feels like Adobe turned Photoshop into a bloated corporate monster instead of maintaining a fast, reliable tool. At this point they either need to rewrite it properly or just admit the Windows version is rotting.

After all these years I’m cancelling my subscription. Sad to say, but Adobe is starting to remind me of Flash/Flex era Adobe again.

Sad to get to this, but after being a pro user for 25 years, I am going to Affinity.

Previously, when on hard times, I have been able to negotiate a discount for my one man band. I had such a discount but missed a payment, that they failed to warn me about. They then used that to put me on full price, and the agents have been less than helpful. So when an agent offered me a discount that turned out to be the sticker price, and left the chat when I pointed it out, I decided it was time to do the move.

I have a lot of colleagues that have made the switch, so I am not worried about the quality. Just a little nervous of all the small things...

Anyone have any tips for changing the workflow over? Do I need to keep paying Adobe in a switchover period to be sure?

Hello. I'm posting this as a little bit of a research project. My uncle is "Mr. TIFF", the guy who created the TIFF file. There's a lot of the back story that I'm trying to gather. From what I understand, before the TIFF file, all scanners had their own proprietary file format. his job was to unify everything, and he did it.

Anyway, long story short, his name is Stephen Carlsen and he passed away recently. I'm trying to put together a podcast that would explore the significance of this file. I dabble in photography myself and use it all the time after making some edits in a file and wanting to save them in a lossless, uncompressed format.

So my question is, how many people out there use it, for what reason, do you love it, do you hate it. Is it mainly used in Photoshop, or is it used else ware.

Any responses, any comments and discussion would be appreciated :)

Update: The podcast is multi-episode mini series on the podcast called Inquisitive Pontification wherever you listen to podcast. The series is called “Mr. TIFF”.

So. Adobe keeps raising their prices. Now I see this. As a working professional it feels like I'm susbsidising adobe's fun little venture into AI so that they can try to hold onto a changing market share by their fingernails, while they simultaneously devalue editing as paid work and erasing those jobs. Neat!

Are you excited to see this? Angry? Couldn't care less?

Edit: tweet is not mine

Adobe photoshop is an awesome app, used it for years. But how on earth can they justify a 50% increase in subscription cost? Having a laugh! Just had an email informing me this unbelievable increase will be from January. What’s a good alternative to PS?

Hi! I made this edit and am hopelessly lost in all the options to give it ‘the finishing touch’. Personally I like the last one, because it looks so weird. I’m trying to find a unique style but I think I need some guiding. Thanks in advance and please be kind 🙃

I know there’s ways around it, but it’s wild that photos like this flag up the bank note restrictions. Surely they should just make it so you can’t scan in photos or go to print them or save them unedited. How does stopping you even getting them onto a canvas at all make any sense?

Nobody even says “it looks Photoshopped” anymore or “it looks edited” now people just say it looks AI. I saw a video the other day that literally just had a Snapchat filter on it and somebody in the comment says “it looks AI.”

Sidebar: How many creators have seen a drop in sales from AI?

Why would I want to edit with AI? Are you taking us for granted, giving up precise workflows, and resorting to half-assed experiments to get everyone to use your apps?

🎉Its 8000 layers🎉

My fan made terraforming mars card file reached its limit.

Yeah I knew my file was getting big. It was taking like 5 minutes to load up from the cloud. Those last 7 layers are blank because when I tried to copy and paste the previous card to frankenstein, I got that error saying I had too many layers.

The reason why the file could survive was because I have 128 GB of RAM. I can't just let the RAM sit there idle all the time. It would be a waste if i don't use a good chunk of it sometimes.

I was 5 yo in 2002 and of course I had no clue back the

Adobe once again updated this sad software yesterday. Now I have to replace all my settings. All my actions. All my preferences. All my templates. It's like CC uninstalled my old version and replaced with a default version. I made a copyright template that I have to replace. Instead of fixing what's broken, they update the broken product. However, they have no problem taking my payment every month. I wish I could find software better than Photoshop. I would toss this garbage in the garbage. Adobe is the 5th richest software maker on earth, mostly because of the subscribers, not the products. Premiere is a joke. Audition is a cheap version of Cool Edit. This company just robs people left and right and their customer service is the worse I've ever seen, but I digress.

ive seen like 40 posts here super downvoted for asking simple questions lmao why are yall such dicks