Adobe has updated their terms of service to say the company can access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”

Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms of service. Among the changes: Adobe now says it has the right to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”

Now it’s true that when we use cloud services, we sacrifice a certain amount of privacy. And it’s not unusual for social networks, for example, to claim similar rights — when you share your photos on Facebook, you’re also giving Facebook the right to use those photos. But we’re not talking about your personal Facebook or Instagram photos; Photoshop is used by many, many professional artists for their livelihoods. They might also be working on sensitive or confidential material.

The moment you upload your data to some company cloud you no longer have control over it. They can use however the want it.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    5 months ago

    Affinity V2 is 50% off right now (75% if you upgrade from V1). You pay once and keep that version indefinitely. And yeah yeah I know Lemmy users will complain it‘s not open source but it‘s definitely the closest you can have to Adobe‘s core suite.

    • jfx@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Thank you for the info! Otherwise I would have missed the deal. The affinity suite is the best thing since Photoshop 5.0

    • th3dogcow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Thanks for the heads up. I rarely have a need for photoshop these days, but I grabbed the iPad only version of Affinity Photo just in case as it was so cheap in my region.

      I’m sure it’ll get some use. Once or twice a year I try using a combination of smartphone apps to do some editing as I can’t be bothered dusting off my old slow laptop. So this will be cool. And it still runs on older hardware. iOS 15 is still supported!

    • gnygnygny@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      I see at leat one limitation, Adobe action scripts are not supported.

      • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        5 months ago

        Oh there are even more limitations, especially when it comes to their Photoshop counterpart Affinity Photo. There is nothing on the market that does the work as well as Photshop, but Affinity comes the closest by a long shot.

        • Prandom_returns@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          5 months ago

          Affinity Photo is also superior to Photoshop in many ways. Depends on what industry you’re in.