https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ftc-sues-adobe-allegedly-hiding-fees-making-tough-cancel-subscriptions
FTC sues Adobe for allegedly hiding fees, making it tough to cancel subscriptions. Federal regulator claims Photoshop maker does not adequately disclose early termination fees that can cost customers hundreds of
dollars.
The Federal Trade Commission sued Adobe and two of its executives Thursday, claiming the Photoshop maker hides early termination fees on its most
popular subscription and makes it difficult for customers to cancel.
The federal regulator said in its complaint that Adobe does not adequately disclose the fees, which are calculated as 50% of the remaining payments
when customers cancel in their first year. According to the FTC, those fees can reach hundreds of dollars.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ftc-sues-adobe-allegedly-hiding-fees-making-tough-cancel-subscriptions
FTC sues Adobe for allegedly hiding fees, making it tough to cancel subscriptions. Federal regulator claims Photoshop maker does not adequately disclose early termination fees that can cost customers hundreds of
dollars.
The Federal Trade Commission sued Adobe and two of its executives Thursday, claiming the Photoshop maker hides early termination fees on its most
popular subscription and makes it difficult for customers to cancel.
The federal regulator said in its complaint that Adobe does not adequately disclose the fees, which are calculated as 50% of the remaining payments
when customers cancel in their first year. According to the FTC, those fees can reach hundreds of dollars.
you lose them without warning. I wonder how many CS customers
know that.
In article <v4rt8t$1bb3h$1@dont-email.me>,
Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:
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you lose them without warning. I wonder how many CS customers
know that.
CS?
you lose them without warning. I wonder how many CS customers
know that.
CS?
With the exception of Photoshop Elements 2.0 (which I still am able to
use in Windows 10), I've avoided anything Adobe as much as possible.
There's too much freeware out there that can do the same thing and
usually better and without all the bloat.
About time they got caught for something. They've been nasty
pricegougers for decades and repeatedly tried to monopolize
markets. (Photoshop, Flash, AIR, Acrobat) As I understand it, if
you quit their rental without saving all your images locally then
you lose them without warning. I wonder how many CS customers
know that.
If you think there's something PhotoShop does that paint.net doesn't do,
let me know.
I've always avoided Paint.Net because it's always required the
latest .Net runtime. It originally started out as a salespitch for .Net.
But since you made it so easy, I decided to download and give it
a try. :)
I mostly use PSP 5. I also have PSP16, but Corel made a mess
of it, bloating it with frivolous functions. For editing photos and
doing general graphics, PSP5 does most of what I need. Occasionally
I want to work with RAW photos and I use PSP/Aftershot Pro 16
for that.
I see RAW is not lincuded in Paint.Net's "all image types".
And their color picker is a mess. No settings menu...
Oh, there it is. A gear
icon way over on the right. But there are almost no settings. And
someone opening that made the color picker go gray! OK, lets's
try restarting.
I'll draw a rectangle. What could go wrong? Well,
there's no control window to set the color, line thickness, etc.
Instead
I only see an idiotic History window that keeps telling me what I
just did. It seems that I just drew 2 blue rectangles. Coulda fooled me.
And why are there 100 shapes to choose from when I just wanted a
rectangle?
The whole thing is very much non-standard and non-intuitive.
The thing with graphics is that 95% of it is simple and the methods
have been around since the 90s. If someone wants to remove an
object from an image, make Lizzo look like she's not fat, make
Madonna look like she's not old, or make Gisele Bundchen look like
she has hips, Photoshop is tops.
For basic graphics, something like Paint.net is poorly designed overkill.
And I doubt that it does much
of anything that Paint Shop Pro from 1999 can't do. These days most
of that functionality is a dime a dozen. The only major reason for a
graphics editor is to get an MDI window with layers and multiple undo.
Checking out Paint.Net was interesting, though. I've seen it talked
about for years now and never actually saw that pitiful excuse
for an interface before.
What I dislike most about the last known good version of Paint Shop Pro was that it messes with your right click context and pulldown menus like crazy.
And their color picker is a mess. No settings menu...
There's a plugin for that, but I have no experience with that plugin. https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/26399-plugin-for-a-better-color-picker/
The whole thing is very much non-standard and non-intuitive.
Compare it to PhotoShop or The GIMP. Then let me know what you think.
However, for just removing blemishes and making people thinner, I prefer
the last known good version (version 1.3) of Vicman Photo Editor, which includes cartoonist. http://www.vicman.net/cartoonist/
For basic graphics, something like Paint.net is poorly designed overkill.
If you say that about Paint.NET and about The Gimp and Pinta, then what do you use on Windows that is free that is, in your opinion, better designed?
Remember the whole point of this thread is Adobe is purely evil software.
So what do you use that is free and which is better than PhotoShop is?
I don't denigrate Paint Shop Pro for anything other than it screws with the menus like you can't believe - and then it doesn't undo what it screwed
with. If you don't believe me on that, then I want to see a screenshot of your rightclick context menu when you right click on "New" for example.
Just try texting and drawing curved arrows in any other free program.
Nobody does it easier than Paint.net does it (unfortunately).
On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:05:14 -0400, Newyana2 wrote:
   I've always avoided Paint.Net because it's always required the
latest .Net runtime. It originally started out as a salespitch for .Net.
But since you made it so easy, I decided to download and give it
a try. :)
I'm not an author of any editing programs and I'm aware that you are an author of programs which do make extensive queries of image formats.
Hence I can't disagree about what you said, which was it was funded by Microsoft for a graduate student to implement an example of a net framework app that, in this case, was designed to do everything important that photoshop did.
Paintnet is supposed to be replaced by Pinta, which works on Linux, Mac, Windows, and BSD. https://www.pinta-project.com/ Current Version: 2.1.2
Last I checked, Pinta wasn't ready for prime time - but it has been a few years since I tested Pinta. https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/
Given Pinta works on most platforms, I know it has a GTK requirement, which it will install if it needs it, but I'm not sure about .NET needs.
https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/releases/download/2.1.2/Pinta.exe
Name: Pinta.exe
Size: 57256744 bytes (54 MiB)
SHA256: 5E0A8D5AF1A1807AE6D5C57ED2C1969B5B1AC0A110B2C015C0C8C09DE1F06465
This is what Pinta.exe has in it.
Smells a bit of dotNET.
This gets back to what you want/need to do.
Don't even get me started on exif editors, video editors, screenshot
editors, etc.
If you don't like it, then that's fine, but I gave you the reasons I don't like Paint Shop Pro and that's fine too. To each his/her own, right?
I'm simply trying to help.
If you don't like it, then that's fine, but I gave you the reasons I don't >> like Paint Shop Pro and that's fine too. To each his/her own, right?
I'm simply trying to help.
No problem. I have no issue with disagreement. It often
provides helpful information. I'm curious... Is there some kind
of freeware FTP heaven that you use? Your images look
like screenshots from an FTP page.
Don't even get me started on exif editors, video editors, screenshot
editors, etc.
You're like a flash from the past. A return to the heyday of
the PC craze around the late 90s and early 00s. I remember
when I first got a computer (late '98) I loved going to the download
sites to download new stuff. At one point I ran into someone who
was very pleased to have 5 or 6 startup managers lined up on his
Start Menu. :)
As much as I was thrilled by my new hobby, I didn't use a computer
for work and didn't actually have any use for it. I was like an Amazonian tribesman who's found a car and just gets a big thrill out of making
the windows go up and down.
Up until that point I'd been making fun of people who paid $300
for PDAs and then would take 10 minutes to record my phone
number on it. (I understand that today PDA stands for "public display
of affection". As in "Ben seen here pouring on the PDA with JLo.")
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