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Good alternative to Adobe Photoshop
I have had good performance with: GIMP for macOS
But only my opinion.
It is free and available for many systems.
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Good alternative to Adobe Photoshop
The other answers are great - I'm putting this here just for completeness.
Affinity Photo https://affinity.serif.com/photo/ is a paid app that's part of a suite of apps from Serif. The others are ...
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How do I get old apps like Photoshop CS5 to work on macOS Mojave
The first thing I would try is changing the security and privacy settings in System Preferences. You can do this as follows:
Go to Apple > System Preferences…
Click on Security & Privacy
Select ...
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Completely uninstall Adobe CC
If you have Homebrew installed, you can do brew uninstall --zap --cask --force adobe-creative-cloud.
Take a look at the Ruby script this command executes to see what items it deletes and what actions ...
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Good alternative to Adobe Photoshop
There is an online photo editor known as Photopea. It has a lot of the functionality of Photoshop (even the UI has a Photoshop feel).
For an overview, see this YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/...
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Completely uninstall Adobe CC
Every CC app has an uninstaller filed with the app.
These are repeated in the Utilities folder, in Adobe Installers.
The only one that doesn't is the Adobe Application Manager, for which there's an ...
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How do I get old apps like Photoshop CS5 to work on macOS Mojave
Our go-to for preserving valuable but obsolete software is to put it inside a virtual machine using Oracle Virtualbox or VMWare, that way you can use it on any system forever without worrying about it ...
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How do I stop "node" asking for my password?
Uninstall Adobe, seriously. The cloud sync and heavy weight tools cost us a full time engineer to wrangle at work. We are locked in, but the alternatives are so much easier to maintain and a delight ...
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macOS Monterey "Save As" file naming bug - is there a fix?
This is a known issue for Photoshop when using macOS Monterey. Adobe are working with/waiting for Apple to solve it.
On the Photoshop/Monterey issues list on the Adobe website, it says the following:
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El Capitan and old Photoshop to bootable partition
Macs very rarely support booting versions of macOS older than the one they shipped with—exceptions are few and far between, and never more than a year's release. This means that, at least on a new ...
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Why can Perspective Warp cause my Mac to run out of application memory?
You don’t actually specify what model of Mac you have, nor what you mean by within a session.
However, the perspective warp function is a rather CPU and GPU intensive task. How long it takes will ...
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How do I use Applescript to click the Replace button in the Photoshop Save As dialog?
This works for me on the latest version of High Sierra and Adobe Photoshop CC 2018...
delay 1
tell application "System Events"
click UI element "Replace" of sheet 1 of window ¬
"Save As" ...
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Completely uninstall Adobe CC
Adobe also has a solution called Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner that can be used to remove most of the Adobe software. It will skip Acrobat (it's Adobe, don't expect it to make sense).
For enterprise ...
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Good alternative to Adobe Photoshop
Just to throw a couple more on the pile…
Luminar AI, by Skylum
OnOne PhotoRAW - This is their all-in-one editor. They also do individual apps, No-Noise, Portrait etc which will run as either plugins ...
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Good alternative to Adobe Photoshop
Besides the already mentioned Affinity Photo and Pixelmator Pro (I would recommend to get both because they complement each other functionwise e.g. Affinity Photo offers panorama stitching while ...
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How to make Adobe Photoshop automatically save to Photos Library?
Photoshop will save back to the Photos Library if you send it from there initially.
If you edit then Save in Ps, the save replaces the one in Photos, seamlessly. I've only tested this with jpg files. ...
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018 - how to condense text? (kerning, less space between letters)
At the risk of making the wrong assumption, I'm guessing what you're wanting to do is change the tracking of the letters. Doing so will have the effect of condensing your text. Kerning, on the other ...
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Using a MacBook Pro Retina Display with USB3 external drives
The answer to your question depends on your setup, how you've configured Photoshop, and the actual external drive.
Typically one would have Photoshop configured to use the internal drive for its ...
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Adobe photoshop cs6 not upgrading raw plugins in my macbook
It will depend what version of CameraRAW you are trying to install.
CS6 is no longer supported & the last version it is capable of handling is CameraRAW 9.1.1
Source: Adobe Help - Camera Raw-...
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issues rendering images when using any icc profile (including apple's default). clipped dark areas. preview/quicklook shows wrong contrast
What I did (and I don‘t know whether all steps are nessecary) was:
delete the display profile I had already created
reboot the Mac
in system preferences changed the resolution of my MacBook Pro 2018‘...
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How do I get old apps like Photoshop CS5 to work on macOS Mojave
Finally a solution is on the horizon...
I went through a crazy voyage with my CS5 Creative Suite PS Version,
You have to consider serveral things that could be an issue
-> update to 12.0.4 or even ...
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Android JPG images not opening in Photoshop
I now understand that the problem lies in how Whatsapp saves JPG files, with a custom JPG format that is really a HEIC format.
If you change the extension from JPG to HEIC, even Photoshop will read ...
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How do I remove the "Do you want to replace it?" dialog in Big Sur?
There is no facility in the OS to remove or disable the dialog.
Apple's dialogs have always had the safer option as the default, to avoid accidental 'click-through'. As said in the Comments, Command R ...
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Uninstall Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) from macOS Catalina when uninstaller is 32-bit
Fully removing Creative Cloud
Basically, you need to look for files in the following folders:
/Library/Application Support/Adobe
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe
/Library/LaunchAgents
~/Library/...
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How to make Adobe Photoshop automatically save to Photos Library?
Adobe Photoshop does not contemplate proper integration with photos as a default save location for all work. It does receive images from the share sheet, so if that’s good enough for your needs, you’...
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How to make Adobe Photoshop automatically save to Photos Library?
Unfortunately, Adobe Photoshop does not have a built-in feature to automatically save files directly to the Apple Photos Library.
However, there is a workaround that you can try:
In the Photos app, ...
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Stop Adobe Elements Auto Creations 2023 from running altogether
Yes, you can remove Adobe Elements 2023 Organizer without affecting the functionality of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023. The Organizer is a separate program and is not necessary for Photoshop Elements ...
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How to enable/disable Adobe host port in terminal?
The answer is that:
At the private/etc folder we can find the file: hosts
This includes all the infos if a specific url ( in this case adobe) are redirected.
It looks like this:
127.0.0.1 ...
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How to enable/disable Adobe host port in terminal?
Not by commands/ scripting, but to solve the issue:
Open the file /etc/hosts by pasting it in "Go to Folder" in Finder. Edit out anything related to Adobe. This would stop redirecting those urls to ...
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