Much as I’ve enjoyed using Adobe Photoshop over these past 4 years, it’s now time to ditch it and return to Affinity. Adobe are becoming a pain in the arse with their policies, and do not inspire trust or belief at all now. Affinity have an offer of £59.99 for Photo + Designer + Publisher as an upgrade for previous users, so I’ve taken advantage of that. Photo is all I really need, but the other 2 are bundled in, so why not… And it’s not a subscription model!
Getting rid of Adobe CC and cancelling the subscription is a real pain. You have to use the Adobe CC desktop to uninstall each app in turn (just Photoshop and Lightroom Classic for me). Then attempt to uninstall the desktop app itself which complained that there were still active apps, even though there was nothing uninstallable! So, had to download an uninstaller from Adobe to get it done. Then a cleanup program from Adobe to clear out more stuff. And finally delete 4 folders manually. As for cancelling the subscription, that has to be done on accounts.adobe.com (once all desktop has been removed), and it’s more pain; multiple are-your-sures, and an early cancellation fee of £19.97 to pay. In honesty, just relieved to be free of Adobe and their ways.
Going to have to relearn and readjust to Affinity, of course! I did have quite a fluent workflow using keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop, and not sure how much of that can be replicated. No AI, of course; no Neural Filters: but I’m sure I’ll get by!