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          Joined: 16 Feb 2011Posts: 332
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				|  Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 11:06 pm    Post subject: "Pixelmator 2.2 is a 15$ legitimate Photoshop replaceme |   |   
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				| A Znet Article summary is "while Adobe moves to a subscription model for its defacto standard Photoshop application, a scrappy, Mac-only image editor stands to gain marketshare from users put off by the idea of subscription software."
 http://www.zdnet.com/pixelmator-2-2-is-a-legitimate-photoshop-replacement-that-costs-15-7000015035/
 
 
 
 Do you think Photoshop will lose customers whrn it becomes a subscription only software?
 I'm personally making multiple backup copies of PS CS6 as it looks like the last Photoshop standalone software available
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        thehermit
 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 1:23 am    Post subject: |   |   
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				| Only Photoshop is an industry standard, whilst that is the case (and it will be for many moons yet) it is peerless.
 If you want a real alternative to Photoshop there is only one serious contender and that's GIMP, which is incidentally free.
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        Rarity
 
 
 
          Joined: 27 Nov 2012Posts: 329
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				|  Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 10:42 am    Post subject: |   |   
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				|  	  | thehermit wrote: |  	  | Only Photoshop is an industry standard, whilst that is the case (and it will be for many moons yet) it is peerless. 
 If you want a real alternative to Photoshop there is only one serious contender and that's GIMP, which is incidentally free.
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				|  Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 10:40 pm    Post subject: |   |   
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				| By the way, the title that I put for this post is the article title and not my opinion.
 My opinion is that I totally whole-heartedly agree with you, no other software can replace Photoshop's power and flexibility. I'm wondering what graphic design companies who are used to owning a copy of PS will do when it becomes subscription only, I guess they will stick to CS6 and use plugins to substitute for the new features in CS7
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