While they do not have a monopoly at all, they have become a huge household name.... we even use 'I'm going to photoshop that bit out and so on' regardless if you do it with photoshop or not. There are alternatives, but as soon as you start working with printing companies and so on, how far will these alternatives get you? Not too far they expect you to have photoshop and even create their own printing profiles for it.

The thing is large companies tend to misuse their position. MS is starting to do it, now Adobe, who's next? They don't sell you software anymore, they lease it to you, since that's what it really is. But..... do we get the option to keep the leased software after the lease runs out or do we as with leased cars have to pay another fee to be able to keep on using the software after a year or is the lease over and we have to move on to the next version whether we like it or not, to prevent we end up with nothing at all.

As said before, bye Adobe, just as much as I've said bye, bye, MS Office.... I can live without and get one of the excellent alternatives, that work just as good and for sure are a lot faster and less memory hungry.

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Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk