Photoshop
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What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.
“a replacement for Photoshop that costs $275/year in a predatory subscription where you cant cancel without a $200 penalty”
NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-08-28
“the UI of Photoshop for example felt more responsive (at least on Mac) in 7/CS1/CS2”
MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-05
“Their Creative Cloud spyware keeps enabling itself and reinstalling itself so long as you use photoshop”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-02
“over 25 years of Photoshop use has me locked into a way that image editing should work”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-19
“photoshop/adobe is the defacto standard everything else is measured from”
POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-19
“Every time I give Photoshop a chance I give completely up, the thing doesn't even start on neither Fedora or Ubuntu”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-19
“With Photoshop, there's tons of functionality but I can usually figure out what to do by poking around in the menus and hovering at the icons in the toolbar.”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-19
“95% of photoshop users only use a feature subset thats also available in GIMP (except for maybe the latest generative infill)”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-19
“I'm paying $16/mo for Photoshop and Lightroom. I have to imagine that the majority of people who post to HN can afford $16/mo”
POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-05-18
“I need Photoshop for an almost vanishingly small subset of all the things it is capable of”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-18
“The integration of Adobe Fonts into Photoshop is broken: it can lock Photoshop hard and force you to kill the process”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-06
“I can't believe I was paying $40/month for Photoshop for so long.”
NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-04-19
“regularly edit 36MP photos on a similarly specced device without slowdown in Lightroom and Photoshop”
POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-12
“Photoshop is a good example (to me) of software that can't stop updating”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-05
“I like Lightroom and Photoshop and am willing to keep paying for it”
POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-01-25
“kerning is usually pretty bad with Serifed fonts in, at the very least, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Powerpoint, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-12-10
“The last version of photoshop I used wasn't all that much better though.”
LUKEWARM · performance · Hacker News · 2025-11-19
“Photoshop and Illustrator let you work in CMYK, and is directionally correct”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-04
“compared to Photoshop, which feels like I am banging my head against the software”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-10-31
“you can create these creative profiles in photoshop too but Davinci's color grading tools are so far superior”
LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-15
“AI tools in Adobe Photoshop makes previously-useless client-provided materials amazing, and lets me create things from scratch when clients provide nothing - and the output is commercially usable”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-09-27
“hours of painful manually cropping and Photoshop work was about to beset me”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-06-07
“started learning InDesign and Photoshop as well. Fast forward to now, that's how I'm supporting myself.”
MIXED · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-18
“Photoshop select subject works pretty good and quite fast for selections and camera raw versions for the new photoshop offer more adjustments for raw files”
MIXED · features · Reddit · 2025-05-17
“If Photoshop and Apple could work out how to display a freaking thumbnail in Finder”
NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-16
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