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- bposeley, on 03/28/2008, -4/+900That's probably because the program is so damn expensive.
- dotlizard, on 03/28/2008, -17/+853gee whiz golly, nobody i know is pirating photoshop. that would be illegal! i'm totally shocked and stuff. really.
- Ninh, on 03/28/2008, -4/+777It could be worse for Adobe: If pirates would prefer someone else's product.
- namelessXsilent, on 03/28/2008, -17/+547Photoshop isnt free?
- Llanowar, on 03/28/2008, -4/+433I honestly thought it to be more like 80-90%
- 42Vindictive, on 03/28/2008, -17/+418Well maybe if Photoshop didn't cost umpteen million dollars, we wouldn't all pirate it.
- jcastillo81, on 03/28/2008, -7/+322For real, if Photoshop cost $70 as opposed to $700 I bet enough people would actually purchase it to make up for the price difference.
- Kalchus, on 03/28/2008, -8/+307Does that make the other 40% ninjas?
- gametavern, on 03/28/2008, -8/+296How else are you going to LEARN to use it? Sure not going to pay $800 to teach myself.
Once you get really good and want to use it for your business, buy the copy. - inactive, on 03/28/2008, -3/+2461330-1455-9505-9239-2041-4849
- BoneStamp, on 03/28/2008, -3/+208Piratization is the highest form of flattery.
- rajputwarrior, on 03/28/2008, -5/+193thats seems kinda low...
- PDF84, on 03/28/2008, -3/+179If you photoshop a receipt, is it still illegal?
- AlMightyBob90, on 03/28/2008, -5/+147According to my list of friends who have Photoshop...I count 100%.
Yarr. - bsdboy, on 03/28/2008, -6/+14760% of the people that post UFO pics are Photoshop users too... Think it's related?
- tendonut, on 03/28/2008, -5/+145Yes, because Billy needs to spend $1,000 to use a program to superimpose the words "I'm in ur X eatin ur Y" on a picture of a cute furry cat.
I can't even see Adobe getting all pissed off about it either. If they were making money or something, that's a different story... - arjie, on 03/28/2008, -15/+153Because the alternative is going without Photoshop, an essential part of human life.
- matthewdestroys, on 03/28/2008, -7/+137i'm currently at work using my 'trial' version of cs3.
- Holle, on 03/28/2008, -3/+116I only pirate about $50 worth of photoshop.
- chubbymidget, on 03/28/2008, -4/+109Photoshop CS3 extended $999. Why not instead sell it for $200 and offer no support other than basic install -if that. Than sell additional support.
10 people buying at $200 is better than 1 at $999.
There has to be a tipping point where a lower cost would bring illegal customers into the legal fold. - loopbiz, on 03/28/2008, -29/+130I always knew I was a minority!
- slippiefist, on 03/28/2008, -25/+120GIMP sucks.
- humanerror, on 04/03/2008, -4/+95In related news, 40% of photoshop users are goddamned liars.
- SlvrEagle23, on 03/28/2008, -0/+82Totally. When it comes to software used by designers or programmers, you just don't hear all that much about their parent companies suing the pants off of every pirate out there. Those companies know very well that if a 16-year-old pirates Photoshop, they might grow up to call themselves professional digital artists with years of Adobe software experience, or if they pirate Visual Studio, they might grow up to be ASP.net developers.
I can tell you that almost every single developer I encounter around here got their start working on a pirated piece of software. You have to start somewhere, and that experience led them to recommend the software to their companies for the rest of their careers. It pays off for Adobe, so you're completely right. - form3hide, on 03/28/2008, -4/+84ha thats great, i love digg
- jonmlm, on 03/28/2008, -5/+75duh
- spect3r, on 03/28/2008, -6/+70No it does not do every single thing Photoshop does. Not even close ... :/ But it's still a good alternative for those just wanting to do touch-ups...
The closest free alternative to Photoshop is the Gimp. http://www.gimp.org/; and even with every plugin installed and interface hack you can find - it's still hard to match Photoshop... - quaxon, on 03/28/2008, -5/+68maybe if they didnt charge the ridiculous price of 600-900 bucks more people would buy it.
- KSUdesigner, on 03/28/2008, -2/+64If stealing gasoline were as easy as stealing photoshop, I'm sure a whole lot more people would be stealing gasoline.
- Masticity, on 03/28/2008, -3/+64Yeah I ***** myself when I saw how much CS3 was.
- OwdenBowden, on 03/28/2008, -7/+63Fact is Photoshop is way way way too expensive for the common user (and even for business). I really do feel it is a wonderful program but there are not some Open Source programs that can compete - they're not going to win the race but they are good enough.
I understand that there are costs involved for development of a product but after a while it just becomes gouging. To pay anywhere from $999 to $3,000 plus is insane. I think that if they could come out with a product no more than $200 and they would be selling like hot cakes. - gavin422, on 03/28/2008, -9/+62The poll only reflects votes on their blog. Buried for being unscientific and likely inaccurate.
- Asianwaste, on 03/28/2008, -4/+47Yea.. I tried it once... I gotta say... its interface annoys the ***** out of me.
- rokinroj, on 03/28/2008, -9/+51I am a Photoshop retard, I resize a few things, maybe layer an image or two, change a background color, thats about all I used it for, so nothing powerful at all, but about a year ago I switched over to Paint.NET and have not missed Photoshop at all. I'm sure that there are a lot of users who really do need it for all of it's complex features, (and Paint.NET does do some of them too) but there are also a lot like me who could make the switch and not need to "acquire" a copy of Photoshop at all.
- mahdaeng, on 03/28/2008, -8/+50And maybe if Lamborghinis weren't so expensive, I'd quit stealing them.
- 00monkey, on 03/28/2008, -3/+43all my years on digg and that what quite literally the first time i LOL'd
- AJC1ne, on 03/28/2008, -18/+58Wait, so photoshop isn't free?!?!
oops. - InferiorWang, on 03/28/2008, -0/+401. copy gasoline
2. ???
3. profit! - diabolicdiablo, on 03/28/2008, -4/+43Maybe it just me justifying it to myself, but as long as I'm not using Photoshop to make money in a studio or for commercial use, I don't feel so bad.
Also I would like to point out:
Photoshop > GIMP - inactive, on 03/28/2008, -5/+44I'm glad to see Adobe is doing its part to combat global warming.
- tendonut, on 03/28/2008, -2/+40Yep, because people were downloading PS 2.0 on their 33.3k modems back in the mid 90's when it STILL cost about the same.
That is the kind of excuse we'd expect to see from the RIAA/MPAA - PhoneGuy, on 03/28/2008, -8/+45I surprised that number is so low.
- Cougaboy, on 03/28/2008, -5/+41This just shows how little you actually know about photoshop.
- Llanowar, on 03/28/2008, -8/+44I use MS Paint. It has even more options than Photoshop!
- vincentweber, on 03/28/2008, -17/+53Yaaaaaaaaaar!
But I don't pirate. Not because I think it is unethical but becuase I prefer FOSS. - rizla420, on 03/28/2008, -0/+33at least you can photoshop it out.
- Otto, on 03/28/2008, -4/+37Nonsense. Please explain how the price is at all related to how much it gets pirated?
If anything, it's pirated more because it costs so damn much. - arjie, on 03/28/2008, -2/+35Ah, I've always wondered how people who couldn't string together coherent sentences on internet forums dedicated to photoshop tutorials managed to find the few hundred dollars to buy Photoshop. Nah, who am I kidding? I've never wondered. It was obvious.
- ejhdigdug, on 03/28/2008, -4/+35Come on, there really is no alternative.
Going to a job interview:
Interviewer: Do you know Photoshop?
Interviewee: No, but I know Paint.NET and Gimp
Sound of door slamming. - jimonastick, on 03/28/2008, -9/+39Umm...yeah, cause I'm really going to spend $700 on a program that I could get for free?
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