“You shouldn't have to pay big tech companies expensive subscriptions to make your photos look the way you want.”
skarn03, on github.com ↗
Film looks, grain, halation and RAW edits on your own disk, with no monthly ticket to somebody's photo cloud.
Photoshop is $22.99 a month, forever. Photon Studio does layers, masks, Liquify and PSD files on your own machine, and the bill was one cancelled Adobe subscription.
“My original post blew up after I mentioned that I spent $2,000 to implement a photoshop replacement and cancel my own Adobe subscription.”
Photo booth software wants a monthly fee, an account and a connection to print a strip of four. Open Photo Booth does the strip offline and charges you nothing.
“Most photo booth software is sold as a monthly subscription, tied to an online account, and often limited per device.”
CapCut lets you edit the whole video, then wants a subscription at the Export button. Concat exports for free and never learned the word watermark.
“I was really excited to complete and upload my first video ever, and everything seemed perfect until I clicked Export and it showed a popup saying that I had to pay a monthly subscription fee to use the most trivial features like voice changers.”
Built something because a company wanted your credit card for a feature that fits in a single file? That's spiteware. Submit it and join the hall of fame.
