“The only caveats for me were the export resolution limits and a privacy factor, that is, my images got uploaded to their servers.”
Sathyajith MC, on news.ycombinator.com ↗
remove.bg capped your export resolution and then moved into Canva. RMBG cuts out backgrounds in your browser at full size, no credits.
Seventeen dollars for one passport photo. Deadpan turns your webcam into the photo booth and prints six on a 4x6.
“I needed a passport photo and didn't want to pay $17 for one picture.”
Illustrator costs $22.99 a month, forever. Scissor edits vector and raster in a browser tab, no install, no account, no arm or leg.
“I don't replicate, I am creating an aleternative for myself and people like me that they need an advanced app but can't afford to give an arm and a leg.”
Vector studios now rent you a subscription, an account wall and a cloud that reads your files. Illusion draws beziers in the browser and exports print-ready PDF for free.
“I got increasingly frustrated with modern creative software: forced monthly cloud subscriptions, heavy runtimes, account walls, tools that harvest your private project files, and creative software completely ignoring Linux and Android tablets.”
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