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When the cloud apps are the only thing accessible, then your access is no longer yours. And, apparently, you will simply be cut off. No refunds of any kind. So, no more photoshop for you in that country. From Ars:
Adobe is deactivating all user accounts in Venezuela, saying that the action is necessary to comply with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump. The action affects both free and paid accounts. In an FAQ titled "Adobe compliance with US Executive Order," the company explained yesterday why it is canceling its Venezuela-based customers' subscriptions:
The US Government issued Executive Order 13884, the practical effect of which is to prohibit almost all transactions and services between US companies, entities, and individuals in Venezuela. To remain compliant with this order, Adobe is deactivating all accounts in Venezuela.
The story is also on the Verge.
Using SaaS, PaaS and IaaS is painful if you are on the wrong side of the line. What happens if you turn on your computer in Venezuela, but are not from there? Will you be blocked too? And, who is next? Eventually, you may (will) become a bargaining chip in a fight that is not yours, just because you use a cloud service.
(Score: 3, Informative) by hendrikboom on Wednesday October 09 2019, @12:59PM (3 children)
Don't forget Krita.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Thursday October 10 2019, @04:08AM (2 children)
An excellent program worth checking out even if you do still have access to Adobe products. Not necessarily a good choice for photo editing, but it's wonderful for raster-based illustration, has some basic animation features, and keeps folding in good features from other open-source tools like MyPaint and Alchemy, especially with regard to brush engines.
Slightly different, but digikam is a very good FOSS photo management tool that bundles in its own passable basic editor that works well enough for the usual resize/crop/etc. stuff. Works well when combined with heftier software like Krita and Gimp .
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday October 10 2019, @01:25PM (1 child)
I think Krita is great. But it needs a beginner's guide. I find it has just about everything I need, but I keep getting lost in the menus -- there is just too much there. For example, I ended up lost in the smudge brush configurator when all I needed was one of the smudge brushes aleady available. Why? Because I didn't know any better.
Perhaps a beginner needs a Krita light -- or a "lite" command line option -- that uses exactly the same executable, but restricts the menu system to the tools a beginner won't get lost in.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by Marand on Friday October 11 2019, @04:51AM
It won't help with the menus, but you might want to look into the "workspaces" feature, which lets you save and reuse different toolbox configurations for different workflows. Might also save toolbar configurations, but I'm not certain on that; I haven't made any new workspaces in a while so I can't say for sure.
Anyway, I don't recall if it's on the toolbar by default but if you go to Settings > Configure Toolbars and choose the toolbar "BrushesAndStuff ", you can find and add the "Workspaces" action to it for easy access. That way you can build a "beginner-friendly" set of toolboxes, save it as a workspace preset, and reuse it on different systems or after configuration wipes, or maybe even distribute it to others. There aren't many presets available by default, so the devs would probably appreciate a good newbie-friendly layout if you submitted one. (Workspace configurations are found under "workspaces" directory in Krita, with extension .kws, e.g. ~/.local/share/krita/workspaces/Workspace.kws)