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title: 'Stop Using Adobe Products'
pubDate: 2026-05-01
description: "You don't need to pay money to be a good artist musician or movie editor"
author: 'Vincent Paul'
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    url: '/adobeSucks.jpg'
    alt: 'The Astro logo on a dark background with a pink glow.'
tags: ["astro", "blogging", "learning in public"]
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## why should I stop using adobe photoshop as a visual artist?

1. **Your art could potentially be used to train their AI**: 

2. **The Free alternatives are genuinely capable for professional Use**:

3. **Adobe has had bad business practices in the past**: 

## Why should i stop using adobe animate as an animator?

1. **Adobe Animate no longer exists**

2. **Photoshop sucks as a tool for animation, and after affects is hardly similar to 2d animation**

## Why should i stop using adobe audition as a musician?
1. **Nobody uses Audition for Music Production tbh.**


## Why should i stop using adobe premiere as a Video editor?
1. **Why pay for video editing when you can use ffmpeg directly?**