Adobe Photoshop 2024

USER layer: 63 comments (top 25 by upvotes shown), dominated by HackerNews threads comparing Photoshop to alternatives and discussing Linux compatibility. Themes: (1) Overkill for non-professionals — a top-voted comment argues 'Using Photoshop without a specific professional objective is a trap', noting casual users 'roleplay as graphic designers' with pro tools they barely use. (2) Free alternatives are viable for casual work — Photopea is repeatedly praised for native PSD support, similar shortcuts, Photoshop brush import, and a helpful subreddit; one user reports using it weekly for a year with no bugs. (3) But alternatives still fail professional niches — Photopea's CMYK mode keeps swatches in RGB and blends in RGB, frustrating print workflows; notably, a self-described 40-year NYC ad-agency veteran counters that CMYK is a 'vestige of print' and most 2024 work is 'rgb, to rgb, and then to rgb' — the USER layer internally disagrees on how much this matters. (4) Linux/Wine frustration — Photoshop is called 'the Sisyphus of software compatibility on Wine': UE5 games run via Proton while Photoshop still struggles, because it touches far more Windows API surface. (5) Stagnation and performance — a user running 2007's CS3 found the primary tools, blending options, Image/Adjustments, and Filters menus 'almost 1:1 feature-wise with the latest CC version, aside from the terrible performance regression'. (6) Perpetual-license nostalgia — a commenter is 'thankful' they bought CS5 outright years ago because it 'makes me think more' instead of one-click AI fixes. Overall: professionals concede it is still needed for specific production objectives; the sharpest criticism targets value-for-casual-users, the subscription, and perceived bloat, not core capability.

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