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On Adobe Blog:

Photoshop has been accreting power & users for the better part of two decades. The once-little app has proven almost endlessly adaptable to new needs and workflows, but all that morphing has a price. In many cases we’ve traded simplicity for power, and not all the pieces look like part of a cohesive whole. In fact, I sometimes joke that looking at some parts of the app is like counting the rings in a tree: you can gauge when certain features arrived by the dimensions & style of the dialog.

I’ve always felt that Adobe is one of those companies that continue to innovate—even when they hold a virtual monopoly in the market.

Even so, and even with their continued innovation, I URGE YOU TO BOYCOTT their product, until it is free. DON’T USE Photoshop. USE GIMP, the free image editor. Unless you need a very specialized feature in Photoshop, GIMP will fill your needs just as well, and really, it only takes a day or so to learn through the interface difference.

I dream of a day when every published software is free and proprietary software is limited to in-house applications and slums.