[fxtentacle]

I would describe my business relationship with Adobe as:

"hostage"

They annually harass me with licensing checks and questionnaires because they really hate you if you run Photoshop inside a VM (my daily driver is Linux), although it is explicitly allowed. Luckily, I don't need the Adobe software that often. But they hold a lot of important old company documents hostage in their proprietary file formats. So I can't cancel the subscription, no matter how much I'd like to.

[xeonmc]

Have you seen the recently posted video "For Profit (Creative) Software"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4mdMMu-3fc

[sureIy]

> proprietary file formats

Gimp can't handle them?

[jwitthuhn]

It sort of can but all non-adobe software I know of, even commercial stuff like Affinity Photo, has spotty support for some PSD features.

Basically any given PSD will certainly load correctly in photoshop, but you're rolling the dice if you want to load it into anything else. More so if you are using more modern features.

[fxtentacle]

For InDesign magazines with embedded images, for example, I'm not aware of any compatible 3rd party software

[mandmandam]

Here are some options which might help [0] (Bias: I love Affinity Publisher and despise Adobe).

0 - https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/225143-wha...

[mamonoleechi]

If not, Affinity Photo or Photopea will probably do the job.