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Some time ago I wanted to do something in photoshop and the old < $100 home version they used to sell would have done the trick. But they wouldn’t sell it to me anyone, instead wanting me to pay a subscription, which I was unwilling to do for an ”a few times a year” task. So I looked for alternatives and found Affinity Photo. Now I doubt that I will ever pay for photoshop.

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Isn't the monthly subscription model even better for tasks you only do a few times a year, since you can subscribe when you want to use it and deactivate when you're done?

No, because I would have to pay for a full month to just use it once (Photoshop, IIRC, is $20/m so it would only take 5 uses to be up to the $100 I would have paid).

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