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  OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-09-03 14:47 +0200
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop rsutton <rsutton43@comcast.net> - 2025-09-03 09:16 -0400
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-09-03 09:19 -0400
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop invalid  <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-03 13:23 +0000
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-04 03:14 +0100
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop wasbit <wasbit@REMOVEhotmail.com> - 2025-09-04 09:37 +0100
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-03 10:26 -0400
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-03 10:29 -0400
        Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-09-03 17:40 +0000
          Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Abandoned Trolley <that.bloke@microsoft.com> - 2025-09-04 15:23 +0100
            Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-09-05 02:45 +0000
        Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-04 03:17 +0100
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-09-04 12:53 +0100
        Identifying people in pictures Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-04 14:18 +0100
        Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-04 11:47 -0400
          Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-09-04 22:40 +0100
            Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-05 03:30 -0400
            Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-05 13:47 +0100
              Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-09-06 11:27 +0100
                Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-06 08:45 -0400
                  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-09-06 17:51 +0100
                  Photo Management (Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop) Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-09-12 13:30 +0000
                Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-09-06 09:34 -0400
                Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-06 16:15 +0100
                  Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-09-06 16:31 +0100
                    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-06 20:11 +0100
                      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-09-06 15:30 -0400
            Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-09-06 15:27 +0200
              Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-09-06 15:42 +0100
                Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-09-06 18:31 +0200
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-09-03 12:33 -0500
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-09-04 14:48 +0200
        Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-04 12:00 -0400
          Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-09-04 12:58 -0400
            Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-04 13:56 -0400
        Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-09-04 12:06 -0500
          Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-04 13:41 -0400
          Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-09-04 20:18 +0200
            Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-09-04 15:32 -0500
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-09-03 14:34 -0400
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-09-03 20:40 +0200
        Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-09-03 20:58 +0000
        Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-09-03 19:10 -0400
        Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-09-04 20:20 +0200
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop wasbit <wasbit@REMOVEhotmail.com> - 2025-09-04 09:45 +0100
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Zaidy036 <Zaidy036@air.isp.spam> - 2025-09-03 15:57 -0400
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop invalid <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-03 21:14 +0000
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-09-04 06:54 +0000
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-09-03 21:19 +0000
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Philip Herlihy <nothing@invalid.com> - 2025-09-04 11:39 +0100
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-03 14:37 -0700
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-09-03 17:17 -0500
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Jim the Geordie <jim@geordieland.com> - 2025-09-04 00:55 +0100
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-04 02:56 +0100
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-09-04 06:39 +0000
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop jetjock <jetjock@unkown.com> - 2025-09-04 09:24 -0500
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-09-05 10:17 +0200
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop George <hgrikmnhb@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-06 20:56 +0000
        Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2025-09-06 18:09 -0500
      Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-09-07 09:32 +0200
    Re: OT: Replacement for Adobe Photoshop Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-09-05 19:41 +0200

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#187190

On 03/09/2025 20:34, knuttle wrote:
> On 09/03/2025 8:47 AM, Fokke Nauta wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have Photoshop CS6 installed on my pc. It has a license. I bought it 
>> years ago. Unfortunately it didn't work well and had a problem, so I 
>> decided to install it again. I did, but the licence was revoked. I 
>> can't use it now.
>> For a new version of Photoshop I'll have to pay a monthly amount, 
>> which will continue for all the years I will use it. This will cost me 
>> far too much. Is there any acceptable replacement for Photoshop?
>> I'm curious.
>> Thanks for your answers.
>> With best regards,
>> Fokke Nauta
> A replacement depends on your use.
> 
> I use Irfanview for nearly every thing.  It is a quite versatile program 
> and is free.
> -If you need to occasionally correct the color of a picture it can be 
> done in Irfanview.
> -Change the size, paste images together, etc they can be done in Irfanview.
> -Annotate images can be done in two ways, and using drawing tool you and 
> added pointers, etc. I use it as as a primitive CAD tool, for my home 
> projects.
> -Change the image size rotate images, rotate JPG's it can be done in 
> Irfanview.
> -I use it a lot with document  If I have the image of a document, there 
> is a plug in for OCR.  I sometime scan a document or download an 
> document image.  I can adjust the document rotation to orient the 
> document to the page.  I can merge several documents into on file.
> 
> -Irfanview can open dozen of image formats and can convert them to many 
> other formats.  It can open several video formats.
> 
> -Irfanview can be used as a front end for you scanner.
> 
> If you work with images, and do nothing real exotic then it probably can 
> be done in Irfanview.
> 

I use IrfanView to see my pictures. I can't use it for editing my 
pictures. That's too compilcated. I need Photoshop for that.

Fokke

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#187193

On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 20:40:20 +0200, Fokke Nauta wrote :


> I use IrfanView to see my pictures. I can't use it for editing my 
> pictures. That's too compilcated. I need Photoshop for that.

As far as I am aware, you can do everything with "The Gimp" but it's a
royal pain just to do the simplest things with it; that's why I use
Paint.NET which makes the hard things to do very simple indeed.

Try it.

I'll wager it will replace PhotoShop for you, but it really matters exactly
what it is you're trying to accomplish.

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#187198

On 09/03/2025 2:40 PM, Fokke Nauta wrote:
> On 03/09/2025 20:34, knuttle wrote:
>> On 09/03/2025 8:47 AM, Fokke Nauta wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have Photoshop CS6 installed on my pc. It has a license. I bought 
>>> it years ago. Unfortunately it didn't work well and had a problem, so 
>>> I decided to install it again. I did, but the licence was revoked. I 
>>> can't use it now.
>>> For a new version of Photoshop I'll have to pay a monthly amount, 
>>> which will continue for all the years I will use it. This will cost 
>>> me far too much. Is there any acceptable replacement for Photoshop?
>>> I'm curious.
>>> Thanks for your answers.
>>> With best regards,
>>> Fokke Nauta
>> A replacement depends on your use.
>>
>> I use Irfanview for nearly every thing.  It is a quite versatile 
>> program and is free.
>> -If you need to occasionally correct the color of a picture it can be 
>> done in Irfanview.
>> -Change the size, paste images together, etc they can be done in 
>> Irfanview.
>> -Annotate images can be done in two ways, and using drawing tool you 
>> and added pointers, etc. I use it as as a primitive CAD tool, for my 
>> home projects.
>> -Change the image size rotate images, rotate JPG's it can be done in 
>> Irfanview.
>> -I use it a lot with document  If I have the image of a document, 
>> there is a plug in for OCR.  I sometime scan a document or download an 
>> document image.  I can adjust the document rotation to orient the 
>> document to the page.  I can merge several documents into on file.
>>
>> -Irfanview can open dozen of image formats and can convert them to 
>> many other formats.  It can open several video formats.
>>
>> -Irfanview can be used as a front end for you scanner.
>>
>> If you work with images, and do nothing real exotic then it probably 
>> can be done in Irfanview.
>>
> 
> I use IrfanView to see my pictures. I can't use it for editing my 
> pictures. That's too compilcated. I need Photoshop for that.
> 
> Fokke
Irfanview is a lot simpler and easier to use than photoshop.  Everything 
is available in a simple easy to read, dropdown menus from the main tool 
bar.

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#187248

On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 20:40:20 +0200, Fokke Nauta wrote:

> I use IrfanView to see my pictures. I can't use it for editing my 
> pictures. That's too compilcated. I need Photoshop for that.

Because Photoshop is soooooo much easier. (-;

Seriously, I use Irfanview as a viewer as well. I know what I have to
blur things, so I use that. Otherwise Draw (LibreOffice), Paint and
(sometimes) GIMP. It's also way cheaper than Photoshop.

-- 
s|b

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#187211

On 03/09/2025 19:34, knuttle wrote:
> On 09/03/2025 8:47 AM, Fokke Nauta wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have Photoshop CS6 installed on my pc. It has a license. I bought it 
>> years ago. Unfortunately it didn't work well and had a problem, so I 
>> decided to install it again. I did, but the licence was revoked. I 
>> can't use it now.
>> For a new version of Photoshop I'll have to pay a monthly amount, 
>> which will continue for all the years I will use it. This will cost me 
>> far too much. Is there any acceptable replacement for Photoshop?
>> I'm curious.
>> Thanks for your answers.
>> With best regards,
>> Fokke Nauta
> A replacement depends on your use.
> 
> I use Irfanview for nearly every thing.  It is a quite versatile program 
> and is free.
> -If you need to occasionally correct the color of a picture it can be 
> done in Irfanview.
> -Change the size, paste images together, etc they can be done in Irfanview.
> -Annotate images can be done in two ways, and using drawing tool you and 
> added pointers, etc. I use it as as a primitive CAD tool, for my home 
> projects.
> -Change the image size rotate images, rotate JPG's it can be done in 
> Irfanview.
> -I use it a lot with document  If I have the image of a document, there 
> is a plug in for OCR.  I sometime scan a document or download an 
> document image.  I can adjust the document rotation to orient the 
> document to the page.  I can merge several documents into on file.
> 
> -Irfanview can open dozen of image formats and can convert them to many 
> other formats.  It can open several video formats.
> 
> -Irfanview can be used as a front end for you scanner.
> 
> If you work with images, and do nothing real exotic then it probably can 
> be done in Irfanview.
> 

Thank you. Nice post.


-- 
Regards
wasbit

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#187192

On 9/3/2025 8:47 AM, Fokke Nauta wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have Photoshop CS6 installed on my pc. It has a license. I bought it 
> years ago. Unfortunately it didn't work well and had a problem, so I 
> decided to install it again. I did, but the licence was revoked. I can't 
> use it now.
> For a new version of Photoshop I'll have to pay a monthly amount, which 
> will continue for all the years I will use it. This will cost me far too 
> much. Is there any acceptable replacement for Photoshop?
> I'm curious.
> Thanks for your answers.
> With best regards,
> Fokke Nauta

Not free but can do a lot of PS's adjustments: Photoshop Elements
Free but not full featured: Faststone Image Viewer

You should ask in a photo newsgroup

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#187194

On 03/09/2025 20:57, Zaidy036 wrote:
> Not free but can do a lot of PS's adjustments: Photoshop Elements

Are you aware that Adobe has changed the terms for PSE? The licence is 
now valid for three years, so you will need to purchase a new licence 
every three years. This applies to products purchased in 2025 and 
onwards. If you have older versions, they still have a perpetual licence.


<https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=PSE+new+licensing+terms>

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#187209

On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 15:57:42 -0400, Zaidy036 wrote :


> Not free but can do a lot of PS's adjustments: Photoshop Elements
> Free but not full featured: Faststone Image Viewer
> 
> You should ask in a photo newsgroup

Prolly' the best "photo newsgroup" on Usenet would be rec.photo.digital
although alt.comp.freeware is no slouch when it comes to free replacements.

To that end, I've already clued in both of those groups as to this query.


On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 17:58:47 -0700, John C. wrote in alt.comp.freeware

> Nice list, but you missed PhotoFiltre:
> 
>   http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm

Ah! Good catch! Thanks! I hate screwing up. In public no less.
Let me look. Oh. Actually, it's there. And I've even used it recently.

It's just that I didn't have photo filter in that specific log file!
 <https://i.postimg.cc/2yf9Hf9v/photofiltre.jpg>

Although I actually forget what specialty edit I needed that I used it for.

This post of mine will only be useful to the small number of people who
don't use these editors all that often, where I use only some often.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/sDWhsB18/editor-pic.jpg> my photo editor archive

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#187195

Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have Photoshop CS6 installed on my pc. It has a license. I bought it 
> years ago. Unfortunately it didn't work well and had a problem, so I 
> decided to install it again. I did, but the licence was revoked. I can't 
> use it now.
> For a new version of Photoshop I'll have to pay a monthly amount, which 
> will continue for all the years I will use it. This will cost me far too 
> much. Is there any acceptable replacement for Photoshop?
> I'm curious.
> 

As far as I've heard from photo specialists Affinity Photo is the best
alternative. It is quite different from PS so you will need to relearn
workflows, but it is very good by all accounts. 

No subscriptions. 

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#187214

In article <109abcd$1d5jg$1@dont-email.me>, ithinkiam@gmail.com says...
>
>Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have Photoshop CS6 installed on my pc. It has a license. I bought it 
>> years ago. Unfortunately it didn't work well and had a problem, so I 
>> decided to install it again. I did, but the licence was revoked. I can't 
>> use it now.
>> For a new version of Photoshop I'll have to pay a monthly amount, which 
>> will continue for all the years I will use it. This will cost me far too 
>> much. Is there any acceptable replacement for Photoshop?
>> I'm curious.
>> 
>
>As far as I've heard from photo specialists Affinity Photo is the best
>alternative. It is quite different from PS so you will need to relearn
>workflows, but it is very good by all accounts. 
>
>No subscriptions. 

Affinity Photo for me!

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/

There are also tools much like Illustrator, and Publisher, which work 
together seamlessly.  Discount on the suite, usually.

-- 
--
Phil, London

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#187196

On 9/3/25 5:47 AM, Fokke Nauta wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have Photoshop CS6 installed on my pc. It has a license. I bought it 
> years ago. Unfortunately it didn't work well and had a problem, so I 
> decided to install it again. I did, but the licence was revoked. I can't 
> use it now.
> For a new version of Photoshop I'll have to pay a monthly amount, which 
> will continue for all the years I will use it. This will cost me far too 
> much. Is there any acceptable replacement for Photoshop?
> I'm curious.
> Thanks for your answers.
> With best regards,
> Fokke Nauta


Try Gimp and Inkscape

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#187197

On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 14:47:41 +0200, Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> wrote:

>Is there any acceptable replacement for Photoshop?

My wife switched to Affinity Photo after many years of using Photoshop.
Affinity is a one-time purchase, just like most software used to be.

Random Google search result, comparing GIMP and Affinity Photo to
Photoshop:

<https://diginate.com/blog/we-tested-4-photo-editing-alternatives-to-photoshop/>

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#187199

On 03/09/2025 13:47, Fokke Nauta wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have Photoshop CS6 installed on my pc. It has a license. I bought it 
> years ago. Unfortunately it didn't work well and had a problem, so I 
> decided to install it again. I did, but the licence was revoked. I can't 
> use it now.
> For a new version of Photoshop I'll have to pay a monthly amount, which 
> will continue for all the years I will use it. This will cost me far too 
> much. Is there any acceptable replacement for Photoshop?
> I'm curious.
> Thanks for your answers.
> With best regards,
> Fokke Nauta

PaintShop Pro for me

-- 
Jim the Geordie

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#187204

On 2025/9/3 13:47:41, Fokke Nauta wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have Photoshop CS6 installed on my pc. It has a license. I bought it 
> years ago. Unfortunately it didn't work well and had a problem, so I 
> decided to install it again. I did, but the licence was revoked. I can't 
> use it now.

Was that ("didn't work well") shortly after you bought it, or after some
years? Either way, if the not-working was sufficiently bad, you should
have been entitled to support or a refund. In particular, assuming the
reinstall was on the same machine, there should have been a - probably
manual - procedure whereby you contact them and they help you out (with
another key, instructions on how to make the first one work, or similar).

This far down the line, you're probably screwed in that respect.

> For a new version of Photoshop I'll have to pay a monthly amount, which 
> will continue for all the years I will use it. This will cost me far too 
> much. Is there any acceptable replacement for Photoshop?
> I'm curious.
> Thanks for your answers.
> With best regards,
> Fokke Nauta

Depends what you want to do. For me, IrfanView (free) does all _I_ want,
but I _am_ aware what it doesn't do - see subsequent posts. (FastStone
is a less-known alternative that I think does almost exactly what
IrfanView does, from the time I tried it, with a slightly different user
interface for the functions; I prefer IrfanView, but that's almost
certainly because I'm more familiar with IV, than it being _better_.
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

'It works for me' is not the same as it isn't broke - Kenn Villegas,
2010-2-19 in
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/why-the-windows-registry-sucks-technically/

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#187208

On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 02:56:07 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote :


> Depends what you want to do. For me, IrfanView (free) does all _I_ want,
> but I _am_ aware what it doesn't do - see subsequent posts. (FastStone
> is a less-known alternative that I think does almost exactly what
> IrfanView does, from the time I tried it, with a slightly different user
> interface for the functions; I prefer IrfanView, but that's almost
> certainly because I'm more familiar with IV, than it being _better_.

This post of mine will only be useful to the small number of people who
don't use these editors all that often, where I use only some often.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/sDWhsB18/editor-pic.jpg> my photo editor archive

Irfanview:
 a. I mostly use it for fast viewing almost every image format 
 b. It's also my batch processor for images;
 c. And, it's my "shrinker" "sizer" "cropper" for images;
But I would never call Irfanview an "editor" in terms of what that means.

Paint.NET
 a. I mostly use it for editing (i.e., greatly changing) images
 b. In my use model, that's mostly for screenshot editing
 c. As it is fantastic for adding text, arrows & circles/boxes
Where I think it's the closest free 1:1 replacement for Adobe Photoshop.

There are times when I use the plugins to both to add features.
 A. An example is an OCR plugin for Irfanview
 B. An example is a PDF plugin for Paint.NET

I'm probably more well organized on a computer than any other human being
you have ever met in your life, or will meet in the rest of your life.

So what I have on my system is what I found over the years to work for me.

If I look at what's installed at this very moment, each time I've needed a
specialty editor in the past year or so, I've re-installed a tested editor.
 
Here's a quick "dir /b" of my c:\app\editor\pic\ installation folder:
 analogexif
 fastone
 fotosketcher
 freehandpainter
 hip
 imagemagick
 inkscape
 iview
 krita
 paint.net
 photofiltre
 pinta
 pnet
 psp
 vicman
 xface

Each of those "specialty" editors does "something" that neither Irfanview
nor Paint.NET did that I had needed in the past year or so for images.

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#187227

On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 14:47:41 +0200, Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl>
wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I have Photoshop CS6 installed on my pc. It has a license. I bought it 
>years ago. Unfortunately it didn't work well and had a problem, so I 
>decided to install it again. I did, but the licence was revoked. I can't 
>use it now.
>For a new version of Photoshop I'll have to pay a monthly amount, which 
>will continue for all the years I will use it. This will cost me far too 
>much. Is there any acceptable replacement for Photoshop?
>I'm curious.
>Thanks for your answers.
>With best regards,
>Fokke Nauta

Hi Fokke Nauta,

  I do have a license crack for CS6 that should work for your
situation since you did already have a valid license. Let me know if
you would be interested in this fix and we'll figure a way to get it
to you,

     >>>>>>>>>>jetjock<<<<<<<<<<

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#187263

On Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:24:15 -0500, jetjock wrote:

>   I do have a license crack for CS6 that should work for your
> situation since you did already have a valid license. Let me know if
> you would be interested in this fix and we'll figure a way to get it
> to you,

*cringe*

-- 
s|b

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#187302

On 04/09/2025 15:24, jetjock wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 14:47:41 +0200, Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have Photoshop CS6 installed on my pc. It has a license. I bought it
>> years ago. Unfortunately it didn't work well and had a problem, so I
>> decided to install it again. I did, but the licence was revoked. I can't
>> use it now.
>> For a new version of Photoshop I'll have to pay a monthly amount, which
>> will continue for all the years I will use it. This will cost me far too
>> much. Is there any acceptable replacement for Photoshop?
>> I'm curious.
>> Thanks for your answers.
>> With best regards,
>> Fokke Nauta
> 
> Hi Fokke Nauta,
> 
>    I do have a license crack for CS6 that should work for your
> situation since you did already have a valid license. Let me know if
> you would be interested in this fix and we'll figure a way to get it
> to you,
> 

I haven't seen any new licence cracks for the latest Adobe products. 
There used to be a guy called Sanders who distributed them, but he's 
disappeared. I don't know what happened to him. None of the crack 
newsgroups are involved with cracks these days.

Adobe has made it very difficult to crack its products by ensuring that 
every DLL requires a valid key. There was a time when you only had to 
reverse engineer one or two files, but that trick doesn't work anymore. 
Attempting to do so breaks other things.

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#187303

George wrote on 9/6/2025 3:56 PM:
> On 04/09/2025 15:24, jetjock wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 14:47:41 +0200, Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have Photoshop CS6 installed on my pc. It has a license. I bought it
>>> years ago. Unfortunately it didn't work well and had a problem, so I
>>> decided to install it again. I did, but the licence was revoked. I can't
>>> use it now.
>>> For a new version of Photoshop I'll have to pay a monthly amount, which
>>> will continue for all the years I will use it. This will cost me far too
>>> much. Is there any acceptable replacement for Photoshop?
>>> I'm curious.
>>> Thanks for your answers.
>>> With best regards,
>>> Fokke Nauta
>>
>> Hi Fokke Nauta,
>>
>>     I do have a license crack for CS6 that should work for your
>> situation since you did already have a valid license. Let me know if
>> you would be interested in this fix and we'll figure a way to get it
>> to you,
>>
> 
> I haven't seen any new licence cracks for the latest Adobe products.
> There used to be a guy called Sanders who distributed them, but he's
> disappeared. I don't know what happened to him. None of the crack
> newsgroups are involved with cracks these days.
> 
> Adobe has made it very difficult to crack its products by ensuring that
> every DLL requires a valid key. There was a time when you only had to
> reverse engineer one or two files, but that trick doesn't work anymore.
> Attempting to do so breaks other things.
> 

Sounds like fokke is out of luck.  Can you recommend any other less 
expensive software?

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#187308

On 04/09/2025 16:24, jetjock wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 14:47:41 +0200, Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have Photoshop CS6 installed on my pc. It has a license. I bought it
>> years ago. Unfortunately it didn't work well and had a problem, so I
>> decided to install it again. I did, but the licence was revoked. I can't
>> use it now.
>> For a new version of Photoshop I'll have to pay a monthly amount, which
>> will continue for all the years I will use it. This will cost me far too
>> much. Is there any acceptable replacement for Photoshop?
>> I'm curious.
>> Thanks for your answers.
>> With best regards,
>> Fokke Nauta
> 
> Hi Fokke Nauta,
> 
>    I do have a license crack for CS6 that should work for your
> situation since you did already have a valid license. Let me know if
> you would be interested in this fix and we'll figure a way to get it
> to you,
> 
>       >>>>>>>>>>jetjock<<<<<<<<<<

Thanks!
But I'm now working with Paintshop Pro and Gimp.
It's different from Photoshop, but I can use them.

Fokke

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