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Adobe purchased Topaz Labs

wklee
June 29, 2026
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    wklee
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    June 29, 2026, 8:18 a.m. June 29, 2026, 8:18 a.m.
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    www.dpreview.com/news/4633126427/adobe-is-trying-to-buy-an-important-ai-upstart

    I wonder what will happen now? I avoided Adobe for years. I was given a Founders Price on the Topaz Studio Apps for sticking with Topaz Labs.

    fstoppers.com/originals/adobe-buying-one-last-good-things-photo-editing-903215

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    Bryan
    Members 1865 posts
    June 29, 2026, 8:47 a.m. June 29, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
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    @wklee has written:

    www.dpreview.com/news/4633126427/adobe-is-trying-to-buy-an-important-ai-upstart

    I wonder what will happen now? I avoided Adobe for years. I was given a Founders Price on the Topaz Studio Apps for sticking with Topaz Labs.

    fstoppers.com/originals/adobe-buying-one-last-good-things-photo-editing-903215

    The fstoppers article is worth a read if you care about what the gorilla in the room has been up to and is likely to continue doing...

    NCV likes this.

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    wklee
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    June 29, 2026, 9:08 a.m. June 29, 2026, 9:08 a.m.
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    I have Canva and Affinity Studio. I previously purchased Affinity Photo 2. The Affinity Suite on the iPad are now free.

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    xpatUSA
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    June 29, 2026, 9:16 a.m. June 29, 2026, 9:16 a.m.
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    Sad, that!

    My computer has been Adobe-free for many, many years ...

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    wklee
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    June 29, 2026, 9:32 a.m. June 29, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
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    Canva and Affinity, There are free versions but they really want people to be on Subscription.

    With my Intel MacBook Pro now dead, repairing it may not be worth while but I couldn’t put the SSD into an external casing. Apparently it may not work.

    It was my Canva/Affinity/Topaz Labs Mac.

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    xpatUSA
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    June 29, 2026, 9:49 a.m. June 29, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
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    @Bryan has written:
    @wklee has written:

    www.dpreview.com/news/4633126427/adobe-is-trying-to-buy-an-important-ai-upstart

    I wonder what will happen now? I avoided Adobe for years. I was given a Founders Price on the Topaz Studio Apps for sticking with Topaz Labs.

    fstoppers.com/originals/adobe-buying-one-last-good-things-photo-editing-903215

    The fstoppers article is worth a read if you care about what the gorilla in the room has been up to and is likely to continue doing...

    Yep.

    fstoppers has written:

    In 2013, Adobe moved Creative Cloud to subscription only and took perpetual licenses off the table. Photographers were furious then and adapted because there was nowhere else to go, which is the entire lesson Adobe seems to have drawn from the episode: anger is survivable when the customer has no exit.

    My exit: GIMP, RawTherapee, XnView pro, FastStone Viewer, FastRawViewer. Each to his own ...

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