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Originally Posted by facialfreak
I buy my Photoshop license ... but I also use it to make a living, and as such, it is a tax write-off anyways ...
For the other 99% of the internet (with bit torrent) ... yes Photoshop may as well be a free download.
I mean ... lets be honest ... sure nobody likes to openly discuss it, but of my friends, every last one of them has photoshop on their computer ... how much (if anything) they paid for it, is not what is being discussed here.
If I already have Photoshop on my computer that does a smashing job of batch renaming, why on God's green earth would I need to download another program??
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What I meant was, loading each file into Photoshop one by one, as someone suggested, or loading them and saving them (ie, unnecessarily compressing them again) as .jpg.
I agree with you about Photoshop piracy. I'm not saying Adobe actively encouraged it, but I do believe they unofficially condoned it, or at least recognized the benefits of it.
People (businesses) who could afford Photoshop paid for it, and people who couldn't afford it, download it, and got hooked on it. If they later started a business, or got rich enough, they'd buy Photoshop, because it's what they had learned and were used to.
I'm sure Adobe preferred people to use Photoshop for free than other, more affordable or pirated, software from their rivals.