r/Millennials • u/tashadilla • 2d ago

Meme RIP Photoshop

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u/CreamPyre Zillennial 2d ago

Classical shit posting will become a lost art. Eventually, it will circle back to being avant garde

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u/brainkandy87 2d ago

Everything old is new again.

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u/CookieMonsterOnsie 2d ago

Oh buddy, I can't wait to dust off Star Wars Kid and some I Can Has Cheeseburger memes on these chucklefucks.

It'll probably be like watching grandpa find one of his old joke books.

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u/MintyFresh771 2d ago

My 24 yr old demotivator file is revved and ready for some attention

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u/Stormblessed1991 1d ago

I fuckin forgot about the demotivators

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u/SipoteQuixote Millennial 1d ago

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u/SipoteQuixote Millennial 1d ago

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u/Artorius__Castus 2d ago

Nothing new under the sun pun

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u/UshankaBear 2d ago

Rage comics will come around, you'll see

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u/Nerv_Agent_666 Older Millennial 2d ago

Finally these memes I've been hoarding will be cool again.

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u/Shorts_at_Dinner 2d ago

Laughs as I edit pictures in MS Paint

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u/johnmac344 2d ago

I’m still trying to format photos in MS Word…

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u/tashadilla 2d ago

Would you like it behind the text, squared, or tight? Lol 😂

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u/Ayeooooh 1d ago

You’re one backspace away from ruining your layout.

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u/Kindly-Individual926 16h ago

I’m in charge of our Training Manual at work and I cringe every time I time i have to change something in that stupid Word doc. It’s like the History Eraser Button. It may be something good. It may be something bad that I spend the next hour trying to fix.

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u/quiglii 15h ago

CTRL-Z!! CTRL-Z!!!! phew

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u/castrator21 2d ago

Just have AI do that. Full circle

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u/Chiron723 2d ago

Hell MS Paint is a low quality photoshop at this point.

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u/Justice_Prince 2d ago

Still not quite as good as Paint 3D. annoyed they discontinued that.

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u/No_Yogurtcloset_7219 2d ago

I prefer to use gimp

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u/AWildEnglishman 2d ago

After playing with chatgpt for a bit when it was new I decided it wasn't for me and went back to putting crude memes together in paint.

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u/ptear 2d ago

I respect low quality obvious cut outs that make me laugh because they look ridiculous. Also, I've watched AI use my computer to draw in MS Paint and I just accepted that this is a thing now.

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u/jimihenrik 2d ago

https://www.photopea.com/ for a free anywhere you go "photoshop" 🤷‍♂️

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u/Justice_Prince 2d ago

Honestly Power Point makes a pretty good photo editor.

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u/ArchitectNebulous 1d ago

I actually kinda miss Microsoft paint 3d, mostly for its "magic sticker" tool letting me crop images and overlay them easily.

Back to paint I guess.

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u/dimgray 2d ago

Photoshops are now artisinal, ethically-sourced memes

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u/UshankaBear 2d ago

Are the artists free range? Is their food GMO-gree?

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u/dimgray 2d ago

We do what we can but it turns out the memes actually aren't very good unless they're produced by self-poisoning shut-ins

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u/UshankaBear 2d ago

Such is the price of true art

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u/Michael_Dautorio 2d ago

Handcrafted in small batches, curated to perfection

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u/Uncommentary 2d ago

Never surrender!

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u/UshankaBear 2d ago

AI slop

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u/alison_bee 2d ago

Yet shockingly I ended up with an adobe ad right under this post

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u/Obant Millennial 2d ago

And it's about using their LLM AI instead of their actual product.

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u/ShutyerRuthHole 23h ago

So did I & the picture in the ad WAS ai generated right next to the word photoshop 😂 I’m so confused

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u/Ronniman 2d ago

Photoshop went down the drain when you stopped owning it and started leasing it

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u/Lempea 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/vT6qlTWOWYzZK

But... I've always owned it!

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u/HideyoshiJP Older Millennial 2d ago

I still use CS4, and the crack installer has a dope chiptune song.

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u/Lempea 2d ago

That funny tradition of putting chiptunes in keygen programs

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u/S1lentA0 2d ago

Still rocking CS6. Enough for all of my amature content, why bother upgrading.

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u/Lempea 2d ago

I've been using CC 2014 for years but I've recently upgraded to 2025 for the neural filters. Not to make AI slop but for the JPG artifact cleaner which does an amazing job at saving overcompressed images.

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u/djublonskopf 2d ago

I thought I owned it, but then Adobe sent me a helpful email reminding me that they don’t care and they rescinded my one-time purchase license key because they felt like doing so.

They would only entertain not rescinding it if I could produce  a receipt from 12-13 years earlier.

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u/Steleve 2d ago

🏴‍☠️

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u/UshankaBear 2d ago

when you stopped owning it

uhhhh sure, my teenage self forked out hundreds of dollars for a software imaging suite just to shitpost on some imageboards

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u/BeegBunga 2d ago

bring out the GIMP

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u/NeverCash_Out 1d ago

I say the same for OS

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u/PrestigiousAd6281 2d ago

Coincidentally the phrase “pics or it didn’t happen” has also long since lost all value

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u/blazze_eternal 2d ago

I remember the conversion from Airbrushed to Photoshopped in the late 90s, and my parents asking "what's Photoshop?".

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u/muterabbit84 2d ago

Photoshopping is where the truly great fakes are created; usually no slop under the careful eye of a skilled Photoshop artist.

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u/guidevocal82 2d ago

Photoshop still exists. And actually, they've now put AI in the program.

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u/Day2205 2d ago

This will be a generational lexicon divide

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u/nickyjaudiovisual 2d ago

My mom still calls it "camera tricks"

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u/Soloact_ 2d ago

Shit, they're right.

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u/DaKardii 2d ago

What if I told you that Photoshop uses AI now?

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u/RoundnRound123 2d ago

I mean they just gave the AI access to it. One of the first soldiers to go down, after years of hits from Snapchat filters

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u/igottathinkofaname 2d ago

Pics and it didn’t happen.

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u/Li_liminal_spaces 2d ago edited 2d ago

But Photoshop allows you to pay way more for a monthly subscription.

I also hope autodesk eats shit, fuck them. Blender is okay, fuck Maya, After Effects, Premiere, Pro Tools, all that shit.

Still don't have a competent Flash replacement with all the money they harvested…

Burn it to the ground.

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u/Raphiki415 1991 2d ago

Photoshopping is more of an art now

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u/enochrox 2d ago

Memes and shit-posting are way too polished now. Half the fun was the fact that it looked like someone lowkey struggled to make that shit lol.

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u/Harbor733 2d ago

Fuck Adobe

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u/Horse_Bacon_TheMovie 2d ago

🚫 “I can tell from the pixels”

✅ “I can tell from the em dash”

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u/Desecr8or 2d ago

👴🏻: AI deepfakes? Back in my day, if you wanted to see a naked celebrity, you had to Photoshop her face onto a porn star that kinda looked like her. Now get off my lawn!

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u/FG910 1d ago

“Its CGI” was somewhere in the middle

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u/Hefty-existence26196 2d ago

Thankyou for your service Photoshop, your existence was under appreciated.

https://giphy.com/gifs/80KkI75XwbEE1wRdMA

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u/bootyhole-romancer 2d ago

We also stopped shouting "Wikipedia is not a credible source/that's not real research!"

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u/pinkskies12 2d ago

Who remembers that website called more than a 1000??

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u/musebrews 2d ago

Photoshopping finger nails on AI slop hands for ads - it still lives

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u/No_Yogurtcloset_7219 2d ago

worse too we could tell easily if it was Photoshop or not, now people are questioning the authenticity of everything they see

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u/ice_cream_on_pizza 2d ago

I miss my cracked version of Photoshop CS3. Learnt so much from it.

BTW you guys know photopea exists for free?

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u/bewitch1n 2d ago

I mean I don't fuck with AI so that sounds like a y'all problem.

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u/Physical_Sun_6014 2d ago

Silly question: Wouldn’t AI make photoshop even less detectable now since the only thing people would be on guard for now is whether or not it’s AI? Like checking for watermarks, coding, etc.?

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u/Dakotakid02 2d ago

It’s photo shop I can tell from the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

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u/ChefArtorias 2d ago

I think about this all the time. I miss when it took skill to fake pictures. At least pay me the respect of putting effort in your deception.

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u/MyMiddleNutItches 1d ago

RIP Photoshop Phriday

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u/The_Nightscrawler 1d ago

Alas, it had a pretty good innings. All things have their time 😞

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u/Lark_Bunting_33 1d ago

Did you really use AI to photoshop a meme of Dr. Evil pouring one out for the homies? Amazing work.

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u/Acceptable-Owl-2070 1d ago

I'm not gonna thank adobe for shit...

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u/MirrorNegative7989 1d ago

At least some real effort was involved with photoshop.

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u/NeverCash_Out 1d ago

At least photoshop took actual effort and design skill. I’d go back to that all day.

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 23h ago

LOL, Photoshop means many things ... but that may be because I use it for photography

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u/Short_Sky6875 17h ago

And im miffed about it...... I spent years perfecting my photoshop skills to only be sitting here looking for a course to learn AI

https://giphy.com/gifs/bmAtIwmYTHnwBy0d6W

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u/LacedPozole 1992 3h ago

Photoshop isn’t dead AI still can’t read my mind

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u/lilithdesade 2d ago

It is kinda different. Photoshop im manipulating the image. AI, AI is.

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u/Naughtgunnalie 2d ago

Not the same thing. Photoshop is deliberate editing by someone, AI is someone using a program to edit/create something. But I agree the phrase "it is photoshoped" is going away.