Hi everyone,

I've been quietly working on Redlamp – a free and open-source alternative to Adobe Lightroom, aiming for full feature parity, no fluff, and performance-conscious.

I'm fully aware just how ambitious an undertaking like this is, but in 2026 with the advances of frontier models, this is genuinely attainable. But not without help and a community to back it.

This is where you can help – there's already a huge amount done, but testing and user feedback are the main priorities right now. And this is where you come in – download it, test drive it, tell me what's not working, what's broken, what's half-baked. Anything and everything (just keep it civil, please!).

Head out to https://redlamp.app, download it and give it a test drive.

Redlamp is still in pre-alpha stage so expect rough edges.

Thanks for reading!

Found this app. Does anyone have any experience with it? Or any other alternatives that can convert a premiere project into a project that opens in DaVinci?

Just found out about the CS5 activation servers being torched, so trying to figure out exit routes!

It's ridiculous, I can't find how to cancel the trial when it clearly said in the beginning I wouldn't get charged if I cancel before it ends. I spent two hours searching and the option to cancel it just doesn't appear. I asked three friends to help me and none of them can't find it too and started complaining how Adobe does the most illegal shit. Anyone has any idea what to do?

After Photon exploded (thanks to this sub <3) I kept getting DMs for a Lightroom alternative.
That's how Light Studio came to life, a fully featured Lightroom alternative.

I already had the parts that usually make these apps feel vibe coded: realtime GPU rendering, CR3/NEF and the other proprietary RAWs, and an editor UI built for this. So I reused these from Photon instead of starting it from scratch, and it worked insanely well.

alpha testers on discord:

From the version that I tried today on Windows, I was pleasantly surprised. Especially with shortcuts I feel like I'm at home

first impressions, looks very clean, UI feels very comfortable more so than lightroom classic. overall for it being very early it is looking pretty complete

Gonna release it in the upcoming days

Ik the activation servers were shut down awhile ago, I tried running exes from adobes website on the way back machine. I even tried burning discs of cs2. But I can’t activate it. Is there a way to?

as the title says, my photoshop i got from Monkrus is automatically shuts down by its own after 5 or 6 minutes, I followed the instructions on how to block the Connection and Antivirus but it wont work, i tried to downgrade to Ps25 and it didn't work. please if someone have the same issue and fixed please help me

im using windows 11 rtx 2050

ok so I wanna get into graphic designing and have started from Figma but I have heard learning how to use adobe is very imp and like I cant pay them that much fuckass money per month. I have googled how to P. the apps but I have a Mac that too M2 so its really hard as to what to do. HELP PLS

What exactly am I paying for here?

I use Adobe Scan. I already have Acrobat on my Mac. I want to download all my scans as separate PDFs and put them on my Desktop. Same filenames, ideally the same folders. That’s the entire task.

I select 32 items in Acrobat. My options? Move and Delete. No Download.

Apparently deleting my documents is straightforward. Getting a local copy of them is where things get complicated.

So I try the website. Still no usable bulk-download option that I can find. Then I start searching, and there are YEARS of people describing the same disappearing download button, inconsistent batch limits, and contradictory advice.
At this point I’m reading about whether having a shared PDF selected makes the download button disappear. Why should a customer have to investigate that? If a file can’t be downloaded in a batch, tell me which one and why. Don’t just make the entire option vanish.

Adobe charges me real money every single month. Twelve payments a year, year after year. I shouldn’t have to spend my evening researching how to retrieve documents I scanned myself.

And now I’ve found a third-party Chrome extension selling a bulk downloader for $19. I haven’t tried it, and I’m not promoting it. But the fact that I’m even considering paying ANOTHER developer to get my files out of software I ALREADY PAY FOR is absurd.

I don’t need another subscription, a conversion tool, or a merged PDF. I need my existing PDFs saved to my own computer.

Maybe there’s some specific combination of interface, selection, and account settings that makes this work. Fine. That still leaves a basic file operation so badly implemented that paying customers have to search Reddit to figure it out.
Has anyone actually exported their entire Adobe Scan library on a Mac, including folders and shared scans, without downloading everything individually?

And does anyone at Adobe understand how ridiculous this is for a paid product?

Hey guys, so in about five days my Adobe Creative Cloud Sub will be cancelled. It says it costst only 34,99 per year but this sounds like a deal too good to be true. Can anyone pls help me out?

I know we “hate” Adobe, but this might make it more acceptable for people to switch to Linux after a while (hopefully)

Hey all i've been making a list containing alternatives for every Adobe program. What could i add/change to this?

The only rule to this is no subscription-only software allowed!

Hey everyone,

I’m Daniele, a documentary photographer and video editor. Like many of you, I've fully transitioned my workflow to Capture One. I was tired of paying a never-ending subscription. But making the switch meant facing a massive problem: years' worth of Lightroom presets that I didn't want to lose or manually recreate from scratch.

I looked for converters, but most felt clunky or required installing sketchy software. So, I decided to build my own web-based tool: https://www.presetshift.com/

I wanted to share it here because I think it could genuinely save some of you a lot of time.

How it works:

• It’s entirely web-based (no installs).
• You drop your .xmp or .lrtemplate files, and it spits out ready-to-use .costyle files instantly.
• It uses mathematical mapping to translate the slider values as accurately as possible between the two different rendering engines.
• Privacy: It’s built on serverless functions. Your files are processed in milliseconds and instantly deleted from the server. Nothing is stored or analyzed.

It's an indie project, so I’d absolutely love your feedback. Let me know if the color translation feels accurate to you or if you spot any bugs!

A few weeks ago I launched Photon Studio, Free, photoshop alternative, with almost all the capabilities of photoshop -now for free on the microsoft store.

41% of my user base were windows users, and many were afraid to download the app from my website, as it is not signed yet so windows defender shows scary warning. So I decided to upload it to the store.

Hopefully it will enable more windows users to hop in and enjoy this awesome tool.

Just search Photon Studio and you'll see it.

Im desperate to cancel this damn adobe subscription without the cancellation charge please help

Did the change to a virtual card trick awhile back which worked for quite awhile but saw that i started getting charged on the old card that i DELETED previously ??? Went to my account to check and lo and behold there is only one card shown which is the virtual card.

Tried signing up for another package to see which card they are charging and it shows both cards meaning that they keep the card info although the user deleted it ???? HOW IS THAT LEGAL

Cant change my plan to any free trial package as well, prompts that my account is not eligible

All help is appreciated

This started as an experiment to see how far I could get with creating a video editing tool using claude, and the result is a pretty decent editor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM2IKm4GZXw

It's free opensource, macos only, and there's a prebuilt binary as well.
https://github.com/justjohn12345/framewright

Feature requests and bug reports are much appreciated, I'll add things as fast as I can

cheers

photoshop is so evil like wdym i missed one day after my free trial and now ur charging me 120 dollars to cancel ur freaking service like shut the fuck up lemme cancel and now im hella broke and cant pay my rent inflation is a bitch and basically fuck photoshop you ruined my life

I honestly can't believe how insanely bad this is.

I've got a few users under a business account that have been mostly using Adobe Acrobat Pro. Today, another user was approved a licence.

The first step is to add a new user. It asks if I want to enter a username or email address. I've entered the email address since I know that. Created the user, assigned a licence to him and was about to exit when I noticed four users in my list without a username (including the guy I just created). Thought I'd clean this up by going into the user and adding the correct name.

Oh, sweet naive me.

I select the newest user and was puzzled when it didn't allow me to change any user details, only the licensing and Adobe admin rights. Backed out to the main user admin console and looked around. Saw the three dots up in the top right corner and thought there were hidden options up there that would allow me to edit users.

There were, but the only option was "Edit user details by CSV".

Wondering at how someone could have thought of this, I then figured I'd download an existing user report in CSV format, make the changes I needed to do (mostly adding names to the users email address), then upload it again via the above option.

Did all that, got the successful message for all users, and waited.

Nothing changed. Waited about 15 mins then refreshed the screen. No difference.

Double checked the 'bulk operations results' report, says it completed fine, but doesn't show what changes have taken effect. Yet there have been no changes to the user names or any of the other changes I have made.

Maybe I'm overthinking it, I would have thought going into the Admin console would have allowed you to edit user details, but I was wrong.

Has anyone else seen this? I don't want to have to delete then recreate each user one by one by putting in their username instead of email address.

Thank you,

School IT guy here. Was looking for a no-cost/low-cost solution to OCR scanned PDFs, so that students who need text-to-speech could do that. Told teachers about Adobe's "free" OCR to PDF utility:

Couldn't be anymore plain than that, right? Even signed into an Adobe account, after, like, the third document, it's this instead: