[E. Pluribus Unum]

I’ve dabbled in it. I would just like to be able to cut out an image and paste it over a background, but can’t figure it out.

The thing is, ALL the software now is going to force you to comply to their terms of service. Shopify decided gun stores did not comply with their terms of service and just cancelled their contracts, never mind that it put a lot of them out of business because you don’t just switch to a new accounting package.

Sounds like Adobe wants to be able to do that too.

At lease with open source like GIMP you still own your data and nobody can cancel your account.

[Scrambler Bob]

The thing is, ALL the software now is going to force you to comply to their terms of service.
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Back in the day, I bought the software, and it and the products were mine.

Is this Adobe kind of an on-line ‘leased’ software? Which gives them access to the product.

Next is Crayola. Lease your 8-color box. All drawings of stick people, a house, and the spiney sun belong to them.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Now I'm wondering if my mad PaintShop Pro skillz are still there. Haven't used that since Windows XP over twenty years ago but I might still have the touch. When I was too poor (read as: cheap) in college I used PaintShop to make a lot of the images for my personal homepage. Including a GIF of my head spinning round and round.

I've still got that pic too :-)

[asinclair]

I've dabbled in it. I would just like to be able to cut out an image and paste it over a background, but can't figure it out.

You might want to look into InkScape as an alternative. It's a FOSS version of Adobe Illustrator, but with better bitmap image integration.