This is off-topic but may be of interest to some folks on this forum that either use Photoshop or those who would like to but wouldn’t use it enough to justify the subscription cost. I found an amazing substitute the pretty much duplicates most Photoshop features at a very reasonable $54 and on sale for the next several hours for only $27.
Affinity Photo, unlike Photoshop, is a stand alone program in your Applications folder always available with or without an internet connection. The user interface resembles that of Photoshop but with its own spin. I was able to do a bunch of work without consulting any of the documentation and found nothing I couldn’t do in Affinity that I could in Photoshop. I’m sure power Photoshop users would be able to come up with a list of items that can’t be done properly but I doubt the list would be very long. I like some things in Affinity better than Photoshop especially the ease of saving png files with transparent backgrounds.
I have no connection to Affinity other than being a happy user. Here is a link to the site:
You can click on the 50% Off button to get the sale price as long as you grab it in the next several hours. I paid the full price a couple of weeks ago and thought it was a bargain at that price.