Apple Creator Studio is coming

[Katbel]

It might remove your pixelmator pro binary (not sure) but any such change should be reversible. When I installed it, it goes into the Applications folder as Pixelmator Pro, so not sure what happens if you already have a file in there with the same name.

Thanks
Just to be extra cautious I will keep one good copy on an external disk where I keep all the installers and apps I care, just to be safe. Besides of course my backups

 

[Citysnaps]

Agreed, and it's not to say the others (Apple, Davinci Resolve) are bad it's just a new learning curve that I don't want to deal with.

Yes on the learning curve.

But what would be worse is all of the non-destructive LR edits would not play well with other photo editing programs. So you'd basically be starting from scratch re-editing all of your original image files from many years ago. Assuming I wanted to do that, I probably wouldn't live long enough.

I remember moving from Aperture to Lightroom when it came out around 20 years ago. Fortunately, back then my image library was relatively small. At least for the images I wanted to keep going forward. What helped a lot was being relatively new to photography, many of my images were not very good and were easy to trash.

 

[Eric]

There's a nice update to the new Logic Pro 12, I bought it outright with no subscription and it's worth every cent.

 

[KingOfPain]

This Ars Technica article might asnwer a few more questions:

Seven things to know about how Apple's Creator Studio subscriptions work

For the Mac versions of pro apps, things aren't actually changing much (yet).

arstechnica.com

EDIT: From a comment to the article:

For Pages/Keynote/Numbers:

• The old versions are still available to download if you had them before, but will not receive future updates. If a future macOS update breaks them, tough luck.
• The new versions are free to download, and all existing functionality is available even without a Creator Studio subscription.
• However, if you aren't subscribed, you will still see features and content (templates and generative AI features, mainly) that require a sub to use. You'll be prompted to subscribe if you try to use them.
• Some of these can be removed (for instance, you can remove the generative AI buttons from the app toolbars), but not all.

 

[japanime]

As a book publisher, I look forward to seeing whether any of the design tools will improve upon Affinity Publisher, which went by the wayside when Canva bought Serif. (I don't trust anything that Canva offers for "free," and I refuse to return to Adobe and its bloated, book-eating monster called InDesign.)

EDIT: Looking more closely at the announcement, it doesn't seem the new Pages is anything close to being a robust alernative to Affinity Publisher or InDesign. I guess I'll just continue to use Publisher and hope it doesn't break down for good any time soon.