Photo and art programs like GIMP and Krita, while being somewhat less user friendly, are free and open source, while programs like Paint Tool SAI and Procreate are one time purchases, though that latter program is restricted to iPads and is only purchasable on the App Store. Photoshop is industry-standard software, so other services have to try and stand out from the pack to get users on board. Some Twitter users were openly sharing links to pirate the CSP software. The company wrote they planned to make the switch to version 2 in the first half of 2023. We reached out to ArtSpark-which owns Celsys as a subsidiary-for comment, but we have yet to hear back by the end of Monday, ET.
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Those looking to keep receiving new features will have to buy a one-year update pass, but the company has not revealed what price points we could see from any of these options. Developers will also discontinue support for the perpetual license users when they eventually release version 4. Existing users of version 1 can purchase a perpetual license for version 2, but they won’t have access to updates from 2.1 and onward.
What doesn’t help any of this is the confusing structure for users wishing to upgrade from version 1 to version 2.