For years, pulling seps meant owning Photoshop and a stack of plugins or actions. It doesn't anymore. Here's the standalone workflow — and why dropping Adobe actually makes it simpler.
Two reasons. First, cost: an Adobe subscription is a recurring bill on top of the separation tool itself. Second, friction: Photoshop-based separation means jumping between an actions panel, channels, and manual masking. A purpose-built standalone app does the same job in one place, with controls made for separating — not photo editing.
No. The separation math — ink unmixing, halftone screening, dot angles — is the same proven process whether it runs inside Photoshop or on its own. What you give up by leaving Adobe is the subscription and the extra steps, not the output quality.
AI Separations is a standalone, AI-powered color separation studio — no Photoshop, no subscription, $179 one-time. Download the free trial and run a real job through it.