Comment on Adobe Creative Curse

TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are way more affordable options out there, some are free.

  • For tablet painting: Krita and free
  • For photoshop: I use affinity, but Canvas just bought them. Not sure how they’re going to be in the future. Canvas is evil. It’s around $125/2 or 3 years or so. I haven’t used Gimp in awhile, I might look at them again.
  • For Premiere Pro, Audition and After Effects: Buy the studio version of Davinci Resolve, it has all of them. It’s a lifetime purchase and cheap if you think of that way. Don’t lose your code though.
  • For 3D: Blender. It keeps getting better and better.

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Photopea is a great option for light photo editing! It’s free website with a decent layout

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you, that does look great if Affinity goes tits up.

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  • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Real :3… I use krita for my art ^^ GIMP for photo editing (which I don’t do a lot of), kdenlive for video, and… blender for 3d stuff

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      kdenlive

      I’ve never heard of that one, that looks great.

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    • StellarSt0rm@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I use Blender for video editing… lol

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      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I tried so hard to use that before Davinci, I just couldn’t use it efficiently. Kudos to you.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love Procreate and Affinity Designer as Photoshop replacements! No subscription. I’m not sure what platforms they run on, though. I just use em on my iPad Pro (and Procreate Pocket on my phone)

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Krita is our version of Procreate.

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nice, I will check it out!

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  • thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love Affinity but didn’t know Canvas got ahold of them. Shoot.

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not good news, but I mispoke, it’s Canva:

      www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity/

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      • quarklover123@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        why is canva evil, exactly? i use it sometimes /honest question

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Armor Paint for Substance Painter

    Material Maker for Substance Designer

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  • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Still haven’t found a good replacement for InDesign and let me tell you how much I’m hankering to move on

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I personally have replaced all my Adobe products with the much cheaper alternative of pirated Adobe products

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Affinity has one that’s just as good, but as I said in another comment, I’m not sure how long that will last since they were bought by Canva.

      affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/

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      • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I tried it a while back and was left wanting but that’s been a couple years. I’ll give it another try.

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    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m assuming you’ve already tried Scribus? scribus.net

      If not, worth a pop (again?). You can export an existing indesign project as an idml file, and import that into Scribus and see what’s broken :)

      How well it’ll work is a little dependent on how complicated your projects are, or how embedded you are in Indesign or the wider Adobe ecosystem. In truth, I don’t know the full extent of Indesign’s abilities - but you can absolutely use Scribus to produce professional large scale graphics and short run publications etc for print though - though that’s obviously a little dependent on what format/spec your printer wants off you.

      If you’re just using it for single page posters/graphics etc, Inkscape covers a lot of the same ground too.

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  • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fuck, affinity got bought? God damn it, that sucks.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    didn’t gimp just roll out a major update? I’ve been using paint.net for a while, but i’m curious how the the new is

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not a professional, but I’ve been using Gimp 3, and it works great for my purposes (mostly making memes and weird net art, tbh).

    Also Blender is S tier. So good. I even use it to make sprite sheets using 3D models as base.

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• joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Adobe: “We’re here for all our starving artists”

  Artist: Buys a Photoshop subscription instead of food

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