Courtesy to Twitter user XdanielArt (date of publication: 8 June 2024)
What happened to Audacity?
List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs
Submitted 1 year ago by Novocirab@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
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Daerun@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Novocirab@feddit.org 1 year ago
See other comments: Got bought up by some company and then enshittified.
kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 1 year ago
Just started using reaper, coming over from audition and it’s so similar I didn’t have to re-learn anything.
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
REAPER rules. I started on ProTools in 2010. Ditched it for Reaper in 2012 and never looked back. Best $60 I ever spent. I’ve gladly bought multiple licenses for my devices over the years.
jake@lemmy.world 1 year ago
REAPER is absolutely one of the best pieces of software out there. I’ve been using it too since maybe 2009, though not so much in the last few years (not moved to an alternative, I’m just not doing so much audio these days).
I love the business model, the development cycle, etc. and even though it’s not open source it kinda has a similar community feeling. Every bit as feature-filled and capable as any of the industry standards.
Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lol. coreldraw is fucking terrible
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Affinity Photo is an excellent Photoshop alternative. I switched a while ago and have used it for all of my major projects since.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The whole suite is great.
makyo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Really nervous to get into that ecosystem after they were bought by the Canva crew
mewbees@lemm.ee 1 year ago
someone else may have already said this to you elsewhere, but as an affinity haver I more recently got an email from affinity indicating that to use the generative AI the user must manually allow it and activate it on their own account/program and but for how long that pro-choice statement lasts, I don’t know.
I will never choose to install it on *my *affinity suite though.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 year ago
Kinda hilarious that anyone uses Premiere Pro when Resolve is better, and free (with very optional features locked behind 1-time paywall). David Manning had a revelation and made a video about this recently. As did PewDiePie.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Davinci Resolve has to be one of the most jam packed free software packages available… seriously, it absolutely trounces Premiere at evvvverything
the model of free for everything except if features you’d want for producing a professional movie, and financed by hardware sales - that you don’t need unless you’re a professional - is absolutely incredible for home users
r_deckard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It doesn’t trounce PPro, they’re about equal IME. I’ve used both and it’s the price that makes it beat PPro. And you get the full version for free when you buy a Blackmagic camera.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 year ago
personally, my reasoning for saying it trounces it is the integration of all the tools: no switching to after effects etc
but beyond that, ppro colour correction is just soooooo far behind
granted i haven’t really used it much, so i might not have “got” its workflow - it took a while for resolves to click - but it just seems so disjointed and clunky to do anything beyond cutting together a basic video
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Just a small thing, but as of the latest release Inkscape has a functioning live-trace tool
It was one of the biggest things keeping me using illustrator but I used inkscape’s trace yesterday and it worked great
makyo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How much time have you put into Inkscape now? I’m hankering for some reviews from people who are also refugees from the Adobe ecosystem.
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I don’t use it regularly enough to weigh in comprehensibly - I use it mostly for processing svg drawings created in other programs for cnc plotting, or for compiling svg drawings onto standardized layouts for sending to a printer
My only complaint with inkscape is that it’s a bit slow with rendering complex shapes/canvases with many points, but otherwise it does everything I need from a vector program.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve never used vector programs. What is a “live tracer”?
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
It’s a tool that helps ‘trace’ a raster image into vector shapes and paths
it’s useful for creating vector artwork from raster images - sometimes a logo or icon is only available in a poor resolution raster image, and so having an easy way to convert it into vector saves a ton of time.
I used it yesterday to create an SVG file for CNC plotting of a company logo. It would have taken me a few hours to hand-trace it myself
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 year ago
I’ve never used Photoshop but I have used Photopea and people tell me it’s exactly the same: www.photopea.com
huppakee@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I like it too, but it’s like comparing a convenience store around the corner with the big box supermarket across town. Many similarities but it’s much more limited. Do think it deserves more attention though, it works really well if you ask me.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I really like this layout, it’s easy to read
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 year ago
Except the OSs in the lower compact section
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And not defining the abbreviations.
peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The Affinity Suite is so worth it. Pay a single time and get all the apps on all major OSes.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
They got bought out by Canva though, so I’m sure the enshittification will follow. Such a shame.
restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Also udemy has some fantastic courses to learn the whole suite, each can be purchased for lifetime access for $10-15 USD. The instructors I bought from are still actively updating their courses and I get all the new stuff, even though I bought when AD was still on v1.3.
If you’re looking to learn it’s a really affordable way to do it.
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
No Linux support though, which is a bummer these days.
Drinkwater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or Android, so for people who sketch on a tablet they have to use ipad.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I’m no layout expert, but I did do some desktop publishing about 15 years ago 10 min in Scribus had me tearing my hair out. Installed InDesign and, while it’s still not easy to catch up on the modern capabilities, it’s not there yet.
GIMP is just fine for casuals. It’s not close for professionals.
Truthfully I think that one major issue with open source programs that don’t have corporate involvement is that people who are great at code don’t always have the same skill in UI/UX. However, with support and a larger community, great things can happen. The barrier is getting that adoption level. If more people casually use the product and contribute financially or in code, it will help tremendously.
hlmw@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Scribus cant even attach links to text; just static overlays that dond move with the text.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I used to do layouts for children’s books back around 2010. The company used pagemaker still. I tried scribus, and the books I did manage to finish produced pdfs not usable by the print shop. I ended up buying a copy of CS5.
Now I use affinity suite, I am still learning it all.
oce@jlai.lu 1 year ago
For PDF “your browser” should be the default recommendation. Firefox allows to add text and images now. Gimp can also be used to edit PDF.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
The main reason “your browser” isn’t enough for me is that it doesn’t allow you to add and edit bookmarks, which I use a lot to navigate large pdfs quickly.
Second is that it’s nice to keep your pdf tabs separated from your browser tabs, and a pdf reader can remember your tabs and exactly which page you were on etc.
So that’s why I’m using PDF-Xchange, I downloaded it for free idk why it says purchase.
veniasilente@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Isn’t it dangerous now that PDFs can run javascript? (Who had that idiotic idea, anyway?)
kautau@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah the PDF category is weird / lacking. LibreOffice Draw and Inkscape can both edit PDFs and are missing as well. Xodo looks like some mobile app only or SaaS product
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Xodo and Xchange are both feature rich, lightweight, and easy to use programs. Browser view is fine for a peek but quickly feels clunky.
Novocirab@feddit.org 1 year ago
Browser is nice. On Linux though, Okular is superb.
oce@jlai.lu 1 year ago
What does Okular do that Firefox doesn’t? I’ve used it on some distros because it was the default but I don’t know the advantage compared to using my existing browser.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m really disappointed not to see Okular there. It’s FOSS, and it’s very cozy and useful.
double_quack@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What’s the Audacity/Tenacity deal?
GroteStreet@aussie.zone 1 year ago
A few years back Audacity got acquired by a commercial entity. They then proceeded to cause some controversy regarding user privacy.
I think they walked back some of them, and changed the installer to allow disabling the data collection; but by that time, a few forks have started popping up. Tenacity seems to be what many people eventually settle on.
Ickabod@lemm.ee 1 year ago
God out of all the software I’ve used over the years, to see Audacity go to hell like that is sad. I was not expecting that. And to think once upon a time, i replaced a little program called Cooledit Pro (which was bought by Adobe if I recall), with Audacity.
IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Enshitification by owners of Audacity including telemetry. They eventually backed down, but that was after Tenacity forked off it and people started using and improving it.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 year ago
Don’t know if you can call this “enshittification” as that implies it got progressively worse. It was bought out by a corporation and immediately turned to shit while also being neglected.
Novocirab@feddit.org 1 year ago
Apparently Audacity has been bougth by a company which subsequently did crap with it. reddit.com/…/help_tenacity_a_fork_of_audacity_aft…
Not sure how good Tenacity is currently
lime@feddit.nu 1 year ago
the trademark got bought. it’s still FLOSS, and they pledged to keep it that way, for whatever that’s worth. code can’t be retroactively un-gpled, so if they did decide to close it down they couldn’t just take it offline, only do new development in private. the big fishy thing was that they added a CLA to their repo, which only affects developers. as an end-user you’re fine.
also, the “crap” was a draft proposal of opt-in telemetry, which was subsequently scrapped. the company in question is based in the EU, anyway, so they would have to abide by the gdpr for any collected information.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
[deleted]Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I keep hearing this but having never really used Photoshop myself. What are all the missing features?
I’m not a professional but there hasn’t been anything that I wanted to do in GIMP that I couldn’t do because of its limitations and with GIMP 3.0 having non destructive editing I have no complaints other than the sometimes janky UI.
shekau@lemmy.today 1 year ago
What is the closest thing to PS in terms of features?
vodkasolution@feddit.it 1 year ago
Sorry, there just are no alternatives to Photoshop, with Affinity Photo being the closest replacement nowadays, to the classical PS functions. Affinity Designer feels the same for Illustrator.
orclev@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What about Krita? Not sure exactly what Adobe product it would be an alternative for though. I know a lot of what people use it for used to be done with Photoshop, but I think Photoshops core demographic is a slightly different use case. Also Inkscape as an Illustrator alternative?
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
For drawing/painting yeah, krita is comparable, especially if you set the presets to be similar to ps. I haven’t tried krita with photo editing much though
Zarxrax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A newer alternative to After Effects: pikimov.com
It’s still got a ways to go, but it’s off to a good start.
tux0r@feddit.org 1 year ago
Honestly, GIMP is not a good alternative to Photoshop. I know, “it’s free” is enough for many people, but it … just isn’t.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
No open source Flash alternatives? Disappointing.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Blender isn‘t flash but it‘s one of the best 2D animation programs out there and used by major studios.
koka@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ruffle.rs
adminofoz@lemmy.cafe 1 year ago
Its the iphones fault.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s called HTML5.
myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 1 year ago
“An” is the continuation of flash, is it not?