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 and free. It keeps getting better and better.
They’re fast enshitifiers, they’ll buy great products and make them subscription or way worse. An example of a way worse way is Unsplash, where they would offer free products and you could buy some of the photos. The ones you have to purchase used to be at the top or bottom, like PixaBay does. But now they’re mixed in and random. I don’t use it anymore. They ruin everything to the point where if I see they’re involved, I don’t use the product. I know it’ll turn bad soon. I’ve bought from Pixabay occasionally. They might enshitify too, but so far they’ve been great.
yeah, in that sense i don’t trust them either. they may not be openly evil but it’s a matter of time before this becomes more obvious. i feel this way about discord also (it annoys me sometimes but it’s still usable, but i know this won’t last long). let’s hope people come up with a better alternative soon
i only found out about open source culture this year as i was looking into the fediverse (i don’t know much about tech) and it has given me a lotta hope 🤗
The fediverse isn’t perfect, but it’s the best we’ve got. There are a ton of lists going around with replacemet software, most are free or have free versions.
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)
It’s not there if you’re trying to do professional printing: I still see people complaining about messed up color profiles, exporting, etc. Otherwise, I’ve found it fairly ok, although pelespirit’s right about the clunk here and there.
It’s different and a tad clunky, but there are some things that were better when I switched. I’ve been off adobe for about 4 or 5 years now, so it may be not what you need or want. I think they have a free trial. But again, that one time cost may switch to subscription after this release, Canva is known to be enshittifiers.
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.
There are way more affordable options out there, some are free.
Photopea is a great option for light photo editing! It’s free website with a decent layout
Thank you, that does look great if Affinity goes tits up.
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
I’ve never heard of that one, that looks great.
I use Blender for video editing… lol
I tried so hard to use that before Davinci, I just couldn’t use it efficiently. Kudos to you.
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.
Fuck, affinity got bought? God damn it, that sucks.
I love Affinity but didn’t know Canvas got ahold of them. Shoot.
Not good news, but I mispoke, it’s Canva:
https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity/
They were the evil ones I was thinking of though.
why is canva evil, exactly? i use it sometimes /honest question
They’re fast enshitifiers, they’ll buy great products and make them subscription or way worse. An example of a way worse way is Unsplash, where they would offer free products and you could buy some of the photos. The ones you have to purchase used to be at the top or bottom, like PixaBay does. But now they’re mixed in and random. I don’t use it anymore. They ruin everything to the point where if I see they’re involved, I don’t use the product. I know it’ll turn bad soon. I’ve bought from Pixabay occasionally. They might enshitify too, but so far they’ve been great.
yeah, in that sense i don’t trust them either. they may not be openly evil but it’s a matter of time before this becomes more obvious. i feel this way about discord also (it annoys me sometimes but it’s still usable, but i know this won’t last long). let’s hope people come up with a better alternative soon
i only found out about open source culture this year as i was looking into the fediverse (i don’t know much about tech) and it has given me a lotta hope 🤗
The fediverse isn’t perfect, but it’s the best we’ve got. There are a ton of lists going around with replacemet software, most are free or have free versions.
Damn, that’s awful. Also because I know a few creative people have found it useful - it’s shitty for them.
Armor Paint for Substance Painter
Material Maker for Substance Designer
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)
Krita is our version of Procreate.
Nice, I will check it out!
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
Still haven’t found a good replacement for InDesign and let me tell you how much I’m hankering to move on
I personally have replaced all my Adobe products with the much cheaper alternative of pirated Adobe products
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.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/
I tried it a while back and was left wanting but that’s been a couple years. I’ll give it another try.
It’s not there if you’re trying to do professional printing: I still see people complaining about messed up color profiles, exporting, etc. Otherwise, I’ve found it fairly ok, although pelespirit’s right about the clunk here and there.
It’s different and a tad clunky, but there are some things that were better when I switched. I’ve been off adobe for about 4 or 5 years now, so it may be not what you need or want. I think they have a free trial. But again, that one time cost may switch to subscription after this release, Canva is known to be enshittifiers.
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.