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The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
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The free software (some are only free for personal use, but others are completely free):
And fantastic vector graphics inkscape: https://inkscape.org/
I love inkscape. Its what illustration was before adobe started tinkering too much.
Neat list!
Blender and resolve are terrific. Gimp is a bit of a running joke for veterans in the industry - the UX is a comical mess.
Personally steer well clear of Maxon and Canva. Maxon on account of the rubbish pricing, piss poor UX/UI, and invasive telemetry. Canva for AI stance, telemetry, and their having the option to monetize should they ever feel like it after having locked in a large enough user base. Which absolutely will happen over a long enough period given predatory, for profit SaaS trends.
Penpot is an alright Canva substitute for the time being, least for my needs which are reasonably complex. Haven’t had much luck finding a good foss alternative to after effects though.
Also in the photo editing arena, RawTherapee, Darktable, and RapidRAW, all FOSS.
Dude, never heard of these. They're awesome.
autograph is finally back🥹 just hoping maxon didn't enshittify it
It looks like they killed the Linux version.
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Did you ever try the free version of Maxon on Adobe? It was Blender but you couldn't move anything unless you paid a shit ton.
no, I've only used autograph for a bit, way back before maxon bought left-angle (creators of autograph) and killed the software for about a year it was a very solid after effects alternative