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The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (www.theverge.com)

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[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 days ago

The free software (some are only free for personal use, but others are completely free):

Motion Design by Maxon - Autograph: https://www.maxon.net/en/autograph
Animation by Canva - Cavalry: https://cavalry.studio/en/
Photo editing, book editing and graphics by Canva - Affinity: https://www.affinity.studio/
Photo manipulation by Gimp: https://www.gimp.org/
Movie Editing by Black Magic -Davinci Resolve: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
3D animation, movie editing, modeling, sculpting by Blender: https://www.blender.org/download/
Digital painting by Krita: https://krita.org/en/

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago

And fantastic vector graphics inkscape: https://inkscape.org/

[-] Cherry@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago

I love inkscape. Its what illustration was before adobe started tinkering too much.

[-] hpx9140@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] st3ph3n@midwest.social 7 points 2 days ago

Also in the photo editing arena, RawTherapee, Darktable, and RapidRAW, all FOSS.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Dude, never heard of these. They're awesome.

[-] HexaBack 2 points 2 days ago

autograph is finally back🥹 just hoping maxon didn't enshittify it

[-] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It looks like they killed the Linux version.

[-] HexaBack 1 points 1 day ago

😭

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] HexaBack 2 points 2 days ago

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

[-] JimFox@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

Good.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

Let me guess, they won't give even a fraction of that money to the opensource projects they now use and instead spam them with "why don't you have the same features as adobe when I didn't give you a fucking cent!?!?!?" ?

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago

The industry here isn’t using open source. Canva keeps buying companies that have equivalent-enough software to adobe and then making them free to use

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

Future lock-in, incoming

[-] jlow@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

🎉🍿

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