Here is a list of foss Adobe related stuff:
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Kdenlive
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Gimp
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Krita
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Okular or SummatraPDF
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Blender 3D Artist here:
If you already use Blender and want Inkscape-like functionality, grease pencil has gotten REALLY impressive! Worth checking out! But let's talk about materials real quick:
I personally got burned when I dropped hard-earned cash on Substance and they sold out from under us.
It might not be 1:1 for the most powerful features found in Alegorithmic's traitorware, but the PBR Painter add-on has been AWESOME for painting materials in Blender.
There are some other add-ons for materials and advanced effects too.
(For designing, I'm glad fo see Material Maker mentioned! It's impressive and legit! I hope that project goes far!)
I honestly think a majority of that stuff is totally doable in Blender right now, add-ons just make it easier and/or a bit more efficient, and these devs are worth supporting.
Armorpaint looked pretty cool, but is it still being developed? Seems like it's been awfully quiet, which is a shame because it seemed very promising!
It's sad because Substance was the ONE time I relented and said "Hey, maybe this commercial software will be really worth it." Fool me once.
I'm still using the 2018 Substance, which is the last one for which there was a proper license (which I have). Then Adobe bought the Allegorithmict and turned that suite into a subscription application.
Still works fine and apparently the software hasn't significantly improved ever since it turned into a subscription.
By the way, cheers for mentioning PBR Painter - I added it to my list of possible replacements.
And cheers to you for mentioning that 2018 Substance is still useful!
...Yikes, I hope I kept that license key somewhere, I'm sure I did...
If only to learn it because it seems to be a hard requirement with so many artist positions. =\
(Although...if we really blew them away with Blender tools and they couldn't tell the difference, would they really care? Hm...)
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I think it is better to focus on foss when you can. This is more of a list of alternative companies to Adobe.
Cool graphic though
Foss has the most standout icon
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Kdenlive
Blender has a really good video editor built in.
Blender can do video editing but I wouldn't recommend using Blender unless you are already using other Blender features.
Kdenlive is a proper video editor and is actually designed for purely video editing. Just because you can do it with Blender doesn't mean you should.
please don't edit videos in Blender, that sounds like masochism
it's not open source but i will always recommend Davinci Resolve, by far the best video editing sodtware i've used and it's free! (well 95% of it is, it's fully functional and outstanding without paying a cent but if you want some extra presets especially for the colour grading stage then you gotta pay. how i see it is that it's free software with a few built in ads for an effects package)
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Not foss but still an alternative
Was going to say this. Unlike Gimp, Photopea's UI is extremely similar to Photoshop so it's much more intuitive to use if you come from that background.
I use Shotcut for video editing. Haven't seen that mentioned here yet.
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I wish you a beautiful downfall Abode
I’d rather it be really ugly but I’ll take whatever gets us there.
My guess is that Canva and Figma are 90% of the reason why people are no longer confident in Adobe as a company.
Figma-balls xD gottem
(I have no idea what these are plz explain)
Figma is a vector drawing app that was originally for UX design (an Adobe XD competitor), but they just added a bunch of graphic design tools that compete with Adobe Illustrator.
Canva does a lot of raster and vector image editing that originally targeted people that were not design pros, but they’ve been adding a lot of features that allow people to make some professional quality stuff stuff with ease.
All in all, both companies are growing into the spaces Adobe dominated. If you were a UX designer who needed to occasionally use Illustrator for a more detailed illustration, maybe you no longer need that Adobe CS license.
Canva also owns Affinity, which is a direct competitor to some of adobe's main offering.
This had better not leave to further enshitification of the PDF format, I will snap if signing government forms gets any worse.
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Figma is a prototyping app to make semi interactive demos of user interfaces.
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Idk, i work at a print shop and half of my work day is spent fixing dog shit files people send me from Canva. It's the scourge of pretty much every printer out there.
Just because people have the tools to do graphic design, does not make them good at graphic design.
That used to be my trade. What's wrong with Canva files?
Nothing is vectored, everything is outlines and masks on masks on masks. So when someone sends me a letter sized document without the bleed (becase it never has bleed), i have 2 dozen groups i have to sift through to try and add bleed as best i can. Nothing is print ready, even from "professionals" sending me their ad copy. Canva is designed aroind web, so when amateurs use it for printing, it compounds all the problems, and Canvas instructions for designing for print are next to useless, even if the customer somehow managed to read them.
About a million years ago I worked for a company that used a product. About 2 or 3 hours of every day was dealt with inefficiencies and issues with the product.
One day I got kind of fed up with it I wrote them a long detailed support ticket of the worst grievances. I mentioned that I was using their product in a professional capacity and that if they made these changes it would go a long way towards making their product more marketable to everyone else that was using it in a professional capacity.
I didn't hear anything else about it for a good three or four months. One day I got a message back thanking me for my request. They sent me a $50 gift certificate and a T-shirt, and claimed the update later that month would be a significant improvement to everything I listed.
They absolutely nailed it and I now only spent 15 minutes a day dealing with the product.
As much as I would hate the idea of helping a multi-billion dollar company for free, It might be worth mentioning their shortcomings as a professional printer, If they send you a request up to the project management and devs it might make your life better.
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Canva and Figma are 90% of the reason
How long before Adobe buys them... they did it macromedia and all their other competitors. Anti-trust laws, if they were working, would have shut down Abobe decades ago.
They tried to buy Figma and failed due to anti monopoly legislation
Holy shit I can't believe that kind of consumer protection still exists in the US
IIRC it was the British regulator that blocked it. The EU and eventually US ones issued similar statements following the UK block and then the deal was abandoned
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But there are just so many good reasons!
Yeah fucking tank adobe you piece of shit
Unfortunately the entire market looks like this. You have to normalize the graph against the S&P to see how they’re really doing.
Unlike the last guy, I have not gained knowledge. What do these words mean?
It means because of a orange guy and his tariffs the whole market is down. So we have to compare it with whole market. If it has fallen more than half of stocks, then we can say it just adobe's fault and not just market's fault. To get this idea we take the average of stocks which S&P500 which shows the average stock price for 500 biggest companies.
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Still too high!
Why did Adobe start tanking after the start of the year?
Proposed 39% tariff on each adobe plugin that’s imported.
Ahahah oh my god, they're lucky they're industry standard...
.... Didn't everything?
They are down significantly harder than the S&P 500, despite logically being in a market that shouldn't be as vulnerable to things like tariffs.
Am I missing something? What does Blender have that overlaps with an Adobe product?
I think it did back when Adobe was actually relevant in animation
Now days all the big studios have there own custom stuff and the community uses Blender
What does Blender have that overlaps with an Adobe product
I ditched premiere for the Video editor in Bender, and you can use Blender in a lot of ways just like After Effects, if you really know it, then its a lot more powerful than AE.
Adobe's name is mud right now.
die fast and take your stupid ai suggestions to the grave with you
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