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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/
And fantastic vector graphics inkscape: https://inkscape.org/
I love inkscape. Its what illustration was before adobe started tinkering too much.
Also in the photo editing arena, RawTherapee, Darktable, and RapidRAW, all FOSS.
Dude, never heard of these. They’re awesome.
- RawTherapee: https://rawtherapee.com/
- Darktable: https://www.darktable.org/
- Rapid Raw: https://www.getrapidraw.com/
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.
Some of those are just in the beginner stage of enshittification, no doubt. But there is little reason to keep using Adobe when the free alternatives are this good to be honest. I used to pay for Affinity but I’m so glad it’s free now. The relaunch prompted people to make a proper Linux installer just in time when I ditched Windows. The program is in the best state it has ever been so even though this might be the start of something terrible, I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.
autograph is finally back🥹 just hoping maxon didn’t enshittify it
It looks like they killed the Linux version.
😭
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
Good.
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!?!?!?” ?
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
Future lock-in, incoming
🎉🍿
