Adobe does anti-consumer shit. More at 11.
Normies take it without bothering to ask for lube
It’s okay. I’m using Krita. $0
This is a friendly reminder to support FOSS developers and maintainers.
If history is any guide they’ll moan and complain, 2% of them will not buy the subscription, and then the other 98% will bend over and take it up the ass.
Yay, more subscriptions.
👌Adobe, I am sticking to my Affinity Photo 1.
Affinity is great
I was able to use that trick to cancel my Adobe sub without a cancellation fee and then bought Affinity Photo 2 right after. I’ve integrated it fully into my workflow now and won’t ever look back.
Fuck Adobe and fuck their stranglehold on creative industries.
Elements were always just so much inferior to the full versions that you’re better off using free alternatives anyway
I’ve seen an old list of Adobe alternatives, but do you know of a recent one? I prim use Divinci Resolve over Premiere for video but have less familiarity with others. I find Gimp a bit hard to use. Mostly the controls don’t feel natural for some reason.
I dunno if this changes any of the UX paradigms, but I heard GIMP is about to release a huge major version.
look up “make GIMP feel like Photoshop” or something similar. iirc it’s a quick install that rearranges GIMP to be much more intuitive for people who came up on adobe.
Nice!
If you’re using a drawing tablet, Krita is free.
photopea for photoshop, darktable for lightroom, inkskape for illustrator
I’ve switched from Premiere to Kdenlive and I find that it works fantastically. It’s more clunky a bit but the features are all there.
Use Affinity Publisher, Photo, and Designer instead. Looks like it’s USD $165 for a universal license at the moment. Very few of the more exclusive features Adobe provides are worth the cost of doing business with them. The only thing I missed at first is Photoshop’s timeline, but apps like Krita or Aseprite (if pixel art is your jam) have that covered.
Edit to add: one great feature of Affinity is that, if you have Publisher and at least one of the other apps, Publisher will unify the workflows of the others into the same screen. In other words, you can switch between Publisher, Designer, and Photo without minimizing or opening the other apps individually.
Art and design, regardless of medium, need not be gatekept by corporate goons to stuff greedy pockets.
To anyone promoting Affinity, they’ve sold out to Canva, a Venture Capital fueled mega corp looking for a public offering. Enchittification is inevitable.
Please look for FOSS alternatives instead.
Do you have any recommendations?
Affinity tools are still good. Until they’re enshittified, still a good deal.
I’d add that they often have steep sales, and Black Friday is coming, but also while affinity is an underdog their formats are just as closed source if not more so than Adobe
Until GIMP gets nondestructive adjustment layers, Krita is the closest. And it’s definitely not good enough. But Inkscape is very good. Blender is very good, even it’s broken VSE editor. Though Resolve is amazing and the pro version is ridiculously cheap at $300.
Yeah there’s no easy win, Affinity is the closest competitor but it’s worth keeping in mind that they’re not the anti-adobe, they’re not fighting for accessible open software, especially not since they’ve sold out to Canva.
I am still happy with my purchase and I think it’s a good deal tho esp on a sale, just worth the consideration.
It’s a one time purchase license, not a subscription. And the software is good.
