Did Adobe Just %#@$ Up?
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So Adobe "just" released a new terms of service for most of their creative products like Adobe Photoshop and Substance 3D and lets just say some of the new t...

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Thanks to the following commenters below for additional recommendations that I added to this post!

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Free Open Source Alternatives

[Visual/Graphical]

For all visual/graphical artists I would personally recommend switching from Photoshop over to

[Audio]

For audio migration I’d recommend switching from Soundbooth to

[PDF]

Acrobat Reader to

[Video]

Premiere to

There’s also an excellent thread started by urska@lemmy.ca

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Not open source, but pro grade, often nicer to work with than adobe stuff. The Affinity suite. Pay once per major revision. Decent upgrade plans. No subscription. Designer, photo and publisher.

  • accideath@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Recently tried kdenlive because I had some trouble with premiere. It was surprisingly good. The problem is, DaVinci Resolve is much better than either premiere or kdenlive and while it’s not open source, it is free. And sadly I won’t be able to use either one for work because our projects need to be shareable among colleagues, in case someone else has to finish an edit for you, and premiere is the program everyone knows well.

    Also, both gimp and krita, while being the best OS alternative for PS are still much worse. Especially gimp is overly complicated and user unfriendly.

  • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Just to mention a not-foss, but extremely well done DAW, cheap ($60 personal use, $225 commercial) and goes through 2 major versions before you’d need to pay again, free to download and try WinRAR style, supported on windows, macos, and Linux, etc, etc - reaper.

    https://www.reaper.fm/

    If you need a solid DAW, with support for all kinds of plugins and a dev team that’s not a bag of dicks trying to screw you over with a cloud subscription and AI, this is it.

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Until it gets bought by some big corp and suddenly has spyware integrated and goes into subscription anyway Happened to a lot of good proprietary software, and this is a reason why open source is superior.

      • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
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        5 months ago

        No, just a nag. If you’re recording/editing a few times a year, it won’t be a bother. If you’re in there often, it’s worth the few bucks.