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[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 59 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s okay. I’m using Krita. $0

[–] fnrir@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is a friendly reminder to support FOSS developers and maintainers.

https://kde.org/donate/

[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago
[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 49 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Yay, more subscriptions.

👌Adobe, I am sticking to my Affinity Photo 1.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 15 points 8 months ago

Affinity is great

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Elements were always just so much inferior to the full versions that you're better off using free alternatives anyway

[–] randompasta@lemmy.today 7 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] randompasta@lemmy.today 3 points 8 months ago
[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

I dunno if this changes any of the UX paradigms, but I heard GIMP is about to release a huge major version.

[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

If you’re using a drawing tablet, Krita is free.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

photopea for photoshop, darktable for lightroom, inkskape for illustrator

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I tried Resolve but couldn't really get on with it, doesn't help that it can't handle H264 & H265 encoded video in the free version... I'm really growing tired of using Vegas Pro 16

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

there is only one or two features i miss in the affinity suite; but been working with it exclusively for the past 3 months (after owning it for years), and i'm never looking back.

although their refusal to support linux and the linux work-arounds being incredibly spotty has made me consider just giving up and moving onto gimp etc. i have tried to replace photoshop with gimp in the past but it's just too inconvenient to do "the same things" so i always give up half way through the learning process.

i really wish affinity would try to at least offer a hand to the linux community; it's somewhat upsetting that they have rejected any and all linux efforts.

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

I was kinda hoping the Canva buyout would change things on that front :/