Courtesy to Twitter user XdanielArt (date of publication: 8 June 2024)
Affinity Designer 2 might be the only one close to what Adobr Illustrator can handle.
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Affinity + BMD’s Davinci Resolve FTW. Best combo IMOO. I did the switch back in 2017 and never looked back. Worth the single low price and long term free upgrades. For acrobat replacement (basics only) Apple’s preview is flawless and Ubuntu 25.10 Pages looks promising. Looking for recommendations for Lightroom replacement. Apple’s pixelmator purchase looks promising but I don’t want subscription.
The Affinity Suite is so worth it. Pay a single time and get all the apps on all major OSes instead of the stupid subscription bullshit Adobe tries to lock you into.
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Thank you very much for this, I already use four programs out of those, time look into more 😉
What's the Audacity/Tenacity deal?
Enshitification by owners of Audacity including telemetry. They eventually backed down, but that was after Tenacity forked off it and people started using and improving it.
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As much as I am loath to admit it, nothing comes close to feature parity with Photoshop. All the others are pretty replaceable, but if you are a professional who depends on a lot of the really advanced features you’re going to have a hard time replacing it. GiMP isn’t even close tbh. I admire the work they’re doing but they are a decade behind PS.
Good news is that is not most people.
I keep hearing this but having never really used Photoshop myself. What are all the missing features?
I'm not a professional but there hasn't been anything that I wanted to do in GIMP that I couldn't do because of its limitations and with GIMP 3.0 having non destructive editing I have no complaints other than the sometimes janky UI.
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I don't know what those two letters mean. I wish they had written out the name. I've avoided buying Adobe stuff because it's stupidly expensive, but I'm still aware that in some industries, some of these have been industry standards at one point or another. Being able to tell wtf their names are, or even what they do would be helpful.
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Affinity Photo is an excellent Photoshop alternative. I switched a while ago and have used it for all of my major projects since.
Really nervous to get into that ecosystem after they were bought by the Canva crew
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Kinda hilarious that anyone uses Premiere Pro when Resolve is better, and free (with very optional features locked behind 1-time paywall). David Manning had a revelation and made a video about this recently. As did PewDiePie.