You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things…
Kreative Suite
* Krita is your new design/painting app
* Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
* glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
* digiKam organises your collection images
https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:
* Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
* Scribus - layout like a pro
* GIMP - need we say more
* Blender - ditto
In all fairness, Adobe has posted a clarification: https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/07/adobe-terms-clarified/
Do what thou wilst with it.So or they are backtracking like Slack did a couple of weeks ago and will seek a way to still do this when no-one is looking, or they are obfuscating their true intentions with blah, or they will just keep users in the dark and lie.
If anyone believes Adobe is not going to take their work and still make them pay for an extortionate license, send them my way, as I have a bridge to sell them.
Fully agree, by the way. It’s a great scam they’re pulling off here. God, I wish I wasn’t suffering from ethics.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Thanks for this post. It’s super helpful! Do you have any suggestions for replacing substance painter? I’ve been getting by fine with blender and krita. Your kdenlive suggestion was a godsend! 🤩
Thank God … I’ve been on Gimp and Scribus for the past 15 years, mainly because I could never afford Adobe products for the little bit of work I needed them for.
I was open source a long time ago because I just couldn’t afford paying for stuff for the little time I needed software. Now I’m happy to be fully open source and even contribute with donations to the projects I like the most. I donate annually now to projects like Wikipedia, Libreoffice, Scribus and Fediverse developers and projects.
This is one criticism I’ll always have with open source supporters … if you want open source alternatives, contribute with donations to them. Give anything you can afford … $1, $2, $10 … because they need money to survive and stay engaged and committed to their project.
If we all just stand aside and take advantage of free open software and not give anything, then we are no better than the corporations we were trying to avoid. Instead of corporations taking advantage of us, we are taking advantage of developers.
So if you want these open projects to live and survive, contribute to them with whatever you got. If we all just gave a dollar each to these projects, no matter what they are, the developers would have more than enough to maintain their work.
And whatever you contribute, it will be far less than the hundreds of dollars annually you would have given to a big corporation that would have just counted your money as profit and not directly contribute or support the actual developers.
I like to support by buying merch. My Blender Hat got me so many thumbs up by strangers, it feels like bikers or Westphalia 0r brotherhood’s signing each other’s.
Great idea because the merch acts as an advertisement to support the project and create awareness. It’s the main reason why corporations like Adobe are so successful - they have a pervasive marketing campaign. We should do the same and wearing a hat, t-shirt or bag would help do that.
Now you got me thinking about what to buy from the projects I like to support. Thanks
I was using Krita for almost everything anyway already. The only thing I still need Photoshop for is in the very rare times I need to add curved text to an image. And for that I have a Jack Sparrow edition of Photoshop that runs in a virtual machine that isn’t allowed to connect to the internet.
@kde @[email protected] This is why I use Linux.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Kdenlive it´s awsome, thanks 👍
@[email protected] @[email protected] happy to see glaxnimate officially promoted by KDE.
By comparison Inkscape was made assuming the user knows what they’re doing, very intuitive. Illustrator has so much handholding that its like it was designed assuming you do not know what you are doing. I’ve ready made several thousand using only Inkscape professionally. Illustrator is not needed.
@kde @[email protected] @darktable don’t forget #darktable for your raw photo editing needs!!
@[email protected] @[email protected]
Synfig Studio is a powerful tool for creating film-quality animation using vector and bitmap artwork.
I can vouch for Krita, Kdenlive, Inkscape and Blender. They are awesome, hell… Bender became a Hollywood staple.
But GIMP has a horrible UX/UI, and Scribus can’t even do a 5-fold. They are way behind the rest of the pack.
@warmaster @kde
I tried gimp once and within five minutes I wanted to murder everyone involved in making it.It’s really not that bad. Depending on what you are doing. Personally I always seem to be learning new software, My goal is to not pay a monthly sub. I’m mostly using Clip Studio, which… yes, it’s a sub, so… dumb. But GIMP isn’t super user friendly, it does get a lot done though.
Gimp is super useful
But the learning curve is insane (especially if you’re not already familiar with digital art/ photo manip)
It’s fine for a user who needs specific things not that often. I always have to look up how to do anything anyway, and by the next time I do it I’ve either forgotten or the software has updated.
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I have been searching for good alternatives to AE and Premiere for a while now. I have messed with DaVinci a few times, but always bounced off. Any suggestions. Bonus points if anyone can point me in the direction of a Lightroom alternative.
Capture One is great. Better than LR for many things, especially tethered shooting, but I still need LR for specific workflows (timelapse processing).
i like Vegas over premeire
For video editing, Kdenlive is the best alternative I found so far, although it takes some time to get used to. For something AE related, check out Blender. It might be a bit overkill for most projects, but it is very powerful. As a lightroom alternative there’s Darktable. All of the mentioned software also has the advantage of being free and open source.
I am super impressed by Blender, but there’s not really a substitute for After Effects yet, open source or otherwise.
there’s not really a substitute for After Effects yet,
Have you tried Natron? This software still needs some serious love, but maybe you can appreciate its potential as tool for people used to AE.
Very interesting! I’ll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @noondlyt Don’t forget Serif / Affinity! Left Adobe for them a decade ago, first class tools 👏🏽
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