cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3376057

I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until my job required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn’t the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.

  • BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml
    443·
    1 year ago

    There isn’t anything that Adobe charges money for that you can’t find an open source alternative.

    • Herr Woland@lemmy.world
      191·
      1 year ago

      No real replacement for After Effects unless if you want to juggle between 5 programs and then lose clients because they can’t open your project files

        • Herr Woland@lemmy.world
          10·
          1 year ago

          You can’t animate text on a video clip without spending a lot of time, something which is 2 clicks on after effects

          • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Fair point, Blender isn’t for the weak of heart but it’s free and getting better and better. It does particles and other things too. After Effects has a steep learning curve too though, you just know it.

            • Herr Woland@lemmy.world
              4·
              1 year ago

              I know, I love blender and work with it when I can, but I do motion design professionally and it’s painful how there’s no alternative to after effects

        • Olrn@feddit.de
          2·
          1 year ago

          We have to stop confusing compositing and motion design, Blender is great for compositing, absolutely not 2D motion design. The only software that could efficiently replace After Effects on some aspects would be Cavalry, but it’s still on early development.

    • jetsetdorito@lemm.ee
      4·
      1 year ago

      Im REALLY trying to make myself learn Affinity Photo, but I just keep falling back to PhotoPea which is like an in browser Photoshop clone

          • Beliriel@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Wym not photo editing? You can do everything aswell in Krita. Changing hues, retouching, selection, layers, saturation, tone balance. All there.
            And you can most definitely use it for pixel art. Even if you don’t want to use Krita there exist paint.net, aseprite, piskel or pixelorama. No need for hundreds of dollars for PS.

            • tev@pawb.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              and if you don’t want to pay, you can always use libresprite instead of aesprite

        • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Krita is awesome for tablet painting but it’s not that easy to use for photoshop type stuff, imo.

      • MusketeerX@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        Got stuck in hospital for a few weeks recently and used the opportunity to finally learn Affinity.

        I’m now really liking it. Takes a few tries to get into it though.

        I particularly like it on the iPad with the Apple pencil. A bit less so on my windows laptop.

      • cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca
        182·
        1 year ago

        GIMP is very useful but I will fight you on that.

        There are other free and paid (non-subscription) solutions that are better at everything Photoshop does though.

        • Beliriel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Honestly ever si ce I discovered Krita I never went back to GIMP. Maybe gimp is more customizable at the base level but fuck me if Krita doesn’t make transitioning out of Photoshop a breeze. Changing from PS to Krita is like switching from a metal baseball bat to a wooden one. Switching from PS to Gimp is like switching out your metal baseball bat for an unfelled pine tree.

      • HeavenAndHell@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        Sorry, but fuck no. Not even close. I hate adobe, but photoshop is literally better than GIMP in every way. But like some said, there are better options than photoshop.