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Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?
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Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?
#32https://affinity.serif.com is quite good. It's not the same, but I switched (95% personal use) when Adobe forced everyone onto subscriptions and it's been more than sufficient for that.
Would definitely buy if they either had a Linux version, or ran in WINE.
Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?
#33https://affinity.serif.com is quite good. It's not the same, but I switched (95% personal use) when Adobe forced everyone onto subscriptions and it's been more than sufficient for that.
It is surprisingly good, it still lacks many features but it's a welcome competition in the field. However, I wouldn't go through the trouble of leaving Adobe for another closed source suite. The underdogs are always the good guys until they aren't.
If/when I ditch Adobe, it will be for an open source stack.
Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?
#34For personal use, cracked Adobe products. I myself have switched from Illustrator to Affinity Designer several years ago, but Photoshop is somehow irreplaceable for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I drag around a 60MB portable version of CS3 that does 99% of anything I'd need to do.
I've found myself missing out on the generative AI fill train but recently discovered Krita AI diffusion, not too difficult to set up and use from a PS diehard, and pretty magical.
Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?
#35If anyone can comment on good alternatives for After Effect, I'd be interested to know.
Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?
#36For Photoshop:
1) Photopea (quite brilliant for most of the things photoshop can do)
2) paint.net for not too advanced edits
3) Krita
For After Effects:
1) Natron
2) BlackMagic Fusion
For Premiere Pro:
1) DaVinci Resolve
2) KdenLive
For Illustrator:
1) Inkscape
2) Graphite
Please note that most of these are not feature for feature replacements, but for the most part and most common tasks, they are very good offerings.
Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?
#37https://www.photopea.com/ is a good free alternative to Photoshop. It is a 90100 product - 90% of the features 100% free.
Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?
#38I still don’t think there’s an alternative for After Effects. People always say DaVinci Resolve, which seems like a good replacement for Premiere Pro, but not After Effects. I’ve looked into a lot of entrants in this area but one has nearly as rich a library of effects. Please prove me wrong, I’d love to stop paying Adobe $600/yr.
Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?
#39My free stack, 2024 edition: Fedora Linux Sway spin, Inkscape, GNU Image Manipulation Program, KdenLive, Natron, Blender, FreeCAD, KiCAD, OpenSCAD, Orca slicer, IceCat, Zulip, LibreOffice, and a flock of CLI tools
2024 and Gimp remains horrible (as it has always been). It’s cool it brings value to you and others but Photoshop replacement it is not.
Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?
#40https://affinity.serif.com is quite good. It's not the same, but I switched (95% personal use) when Adobe forced everyone onto subscriptions and it's been more than sufficient for that.
Aren’t they also going the subscription way soon?