Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?

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Post by hightrix » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 5:28 PM UTC

coffeefirst wrote: post #3

https://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.

Seconded. The whole affinity suite is really nice and feels pretty comfy.

It is also reasonably priced and no subscription.

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?

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Post by add-sub-mul-div » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 5:29 PM UTC

I wasn't an Adobe user before but I started learning video editing and DaVinci Resolve has been great. It's free for my needs, and the paid version is a reasonable one time cost and not a subscription.

It's not even a matter of settling for an alternative because of Adobe, from the advice I've seen Resolve is what you'd go with today anyway.

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?

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Post by atum47 » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 5:30 PM UTC

Left Adobe long ago. I Use Gimp instead of Photoshop.

Fair thing to say is that I don't do that much image/video editing these days.

When I was a 3D artist I found very hard to migrate from 3Ds Max, Vray and Photoshop, especially in ArchViz.

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?

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Post by Octoth0rpe » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 5:32 PM UTC

For my very limited photoshop-ish needs, Pixelmator Pro has been great.

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?

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Post by tryptophan » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 5:33 PM UTC

I switched to pdfgear as an alternative to acrobat/dc for all my pdf needs. Free and better than acrobat.

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?

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Post by daft_pink » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 5:33 PM UTC

I switched to pdfexpert and Final Cut pro and saved so much money and no longer limited to just two machines. Never look back

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?

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Post by breck » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 5:33 PM UTC

https://www.tldraw.com/

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?

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Post by throwadobe » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 5:33 PM UTC

Some old, cracked version of Photoshop

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?

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Post by blackeyeblitzar » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 5:34 PM UTC

coffeefirst wrote: post #3

https://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.

I read that they were acquired by Canva. Does that create any risk of their pricing changing to a subscription model or maybe a risk of them adopting the same terms as Adobe?

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?

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Post by tambourine_man » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 5:35 PM UTC

Unfortunately, Adobe tools were already on its own league before the recent AI revolution. They are now even more untouchable.

I say that with deep regret not only because of the update to the terms of service, but because they are terrible OS citizens, downright user hostile in many situations and a monopoly.