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[Gamesfromscratch] Did Adobe Just %#@$ Up? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Free Open Source Alternatives

[Visual/Graphical]

For all visual/graphical artists I would personally recommend switching from Photoshop over to

KDE's Krita
- Licensed under: GPLv-3.0 or later
- Flathub

GIMP
- Licensed under: GPLv-3.0 or later
- Flathub

[Audio]

For audio migration I'd recommend switching from Soundbooth to

Tenacity
- Licensed under: GPLv-2.0 or later
- Flathub

LMMS
- Licensed under: GPLv-2.0 or later
- Flathub
  - Status: "Unverified"

[PDF]

Acrobat Reader to

MuPDF
- Licensed under: AGPLv-3.0 or later
- F-Droid

KDE's Okular
- Licensed under: GPLv-2.0 or later
- Flathub

[Video]

Premiere to

Shotcut
- Licensed under: GPLv-3.0 or later
- Flathub

Kdenlive
- Licensed under: GPLv-3.0 or later
- Flathub

OpenShot
- Licensed under: GPLv-3.0 only
- Flathub
  - Status: "Unverified"

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Workflow is big, but it isn't the biggest issue with Gimp for serious work, the destructive editing is. Workflow you can get used to, destructive editing means you're fucked if you need to edit something you've previously edited - something most if not all professionals do all the time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This.

It is planned feature for Gimp 3 I believe, hopefully it will be implemented well.

But for now, people that aren't professional graphic designers should really stop recommending Gimp as a viable replacement. It is a very capable piece of software, but too many professional-grade features are missing.

And it's never only about Photoshop either. It is the integration that the suite has. Illustrator to Photoshop to Indesign is (mostly) seemless.

I'm currently trying to switch to foss alternatives, but it's rough.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Totally agree. Gimp is really advanced and badass in many ways, but it's like a nuclear reactor control panel's worth of MS Paint. Hopefully the non destructive editing will change that. But yes like you said, Photoshop has the whole Adobe ecosystem, too. Hopefully things will change for the better with FOSS though, and I think it will. There should be a consortium formed of FOSS media software that aims to collectively work together to beat Adobe's ass.