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Adobe backlash is getting louder — time to escape proprietary creative tools? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 8 months ago by [M] to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca
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Bugs bunny in suit I wish adobe a very pleasant downfall. The stock drops.
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[–] 7 points 8 months ago (14 children)

Yeah, I know. I've never used Krita, but I do have the paid version of Davinci Resolve. But it can be tricky to make it work on Linux, I only use it when I need complex editing. Shotcut is simpler to use and more straight forward.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    I use Krita!

    I'm an open-source artist. All the tools and software I have ever used to make my art are FLOSS. It's my deeply held personal belief that the ability to create art should be as free as pencil and paper, and I want my work to be living proof of that ideal.

    I've used Krita, Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, and other tools exclusively for over a decade. I never could afford Adobe's shit, and I realized pretty quickly that nearly anything Photoshop can do, a bit of savvy and some extra time in Gimp and Krita can do equally well. My only complaint is that they can't support Photoshop's brush file formats. Which is absolutely a dealbreaker for most committed artists I know, because your brushes make or break your workflow and even your entire art style. So switching isn't for everyone, and that's fine.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    I've never heard of shotcut, that looks interesting.

    https://www.shotcut.org/

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Huh, a couple of days ago I was googling all over the place for something like this and it didn't come up. I didn't think my google-fu was that weak. Definitely going to try this out now.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Same, I looked high and low for an alternative. The blender editing program is still a bit clunky.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    I just gave it a spin and it was everything I was looking for, this is fantastic. Funny how these things can slip through searches and then just pop out of nowhere from an unexpected discussion thread like this.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Shotcut

    Huh... I recently needed to do a super short edit of a clip and people were recommending Kdenlive. Have you used it? To me it felt super complicated (I literally needed something like ClipChamp from Windows), but now I'm wondering if Shortcut might be the better choice.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    I tried Kdenlive, but was overwhelmed the moment I opened it. So I went back to Shotcut. Here's what I do:

    • Simple basic editing = Shotcut
    • More complex editing = Davinci Resolve
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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Look into davincibox! It’s a script (?) that uses distrobox to install davinci seamlessly. It’s great and worked perfectly for me even with an amd gpu

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'd need to try it. I recently tried the "Universal Davinci Resolve Installer" script and it didn't work. I'm currently using Maple Linux which is debian based.

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