There are way more affordable options out there, some are free.
For tablet painting: Krita and free
For photoshop: I use affinity, but Canvas just bought them. Not sure how they’re going to be in the future. Canvas is evil. It’s around $125/2 or 3 years or so. I haven’t used Gimp in awhile, I might look at them again.
For Premiere Pro, Audition and After Effects: Buy the studio version of Davinci Resolve, it has all of them. It’s a lifetime purchase and cheap if you think of that way. Don’t lose your code though.
For 3D: Blender and free. It keeps getting better and better.
They’re fast enshitifiers, they’ll buy great products and make them subscription or way worse. An example of a way worse way is Unsplash, where they would offer free products and you could buy some of the photos. The ones you have to purchase used to be at the top or bottom, like PixaBay does. But now they’re mixed in and random. I don’t use it anymore. They ruin everything to the point where if I see they’re involved, I don’t use the product. I know it’ll turn bad soon. I’ve bought from Pixabay occasionally. They might enshitify too, but so far they’ve been great.
It’s not there if you’re trying to do professional printing: I still see people complaining about messed up color profiles, exporting, etc. Otherwise, I’ve found it fairly ok, although pelespirit’s right about the clunk here and there.
It’s different and a tad clunky, but there are some things that were better when I switched. I’ve been off adobe for about 4 or 5 years now, so it may be not what you need or want. I think they have a free trial. But again, that one time cost may switch to subscription after this release, Canva is known to be enshittifiers.
I love Procreate and Affinity Designer as Photoshop replacements! No subscription. I’m not sure what platforms they run on, though. I just use em on my iPad Pro (and Procreate Pocket on my phone)
Adobe: trying to connect creators (no not you, you’re too poor to buy our license)
There are way more affordable options out there, some are free.
Photopea is a great option for light photo editing! It’s free website with a decent layout
Thank you, that does look great if Affinity goes tits up.
I love Affinity but didn’t know Canvas got ahold of them. Shoot.
Not good news, but I mispoke, it’s Canva:
https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity/
They were the evil ones I was thinking of though.
why is canva evil, exactly? i use it sometimes /honest question
They’re fast enshitifiers, they’ll buy great products and make them subscription or way worse. An example of a way worse way is Unsplash, where they would offer free products and you could buy some of the photos. The ones you have to purchase used to be at the top or bottom, like PixaBay does. But now they’re mixed in and random. I don’t use it anymore. They ruin everything to the point where if I see they’re involved, I don’t use the product. I know it’ll turn bad soon. I’ve bought from Pixabay occasionally. They might enshitify too, but so far they’ve been great.
Damn, that’s awful. Also because I know a few creative people have found it useful - it’s shitty for them.
Real :3… I use krita for my art ^^ GIMP for photo editing (which I don’t do a lot of), kdenlive for video, and… blender for 3d stuff
I’ve never heard of that one, that looks great.
I use Blender for video editing… lol
Fuck, affinity got bought? God damn it, that sucks.
Still haven’t found a good replacement for InDesign and let me tell you how much I’m hankering to move on
I personally have replaced all my Adobe products with the much cheaper alternative of pirated Adobe products
Affinity has one that’s just as good, but as I said in another comment, I’m not sure how long that will last since they were bought by Canva.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/
I tried it a while back and was left wanting but that’s been a couple years. I’ll give it another try.
It’s not there if you’re trying to do professional printing: I still see people complaining about messed up color profiles, exporting, etc. Otherwise, I’ve found it fairly ok, although pelespirit’s right about the clunk here and there.
It’s different and a tad clunky, but there are some things that were better when I switched. I’ve been off adobe for about 4 or 5 years now, so it may be not what you need or want. I think they have a free trial. But again, that one time cost may switch to subscription after this release, Canva is known to be enshittifiers.
didn’t gimp just roll out a major update? I’ve been using paint.net for a while, but i’m curious how the the new is
Armor Paint for Substance Painter
Material Maker for Substance Designer
I love Procreate and Affinity Designer as Photoshop replacements! No subscription. I’m not sure what platforms they run on, though. I just use em on my iPad Pro (and Procreate Pocket on my phone)
Krita is our version of Procreate.
Nice, I will check it out!
I’m not a professional, but I’ve been using Gimp 3, and it works great for my purposes (mostly making memes and weird net art, tbh).
Also Blender is S tier. So good. I even use it to make sprite sheets using 3D models as base.
Adobe: “We’re here for all our starving artists”
Artist: Buys a Photoshop subscription instead of food