The free software (some are only free for personal use, but others are completely free):
- Motion Design by Maxon - Autograph: https://www.maxon.net/en/autograph
- Animation by Canva - Cavalry: https://cavalry.studio/en/
- Photo editing, book editing and graphics by Canva - Affinity: https://www.affinity.studio/
- Photo manipulation by Gimp: https://www.gimp.org/
- Movie Editing by Black Magic -Davinci Resolve: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
- 3D animation, movie editing, modeling, sculpting by Blender: https://www.blender.org/download/
- Digital painting by Krita: https://krita.org/en/
Neat list!
Blender and resolve are terrific. Gimp is a bit of a running joke for veterans in the industry - the UX is a comical mess.
Personally steer well clear of Maxon and Canva. Maxon on account of the rubbish pricing, piss poor UX/UI, and invasive telemetry. Canva for AI stance, telemetry, and their having the option to monetize should they ever feel like it after having locked in a large enough user base. Which absolutely will happen over a long enough period given predatory, for profit SaaS trends.
Penpot is an alright Canva substitute for the time being, least for my needs which are reasonably complex. Haven’t had much luck finding a good foss alternative to after effects though.
And fantastic vector graphics inkscape: https://inkscape.org/
I love inkscape. Its what illustration was before adobe started tinkering too much.
Also in the photo editing arena, RawTherapee, Darktable, and RapidRAW, all FOSS.
Dude, never heard of these. They’re awesome.
- RawTherapee: https://rawtherapee.com/
- Darktable: https://www.darktable.org/
- Rapid Raw: https://www.getrapidraw.com/
autograph is finally back🥹 just hoping maxon didn’t enshittify it
It looks like they killed the Linux version.
Did you ever try the free version of Maxon on Adobe? It was Blender but you couldn’t move anything unless you paid a shit ton.
no, I’ve only used autograph for a bit, way back before maxon bought left-angle (creators of autograph) and killed the software for about a year it was a very solid after effects alternative
“Free” apps from a commercial business are only “free” until they get a foothold, then they start limiting access, and putting new features behind the paywall.
No “war” on Adobe will succeed until businesses start using something other than Adobe software. If you want to earn money in visual arts, you must learn Adobe software. If you take classes, they all teach Adobe software. Beyond that, though, clients provide assets in proprietary Adobe formats, expecting the studio to use Adobe software.
I was a graphic designer for over twenty years. My preferred app for vector work and document layout was Corel Draw, it’s better than Illustrator in many ways, and replaced both Illustrator and InDesign for 99% of the work I did. But, I still needed to know Illustrator and InDesign, because clients provided assets, and incoming employees only knew Adobe and wouldn’t try anything else. Also, though, GIMP is still not a good substitute for Photoshop. I use it now, since I’m retired, but it’s still not as good.
Agree, a lot of people advocate for Canva, it will only go the same way as adobe.
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Good.
Let me guess, they won’t give even a fraction of that money to the opensource projects they now use and instead spam them with “why don’t you have the same features as adobe when I didn’t give you a fucking cent!?!?!?” ?
The industry here isn’t using open source. Canva keeps buying companies that have equivalent-enough software to adobe and then making them free to use
Future lock-in, incoming
