A list of alternative programs to use instead of adobe products.

Bl4aze · Feb 28, 2021

Adobe products are expensive.
its as simple as that. You have to pay a subscription for them and you probably are paying too much.
you can get the same or hell even better experiences and tools for less or even free.
I have compiled a list of these programs with the help of others that you can try yourself that cost less or are even free to use with some even open source.
Perhaps i could help you save a bit of money or even make it so you dont have to spend any at all

Quick color code
Yellow - A one time purchase
Green - Free
Blue - Free AND open source

Note: certain ones might have a paid and free version. Paid is a one-time purchase only and you can most likely do what you need with the free version

Photoshop:

Photography:

Gimp
Sumo Paint
Affinity Photo
Photoline
PhotoPea
Paint . net

Drawing:

Kirita
Clip Paint Studio
Paint Tool Sai
Procreate
AD Sketchbook
Firealpaca
Medibang
Paintstorm
My Paint

Illustrator:

Inkscape
Vectr
BoxySVG
GravitDesigner - Has paid version
Affinity Designer
Corel Draw

Animator:

Cacami
Tv Paint
ToonBloom
ClipStudio EX
Moho
Blender
Opentoons
Kirita
Pencil 2D
FireAlpaca

Audition:

Audacity
Ocean Audio
FLStudio

Premiere:

Olive
Kdenlive
Davinci Resolve - has paid version
Sony Vegas

After Effects:

Blender
Natron
Enve

Compiled with the help of @XDanielArt on twitter

linuxares · Feb 28, 2021

Just a heads up about Olive. It's super early in development so it might not be as perfect as Premiere.

FAST6191 · Mar 1, 2021

I like avisynth myself for video work. Chuck on something like megui on the backend and maybe virtualdub for a frame checker/preview and all good.
Vapoursynth has its fans too
http://vapoursynth.com/doc/

Similarly many will want RAW support for various camera purposes both in photoshop and with Adobe's lightroom providing what many consider the defining standard (though if you are already caught up in the adobe whirlwind...) and while there are some plugins for GIMP and paint.net then they also lack management tools so people in turn tend to start with
https://www.darktable.org/
There are a few others that are more simplistic too, though that can be what people want if they just need to do some colour correction.

notimp · Mar 6, 2021

alternativeto.net - always is worth a look as well.

But if we are talking alternatives I actually use:

Acorn

on Mac (Photoshop alternative).

30MB in size, lightweight, fast - and does everything I need it to do for most of my image editing.

A list of alternative programs to use instead of adobe products.

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