NOT ADOBE! -- The Best Adobe Alternatives in 2024

For a variety of reasons a number of long time Adobe users are looking for alternatives to their popular suite of graphics applications. In this video we look at some of the best alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Substance Painter/Designer, Lightroom, Animate and Premier/After Effects in 2024.
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[@gamechannel1271]

Photopea sucks. It certainly does a lot, but it doesn't do it correctly. For example, look at how the hue shift filter works in perceptual RGB space, instead of an actual color space like oklab designed to shift hues based on human vision. Same thing for drawing with brushes, you get black edges instead of yellow edges when drawing green on top of red due to blending in the wrong color space. Certain tools like vertical text tool a very frustrating to use. You should pick anything, like GIMP, over Photopea, unless you have a quick edit to do and only have access to a web browser.

[@nahCyzar0520]

A After Effects alternative you didn't show is the Black magic design product, Fusion. But I think that is included in DaVinci Resolve.

[@TigraPolosatiy]

Recently, Unreal Engine 5.4 has been touted as a real-time motion design tool, and may soon replace After Effects.

[@emmanuelleguerin2472]

I'd never heard of Autograph. I just checked Left Angle's KZbin channel, and it looks a lot like After Effects.

[@cholasimmons]

SceneGroup's Cavalry is also one to keep a close eye on

[@hkanything]

0:36 Photoshop 4:11 Illustrator 7:32 Substance 12:18 Animate 16:05 Lightroom 18:26 Premiere Pro & After Effect

[@VanillaSpooks]

Thank you good sir

[@justXcallXitXtechno]

guess I'm too oldschool and "analog" for nowadays: but Indesign will probably be some of the hardest to replace, unfortunately. Affinity doesn't exactly cut it. If Photopea cuts their malware ad crap and some fair/capable Indesign alternative ever shows up, with things like darktable, davinci etc. we can finally let the epitome of greed - Adobe crash and burn for good. :/

[@VeeZzz123]

what about Adobe Acrobat

[@justXcallXitXtechno]

@@VeeZzz123 ?

[@ShangleLP]

🙏🏼

[@m0n0ct0]

"They pulled a Unity" 🤣

[@zachhoy]

worse even, forcing you to accept the terms before you can even cancel your sub

[@aneesh.videos]

Davinci Resolve is literally a lifesaver for folks like myself who enjoy editing videos but cannot afford Adobe's high subscription prices.

[@soirema]

I thought that enjoy the "quality and features of after effect" gonna be the answer here 🤔🥲

[@brodriguez11000]

Amazing what one can do when the costs of "free" are shifted to expensive but optional hardware (Hitfilm couldn't do this).

[@zachhoy]

100%

[@vomitbag12]

I love Resolve. Premiere has also been been very crashy and slow for me so I don't miss it.

[@LV4EVR]

Affinity + DaVinci Resolve + Darktable + Blender _Done_

[@fltfathin]

​@@hiperfx892 blender is 2nd choice in the industry wtf are you talking about? And resolve is industry standard for color grading.

[@hiperfx892]

@@fltfathin you definitely live under a Rock. Go get a job at ILM, Pixar, Dreamworks or Marvel, you will get your a$$ kicked. Mays is everywhere, I use blender but Maya is my secondary tool

[@hiperfx892]

@@fltfathin ok smarta$$, go try to get a Job at ILM, DNEG, Pixar or any big studio with your blender skill. You are soo begainner. Go make some research 😂😂😂

[@KayloGL]

@@hiperfx892 > I can sense the brain-dead TikTok/Twitter user in you from the way you type emotes. > You came here to talk down on a user over software that he simply prefered and felt good to go with. > Entitled child, confirmed.

[@fltfathin]

​@@hiperfx892 i've checked them and none of them mentions adobe suite app, maybe maya, but they do hints of the use of blender or similar tool (NUKE ?) since the openings mentions linux and python scripting as required skill. with my skills i won't be accepted there obviously, but there are people in the industry that uses blender and is used for the vfx, some made appearance in blender conference (kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6mkqKuwnad_btk) so i think YOU make some research professional/ artist choose their own tools not the employer

[@thesteammachine1282]

I got a adobe ad before the video started . How darrrre youuu ! 😅

[@paradox8425]

I'm pretty sure you don't have control over which ad will be shown

[@TroutButter]

*ad

[@UnrealBucket]

Same lol

[@JezzFilm]

The one with that creepy all-seeing 👁️ like there marketing team's rebelling?

[@marenjones6665]

Accept it. Take their advertising dollars. Watch the full ad and laugh, knowing they just wasted all their efforts. Destroy their ability to market effectively.

[@tech-bore8839]

The problem isn't availability of alternatives. The problem is that people are too lazy to even migrate to something else. People love to whine about issues of cost, licensing, privacy, etc. But when it comes down to migrating to something else, few people want to learn a new piece of software. Hell, people are reluctant to even TRY new software unless Daddy (Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.) releases it. Personally, if anyone isn't going to abandon these terrible companies for user-respecting alternatives, then those customers have no reason to complain about any of these controversies.

[@LV4EVR]

Amen

[@chalkieface9968]

Too harsh. Some of us have used Photoshop for decades and find things like Affinity does things in such a different way that muscle memory is hard to overcome. I liked Designer, it really is better than Illustrator and took less time to pick up - however Photo (for example) just did some things awkwardly. I even found myself swapping to Photopea for some quick dirty work rather than fire up Photo.

[@simeongprince]

Yes, laziness is correct. I remember I told myself back in 2009 "if I really want to escape Adobe and Microsoft, then I must use Open Source design tools to do client work, from start to finish". That was the furnace I put myself through, and with practice, I got better. Once you know the fundamentals of Photoshop and Illustrator, Gimp and Inkscape is nothing to learn.

[@vomitbag12]

I dumped Adobe when then they went to the rental model. I keep my CS6 versions installed, but rarely use them. I even work somewhere that allows me to use Adobe's CC for free at home, but I don't. I'm using Corel PaintShop Pro mostly because it is still the most feature-rich, but do use On1 and some Topaz.

[@janeeightfive7331]

The other problem is if you work as a freelancer they often demand that you are fluent in a specific software, in my case it was Premiere. So, I'm forced to have it to be able to work, although I'd rather use DaVinci.

[@rremnar]

Kudos to the smart people doing software engineering making FOSS, and paid, software alternatives to the pile of corporate crap.

[@Dexter01992]

For anyone wondering about CSP's controversy: They added a subscription system where you pay monthly to obtain updates, similar to photoshop. HOWEVER. Every year they are releasing an "X.0" version in *permanent* license where you can purchase or upgrade from previous version for discounted price, where you access all updates made previous year. Devs get money for updates and people do not get their software access denied the moment they stop paying. I find this acceptable compared to adobe's greedy behaviour where you no longer can do anything the moment you stop giving them money. It also costs a fraction of Photoshop, as you can easily get the PRO version for 20-30$ in permanent license during the common discounts. Also CSP's updates are often small, but useful stuff. On contrary of Photoshop that for illustrators and comic artists virtually hasn't changed since 2007. And for anyone worried about losing assets, last year CSP added native support for PS's brushes.

[@Dave102693]

Can you use AI and PSD files in CSP?

[@kjcomputer]

Perpetual license all the way

[@testacals]

I actually think paying for the updates is fair enough

[@jumpropemf]

It's a good program. I use it on the iPad and I think before the subscription system it was already subscription only on iPad. I'm not sure about the desktop version but I got it free for a year when I bought my first drawing tablet about 8 years ago.

[@Dexter01992]

@@Dave102693 It reads PSD files natively and can export PSD. The only AI stuff in there are matching the built-in 3D mannequins pose to a provided photo and a bunch of tools that I personally never use. There's no generative AI prompting in it as the community heavily pushed against it when they announced it.

[@billrazor6591]

Tahoma 2D is a fork of OpenToonz with a modernized interface. It's a full-fledged professional animation studio. And it is definitely available for Linux, because I use it on my penguin machine)

[@DavidCoutinhoCG]

thanks for the tip for Tahoma2D, very incredible tool, i already knew of OpenToonz, fantastic.

[@TigrrrUnleashed]

Yup, it seems he didn't check out the download page. I have it on Windows 10, Puppy Linux, Ubuntu Studio, and MX Linux KDE.

[@orbatos]

Good mention, I always like to point to Blender's 2D workflow as an option as well.

[@billrazor6591]

@@orbatos Yeah, I've seen a lot of amazing animatoins made with Blender's grease pencil.

[@JohnnyThund3r]

I really wanna how anyone "loves" Gimp... I've been using it for years and every time I use it for serious work I'm always like "WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE NORMAL!!!" GIMP: *crying* while trying to apply a basic gama correction filter...

[@lpnp9477]

Seriously. I'm a full time Linux user and I love everything about Linux except having to use gimp.

[@TayoEXE]

Eh, define normal. I've used it for years because I don't need Photoshop to do any of the stuff I do on it. Average users, unless more of a professional artist, don't even know what a gama correction filter is, let alone a basic one.

[@graythistle]

I've literally been using GIMP since I was 5, and when I was teen my dad got me 'Grokking the GIMP'. So I have perhaps an unusual nostalgic fondness for it. When I ditched Adobe and Windows for good (around the same time), I found that working toward a goal (art projects, game projects), helped with adapting to new UI. Esp. with added deadlines, so I didn't have time to dwell on the quirks - just had to stick to getting things done. GIMP obviously wasn't a problem for me... that honor actually went to Krita because I had a bunch of memorized workflows/hotkeys from Photoshop.

[@matthiasfeist3042]

😅 yeah the way things work and are done in GIMP are sometime a bit strange. But how UI on Photoshop and Illustrator are too sometimes very counter intuitive 😂. And make me Arrrgggg🤯

[@Brigantius]

I dumped Photoshop when Adobe introduced their overpriced subscriptionsome years ago. Gimp is one of the alternatives I've been using since, so I guess I'm pretty familiar with its ways. However It has come a long way since and it is a lot easier to use than it was, despite it's increased power and the lingering reputation.

[@maloriedelaporte9381]

Autograph : At long last an actual solution to motion design which understands what it is all about !

[@RuiFernandoCaldas]

Davinci Resolve/Fusion can do "Aftereffects"... not as simple, but capable, and even better on the compositing side!

[@takeovereverything241]

Da Vinci resolve has a tap called fusion that is directly a competitor to After effect

[@MRicebeat]

but just for compositing and not for animation and motion graphics

[@fablewalls]

@@MRicebeat Thank you. I keep trying to explain exactly what you said to others and they simply come back with yet another alternative which still doesn't do what After Effects does with animation and motion graphics.

[@LV4EVR]

@@fablewalls Fusion 100% does animation and motion graphics

[@gabehobbs]

@@LV4EVR As someone who does use fusion for motion graphics -- After Effects is 100000% more streamlined for it. Fusion is really great for compositing. You can do motion graphics in Fusion, but it's like using a jackhammer to build a birdhouse vs a hammer. Really hoping Blackmagic invests in this side of things soon.

[@chalkieface9968]

@@LV4EVR OK, I'll bite. Please link an example of animation created in Fusion as I'd like to try. I have an HP zbook with a built in Wacom tablet to do this with.

[@somedude4728]

Krita is mainly made for drawing, but i've found that it's not too bad for photo editing as well (at least the basic stuff). I like GIMP and i've used it for quite a few years but for whatever reason it was just so slow on my macbook, so for one school project i decided to eventually try Krita and the performance was like night and day. So if you need to just do some basic photo editing for a prototype or youtube thumbnail or whatever and you're on lower end hardware, do give Krita a try. Might have been a mac thing too because Apple isn't excactly known to be huge supporters of open source projects but still.

[@potato9832]

I love Krita, but I find their brush designing controls to be confusing and convoluted. It also has a couple obscure UI bugs that can be occasionally irritating.

[@raphaelprotti5536]

Try Corel Photo-paint. It's closer to photoshop than Gimp is, and very capable.

[@WildWestDesigns]

OpenToonz is available on Linux. Arch directly in the repos, Snaps (or flat) everywhere else. Tahoma2D is kinda like BFA, but for OpenToonz(it does have more features, but I think that was the primary reason for the fork in the first place).

[@ouiVEVO]

Opentoonz is used by studio ghibli, it's the real deal

[@DavidCoutinhoCG]

thanks for the tip for Tahoma2D, very incredible tool, i already knew of OpenToonz, fantastic.

[@limbs1052]

I'm glad you mention about Tahoma it's looks luxurious

[@hopelessdecoy]

The page is ugly because they know it doesn't matter and you'll rent it anyway. Leave and support projects that respect you!

[@onemantwohearts]

Here's my new toolbox: Photoshop: Affinity Photo Illustrator:Affinity Designer and Sketch (I ditched Figma since ceo's statement about palestine... yeah) Premiere Pro: Davinci Resolve Animate/After Effect : Spline, Blender, Rive, Calvary, Jitter

[@jacksmith4266]

it’s worth noting that one of the search results mentions a Reddit post titled “CEO of Figma is a Zionist and supports the occupation of Palestine” with 35 votes and 20 comments. This post appears to be a user-generated opinion and not an official statement from Figma or its CEO. So yeah..

[@def_not_dan]

Natron is a Nuke clone. It's probably my favourite video compositor that doesn't cost more than a house.

[@FlameForgedSoul]

Sadly no longer in active development.

[@simeongprince]

@@FlameForgedSoul But still good as a realtime compositor. Good alternative to Blender's compositor.

[@Dave102693]

@@FlameForgedSoul I wish it was.

[@galihkurniad]

Node based editor or layer based editor?

[@simeongprince]

@@galihkurniad Node based.

[@anthonythorne8708]

Left Angle Autograph is pretty good, receives frequent updates, runs nicely on Mac, and they've said they're pushing for it to be solid in the compositing and VFX side of things as well beyond its current Mograph strengths. Good video, thanks.

[@ritzenhauf]

I moved to Affinity suite couple years ago. Had to wrap my mind around a couple things that didn't need to be so different, but come on in. The water is fine.

[@a_d_a_m]

I'm a long time AE artist and I had no idea about Autograph, it looks very promising! Thanks for including that one.

[@Le_P_10]

Autograph looks really impressive. The Key Features button on the Home page of their site links to KZbin videos that show a lot of things.

[@TheDemonking82]

I went with the affinity programs and got the universal license allows me to install on Mac and windows.

[@jernaugurgeh451]

And iPad too 😊

Just watched Left Angle's KZbin channel. Autograph looks amazing. Thank you for the video !

[@alexfurer]

“Adobe, you will own nothing, and be happy.”

[@langdons2848]

More like "you will own nothing, well take what you create, and we don't care if you're happy".

[@alexfurer]

@@langdons2848 depends. There was “we the people” at some point. Now it’s “we the ruling class”. We have to get to “we the people - have had enough”. With politics, plandemics, wars and especially TOS’s like this crap.

[@orbatos]

You will open nothing and they will monetize everything you work while charging you for the privilege.

[@starblaiz1986]

!!! Oh man I totally forgot that Paintshop Pro existed! 😮 I used to use that all the time back in the early 2000's before I moved to GIMP 😮

[@GeekyGami]

One thing I would like to point out: Krita does photo manipulation better than Gimp does. It being a painting application does not in any way make it "not good for photo manipulation"

[@slizgi86]

And I would like it to share my Adobe experience here. If you have a CS6 Perpetual License and your OS or hard drive fails, you'll find yourself unable to launch the app to deactivate the license. This means your license becomes permanently locked to that specific hardware. Despite reaching out to Adobe, they offer no way to reset or transfer the license. This issue could affect anyone using CS6, and it's frustrating that there's no solution provided by Adobe.

[@KellyRushTechSmith]

Hey Mike, awesome video like always! Keep up the great work, I don't know how you do it! 😅

[@FujiLivz]

Edius is a Video Editing application that I first discovered and recomended 16 years ago. I was blown away how good it was back then, how it "felt" like the older final cut pro (before they bastardized everything "pro" in favor ov bubbly-touch stuff). In recent years, I've liked the stability and reliability of Devinci, but I'd be tempted to revisit Edius just to see how far it's come, and just wanted to throw it's name in the ring because it deserves a mention!

[@espacemaxim]

It' s not about Photoshop, that's replaced. After Effects is the real issue. Anyway, I just cancelled my subscription with them

[@tlilmiztli]

sounds like it wasnt a big issue after all :D

[@decathemaster4912]

I totally agree with you , I can't find a good replaceable to after effect

[@sergiomarchelli]

Cavalry and Rive are worthy mentions.

[@danzirvine]

@@decathemaster4912 fusion in davinci resolve is a good alt apart from you will need to learn nodes instead of layers

[@keepitshort4208]

Davinci resolve

[@ikcinbeatz4365]

I used to love Substance painter. I kind of stopped using it the moment Adobe bought it.

[@Inkscape-tutorial-pl]

Inkscape will be more efficient in 2025 - in version 1.5. It was to be faster in 1.4 but programmers didn't make it for 1.4 with an upgrade.

[@WolfTamer]

3:31 The controversy was the pricing scheme that they changed. Instead of the 1 time payment, they changed it to a subscription model if you want regular updates. Though they still offer the single payment method if you buy it for windows or mac (with major updates still requiring another payment albeit at a discount).

[@rodvik]

Great video. No Adobe products are needed. You can replace any and all of them. Adobe did you a favor by showing you dont need them. Work with ethical companies instead. Sure you will have to learn new software, but whats wrong with learning new skills? For video Davinci Resolve is simply the best in class you should be using anyway.

[@fablewalls]

Nothing. But even though several others on another video said there is an alternative to After Effects - this video remind us that there really isn't. For everything else though, there really are alternatives.

[@askeladden450]

​@@fablewallsNuke is far more powerful than after effects. It has a very different worflow, but it achieves the same purpose.

[@fablewalls]

@@askeladden450 You have any examples please? Either KZbin videos with the kind of things Nuke can do or films where it has been used? I asked a friend who teaches on a degree course using Nuke and Natron and he wasn't confident they would do what After Effects does. I'm guessing both will composite layers made elsewhere that use motion graphics and animation but AE lets you create the animation within the App.

[@askeladden450]

@@fablewalls hmm, i was thinking about AE from a vfx perspective, not really motion graphics one, although now you mention it, its probably the more common use case. well yeah nuke is more for vfx, compositing and post production, majority of big budget films and studios use it. But for motion graphics, yeah, nuke isnt that good compared to after effects. Fusion is really good though in that regards.

[@askeladden450]

@@fablewalls btw inspirationtuts probably has a video on it, that might answer your questions better.

[@lylewyant3356]

Yep Krita, Affinity Designer, Inkscape, Gimp-Awesome software.

[@AnkitWP]

i hate gimp, love blender, love krita, love inkscape.

[@gokudomatic]

So, you have no tool for image editing. No need to remind you that krita is for painting and gimp is for editing.

[@darukutsu]

darktable is good for photos, never understood hatred for gimp, I find it pretty easy to do basic stuff

[@ratatatuff]

@@gokudomatic I love how you just assume that just because he hates GIMP he doesn't have a "tool for image editing". Please think for a moment.

[@gokudomatic]

@@ratatatuff it was certainly a big leap in assumption, but because he only mentioned krita, I am confident that if he was using something else to edit images, he would have mentioned it. So, I'm taking a rather safe bet.

[@ratatatuff]

@@gokudomatic It would be a safe bet if GIMP was the only image editing tool out there. Which it isn't.

[@Eloii_Xia]

Autograph is a strong product ! This is a French product, so we won't have to worry about shady terms of use.

[@girkyHD]

Good content. Deep and comprehensive with up to date details.

[@pavelzuk]

Switched to GIMP 10 years ago and never looked back, does all I need

[@soirema]

No hate but I dont thing you need to do much then xdd

[@ratatatuff]

@@soirema Most people don't. 99,9% of photoshop users don't use more than 1% of its functions and would be better off with a different program, yet all they want is photoshop. A user who's experienced in GIMP can do more than most users can do in photoshop.

[@thefjk]

Autograph is really good and crazy fast which AE is not!

[@ny4043]

I would definitely recommend Autograph for mograph & compositing. The last few versions have been really great! Super fast with some impressive features and the developers are constantly working on new features and improvements. It's like what you would want after effects to be, just takes a bit of time to learn. No regrets switching, plus it was on sale for half price (might still be).

[@diegoalfonso1178]

Autograph looks amazing and so easy to use !!! Will be looking forwards to the project !😀

[@nirosolis485]

Thank you for these. I've been running all Adobe products behind a firewall for years (and I never use the cloud for anything), but even so, this really is the last straw. It's time to ween myself off their ecosystem for good.

[@simeongprince]

Brilliant. I used to do that when I dual-booted with Windows and Linux. Also, Pirate CS6 and CC works blazingly faster that CC.

[@ping0ush7]

Having tested Autograph, it's clearly a real alternative to After Effects. With each new release, it gets better and better.

[@Dave102693]

How much does it cost and is it a one time purchase?

[@ping0ush7]

@@Dave102693 Sub or perpetual license. There's a 50% discount right now, so $14 a month.

[@proy14]

It's unfair to compare Affinity Photo and Photoshop on a feature basis taking Photoshop as reference without saying that Affinity also got features that Photoshop lacks. Photo is way faster, more reactive, files are lighter, and enable a true non destructive workflow. It has features like liquify layers, which Photoshop cannot dream about.

[@ECHQ]

Any freelancers here who have to work in pipeline with agencies? Revisting/Re-using complex projects from & for customers in AE and InDesign (it always happens)? THAT's the problem for me to switch to the alternatives, as much as I would like to. I would really love to hear a serious solution for this dilemma.

[@CyberWolf755]

My biggest issue with Affinity, is that I'd like to have API support for better workflow integration with other tools. It would benefit Affinity to be able to integrate with other tools, since they don't cover all types of software

[@thanasishadow5914]

I think Corel Painter is also worth a mention as a drawing/painting alternative to PS, especially for more painterly workflows and concept art.

[@thealmightyollar]

Are there any good alternatives to Adobe Acrobat? I use it for work and being able to edit, sign, and create forms is really handy.

[@TheWebgecko]

For after effects: Motion is Apple’s answer and it works with Final Cut Pro. I haven’t used motion but it seems cool. Fusion is Blackmagic’s answer and it’s built into the pro version of DaVinci Resolve (daVinci resolve studio). However I find it confusing the way Fusion fits into the workflow of DRS. If I want to color correct using the color tab and then use a fusion node on the output I can’t. If I want to use magic mask in the color tab because it has a better ui, I can’t run the background through a fusion node. I don’t want to render the video out every time I add an effect. I should be able to get a rough preview and then render the final project all at once when I’m done.

[@tobycat7]

That is seriously such a big thing about Davinci that I wish they would address in an update. It feels like the Fusion section has neutered versions of the Color tools when I don't want to touch the Color page at all, and I don't want to wrestle with the complex alpha stuff for every basic composition I do with Magic Mask or something.

[@DevinAdint]

Davinci Resolve's Fusion is basically their answer to After Effect. After affect is basically what before digital was called Rotoscoping where they would project a frame on a table that one would then draw an animation over film and then taking the overlay picture. For example Industrial Lights and magic would have used rotoscoping to make a light saber glow by following the stick and drawing the glow over it. So Blender can also do this.

[@akyhne]

It's more like After Effects is the answer to Fusion. After Effects and Nuke are about the same age, but Fusion is like 5-6 years older, as a software.

[@nakia9984]

Besides affinity designer, I also use rebelle 7 and paint storm studio. Realistic paint is like rebelle but love it.

[@iamhadyh]

Other alternatives to After Effects & Inkscape: Linearity Move/Draw (Previously Vectornator) Just started trying them out, great products but I'm cautious because the subscription licensing and not being able to save files locally (do I really own my work then?) even though you can export without watermarks on free versions...

[@Aeroxima]

Covered stuff I'd suggest, other than Blender can paint models if you set it up for it. It was a bit too jank for me, so waiting for something to come out or for a specific thing with it to be fixed. (Maybe it already has been, haven't checked in a while. It's when you paint on a surface at an angle, it projects the brush shape across it, so basically a circle becomes an oval at an angle. Unusable if it's still like that imo.)

[@unrealone1]

Great video well done! Fast Stone image viewer is very good program.

[@visual_chris]

Regarding substance, it’s actually possible to still buy a perpetual license on steam for these for about 90-120 Dollars or something, great alternative if you want to buy it once

[@KironKabir]

i'm on a mac, best alternative to acrobat? i just wanna read and edit PDFs by marking them with pen lines, etc

[@magnetomage]

10:00 i was under the impression(just from what has been presented, not that anyone has said it outright) that Mixer is the driving force behind the experimental Substrate / strata tooling in UE

[@victims5820]

Nice video, thank you. I suppose the only alternative for editing dds textures is GiMP, right?

[@gamefromscratch]

There is the NVidia Texture Tools Exporter, which is available stand alone and as a Photoshop Plugin, which Affinity Photo can use. developer.nvidia.com/texture-tools-exporter

[@victims5820]

@@gamefromscratch You're really amazing, I couldn't find that info in the Affinity forums thank you so much!

[@Dave102693]

@@gamefromscratch does it works with Krita?

[@geoffreyguerin3492]

Interesting stuff. Thanks, Mike. I saw an Autograph review on ExplainingComputers YT channel. Chris uses it for all animated graphics and says it's a good alternative to AE.

[@WakingMoonMedia]

Thank you for the info. How about a replacement for Lightroom Classic. It would also be great if it had a little webserver so you could view your photo/video content on your Roku.

[@WakingMoonMedia]

I see Luminar and Darktable.

[@Elwaves2925]

Yeah, I've not found anything that replaces Photoshop for me, although it's worth noting that I use an older, non-subscription version. Affinity Photo is good but has too many niggles for me to use it as my main software. We've agreed before that Affinity Designer is better than Illustrator for us. The others don't come close IMO, although Krita is nice for the painting side of things but that's not my thing. Paint Shop Pro used to be my go to decades ago. Nice to see it's still around.

[@raen5256]

Does the term of service update affect Sunstancr 3d if it is the perpetual license versio. from Steam?

[@Polygarden]

I doubt it. I think the old versions are entirely decoupled from their system. They only exist as a remnant on Steam. I've been using Substance 2019 and I have never paid for adobe cloud, neither it's installed on my PC. I wouldn't even notice if they would change their terms of service. Essentially you have bought the software with the license when you bought it. As long as you don't accept a new terms of service, the old terms of service apply. (at least that's the legislation here in Europe)

[@musashidanmcgrath]

No, it only affects Creative Cloud. Steam versions are not connected to the Adobe cloud.

[@Magicmedo]

Open Toonz is available for Linux BTW!

[@joaocesarlima7339]

Adobe Animate is a powerful interactive vector graphics creator. You should have put Rive in the same category.

[@batwimp]

I bought Affinity Photo 2 after your last video. I haven't got the hang of it yet. I just wanted to make a selection with the magic wand and delete those pixels. For some reason it makes you jump through extra hoops to do something that simple. I moved to GIMP for that and it worked fine.

[@gamefromscratch]

I put a 99% bet that you didn't rasterize the layer. It's an easy thing to trip up on. If ever something doesn't work, just right click the layer in the layers selection and select Rasterize and you'll be good to go. Mostly it's a learning curve thing, although I will agree some things in Photo 2 could certainly use a layer of usability polish.

[@KuttyJoe]

Serif has some things that they do which are very clever, but when they get it wrong they really get it wrong big time.

[@batwimp]

@@gamefromscratch You're the best, Mike!

[@MaikKellerhals]

The only thing missing here is audio tools. I used to use Adobe Audition for it's great graphical (spectrum) audio correction. Today i just use DaVinci Resolve. But I would love to know what else is out there. ...and what is Audacity capable of these days?

[@TalmoTheSell]

If you want to try a full-fledged DAW on a budget, REAPER is awesome. It’s $60 for a personal license and has a no strings attached free trial that lasts forever

[@Dave102693]

Reaper, Audacity, Ardour

[@TylerTraverse]

I use Sony Vegas/Movie Studio Platinum. I just enjoy the workflow

[@Ruzgfpegk]

Sony sold Vegas to Magix 8 years ago! I know, time flies…

[@thisbridgehascables]

I honestly believe only smaller groups will leave Adobe. Bigger companies probably don’t care about the policy. Also remember, Adobe makes most of its money from private licenses, corporations, schools.. etc.

[@LV4EVR]

Larger groups like hospitals/health care systems, schools and corporations have MUCH to say about privacy; when the legal departments of such get wind of this, there may be MUCH bigger blowback than has occurred so far.

[@user-ev6fj5up9w]

Adobe audition vs Audacity 🤩🤩🤩

[@scottzhang4030]

Fuison is one of best rival to After Effects! Fusion is a vector-based application. However, Fusion is a node-based workflow and the expression script is also totally different from After Effects. I wouldn't lie, it's definitely much more painful while switching from AE to Fusion and may need at least one month to get used. Personally I think, why so many people think there's no AE replacement, the biggest problems are the node-based workflow and most of them cannot import AI files to those alternatives. That's being said every vector graphic needed to be only a vector graphic. Everything has to re-fill/ re-colour etc... in Fusion too (Fusion can import PDS directly). More importantly, users have to keep an open mind because every software has unique features. None can't replace another... But as creators and end-users, we can choose what's better for us and those applications developers. (For me, seeing Adobe has become an unfair unfriendly company since 2012, I am not only sad but also furious.) DaVince and Fusion have been combined since version 15 or 14. Users who have purchased the Studio version can download stand-alone Fusion Studio too. Studio has more advanced tools and 3D functions than After Effects.

[@akyhne]

Almost all professional software for VFX, game development, 3D modelling etc. is node based. So there's no excuse, not to adapt it. There's a simple reason to why Adobe Substance Painter is node based. It simply couldn't work with a layer based approach. Layers work very well for Photoshop, but forget about it in a lot of other cases.

[@scottzhang4030]

@@akyhne Yes, exactly! 90% of advanced VFX softwares are the node-based workflow. There are many ways better than using layered based workflow. Actually, the layer in AE is for motion key frame. Personally, I’d not call it “true layer based workflow” compared with “Animator (previous called “Flash”) because every object has an individual layer. It’s not like a layer contented with different elements in Photoshop and Illustrator.

[@johnsarthole]

Instamat is definitely not a drop in designer replacement if you use designer's full capabilities It is however extremely powerful and can do much nore than just generate materials. For the home gamer i would definitely recommend giving it a proper try

[@AyushBakshi]

Love that affinity photo is gaining traction. There Design software is great too. Best thing is even I can afford it! Usually pricing for my country is shit but their pricing is reasonable.

[@splitoff2424]

Just to add a little. Substance Designer and Painter can be purchased on Steam for $199 each. Which is a good way to get around the subscription issue.

[@DerekDumas]

I use Texture Lab to make my textures, and Mixer to mix 2 or more to make new textures. Then Blender and InkScape for .SVG. As for model painting I use Agama Materials (Like substance painter). And Blender. Then there is Gimp and Krita. I use both. Along with MSPaint.

[@EElgar1857]

For photo processing, I think Luminar Neo and Affinity Photo work very well in combination. Just my 2 cents.

[@jamesthenewb]

I started in Corel Draw. I didn't know they were still around!

[@akxlphotos]

I'm surprised Capture One as an alternative to Lightroom didn't make the list. I've used it for about 7 years now and I believe most professional studio photographers use that instead of Lightroom.

[@Wilker_uwu]

my personal pick for a video editor is either Flowblade or KDEnLive, at least until i learn Blender properly. Shotcut is also an option.

[@DavidCoutinhoCG]

yup, for the free open source options Flowblade, Kdenlive and Shotcut all use the MLT framework which is the same core for video editing on linux, all of them are really good tools, but if you wanna spend something than DaVinci Resolve Studio is the solution, you can use the free version as well, lots of people use it, but dont have all its features.

[@barbi111]

Clip Studio Paint is very very good. There are perpetual licenses for the base app, which is full, and if you pay subscriptions, you will get every new features between versions(2,3 etc.). I always upgrade and so I will get every new feature with the next version. You can make comics and animations with its EX version. Also there are 3D capabilities to help drawing etc.

[@revotiva]

i think Affinity Photo is perpetual license but for this version only. Then you dont have change to update later like it iPAD

[@triberium_]

Inkscape my favorite vector graphics editor :)

[@DanielMiclos]

Perhaps because I'm an older individual who learned Photoshop back when it was version 3, and I used to mess around with color channels to create good masks, I believe that, with the exception of 3D work, you can accomplish pretty much anything you need with Photoshop 7. After that, most features are nice to have but not absolutely necessary.

[@MrGoatsy]

You should install an ablocker.

[@MightycondriaPOWERHOUSE]

With affinity having cloud and being bought by canva should we worry about handing over our creativity to generative ai

[@ArksideGames]

More Alternative options: Animate: Krita and Clip paint as well Also Davinci Resolve WOW, works AMAZING for a free software.

[@josephbrandenburg4373]

I would buy Affinity if it worked on Linux. I don't feel like I am missing anything from Krita but I need an answer to Illustrator. Inkscape is good but it's a little hard to learn. I use vector art so rarely that I want to use something that is much easier since I basically have to relearn Inkscaps every time I use it. Oh! I had to use GIMP recently because it had a filter Krita didn't, and it had really good performance. It loaded about four times as fast as Krita, and the UI was snappy even with a 16k imags loaded (280 megapixels). I am a Krita man, but GIMP has done a lot to improve itself in the past few years, definitely worth a look.

[@gapon8921]

Gimp dont have support for cmyk.

[@josephbrandenburg4373]

@@gapon8921 fortunately I am not doing print stuff. Hell, even when I was my employer asked for RGB stuff and let Amazon convert it. Don't ask me why. 🤣 Anyhow Krita is great at handling color, it's a major strong point in its favor. I often use Krita to do 16-bits-per-channel linear images for 3D art stuff.

[@t2bb]

The hardest CC apps to find good alternatives for are, Media Encoder and Acrobat. Most applications for dealing with pdf are dreadful, especially 3D pdf. Alternertives to Media Encoder are Sorenson and Handbreak. Both Media Encoder and Acrobat are easily overlooked as they are a bit dull, but they are really important.

[@whateverrandomnumber]

Other alternatives for lightroom, and some quite professional ones at that, are DXO and CaptureOne. Not cheap, but better then lightroom in a lot of aspects.

[@ugogatto]

photopea has full layers support on .psd while gimp merge all layers to one on psd files

[@simeongprince]

Actually, no.

[@darkflux]

how about an alternative to Adobe READER, which IS, by far, the most used product Adobe makes? or even Acrobat? i would think that having something to open and edit PDFs would be a priority now, since Adobe has put AI in even THEM, and everybody has to open all their personal legal documents SOMEWHERE, right?

[@Keyboardwarrior42]

DxO Photolab 7 !

[@ZeroShrimpy]

photopea also work with ai dezgo so i'm not sure how safe it is to use that.

[@mikigirl18]

I use Clip Studio Paint and it can go on a really good sale at times. What the contreversy was, it was going to offer a monthly subscription for updates. While that sucks, it's only $0.99 a month. It's not mandantory either. So if you can do what you need it to do as is, you can just not subscribe, and when a new version, like 3.0, you can just do use the upgrade ($30 for me since I already owned the software) and you get all the past updates.

[@bubby372]

Dropped Adobe LrC. Now using Nikon NX to edit my RAW files. It's Free too.

[@apollolux]

Unless Apple discontinued it or otherwise integrated it either partially or fully into more recent versions of Final Cut, you missed one - the Mac-only Apple Motion compositing software, Apple's alternative to After Effects and a robust complement to a Final Cut-based workflow, regardless of how much it cost for what it does.

[@lego_minifig]

Sad there is not really an alternative for InDesign. Sure there is Affinity Publisher, but its file format is not supported by many major printers. As a result publisher is only really suited for smaller independent projects where not much collaboration is required

[@TheDemonking82]

3d coat has a new bs license you have to pay for version updates if you upgraded from 4.xx. the program did as little to update in that first year now they want 250.00 more to get the latest version, I went right back to using 4.75. the program is amazing but the old license model is gone. I still use blender to build my base mesh and import to 3dcoat for sculpting and paint. The baking hi res map in blender and rig and animate.