Best Alternative to Every Adobe Program

I’m really glad to see the creative community turning against Adobe. They’ve been greedy for far too long

Affinity going on sale while Adobe fiasco is runnung is such a smart move.

Adobe is a predator preying upon the needy artist.

Are you kidding me? I just started looking for adobe alternatives and this video comes out? Talk about perfect timing.

This is what we need more of, YouTubers showing people that there ARE alternatives. Too many folks act like Adobe is the only option and that we all need to ask them nicely to treat us well. I've been using alternatives for a decade. Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher, with paid DaVinci audio and video solutions. Capture One is far superior to Lightroom (although they are following the Adobe business model now). Thanks for this, Brad. This is how we inspire change in the industry.

Ps Photography 1:24 Ps Painting 4:17 Ai 7:06 An 9:01 Id 10:52 Substance 11:42 Lr 12:06 Xd 12:36 Au 14:20 Pr 15:17 Acrobat, Bridge, Dw 16:20 Ae 17:26

Inkscape has a life trace feature and did have it for like 10 years

Tenacity Is a Fork of Audacity, there was a drama back then that a Russian company put Telemetry in Audacity so many forked Audacity.

imagine pissing off your customers that badly that peeps make videos on how to put you out of biz 🙂

I'm a bit of a stuck record on this end, but as someone with a lot of ad agency and animation studio clients, Adobe has a strangle hold on the industry. There's just things you cannot do if you aren't in the ecosystem as your clients. If I was 100% independent I'd have jumped ship to Affinity, Procreate and Blender years ago. But because my bread and butter work is done in After Effects with art supplied as Illustrator files from client, I can't ditch Adobe any time soon. Especially with the array of plugins I've collected over time to make my work better and faster.

I will sing the good word of Da Vinci and Blackmagic Design forever because I love me some Da Vinci Resolve. The Fusion editor is kinda weird to figure out with the whole nodes thing but once you get it I think its pretty cool

Correction: Inkscape does have live trace. Other apps missing from the AI comparator list: VectorStyler, Logoist5

I heard you say “if” you were going to break away fully from Adobe. I hope you do. The more popular YouTubers like you can break away from Adobe and really show alternatives and use them in your reviews, the more Adobe will have to take notice where they are failing as a company, and it will help to break their monopoly on some of these products.

Blender is awesome with 2D animation! Grease pencil is also vector based and beats animate 100-0 and it supports texture brushes. I have lots of tutorials on my channel ❤

5:51, I use Krita, a lot, and it's very responsive, you might have missed a setting or something.

Dont forget the most important thing regarding FOSS. Free is not about money, is about freedom.

Inkscape DOES have a live trace feature! It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. I often use it to trace JPEGs, then copy the SVG into Affinity Designer.

Long live Krita! It's 100% one of the best software out there and for sure the best for free. All kinds of tools and features, available on every platform except for iPad because it doesn't play well with OSS licenses. If also has good tools for vector illustration, animation and many people prefer it instead of GIMP, you might want to have an independent program for each use case but it's good that you have the option. Fun fact: it's the first (and maybe only) to feature live HDR painting for windows PCs. I can also vauch for Darktable, still only doing basic stuff with it but it works great, just need to be patient while learning. GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus have been updating recently, I'll be trying them soon. A program not "feeling snappy" is most subjective nitpicky thing lmao.

Inkscape does have a trace function. It's literally the only reason I have it

As someone who has been using Photoshop for most of my professional work (more than ten years) which is art for mobile games I checked what would be alternative. So far the most capable replacement would be either Affinity Photo and Designer for more graphic design related work where you need tons of layers, vector stuff and text objects. However for digital painting those tools are not as good to me. Using brushes don't feel as smooth (worse than Photoshop). I don't like how color picker works. No right click menu for picking brushes and also I would prefer single hotkey + pen for rotating canvas. Hopefully they will improve that part but I understand both are not entirely digital painting programs. For strictly painting so far I was playing a lot with Krita and I actually like it. Some things are even better than in Photoshop and you can customize hotkeys to have almost zero friction transition from Photoshop. The only thing in Krita that is different is there is no dedicated tool for eraser but I learned to just have eraser brush in my right click menu and I jump to it very quickly. Also the layers work a bit differently. Instead of clipping layer I use all the time there is clipping group which is totally different to what is standard in most graphical programs. I wish Krita was a bit better in more graphic design and editing part because then it would be totally open source competitor to Photoshop. It totally left GIMP behind because you got adjustment layers and even Layer comp feature. However Layer styles are slow, vector tools not as developed and text tool at the moment is bad (though it should be better in new updates). Still I try to donate from time to time with hope it will catch up on those things some day. Clip Studio Paint I haven't tried yet. It is something I want to do at some point.