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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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. It keeps getting better and better.

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rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Photopea is a great option for light photo editing! It’s free website with a decent layout

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- pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Thank you, that does look great if Affinity goes tits up.
  
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TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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

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- pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  kdenlive
  
  I’ve never heard of that one, that looks great.
  
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- StellarSt0rm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I use Blender for video editing… lol
  
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  - pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I tried so hard to use that before Davinci, I just couldn’t use it efficiently. Kudos to you.
    
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Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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)

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- pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Krita is our version of Procreate.
  
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  - Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Nice, I will check it out!
    
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thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I love Affinity but didn’t know Canvas got ahold of them. Shoot.

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- pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Not good news, but I mispoke, it’s Canva:
  
  www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity/
  
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  - quarklover123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    why is canva evil, exactly? i use it sometimes /honest question
    
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    pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    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.
    
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ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Armor Paint for Substance Painter

Material Maker for Substance Designer

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makyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Still haven’t found a good replacement for InDesign and let me tell you how much I’m hankering to move on

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- Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I personally have replaced all my Adobe products with the much cheaper alternative of pirated Adobe products
  
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- fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I’m assuming you’ve already tried Scribus? scribus.net
  
  If not, worth a pop (again?). You can export an existing indesign project as an idml file, and import that into Scribus and see what’s broken :)
  
  How well it’ll work is a little dependent on how complicated your projects are, or how embedded you are in Indesign or the wider Adobe ecosystem. In truth, I don’t know the full extent of Indesign’s abilities - but you can absolutely use Scribus to produce professional large scale graphics and short run publications etc for print though - though that’s obviously a little dependent on what format/spec your printer wants off you.
  
  If you’re just using it for single page posters/graphics etc, Inkscape covers a lot of the same ground too.
  
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k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Fuck, affinity got bought? God damn it, that sucks.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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

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grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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.

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