You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things…

Kreative Suite
* Krita is your new design/painting app
* Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
* glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
* digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:
* Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
* Scribus - layout like a pro
* GIMP - need we say more
* Blender - ditto

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  • JoShmoe@ani.socialEnglish
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    9 months ago

    By comparison Inkscape was made assuming the user knows what they’re doing, very intuitive. Illustrator has so much handholding that its like it was designed assuming you do not know what you are doing. I’ve ready made several thousand using only Inkscape professionally. Illustrator is not needed.

  • Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    I hate adobe and have been actively trying to switch away from them for a while. I work in game development, though, and for some reason no one has made it as easy to directly modify the alpha channel of a texture. It’s something I have to do a lot and is probably the one thing keeping me from using krita or affinity photo.

        • Rainne@mastodon.social
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          9 months ago

          @Nachorella @minecraftchest1 I do that a lot in GIMP: right-click a layer, “add layer mask”, and it makes a secondary grayscale layer that works like a second alpha channel, that you can directly draw on, apply filters to, etc. A lot of my stuff has solid-color layers with all the work done in those layer masks.

          • Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
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            9 months ago

            I might be misunderstanding but that sounds different to a specific alpha channel. Sometimes in game art you’ll store extra information in the alpha channel of a texture. Or even pack four different grayscale images into the rgba channels of a single texture. Is it easy to do stuff like that?

            • Rainne@mastodon.social
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              9 months ago

              @Nachorella You can right-click a layer and Apply Layer Mask to bake it into the main layer’s alpha channel (or Merge Visible Layers to combine all layers and their masks).

              I think you *can* work with individual R/G/B channels in GIMP, or at least add a Channels tab where they’re visible separately and you can add arbitrary channels; but I don’t have experience drawing on the channels independently like that. But my gut says it may be doable.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I was using Krita for almost everything anyway already. The only thing I still need Photoshop for is in the very rare times I need to add curved text to an image. And for that I have a Jack Sparrow edition of Photoshop that runs in a virtual machine that isn’t allowed to connect to the internet.

  • blazera@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Im glad open source creative software is so good now, i havent cared about adobe in ages

    • Zetta@mander.xyz
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      9 months ago

      Right, I’m not a creative professional but the occasions I need tools adobe provides there are plenty of open source alternatives I use instead.

      Sadly most people won’t care about what adobe is doing, but I can only hope they continue to shoot themselves in the foot. I yearn for the day when they aren’t the dominant player in the space, maybe in 15 years.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Sadly most people won’t care about what adobe is doing

        I hope they are made to care via the court system, because it is now legally impossible to use Adobe for most proprietary purposes.

      • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 months ago

        If this post is true a lot more of the people who matter should be caring once they become aware and if they don’t them the people who need confidentiality should. We’ll see how the cards fall.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Thank God … I’ve been on Gimp and Scribus for the past 15 years, mainly because I could never afford Adobe products for the little bit of work I needed them for.

    I was open source a long time ago because I just couldn’t afford paying for stuff for the little time I needed software. Now I’m happy to be fully open source and even contribute with donations to the projects I like the most. I donate annually now to projects like Wikipedia, Libreoffice, Scribus and Fediverse developers and projects.

    This is one criticism I’ll always have with open source supporters … if you want open source alternatives, contribute with donations to them. Give anything you can afford … $1, $2, $10 … because they need money to survive and stay engaged and committed to their project.

    If we all just stand aside and take advantage of free open software and not give anything, then we are no better than the corporations we were trying to avoid. Instead of corporations taking advantage of us, we are taking advantage of developers.

    So if you want these open projects to live and survive, contribute to them with whatever you got. If we all just gave a dollar each to these projects, no matter what they are, the developers would have more than enough to maintain their work.

    • Kaput@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I like to support by buying merch. My Blender Hat got me so many thumbs up by strangers, it feels like bikers or Westphalia 0r brotherhood’s signing each other’s.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Great idea because the merch acts as an advertisement to support the project and create awareness. It’s the main reason why corporations like Adobe are so successful - they have a pervasive marketing campaign. We should do the same and wearing a hat, t-shirt or bag would help do that.

        Now you got me thinking about what to buy from the projects I like to support. Thanks

  • Sina@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    Gimp is not ready and the best alternative is the Windows only intensionally Linux incompatible Affinity Photo.

    • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      Gimp has been fine for many tasks for the last 20+ years, yes it’s not Photoshop and may never be a 1:1 replacement.

      But I’m sure that has never been the goal.

      • Miss Brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        9 months ago

        It’s 2024 and GIMP will only now be getting the ability to do non-destructive editing through adjustment layers. It has been fine for many simple tasks, but for anything that’s more complex than a Lemmy shitpost, it’s been rough for that reason alone

        • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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          9 months ago

          And yet without that “critical feature” people have still used Gimp for much more advanced editing.

          • Miss Brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            9 months ago

            Yeah. And I bet most, if not all of them would’ve been a lot happier with that feature. It makes things so much easier, so much more flexible.

      • Sina@beehaw.org
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        9 months ago

        I don’t know, around 2002 it was only a bit behind, well outside of the weird ui and since then not much has changed. Back then I felt that they were quite interchangeable.

  • NoiseColor@startrek.website
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    9 months ago

    Inkscape is far inferior to illustrator, has stability issues, support for filetypes is limited, copy pasting to other software non existant.

    Scribus is just awful dogshit.

    Gimp is a graphic software that is hostile to UX, not to mention has stability issues, is slow and in every category inferior to photoshop.

    Blender is fucking amazing but 3d graphics is not really the same kind of software as the rest. Different type of users use it that have a very different set of skills and needs. And with all video software.

    Beyond all of this, even if we ignore all of that, almost all graphic designers use Adobe, companies use Adobe, if you are sending files back and forth, the files have to be Adobe files either for collaboration or for text amendments… If you are a freelancer and work for any company, they will want Adobe files from you (I’m sure there is an exception somewhere).

    None of this is threatened. If companies don’t care, Adobe will go with it. Nobody will switch. Especially because there isn’t really anything to switch to. Not realistically.

    • 𐕣 C M D R ░ NOVA 𐕣@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      The doomerism is ridiculous here lol

      You can switch to another program, and learn it, instead of making up a thousand reasons why you want your work to be scraped by Adobe and their scammer CEO

    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      Confidentiality agreements REALLY mater to big companies. Once they’re made aware that Adobe does this they’ll either kick up a fuss so Adobe won’t do it to them or switch programs. We’ve already seen people break Ai in plenty of ways, I wouldn’t out it past people to figure out how to break the Adobe one to show original artwork for confidential projects at some point. We’ll see how it goes.

      • NoiseColor@startrek.website
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        9 months ago

        Yes, big companies might care, depending on how they see this as a security issue. If they don’t, then it’s doesn’t matter. It’s all up to them.

        I don’t think it would be possible to show original artwork. Highly unlikely.

        • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          9 months ago

          That’s what people said about original prompts for text Ai bots but we’ve been able to get some from a couple popular ones.