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
@[email protected] @[email protected] Nothing to replace Audition? Y’all should strategerifically partnershippify with QTractor
@[email protected] @[email protected] Glaxnimate really needs some love, though it’s pretty powerful.
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.
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.
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
YouTube would be smart enough not to advertise Adobe creative cloud in the pre-roll ads of this video, right? Right???
@[email protected] @[email protected] well it appears as though #youtube has now become a “gated community” the #YT frontends are not working. It prompts a login to prove you’re not a bot:(
@[email protected] @[email protected] now do Substance Painter
Gimp might be allright but I prefer pixlr (an online app) as an alternative to photoshop.
@kde @[email protected] @darktable don’t forget #darktable for your raw photo editing needs!!
I have been searching for good alternatives to AE and Premiere for a while now. I have messed with DaVinci a few times, but always bounced off. Any suggestions. Bonus points if anyone can point me in the direction of a Lightroom alternative.
For video editing, Kdenlive is the best alternative I found so far, although it takes some time to get used to. For something AE related, check out Blender. It might be a bit overkill for most projects, but it is very powerful. As a lightroom alternative there’s Darktable. All of the mentioned software also has the advantage of being free and open source.
I am super impressed by Blender, but there’s not really a substitute for After Effects yet, open source or otherwise.
there’s not really a substitute for After Effects yet,
Have you tried Natron? This software still needs some serious love, but maybe you can appreciate its potential as tool for people used to AE.
Very interesting! I’ll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.
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.
@[email protected] @[email protected] If only you were right, but be serious the quality of Adobe softwares is 300 % better than any soft you cite.
So the quality is worth the price of not owning the work you do?
I guess everyone has to make their own call…
@deaf_fish i have never said that ! I totally disagree their abusing methods but it is a different question than claiming does softs listed are as good, bref don’t want to troll
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It also uses at least 300% more resources and makes PCs run like dogshit, it’s super awesome!
Are you implying that Adobe products are not “300% better”??!??! Outrageous.
Oh at least, worth every penny they mercilessly suck out if your wallet, and every bit of resources out of your PC, they’ll take it all and you have absolutely no alternative, if you’re “professional” enough, that is.
@jabeez @Bro666 I add that I tried scribus, inkscape and darktable.
I know a bit in indesign, a lot lightroom, and a bit illustrator.
I add of course Adobe commercial methods are awful but their softwares far more developed than the foss softwares. This is quite understandable if we think about their meansOf course, guess it all comes down to how much you value time vs data privacy and being abused by a megacorp. I’ll readily admit I’m not a professional content creator, but have worked adjacent to them and had to deal with Adobe products, and it made me hate them even more, well before all of this. They’re just a really shitty company, and now arguably straight up abusive.
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That’s a nice round number. How did you get to it?
@Bro666 @[email protected] @[email protected] the same method used to affirm you can replace Adobe softwares by the listed softs
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But as far as I know you can.
* Bitmap design ✔️
* Vector design ✔️
* Layout ✔️
* Video editing ✔️
* Photo retouching ✔️
* Animation ✔️
* …Maybe you have info I am lacking. What 300% more tasks can you not do with FLOSS tools that you can with Adobe products?
Also, could you define “better”? In what way are they “better”? Because it is not in all ways, is it? The way they treat users is atrocious, so in that sense they are not “better”, right?
@Bro666 @[email protected] @[email protected] better means you do not have to click on thousands buttons to make one thing (just try the text tool in inkscape and come back to see me), ui more intuitive, less bugs
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I am reading “I think Adobe products are better because I know how to use them.”
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There is no such thing as an “intuitive ui”, just one you have become used to. See 1.
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Can you back this up with some stats?
And that would be three things, hardly 300% more things.
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I can vouch for Krita, Kdenlive, Inkscape and Blender. They are awesome, hell… Bender became a Hollywood staple.
But GIMP has a horrible UX/UI, and Scribus can’t even do a 5-fold. They are way behind the rest of the pack.
@warmaster @kde
I tried gimp once and within five minutes I wanted to murder everyone involved in making it.It’s really not that bad. Depending on what you are doing. Personally I always seem to be learning new software, My goal is to not pay a monthly sub. I’m mostly using Clip Studio, which… yes, it’s a sub, so… dumb. But GIMP isn’t super user friendly, it does get a lot done though.
Gimp is super useful
But the learning curve is insane (especially if you’re not already familiar with digital art/ photo manip)
It’s fine for a user who needs specific things not that often. I always have to look up how to do anything anyway, and by the next time I do it I’ve either forgotten or the software has updated.
If youre making art for them to control they should be paying you for it
@[email protected] @[email protected] Bro, even YOU guys are suggesting GIMP, meanwhile most people try to use Krita as an image editor cuz of the UI and other issues i can’t fully understand.
Is like using a Lawnmower to cut wood.
Are you saying gimp sucks or krita sucks?
@TrickDacy I’m saying that people are using the WRONG TOOL for the job, none of those program suck.
Fair enough. I have never used krita. What are these tools right for? My understanding is they are both image editors so I would’ve assumed them pretty similar outside of UI differences
@TrickDacy Krita is for Digiral Painting, GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, Krita is intended for Digital Painting, GIMP is intended for Photo editing.
GIMP is lighter than Krita in terms of resource usage, Krita requires at least 4GB of RAM to work, although i tested it with 2GB VM, which made it a little sluggish.
For more concrete comparision here’s a Youtube video on Invidious (The video is 3 years old but it can help)
@[email protected] @[email protected] you can also use #FreeCAD to draw up your house or anything else parametrically, and then export as STL and use #blender to make a movie of it/with it.
FreeCAD has become soooo good!
@Bro666 @werefreeatlast It’s critically important to manage users expectations with #FOSS - FC is still uniquely set up and challenging to use.
It’s amazing what it can do, but development-wise it feels like #Blender long before it really hit its stride (as well as getting quality tutorials like Blender Guru) several years ago.
I agree! Nevertheless I am still astounded at the progress FreeCAD has made in the last… What? Four ~ five years? It has gone from “barely usable” and “lacking in even basic features” to “woah! You can make that with FreeCAD?”. Also, the community and third party support and contributions have also exploded. This is vital for the survival of a project like this.
Be advised that FreeCAD, much like Blender, is in no way easy to use! It is software for doing engineering and architecture stuff. These thing are not simple. FreeCAD’s learning curve is steep.
The good news is that there are more and more tutorials online (and many are follow-along videos) that can help get you started.
@Bro666 I did some AutoCad at university. Brilliant software if you know how to make stuff happen. Would you say that FreeCad is more difficult? I’m fully aware that this is engineering software. I would hope to be able to afford a 3D Printer one day.
@Bro666 @werefreeatlast Has it? I was using it not even 1 year ago and I concluded I’d rather use Blender.
The face naming problem aside, I left feeling very frustrated about a lot of things. Like how hard it was to reuse sketches on parts that would mesh because you’d end up with the dependency loop checker refusing to solve for constraints across parts that shared a sketch.
It is not perfect, of course! It also does not have the resources of Blender. Then again, both pieces of software are quite different and have different uses.
@werefreeatlast @[email protected] @[email protected] Worth noting Blender has improved dramatically for precision work, including a full blown CAD skarcher plugin that uses SolveSpace under the hood.
@werefreeatlast
Depending on what your needs are, #OpenSCAD works well and is easy to get started with.
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