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I have no idea what any of those things really does and it's way too much to learn given how much GIMP and Krita do
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I don't know what those two letters mean. I wish they had written out the name. I've avoided buying Adobe stuff because it's stupidly expensive, but I'm still aware that in some industries, some of these have been industry standards at one point or another. Being able to tell wtf their names are, or even what they do would be helpful.
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Draw from LO is pretty meh for a lot of things, but I use it a lot to edit pdfs, and it is very consistent
So happy to see my beloved Paint Tool Sai on here! 😃 Really good list. Didn't know there were so many alternatives
Are there any good alternatives as far as PDF creation goes? Creating fillable forms, not just editing? I have some users I can’t shake from Acrobat Pro.
Affinity Photo is an excellent Photoshop alternative. I switched a while ago and have used it for all of my major projects since.
The whole suite is great.
Really nervous to get into that ecosystem after they were bought by the Canva crew
someone else may have already said this to you elsewhere, but as an affinity haver I more recently got an email from affinity indicating that to use the generative AI the user must manually allow it and activate it on their own account/program and but for how long that pro-choice statement lasts, I don't know.
I will never choose to install it on my affinity suite though.
Kinda hilarious that anyone uses Premiere Pro when Resolve is better, and free (with very optional features locked behind 1-time paywall). David Manning had a revelation and made a video about this recently. As did PewDiePie.
The Affinity Suite is so worth it. Pay a single time and get all the apps on all major OSes instead of the stupid subscription bullshit Adobe tries to lock you into.
No Linux support though, which is a bummer these days.
so not all major OSes
I mean, windows and Mac. So yes, all major OSes. The whole "year of Linux" has been a nice meme... For a few decades now.
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Or Android, so for people who sketch on a tablet they have to use ipad.
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What happened to Audacity?
See other comments: Got bought up by some company and then enshittified.
I have no clue what most of these abbreviations refer to 😅
As much as I am loath to admit it, nothing comes close to feature parity with Photoshop. All the others are pretty replaceable, but if you are a professional who depends on a lot of the really advanced features you’re going to have a hard time replacing it. GiMP isn’t even close tbh. I admire the work they’re doing but they are a decade behind PS.
Good news is that is not most people.
But that's what makes GIMP special. There's some users who feel that Photoshop has stopped being relevant for some uses among those users. GIMP may be a decade behind but it could be swimming in what people remembered best about Photoshop before its enshittification and retains that kind of nature.
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