NOT ADOBE! -- The Best Adobe Alternatives in 2024
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- For a variety of reasons a number of long time Adobe users are looking for alternatives to their popular suite of graphics applications. In this video we look at some of the best alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Substance Painter/Designer, Lightroom, Animate and Premier/After Effects in 2024.
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Photopea sucks. It certainly does a lot, but it doesn't do it correctly. For example, look at how the hue shift filter works in perceptual RGB space, instead of an actual color space like oklab designed to shift hues based on human vision. Same thing for drawing with brushes, you get black edges instead of yellow edges when drawing green on top of red due to blending in the wrong color space. Certain tools like vertical text tool a very frustrating to use. You should pick anything, like GIMP, over Photopea, unless you have a quick edit to do and only have access to a web browser.
A After Effects alternative you didn't show is the Black magic design product, Fusion. But I think that is included in DaVinci Resolve.
Recently, Unreal Engine 5.4 has been touted as a real-time motion design tool, and may soon replace After Effects.
I'd never heard of Autograph. I just checked Left Angle's UA-cam channel, and it looks a lot like After Effects.
SceneGroup's Cavalry is also one to keep a close eye on
0:36 Photoshop
4:11 Illustrator
7:32 Substance
12:18 Animate
16:05 Lightroom
18:26 Premiere Pro & After Effect
Thank you good sir
guess I'm too oldschool and "analog" for nowadays: but Indesign will probably be some of the hardest to replace, unfortunately. Affinity doesn't exactly cut it. If Photopea cuts their malware ad crap and some fair/capable Indesign alternative ever shows up, with things like darktable, davinci etc. we can finally let the epitome of greed - Adobe crash and burn for good. :/
what about Adobe Acrobat
@@VeeZzz123 ?
🙏🏼
"They pulled a Unity" 🤣
worse even, forcing you to accept the terms before you can even cancel your sub
Da Vinci resolve has a tap called fusion that is directly a competitor to After effect
but just for compositing and not for animation and motion graphics
@@MRicebeat Thank you. I keep trying to explain exactly what you said to others and they simply come back with yet another alternative which still doesn't do what After Effects does with animation and motion graphics.
@@fablewalls Fusion 100% does animation and motion graphics
@@LV4EVR As someone who does use fusion for motion graphics -- After Effects is 100000% more streamlined for it. Fusion is really great for compositing. You can do motion graphics in Fusion, but it's like using a jackhammer to build a birdhouse vs a hammer. Really hoping Blackmagic invests in this side of things soon.
@@LV4EVR OK, I'll bite.
Please link an example of animation created in Fusion as I'd like to try. I have an HP zbook with a built in Wacom tablet to do this with.
OpenToonz is available on Linux. Arch directly in the repos, Snaps (or flat) everywhere else. Tahoma2D is kinda like BFA, but for OpenToonz(it does have more features, but I think that was the primary reason for the fork in the first place).
Opentoonz is used by studio ghibli, it's the real deal
thanks for the tip for Tahoma2D, very incredible tool, i already knew of OpenToonz, fantastic.
I'm glad you mention about Tahoma it's looks luxurious
Krita is mainly made for drawing, but i've found that it's not too bad for photo editing as well (at least the basic stuff). I like GIMP and i've used it for quite a few years but for whatever reason it was just so slow on my macbook, so for one school project i decided to eventually try Krita and the performance was like night and day. So if you need to just do some basic photo editing for a prototype or youtube thumbnail or whatever and you're on lower end hardware, do give Krita a try.
Might have been a mac thing too because Apple isn't excactly known to be huge supporters of open source projects but still.
I love Krita, but I find their brush designing controls to be confusing and convoluted. It also has a couple obscure UI bugs that can be occasionally irritating.
Try Corel Photo-paint. It's closer to photoshop than Gimp is, and very capable.
Natron is a Nuke clone. It's probably my favourite video compositor that doesn't cost more than a house.
Sadly no longer in active development.
@@FlameForgedSoul But still good as a realtime compositor. Good alternative to Blender's compositor.
@@FlameForgedSoul I wish it was.
@galihkurniad Node based.
@galihkurniadnode based
For anyone wondering about CSP's controversy: They added a subscription system where you pay monthly to obtain updates, similar to photoshop. HOWEVER. Every year they are releasing an "X.0" version in *permanent* license where you can purchase or upgrade from previous version for discounted price, where you access all updates made previous year.
Devs get money for updates and people do not get their software access denied the moment they stop paying. I find this acceptable compared to adobe's greedy behaviour where you no longer can do anything the moment you stop giving them money. It also costs a fraction of Photoshop, as you can easily get the PRO version for 20-30$ in permanent license during the common discounts.
Also CSP's updates are often small, but useful stuff. On contrary of Photoshop that for illustrators and comic artists virtually hasn't changed since 2007.
And for anyone worried about losing assets, last year CSP added native support for PS's brushes.
Can you use AI and PSD files in CSP?
Perpetual license all the way
I actually think paying for the updates is fair enough
It's a good program. I use it on the iPad and I think before the subscription system it was already subscription only on iPad. I'm not sure about the desktop version but I got it free for a year when I bought my first drawing tablet about 8 years ago.
@@Dave102693 It reads PSD files natively and can export PSD.
The only AI stuff in there are matching the built-in 3D mannequins pose to a provided photo and a bunch of tools that I personally never use.
There's no generative AI prompting in it as the community heavily pushed against it when they announced it.
Left Angle Autograph is pretty good, receives frequent updates, runs nicely on Mac, and they've said they're pushing for it to be solid in the compositing and VFX side of things as well beyond its current Mograph strengths. Good video, thanks.
Thank you for these. I've been running all Adobe products behind a firewall for years (and I never use the cloud for anything), but even so, this really is the last straw. It's time to ween myself off their ecosystem for good.
Brilliant. I used to do that when I dual-booted with Windows and Linux. Also, Pirate CS6 and CC works blazingly faster that CC.
My biggest issue with Affinity, is that I'd like to have API support for better workflow integration with other tools. It would benefit Affinity to be able to integrate with other tools, since they don't cover all types of software
i hate gimp, love blender, love krita, love inkscape.
So, you have no tool for image editing. No need to remind you that krita is for painting and gimp is for editing.
darktable is good for photos, never understood hatred for gimp, I find it pretty easy to do basic stuff
@@gokudomatic I love how you just assume that just because he hates GIMP he doesn't have a "tool for image editing". Please think for a moment.
@@ratatatuff it was certainly a big leap in assumption, but because he only mentioned krita, I am confident that if he was using something else to edit images, he would have mentioned it. So, I'm taking a rather safe bet.
@@gokudomatic It would be a safe bet if GIMP was the only image editing tool out there. Which it isn't.
Something i need to clarify:
Clip Stufio Paint AIN'T a commercial version of Krita.
Clip Studio Paint came in 2001, Krita came on 2005, 4 years after Clip Studio Paint's first release
Autograph is a strong product ! This is a French product, so we won't have to worry about shady terms of use.
Adobe Animate is a powerful interactive vector graphics creator. You should have put Rive in the same category.
You missed Foundry Mari as it's the goto texture painting software in VFX as substance painter alternative, but it's very expensive and has subscription, so yeah. And you missed Pikimov which is a new AE alternative (clone) on the browser like Photopea.
I honestly believe only smaller groups will leave Adobe. Bigger companies probably don’t care about the policy. Also remember, Adobe makes most of its money from private licenses, corporations, schools.. etc.
Larger groups like hospitals/health care systems, schools and corporations have MUCH to say about privacy; when the legal departments of such get wind of this, there may be MUCH bigger blowback than has occurred so far.
Adobe Rush is crazy convenient. All it can really do is stich videos together, make voice overs and stuff. But it does it so fast, there's no buffer time. You can immediately look at your video in real time. I have no idea how that sorcery works but I know After Effects can't do that. How to find a replacement for that? 😖
First-person hands on or not. thank you for such an extensive list of tools. Subscribed.
Clip studio's controversy has been mostly solved
They were pushing for subscriptions but now they have full pay no strings attached modes with discounted version upgrades
I don't trust their leadership anymore but currently it's a good product
they have had perpetual licenses since a long time tho?
Yes, perpetual has been the default for the longest time
Monthly payments and convolute upgrade paths have been a recentish development to get more money out of users
They walked back the worst of it because of backlash at least
@@LarkyLuna i see, thanks for clarifying
Did you mention AMS PhotoWorks and Foto Glory?
Sad there is not really an alternative for InDesign. Sure there is Affinity Publisher, but its file format is not supported by many major printers. As a result publisher is only really suited for smaller independent projects where not much collaboration is required
Does the term of service update affect Sunstancr 3d if it is the perpetual license versio. from Steam?
I doubt it. I think the old versions are entirely decoupled from their system. They only exist as a remnant on Steam. I've been using Substance 2019 and I have never paid for adobe cloud, neither it's installed on my PC. I wouldn't even notice if they would change their terms of service. Essentially you have bought the software with the license when you bought it. As long as you don't accept a new terms of service, the old terms of service apply. (at least that's the legislation here in Europe)
No, it only affects Creative Cloud. Steam versions are not connected to the Adobe cloud.
Seems like a massive blow back on Adobe for the new user licence agreement, they have really upset many very long time professional users, unbeliveable!
What about Capture One and Topaz Labs?
You totally forgot Mari :D the best program for texturing. Someone mighty say industry standard.
Doesn't Unreal Engine have some motion design and substance design capabilities since the release of 5.4?
Yes it does. Now, recompling it to run it on Linux takes some skills, but I've watched a YTber that succeeded in doing it
Lightroom is more important to photographers more than anything else i don't think there is a alternative yet
Lots recommended Darktable. Works well for my needs. Very different workflow, takes time to learn/adjust, but seems much more powerful in many ways.
Davinci Resolve is literally a lifesaver for folks like myself who enjoy editing videos but cannot afford Adobe's high subscription prices.
I thought that enjoy the "quality and features of after effect" gonna be the answer here 🤔🥲
Amazing what one can do when the costs of "free" are shifted to expensive but optional hardware (Hitfilm couldn't do this).
100%
I love Resolve. Premiere has also been been very crashy and slow for me so I don't miss it.
Saying Davinci Resolve as a lifesaver isn't correct for me since it more powerful than adobe video editing software
Affinity + DaVinci Resolve + Darktable + Blender
_Done_
@@hiperfx892 blender is 2nd choice in the industry wtf are you talking about? And resolve is industry standard for color grading.
@@fltfathin you definitely live under a Rock. Go get a job at ILM, Pixar, Dreamworks or Marvel, you will get your a$$ kicked. Mays is everywhere, I use blender but Maya is my secondary tool
@@fltfathin ok smarta$$, go try to get a Job at ILM, DNEG, Pixar or any big studio with your blender skill. You are soo begainner. Go make some research 😂😂😂
@@hiperfx892 > I can sense the brain-dead TikTok/Twitter user in you from the way you type emotes.
> You came here to talk down on a user over software that he simply prefered and felt good to go with.
> Entitled child, confirmed.
@@hiperfx892 i've checked them and none of them mentions adobe suite app, maybe maya, but they do hints of the use of blender or similar tool (NUKE ?) since the openings mentions linux and python scripting as required skill.
with my skills i won't be accepted there obviously, but
there are people in the industry that uses blender and is used for the vfx, some made appearance in blender conference (ua-cam.com/video/exAwxzhBL8w/v-deo.html) so i think YOU make some research
professional/ artist choose their own tools not the employer
I got a adobe ad before the video started .
How darrrre youuu ! 😅
I'm pretty sure you don't have control over which ad will be shown
*ad
Same lol
The one with that creepy all-seeing 👁️ like there marketing team's rebelling?
Accept it. Take their advertising dollars. Watch the full ad and laugh, knowing they just wasted all their efforts. Destroy their ability to market effectively.
Tahoma 2D is a fork of OpenToonz with a modernized interface. It's a full-fledged professional animation studio. And it is definitely available for Linux, because I use it on my penguin machine)
thanks for the tip for Tahoma2D, very incredible tool, i already knew of OpenToonz, fantastic.
Yup, it seems he didn't check out the download page. I have it on Windows 10, Puppy Linux, Ubuntu Studio, and MX Linux KDE.
Good mention, I always like to point to Blender's 2D workflow as an option as well.
@@orbatos Yeah, I've seen a lot of amazing animatoins made with Blender's grease pencil.
And I would like it to share my Adobe experience here. If you have a CS6 Perpetual License and your OS or hard drive fails, you'll find yourself unable to launch the app to deactivate the license. This means your license becomes permanently locked to that specific hardware. Despite reaching out to Adobe, they offer no way to reset or transfer the license. This issue could affect anyone using CS6, and it's frustrating that there's no solution provided by Adobe.
Kudos to the smart people doing software engineering making FOSS, and paid, software alternatives to the pile of corporate crap.
Davinci Resolve/Fusion can do "Aftereffects"... not as simple, but capable, and even better on the compositing side!
No. Fusion is pain in the ass with its bags and lags. Sometimes you just can’t render a timeline because of Fusion. And there’s nothing to do except making the fusion comp from the start.
I really wanna how anyone "loves" Gimp... I've been using it for years and every time I use it for serious work I'm always like "WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE NORMAL!!!"
GIMP: *crying* while trying to apply a basic gama correction filter...
Seriously. I'm a full time Linux user and I love everything about Linux except having to use gimp.
Eh, define normal. I've used it for years because I don't need Photoshop to do any of the stuff I do on it.
Average users, unless more of a professional artist, don't even know what a gama correction filter is, let alone a basic one.
I've literally been using GIMP since I was 5, and when I was teen my dad got me 'Grokking the GIMP'. So I have perhaps an unusual nostalgic fondness for it. When I ditched Adobe and Windows for good (around the same time), I found that working toward a goal (art projects, game projects), helped with adapting to new UI. Esp. with added deadlines, so I didn't have time to dwell on the quirks - just had to stick to getting things done. GIMP obviously wasn't a problem for me... that honor actually went to Krita because I had a bunch of memorized workflows/hotkeys from Photoshop.
😅 yeah the way things work and are done in GIMP are sometime a bit strange.
But how UI on Photoshop and Illustrator are too sometimes very counter intuitive 😂. And make me Arrrgggg🤯
I dumped Photoshop when Adobe introduced their overpriced subscriptionsome years ago. Gimp is one of the alternatives I've been using since, so I guess I'm pretty familiar with its ways. However It has come a long way since and it is a lot easier to use than it was, despite it's increased power and the lingering reputation.
!!! Oh man I totally forgot that Paintshop Pro existed! 😮 I used to use that all the time back in the early 2000's before I moved to GIMP 😮
I find Gimp cumbersome. It does not support CMYK. I tried to install the Adobe CC files, but it did not work.
The page is ugly because they know it doesn't matter and you'll rent it anyway. Leave and support projects that respect you!
Any freelancers here who have to work in pipeline with agencies? Revisting/Re-using complex projects from & for customers in AE and InDesign (it always happens)? THAT's the problem for me to switch to the alternatives, as much as I would like to. I would really love to hear a serious solution for this dilemma.
The problem isn't availability of alternatives. The problem is that people are too lazy to even migrate to something else. People love to whine about issues of cost, licensing, privacy, etc. But when it comes down to migrating to something else, few people want to learn a new piece of software. Hell, people are reluctant to even TRY new software unless Daddy (Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.) releases it.
Personally, if anyone isn't going to abandon these terrible companies for user-respecting alternatives, then those customers have no reason to complain about any of these controversies.
Amen
Too harsh. Some of us have used Photoshop for decades and find things like Affinity does things in such a different way that muscle memory is hard to overcome.
I liked Designer, it really is better than Illustrator and took less time to pick up - however Photo (for example) just did some things awkwardly. I even found myself swapping to Photopea for some quick dirty work rather than fire up Photo.
Yes, laziness is correct. I remember I told myself back in 2009 "if I really want to escape Adobe and Microsoft, then I must use Open Source design tools to do client work, from start to finish".
That was the furnace I put myself through, and with practice, I got better. Once you know the fundamentals of Photoshop and Illustrator, Gimp and Inkscape is nothing to learn.
I dumped Adobe when then they went to the rental model. I keep my CS6 versions installed, but rarely use them. I even work somewhere that allows me to use Adobe's CC for free at home, but I don't.
I'm using Corel PaintShop Pro mostly because it is still the most feature-rich, but do use On1 and some Topaz.
The other problem is if you work as a freelancer they often demand that you are fluent in a specific software, in my case it was Premiere. So, I'm forced to have it to be able to work, although I'd rather use DaVinci.
I went with the affinity programs and got the universal license allows me to install on Mac and windows.
And iPad too 😊
I bought the Affinity bundle two weeks ago and am amazed at how well the programs can replace the Adobe stuff!
Autograph : At long last an actual solution to motion design which understands what it is all about !
“Adobe, you will own nothing, and be happy.”
More like "you will own nothing, well take what you create, and we don't care if you're happy".
@@langdons2848 depends. There was “we the people” at some point. Now it’s “we the ruling class”. We have to get to “we the people - have had enough”. With politics, plandemics, wars and especially TOS’s like this crap.
You will open nothing and they will monetize everything you work while charging you for the privilege.
It' s not about Photoshop, that's replaced. After Effects is the real issue. Anyway, I just cancelled my subscription with them
sounds like it wasnt a big issue after all :D
I totally agree with you , I can't find a good replaceable to after effect
Cavalry and Rive are worthy mentions.
@@decathemaster4912 fusion in davinci resolve is a good alt apart from you will need to learn nodes instead of layers
Davinci resolve
I moved to Affinity suite couple years ago. Had to wrap my mind around a couple things that didn't need to be so different, but come on in. The water is fine.
Agree. The Affinity Publisher is great.
Inkscape will be more efficient in 2025 - in version 1.5. It was to be faster in 1.4 but programmers didn't make it for 1.4 with an upgrade.
Great video. No Adobe products are needed. You can replace any and all of them. Adobe did you a favor by showing you dont need them. Work with ethical companies instead. Sure you will have to learn new software, but whats wrong with learning new skills? For video Davinci Resolve is simply the best in class you should be using anyway.
Nothing. But even though several others on another video said there is an alternative to After Effects - this video remind us that there really isn't. For everything else though, there really are alternatives.
@@fablewallsNuke is far more powerful than after effects. It has a very different worflow, but it achieves the same purpose.
@@askeladden450 You have any examples please? Either UA-cam videos with the kind of things Nuke can do or films where it has been used?
I asked a friend who teaches on a degree course using Nuke and Natron and he wasn't confident they would do what After Effects does.
I'm guessing both will composite layers made elsewhere that use motion graphics and animation but AE lets you create the animation within the App.
@@fablewalls hmm, i was thinking about AE from a vfx perspective, not really motion graphics one, although now you mention it, its probably the more common use case. well yeah nuke is more for vfx, compositing and post production, majority of big budget films and studios use it. But for motion graphics, yeah, nuke isnt that good compared to after effects. Fusion is really good though in that regards.
@@fablewalls btw inspirationtuts probably has a video on it, that might answer your questions better.
Autograph looks really impressive. The Key Features button on the Home page of their site links to UA-cam videos that show a lot of things.
Autograph is really good and crazy fast which AE is not!
It's unfair to compare Affinity Photo and Photoshop on a feature basis taking Photoshop as reference without saying that Affinity also got features that Photoshop lacks. Photo is way faster, more reactive, files are lighter, and enable a true non destructive workflow. It has features like liquify layers, which Photoshop cannot dream about.
I wish this would be the down fall of Adobe, but nothing will really happened, they will lose some customers and there will be some more that dislike their practices. We who already hate Adobe will hate it more, this will not threaten their dominance of the industry though.
Other alternatives for lightroom, and some quite professional ones at that, are DXO and CaptureOne.
Not cheap, but better then lightroom in a lot of aspects.
I'm a long time AE artist and I had no idea about Autograph, it looks very promising! Thanks for including that one.
I used to love Substance painter. I kind of stopped using it the moment Adobe bought it.
Here's my new toolbox:
Photoshop: Affinity Photo
Illustrator:Affinity Designer and Sketch (I ditched Figma since ceo's statement about palestine... yeah)
Premiere Pro: Davinci Resolve
Animate/After Effect : Spline, Blender, Rive, Calvary, Jitter
it’s worth noting that one of the search results mentions a Reddit post titled “CEO of Figma is a Zionist and supports the occupation of Palestine” with 35 votes and 20 comments. This post appears to be a user-generated opinion and not an official statement from Figma or its CEO. So yeah..
Davinci Resolve's Fusion is basically their answer to After Effect. After affect is basically what before digital was called Rotoscoping where they would project a frame on a table that one would then draw an animation over film and then taking the overlay picture. For example Industrial Lights and magic would have used rotoscoping to make a light saber glow by following the stick and drawing the glow over it. So Blender can also do this.
It's more like After Effects is the answer to Fusion. After Effects and Nuke are about the same age, but Fusion is like 5-6 years older, as a software.
I honestly am done with Adobe. Somehow I was getting charged double per month for a couple years in the recent past. I have since figured out what happened and fixed it. But I’m just an average dude who wasn’t even in school for it. I tried to tell them and asked for reimbursement but didn’t expect anything. I hate their subscription BS.
One thing I would like to point out:
Krita does photo manipulation better than Gimp does.
It being a painting application does not in any way make it "not good for photo manipulation"
Just watched Left Angle's UA-cam channel. Autograph looks amazing.
Thank you for the video !
Fuison is one of best rival to After Effects! Fusion is a vector-based application. However, Fusion is a node-based workflow and the expression script is also totally different from After Effects. I wouldn't lie, it's definitely much more painful while switching from AE to Fusion and may need at least one month to get used. Personally I think, why so many people think there's no AE replacement, the biggest problems are the node-based workflow and most of them cannot import AI files to those alternatives. That's being said every vector graphic needed to be only a vector graphic. Everything has to re-fill/ re-colour etc... in Fusion too (Fusion can import PDS directly). More importantly, users have to keep an open mind because every software has unique features. None can't replace another... But as creators and end-users, we can choose what's better for us and those applications developers. (For me, seeing Adobe has become an unfair unfriendly company since 2012, I am not only sad but also furious.) DaVince and Fusion have been combined since version 15 or 14. Users who have purchased the Studio version can download stand-alone Fusion Studio too. Studio has more advanced tools and 3D functions than After Effects.
Almost all professional software for VFX, game development, 3D modelling etc. is node based. So there's no excuse, not to adapt it. There's a simple reason to why Adobe Substance Painter is node based. It simply couldn't work with a layer based approach.
Layers work very well for Photoshop, but forget about it in a lot of other cases.
@@akyhne Yes, exactly! 90% of advanced VFX softwares are the node-based workflow. There are many ways better than using layered based workflow. Actually, the layer in AE is for motion key frame. Personally, I’d not call it “true layer based workflow” compared with “Animator (previous called “Flash”) because every object has an individual layer. It’s not like a layer contented with different elements in Photoshop and Illustrator.
Open Toonz is available for Linux BTW!
Regarding substance, it’s actually possible to still buy a perpetual license on steam for these for about 90-120 Dollars or something, great alternative if you want to buy it once
Are there any good alternatives to Adobe Acrobat? I use it for work and being able to edit, sign, and create forms is really handy.
I use Acrobat daily also. It is the main reason I have an adobe subscription. Alternatives please?
Switched to GIMP 10 years ago and never looked back, does all I need
No hate but I dont thing you need to do much then xdd
@@soirema Most people don't. 99,9% of photoshop users don't use more than 1% of its functions and would be better off with a different program, yet all they want is photoshop. A user who's experienced in GIMP can do more than most users can do in photoshop.
Gimp should not be mentioned at all. Hope you will show me a illustration alternative I’m missing Illustrator. But quit adobe long time ago even before the cs series.
Yep Krita, Affinity Designer, Inkscape, Gimp-Awesome software.
Comparing inkscape with gimp is an insult. Inkscape has the same features like illustrator and gimp is just bad
I use Sony Vegas/Movie Studio Platinum. I just enjoy the workflow
Sony sold Vegas to Magix 8 years ago!
I know, time flies…
how about an alternative to Adobe READER, which IS, by far, the most used product Adobe makes? or even Acrobat? i would think that having something to open and edit PDFs would be a priority now, since Adobe has put AI in even THEM, and everybody has to open all their personal legal documents SOMEWHERE, right?
I would definitely recommend Autograph for mograph & compositing. The last few versions have been really great! Super fast with some impressive features and the developers are constantly working on new features and improvements. It's like what you would want after effects to be, just takes a bit of time to learn. No regrets switching, plus it was on sale for half price (might still be).
No real direct competitor to AE unfortunately - Blender could be it but you gotta rewire your brain a bit for nodes.
Unreal Engines new Motion Design/Project Avalanche is going to be a solid replacement when it's ready. It might be out of beta by now but its free
Left Angle Autograph is a good replacement for AE as well. You have 2 options now: Left Angle Autograph and Unreal Engine.
Some interesting looking programms there. So far I have gotten by with pretty much just Blender and Krita. But maybe I should eventually take some time to take a look at more specialised options.
You should install an ablocker.
Having tested Autograph, it's clearly a real alternative to After Effects. With each new release, it gets better and better.
How much does it cost and is it a one time purchase?
@@Dave102693 Sub or perpetual license. There's a 50% discount right now, so $14 a month.
I think Corel Painter is also worth a mention as a drawing/painting alternative to PS, especially for more painterly workflows and concept art.
I can hear youtubers coming back to Adobe saying things like "yeahh they're bad but the Adobe Ecosystem ia so complete blablabla"
I give it a month.
Thats what Adobe counts on. However THIS particular UA-camr is using Affinity for long time so I doubt he will "go back" :D
Adobe audition vs Audacity 🤩🤩🤩
I'm surprised Capture One as an alternative to Lightroom didn't make the list. I've used it for about 7 years now and I believe most professional studio photographers use that instead of Lightroom.
Probably because C1 is going to be going full subscription at some point in the (perhaps near) future. Currently they do offer a perpetual license but I think it's only time before that goes away. Same for some other ones like Luminar which started out as perpetual only, but they've now done subscription and made it so that you almost need the subscription unless you're just a casual user.
2:58 or get ublock like a sane person does in 2024.
using clip studio paint at the moment and I can't see myself using anything else for now.
The real tragedy herein is that if you subscribed to Adobe, you also, must've spent a fortune, possibly thousands of dollars through the years buying presets and plugins that Adobe didn't produce or offer, that other supplies did. So you spent a fortune and now get stabbed in the back by Adobe, maybe a class action lawsuit should be entertained to make Adobe compensate users for the vast amounts of money spent on their products. App manufacturers must also take a stand on behalf of their customers rather than hide until the issue goes away. For example where does Topaz stand on this, etc.
Ok, i was looking twards a adobe animate alternative
The only thing missing here is audio tools. I used to use Adobe Audition for it's great graphical (spectrum) audio correction. Today i just use DaVinci Resolve. But I would love to know what else is out there.
...and what is Audacity capable of these days?
If you want to try a full-fledged DAW on a budget, REAPER is awesome. It’s $60 for a personal license and has a no strings attached free trial that lasts forever
Reaper, Audacity, Ardour
None of the Substance Painter alternatives are viable. They simply are not on the same level. The good news is that the Steam version is not subject to the Adobe cloud.
Krita, GIMP Linux.. You just gotta open your mind.
You won't regret it once you get used to it.
There's always something missing (or terrible) about "Photoshop alternatives". Usually it's a lack of support for alpha channels. How hard can it be to write software to edit RGBA .TGA files ? Gamedev needs this basic stuff!
I would agree on them lacking something, or they have a poor/unusable UI, with the exception being Affinity Designer as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Which I know isn't an Photoshop alternative but other vector alternatives suffer the same issues as Photoshop ones, so I figured it was worth mentioning.
ugh channel packing in Affinty Photo us the dumbest workflow I've ever seen...
I would buy Affinity if it worked on Linux. I don't feel like I am missing anything from Krita but I need an answer to Illustrator. Inkscape is good but it's a little hard to learn. I use vector art so rarely that I want to use something that is much easier since I basically have to relearn Inkscaps every time I use it.
Oh! I had to use GIMP recently because it had a filter Krita didn't, and it had really good performance. It loaded about four times as fast as Krita, and the UI was snappy even with a 16k imags loaded (280 megapixels). I am a Krita man, but GIMP has done a lot to improve itself in the past few years, definitely worth a look.
Gimp dont have support for cmyk.
@@gapon8921 fortunately I am not doing print stuff. Hell, even when I was my employer asked for RGB stuff and let Amazon convert it. Don't ask me why. 🤣
Anyhow Krita is great at handling color, it's a major strong point in its favor. I often use Krita to do 16-bits-per-channel linear images for 3D art stuff.
Camtasia is also pay pay pay pay pay pay pay pay pay payware. Hard pass.
After Coreldraw, illustrator feels like working with one hand behind your back. You buy it, own it. You could subscribe but no reason. I'm still using 2021 and it's just fine.
It comes with suite of other things like their version of photoshop & paint but i dont use it.
Maybe that is true if you use it for illustration and nothing else, unfortunately Illutrator is essential for printed graphic design and there are zero alternatives in that regard, affinity designer and corel might be good for vector drawing but when you do actual professional layout work and need spot inks that look accurate so your client can approve and when you need to embed printer color profiles and link high res images with spot color channels there is no alternative to illustrator, NONE
@aoterou we have the Adobe suite and corel suite. Photoshop is used extensively, illustrator is used to open AI files when they're sent to us pretty much.
I don't know your day to day workflow, corel may not be a fit, but it's capable of anything I've ever done in illustrator in a much smoother, natural way.
Facts. And CorelDraw can make signs at full scale, more than 30 feet. Illustrator can't.
3:31 The controversy was the pricing scheme that they changed. Instead of the 1 time payment, they changed it to a subscription model if you want regular updates. Though they still offer the single payment method if you buy it for windows or mac (with major updates still requiring another payment albeit at a discount).
"pulled a unity" is the new term for when a company messes up royally.
This is really helpful, not just to drop Adobe but to drop Microsoft. Photoshop is one of the things holding me hostage to Windows.
Alternative 👉🏽 Affinity Photo, Affintity Designer, Affinity Publisher, Logic pro, Davinci resolve studio, Clip studio paint EX, Fable, Capture one, ON1 raw photo, Blender, Spline, Right font. 🙂
That's great for independent creators, but as soon as you're working for (or with) a company that follows "industry standards" you can't really impose your choice of software.
Regarding the list, as always for a Lightroom replacement I'll shill for DxO PhotoLab.
DxO Photolab 7 !
Hey Mike, awesome video like always! Keep up the great work, I don't know how you do it! 😅
What's all that crap?! Number one substitute for Photoshop (better version of Photoshop) is KRITA. Tattoo it somewhere.
I think you did a bit of an disservice to Corel here, Firstly you missed out on Photo-Paint as a Photoshop alternative. Photo-Paint has actually been around almost as long as Photoshop. (Adobe released Illustrator in 1986, Photoshop in 1990. Corel released Draw in 1989 and and Photo-Paint in 1992) Secondly when you discussed pricing, you said it was a subscription-only model, in the Adobe range of price. That's not true. While they do have a subscription model, which costs $30CAD/mo (Draw + Paint) vs Adobe's $50CAD/mo for the whole suite (cheapest option to get both AI and PS), Corel also offers a one time purchase price of $700CAD. Last time I looked Adobe no longer even offers that option, though if I remember correctly it was something like $1600USD when they did. It's true that Corel is not cheap, but it is a mature and well developed package with a long history and with a large following in certain sectors of the graphics design industry. With that said, thanks for all the comparisons, you did mention a few packages that I was not aware of and will need to check out. For me the biggest problem with most of the FOSS options has been really poor UX/UI design, and stability issues.
Perhaps because I'm an older individual who learned Photoshop back when it was version 3, and I used to mess around with color channels to create good masks, I believe that, with the exception of 3D work, you can accomplish pretty much anything you need with Photoshop 7. After that, most features are nice to have but not absolutely necessary.
AND for 2D animation Krita is pretty decent. Little improvements could be still acheived, but as it is now, it's a pretty intuitive and simple alternative to Animate. Combined with the rich and wide panel of brushes available, Krita definitely kills at least for a big and dynamic community of passionnate !