FUCK ADOBE!
FUCK ADOBE!
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- mg332
Has anyone here actually dropped Adobe completely?
I've never really thought about it, and I haven't minded the monthly expense, but when I do the math over a number of years, the appeal of alternatives to Lightroom, Photoshop, and illustrator suddenly become quite appealing if you can just buy those applications once.
Lightroom is the one thing I have the most significant amount of time invested in. Catalogs push 60,000 images. Lots of custom presets, all the VSCO Film presets. I mostly shoot with Fuji cameras these days so I know that there camera models and settings would be available.
- I'm considering a switch from Premiere to Resolve (free or one time $300 for more tools).
Which will leave me wondering if I should get rid of Photoshop.spl33nidoru - Rawtherapee is a good free raw converter. More fully featured than Lightroom. Not as easy.monNom
- Affinity photo, designer, publisher are roughly equivalent to photoshop, illustrator, indesign. Get all three for $165 USD for a perpetual license.monNom
- Thanks. Was reading about Affinity products earlier. Related - started using Synology Photos on my NAS and wondering how I can leverage it in place of Lightroommg33
- You can do raw editing in Affinity photo as well, but it's less fully featured.monNom
- One thing I've been using a lot in photoshop is the generative fill. This thing is a life saver and would be hard to let go of.spl33nidoru
- Affinity Photo doesn't have the organizational features of LR though. I'd probably consider Capture One for heavy photo work.mg33
- @spl33nidoru
https://kritaaidiffu…
This software extends Krita (PS-like painting software) with AI inpainting. Basicly Gen fill.monNom - Krita is quite good for a lot of PS stuff, and
it's FREEEEEEEmonNom - Nice, will check it, thanks!spl33nidoru
- Nothing remotely close to AE yet but I probably would if I could.MrT
- I don't use AE, would love to learn Premiere, but iMovie is fine for my needs.mg33
- RIP Aperture********
- Blender has a great compositor and animation system (and video editor too). The workflow is different from AE, but you can do a lot in it.monNom
- Very simple example using textures. You can do 3d or 2.5d in the viewport, and effects in the node compositior. https://www.youtube.…monNom
- For design I have Affinity and Figma, then I can code my specific scripts in Claude.********
- I pay for Figma and it could definitely do a lot for me that illustrator and Photoshop do.mg33
- $7500 and countingcanoe
- I'm sure a combo of apps could get close but working in TV production pipelines, that would be a losing battle. Fuck Adobe.MrT
- ^ this is the real issue. Network effects. If you can go your own way, there's a lot of great software out there.monNom
- One of the things that starting to become possible is to have an LLM write a tool for you... if you have open-source tools, you might extend them with a prompt.monNom
- Can't do that with proprietary software...monNom
- I have not used any Adobe tools since 2021. I use Affinity for photo retouching and Figma for everything else.maquito
- i use the affinity suite, it's not as fully featured as ai/ps but it's all i need.
i also have an old version of ai cs3 which somes in handy now and thenhans_glib - Does anyone know of any alternative to the image trace feature in Illy? Once I find that, I think I'll cancel my sub.pseud
- @pseud See if Inkscape scratches that itch.skinny_puppy
- Nova/FCP/Motion/Affi... I can not shake the control with LR & PS for pure pixel pushing pleasure. Amazon LR & PS is $120/year. No brainer.thenohero
- I'm considering a switch from Premiere to Resolve (free or one time $300 for more tools).