NOT ADOBE! -- The Best Adobe Alternatives in 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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[hkanything]

0:36 Photoshop
4:11 Illustrator
7:32 Substance
12:18 Animate
16:05 Lightroom
18:26 Premiere Pro & After Effect

[aneesh.videos]

Davinci Resolve is literally a lifesaver for folks like myself who enjoy editing videos but cannot afford Adobe's high subscription prices.

[LVEVR]

Affinity + DaVinci Resolve + Darktable + Blender
_Done_

[thesteammachine]

I got a adobe ad before the video started .
How darrrre youuu ! 😅

[billrazor]

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)

[slizgi]

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.

[maloriedelaporte]

Autograph : At long last an actual solution to motion design which understands what it is all about !

[hopelessdecoy]

The page is ugly because they know it doesn't matter and you'll rent it anyway. Leave and support projects that respect you!

[JohnnyThundr]

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...

[a_d_a_m]

I'm a long time AE artist and I had no idea about Autograph, it looks very promising! Thanks for including that one.

[somedude]

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.

[WildWestDesigns]

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).

[rremnar]

Kudos to the smart people doing software engineering making FOSS, and paid, software alternatives to the pile of corporate crap.

[takeovereverything]

Da Vinci resolve has a tap called fusion that is directly a competitor to After effect

[anthonythorne]

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.

[ritzenhauf]

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.

[def_not_dan]

Natron is a Nuke clone. It's probably my favourite video compositor that doesn't cost more than a house.

[tech-bore]

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.

[TheDemonking]

I went with the affinity programs and got the universal license allows me to install on Mac and windows.

[ECHQ]

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.