Best Alternative to Every Adobe Program

Adobe keeps stepping on rakes lately but the good news is there are a lot of good alternatives to their software. Here are some of my favorites.

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[ashlin]

I’m really glad to see the creative community turning against Adobe. They’ve been greedy for far too long

[mwuahugz]

Affinity going on sale while Adobe fiasco is runnung is such a smart move.

[krystofkuh]

Are you kidding me? I just started looking for adobe alternatives and this video comes out? Talk about perfect timing.

[AdamBelis]

Inkscape has a life trace feature and did have it for like 10 years

[DefiningDave]

This is what we need more of, YouTubers showing people that there ARE alternatives. Too many folks act like Adobe is the only option and that we all need to ask them nicely to treat us well. I've been using alternatives for a decade. Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher, with paid DaVinci audio and video solutions. Capture One is far superior to Lightroom (although they are following the Adobe business model now). Thanks for this, Brad. This is how we inspire change in the industry.

[timcameron]

imagine pissing off your customers that badly that peeps make videos on how to put you out of biz 🙂

[dermond]

Tenacity Is a Fork of Audacity, there was a drama back then that a Russian company put Telemetry in Audacity so many forked Audacity.

[glasssawsslipperstraws]

I will sing the good word of Da Vinci and Blackmagic Design forever because I love me some Da Vinci Resolve. The Fusion editor is kinda weird to figure out with the whole nodes thing but once you get it I think its pretty cool

[timmehjimmeh]

I'm a bit of a stuck record on this end, but as someone with a lot of ad agency and animation studio clients, Adobe has a strangle hold on the industry.
There's just things you cannot do if you aren't in the ecosystem as your clients.
If I was 100% independent I'd have jumped ship to Affinity, Procreate and Blender years ago.
But because my bread and butter work is done in After Effects with art supplied as Illustrator files from client, I can't ditch Adobe any time soon. Especially with the array of plugins I've collected over time to make my work better and faster.

[padcraftingvideosandfiles]

Correction: Inkscape does have live trace. Other apps missing from the AI comparator list: VectorStyler, Logoist5

[smootheturtle]

Inkscape DOES have a live trace feature! It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. I often use it to trace JPEGs, then copy the SVG into Affinity Designer.

[GDiariez]

Ps Photography 1:24
Ps Painting 4:17

Ai 7:06

An 9:01

Id 10:52

Substance 11:42

Lr 12:06

Xd 12:36

Au 14:20

Pr 15:17

Acrobat, Bridge, Dw 16:20

Ae 17:26

[Dantti]

Blender is awesome with 2D animation!
Grease pencil is also vector based and beats animate 100-0 and it supports texture brushes.
I have lots of tutorials on my channel ❤

[ImmacHn]

5:51, I use Krita, a lot, and it's very responsive, you might have missed a setting or something.

[zendragon]

I heard you say “if” you were going to break away fully from Adobe. I hope you do. The more popular YouTubers like you can break away from Adobe and really show alternatives and use them in your reviews, the more Adobe will have to take notice where they are failing as a company, and it will help to break their monopoly on some of these products.

[marek_tarnawski]

As someone who has been using Photoshop for most of my professional work (more than ten years) which is art for mobile games I checked what would be alternative. So far the most capable replacement would be either Affinity Photo and Designer for more graphic design related work where you need tons of layers, vector stuff and text objects. However for digital painting those tools are not as good to me. Using brushes don't feel as smooth (worse than Photoshop). I don't like how color picker works. No right click menu for picking brushes and also I would prefer single hotkey + pen for rotating canvas. Hopefully they will improve that part but I understand both are not entirely digital painting programs.

For strictly painting so far I was playing a lot with Krita and I actually like it. Some things are even better than in Photoshop and you can customize hotkeys to have almost zero friction transition from Photoshop. The only thing in Krita that is different is there is no dedicated tool for eraser but I learned to just have eraser brush in my right click menu and I jump to it very quickly. Also the layers work a bit differently. Instead of clipping layer I use all the time there is clipping group which is totally different to what is standard in most graphical programs. I wish Krita was a bit better in more graphic design and editing part because then it would be totally open source competitor to Photoshop. It totally left GIMP behind because you got adjustment layers and even Layer comp feature. However Layer styles are slow, vector tools not as developed and text tool at the moment is bad (though it should be better in new updates). Still I try to donate from time to time with hope it will catch up on those things some day.
Clip Studio Paint I haven't tried yet. It is something I want to do at some point.

[marenjones]

I appreciate that Linux comparability is on the chart. After Microsoft Recall was announced, I jumped ship.

[chaddesrosiers]

Krita and Gimp not being as "Snappy" is almost for sure due to your using them on MacOS. The open source frameworks are not the most optimized for Mac. Both run the best on Linux imo.

[BimByMiguel]

I see CapCut and Canva are missing from that list. Also, just a heads up—Photopea starts charging if you use certain tools more than once within two hours or 80 minutes.

[oleksandrivanchukov]

Dont forget the most important thing regarding FOSS. Free is not about money, is about freedom.