Best Free Alternatives To Adobe Creative Suite

If you do any kind of digital media creation then there's no question that Adobe's Creative Suite is the industry standard. It comes with a price though, and unlike other types of software products, it's an ongoing price. You're never done paying for Adobe software, and because of that you may be put off by the prospect of doing any kind of serious media creation. You don't have to let that stop you any longer though because there's plenty of free alternatives to choose from, and in this video I'll be outlining some of them.

The free alternatives are as follows...

Photoshop

Lightroom

Illustrator

InDesign

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Audition

Dreamweaver

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:38 Photoshop
01:55 Lightroom
02:40 Illustrator
03:35 InDesign
04:27 Premiere Pro
05:20 After Effects
05:44 Audition
06:06 Dreamweaver


Intro song: "In Da Mood" by Combustibles, used with written permission

[alexmomeyer]

Da Vinci Resolve is another great free video editor. Bit of a learning curve, so maybe not the best for first-timers, but full of features.

[arkansmc]

my personal completely free list is:

2D animation : blender
3D animation : blender
Modelling : blender
Design : blender
Material authoring : blender
Video editing : blender
Photos design : blender
Vector stuff : blender
Audio editing : blender
Music authoring : blender

[mrCetus]

You never cease to delight and amaze me, Nick. No frills, to the point place to get real world type graphics and videos information.
Thanks again, from a grateful, longtime, devoted Inkscape tutorials fan.

[scorpius]

honestly the best soft tutorial ive ever seen. short and straight to the point ! i love it

[nedmurry]

Got a photoshop ad before this video, they don’t want me to be converted...

[Leo-bxsd]

"Dark table" "light room" lmao

[SVSSOF]

You are by far the best teacher for soft soft . It's very complicated at first - overwhelming, actually - but, you make it doable for

[raosam]

Very helpful and great video. But like our friend Alex here said, I am surprised you didn't mention Da Vinci Resolve. I use resolve for all my videos, compositing work (Fursion) and also audio mixing using Fairlight. Yes, its not the easiest software to use, but very powerful !!!

[pinywood]

Da vinci resolve is a great alternative to premiere and way easier to learn than blenders video sequencer tho it will take sometime to learn like any other software

[baherkamalmusic]

Fun fact: 50% of Adobe users are using cracked versions.

[mladensimic]

Thank you Chris. I really appreciate it and that was exactly what I was trying to do. No fuss and helping people get on with what they need

[pascalmarchioni]

With all the soft soft tutorials that exist on YT, yours just created that "light bulb illumination" mont in my head. Thanks for taking the

[ColdFuse]

Oh Blender. I could explore your interface for weeks and not know all its secrets.

[thiagoguimaraes]

Good to see you are supporting the free softwares by pointing out their features and capabilities. There could be more people like you. Thank you Nick not only for providing an amazing and high quality content, but for being that supportive.

[allanleal]

Best soft soft tutorial for beginners on YouTube! I'm an absolute beginner and all the other tutorials I've found on YouTube have been so

[NebulapawZ]

Really excited to try this feature out! Amazing work !

[lukep]

Lightroom: you can copy, but make sure to make it different

DarkTable: ... no i don’t think I will

[TheRealChinOfKimJongUn]

My personal, completely free list is:
Photos - GIMP/Photopea
Vector Stuff - Inkscape
2D/3D - Blender
Video Editing - DaVinci Resolve
Video Capture - OBS Studio
Audio - Audacity
General Voice Background Noise Recording Removal Thing - NVIDIA RTX Voice

[BELICAOTH]

I appreciate your hard work dude, you probably would've worked day and night to produce this masterpiece !

[vladmatsala]

Thank you for making such videos. They are really life oriented and, what's more important, they are interesting to do. Hope, you'll make some tutorials for Blender.