Did Adobe Just %#@$ Up?
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So Adobe "just" released a new terms of service for most of their creative products like Adobe Photoshop and Substance 3D and lets just say some of the new t...

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Thanks to the following commenters below for additional recommendations that I added to this post!

  • bruhduh
  • Toes

Free Open Source Alternatives

[Visual/Graphical]

For all visual/graphical artists I would personally recommend switching from Photoshop over to

[Audio]

For audio migration I’d recommend switching from Soundbooth to

[PDF]

Acrobat Reader to

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Premiere to

There’s also an excellent thread started by urska@lemmy.ca

    • OhmsLawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      10 个月前

      I care, but I don’t know how else to edit my photos on my phone and seamlessly back them up.

      I use Lightroom on a Google Pixel. It costs $10/mo for a terabyte of storage and an editor that’s constantly being updated. I’m not arguing that it’s the best option, I just don’t know any solid alternatives.

      If anyone else has a solution this use case, essentially the same as someone who wants to leave Google Photos’ storage/editing suite, I’d be happy to ditch Adobe.

      Edit: a word

      • AdaAEnglish
        4·
        10 个月前

        I use digiKam as the replacement for Lightrooms photo management tools.

        I used darktable as a replacement for Lightroom’s photo editing tools.

        I use a hosted Photoprism install for making the photos available online, sharing with friends/family etc.

          • AdaAEnglish
            2·
            10 个月前

            Digikam has really strong tagging, searching and workflow tools. So I import to Digikam, sort by quality, reject/approve and tag in Digikam, and I use it to launch specific photos in to darktable for editing.

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    20·
    10 个月前

    Not open source, but pro grade, often nicer to work with than adobe stuff. The Affinity suite. Pay once per major revision. Decent upgrade plans. No subscription. Designer, photo and publisher.

    • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      9·
      10 个月前

      The business model could change very quickly and promises by companies aren’t worth the paper they are written on. The CEO might tomorrow decide to sell the company to a large tech company which more often than not leads to the destruction of the software the company developed. Only open source or, even better, free software can guarantee that your software wont be enshittified.

      • EddoWagt@feddit.nlEnglish
        4·
        10 个月前

        They’ve actually been acquired a few months ago, they promised no changes to their business model but I’m not hopeful

        • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          7·
          10 个月前

          They will boil that frog slowly. Soon there will be an alternative subscription with a discount for previous license holders. Then they hide the option to buy a perpetual license so only people who spent time to search for it can find it; and finally they will remove the option completely and claim that they did that because “Nobody was buying it”.

  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    10 个月前

    Man thanks for not suggesting GIMP I hate that thing so unintuitive, like bro you’re no blender, you’re not allowed to be unintuitive

  • Autonomous User@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    10 个月前

    Anti-libre software, Adobe anything, bans us from removing malicous source code and service as a software substitute is even worse, so else did we expect?

  • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
    12·
    10 个月前

    Just to mention a not-foss, but extremely well done DAW, cheap ($60 personal use, $225 commercial) and goes through 2 major versions before you’d need to pay again, free to download and try WinRAR style, supported on windows, macos, and Linux, etc, etc - reaper.

    https://www.reaper.fm/

    If you need a solid DAW, with support for all kinds of plugins and a dev team that’s not a bag of dicks trying to screw you over with a cloud subscription and AI, this is it.

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      10 个月前

      Until it gets bought by some big corp and suddenly has spyware integrated and goes into subscription anyway Happened to a lot of good proprietary software, and this is a reason why open source is superior.

      • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        10 个月前

        FOSS is always a better option, as of today I don’t think anything compares. And since they aren’t a big company doing shady things, the licensed version is permanent, no big company buyout is going to impact anything other than upgrades.

    • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      10 个月前

      Reaper is great, but unfortunately I’ve never been able to get my VSTs properly working on linux, especially ones with a full GUI like a lot of drum vsts do. It’s literally the only reason I still dual-boot windows on that machine.

      • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        10 个月前

        I get that, there is a list of Linux friendly vsts out there that work well. I think they have a link to the list, but I don’t really use drums in my workflow so couldn’t give you any examples unfortunately. I did have to go into windows for some work stuff where I needed a specific vst though, definitely understand the issue.

      • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        9 个月前

        No, just a nag. If you’re recording/editing a few times a year, it won’t be a bother. If you’re in there often, it’s worth the few bucks.

  • accideath@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    10 个月前

    Recently tried kdenlive because I had some trouble with premiere. It was surprisingly good. The problem is, DaVinci Resolve is much better than either premiere or kdenlive and while it’s not open source, it is free. And sadly I won’t be able to use either one for work because our projects need to be shareable among colleagues, in case someone else has to finish an edit for you, and premiere is the program everyone knows well.

    Also, both gimp and krita, while being the best OS alternative for PS are still much worse. Especially gimp is overly complicated and user unfriendly.

    • recursive_recursion [they/them]@programming.devOPEnglish
      3·
      10 个月前

      thanks for the recommendations!

      I added openshot and left out IFME (it doesn’t seem like the devs understand software licensing unfortunately, the project’s also a bit of a copyright landmine😅)

      • Toes♀@ani.socialEnglish
        1·
        10 个月前

        They state it’s under gpl2 they do have ffmpeg but the tool doesn’t include its own codecs outside of that if I understand it correctly. It does use any codecs provided by the OS though.

  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
    1·
    10 个月前

    We need an open source renaissance within those big tech industries. It can’t be that everyone is completely dependent on Adobe, Microsoft, Google and other bad actors that force this shit onto everyone.