You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things…
Kreative Suite
* Krita is your new design/painting app
* Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
* glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
* digiKam organises your collection images
https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:
* Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
* Scribus - layout like a pro
* GIMP - need we say more
* Blender - ditto
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Glaxnimate really needs some love, though it’s pretty powerful.
I have been searching for good alternatives to AE and Premiere for a while now. I have messed with DaVinci a few times, but always bounced off. Any suggestions. Bonus points if anyone can point me in the direction of a Lightroom alternative.
For video editing, Kdenlive is the best alternative I found so far, although it takes some time to get used to. For something AE related, check out Blender. It might be a bit overkill for most projects, but it is very powerful. As a lightroom alternative there’s Darktable. All of the mentioned software also has the advantage of being free and open source.
I am super impressed by Blender, but there’s not really a substitute for After Effects yet, open source or otherwise.
there’s not really a substitute for After Effects yet,
Have you tried Natron? This software still needs some serious love, but maybe you can appreciate its potential as tool for people used to AE.
Very interesting! I’ll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.
Thank God … I’ve been on Gimp and Scribus for the past 15 years, mainly because I could never afford Adobe products for the little bit of work I needed them for.
I was open source a long time ago because I just couldn’t afford paying for stuff for the little time I needed software. Now I’m happy to be fully open source and even contribute with donations to the projects I like the most. I donate annually now to projects like Wikipedia, Libreoffice, Scribus and Fediverse developers and projects.
This is one criticism I’ll always have with open source supporters … if you want open source alternatives, contribute with donations to them. Give anything you can afford … $1, $2, $10 … because they need money to survive and stay engaged and committed to their project.
If we all just stand aside and take advantage of free open software and not give anything, then we are no better than the corporations we were trying to avoid. Instead of corporations taking advantage of us, we are taking advantage of developers.
So if you want these open projects to live and survive, contribute to them with whatever you got. If we all just gave a dollar each to these projects, no matter what they are, the developers would have more than enough to maintain their work.
I like to support by buying merch. My Blender Hat got me so many thumbs up by strangers, it feels like bikers or Westphalia 0r brotherhood’s signing each other’s.
Great idea because the merch acts as an advertisement to support the project and create awareness. It’s the main reason why corporations like Adobe are so successful - they have a pervasive marketing campaign. We should do the same and wearing a hat, t-shirt or bag would help do that.
Now you got me thinking about what to buy from the projects I like to support. Thanks
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Bro, even YOU guys are suggesting GIMP, meanwhile most people try to use Krita as an image editor cuz of the UI and other issues i can’t fully understand.
Is like using a Lawnmower to cut wood.
Edit: I need to clarify that i’m saying that people are using the WRONG TOOL for the job, i’m not saying either of these programs suck.
Are you saying gimp sucks or krita sucks?
@TrickDacy I’m saying that people are using the WRONG TOOL for the job, none of those program suck.
Fair enough. I have never used krita. What are these tools right for? My understanding is they are both image editors so I would’ve assumed them pretty similar outside of UI differences
@TrickDacy Krita is for Digiral Painting, GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, Krita is intended for Digital Painting, GIMP is intended for Photo editing.
GIMP is lighter than Krita in terms of resource usage, Krita requires at least 4GB of RAM to work, although i tested it with 2GB VM, which made it a little sluggish.
For more concrete comparision here’s a Youtube video on Invidious (The video is 3 years old but it can help)
In all fairness, Adobe has posted a clarification: https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/07/adobe-terms-clarified/
Do what thou wilst with it.So or they are backtracking like Slack did a couple of weeks ago and will seek a way to still do this when no-one is looking, or they are obfuscating their true intentions with blah, or they will just keep users in the dark and lie.
If anyone believes Adobe is not going to take their work and still make them pay for an extortionate license, send them my way, as I have a bridge to sell them.
Fully agree, by the way. It’s a great scam they’re pulling off here. God, I wish I wasn’t suffering from ethics.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social happy to see glaxnimate officially promoted by KDE.
Y’all dont block all the .exe files with your firewall? I been doing that for years. I anticipate being stuck with the near current version of Photoshop I have now. An update never occurs, but thats okay. Ive got windows update disconfigured and blocked, too.
Ive found that originally, updates actually fixed problems, but it seems for the last few years, updates only benefit the company and not the user. They are either trying to reinvent the wheel, increase data mining, restricting access in the name of better services, to gear up towards changing to some bullshit form of a subscription service (again, to provide you better services! Better for them…)
And, sometimes, updates just straight up break things. I’ve soured to allowing any updates when things are already working smoothly.
Only problem is that by disabling all windows updates, you don’t even get security updates, which on windows, is more critical than anywhere else, from where I am sitting
They are talking about application updates, not operating system updates.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Don’t forget Darktable to fill-in for Lightroom!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social kdenlive is based and changed me. thank you kde for making it so based.
We would like to remind you that both @Krita and @kdenlive are currently running fundraisers:
Krita:
https://krita.org/en/donations/
Kdenlive:
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
See also this great curated list of #FOSS creative tools collected by @ADHDefy
https://delightful.club/delightful-creative-tools
If you have more such fine projects, then create an issue or PR. The link to the repository is at the top of the delightful page.
By comparison Inkscape was made assuming the user knows what they’re doing, very intuitive. Illustrator has so much handholding that its like it was designed assuming you do not know what you are doing. I’ve ready made several thousand using only Inkscape professionally. Illustrator is not needed.
Inkscape is far inferior to illustrator, has stability issues, support for filetypes is limited, copy pasting to other software non existant.
Scribus is just awful dogshit.
Gimp is a graphic software that is hostile to UX, not to mention has stability issues, is slow and in every category inferior to photoshop.
Blender is fucking amazing but 3d graphics is not really the same kind of software as the rest. Different type of users use it that have a very different set of skills and needs. And with all video software.
Beyond all of this, even if we ignore all of that, almost all graphic designers use Adobe, companies use Adobe, if you are sending files back and forth, the files have to be Adobe files either for collaboration or for text amendments… If you are a freelancer and work for any company, they will want Adobe files from you (I’m sure there is an exception somewhere).
None of this is threatened. If companies don’t care, Adobe will go with it. Nobody will switch. Especially because there isn’t really anything to switch to. Not realistically.
The doomerism is ridiculous here lol
You can switch to another program, and learn it, instead of making up a thousand reasons why you want your work to be scraped by Adobe and their scammer CEO
Confidentiality agreements REALLY mater to big companies. Once they’re made aware that Adobe does this they’ll either kick up a fuss so Adobe won’t do it to them or switch programs. We’ve already seen people break Ai in plenty of ways, I wouldn’t out it past people to figure out how to break the Adobe one to show original artwork for confidential projects at some point. We’ll see how it goes.
Yes, big companies might care, depending on how they see this as a security issue. If they don’t, then it’s doesn’t matter. It’s all up to them.
I don’t think it would be possible to show original artwork. Highly unlikely.
That’s what people said about original prompts for text Ai bots but we’ve been able to get some from a couple popular ones.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Nothing to replace Audition? Y’all should strategerifically partnershippify with QTractor
